ABOUT ME
I research screen media influences on children’s identity development. I aim to bridge academic research and the children’s media industry by translating insights from cognitive development to inform inclusive and impactful content.
I am a second year developmental psychology PhD student at the University of Michigan working with Dr. Monique Ward and Dr. Susan Gelman. My work is funded by the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship and the Rackham Merit Fellowship.
I graduated from Williams College (Class of 2024) with a BA in Psychology and Mathematics. During my time there, I did my honors thesis in Dr. Eliza Congdon’s Cognition, Action, Learning and Fun (CALF) Lab at Williams College, was a senior research assistant and junior lab manager at Dr. Andrei Cimpian’s Cognitive Development Lab (CDL) at New York University, and worked with Dr. Lori Markson in the Cognition and Development (C&D) Lab at Washington University in St. Louis.
Recent Publications
A. Stanaland, S. Gaither, A. Gassman-Pines, D. Galvez-Cepeda, & A. Cimpian (2024) Adolescent boys’ aggressive responses to perceived threats to their gender typicality. Developmental Science, e13544. [article site here]
Recent Presentations
D. Galvez-Cepeda & E. Congdon (2025). Beyond Traditional Labels: Assessing Childhood Gender Identity with the Continuous Gender Identity Measure (CGIM). Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Biennial Meeting. Minneapolis, Minnesota, May 1, 2025. [poster here]
D. Galvez-Cepeda, D. O’Connor, I. Rodden, H. Dineen, & E. Congdon (2024) Helpful Hands: Gestures Boost Young Children’s Performance in a Memory Task. Eastern Psychological Association (EPA) Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA – March 2, 2024. [poster here]
M. Vera, J. Perry, E. Tumminaro, M. Novack, D. Galvez-Cepeda, H. Dineen, E. Wakefield, & E. Congdon (2024) Gesture Action Speech Production (GASP) in Children. Eastern Psychological Association (EPA) Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, PA – March 1, 2024. [poster here]
D. Galvez-Cepeda, A. Stanaland, A. Poddar, & A. Cimpian (2024) Under (Extrinsic) Pressure: Gender Hierarchy Perceptions & Parents’ Sexism Predict Children’s Gender Conformity Pressure. Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Annual Convention. San Diego, CA – February 10, 2024. [poster here]
M. Adeyemi, D. Galvez-Cepeda, S. Dodson, A. Ganeshan, & D. Ritchie (2023) How Biased Is Your Dataset?: Using VLM’s to Audit Geographic Representation in Indoor Scene Datasets. Brown CS Undergraduate Research Symposium. Providence, RI – May 2, 2023. [poster here]
D. Galvez-Cepeda, A. Stanaland, & A. Cimpian (2023) “Men, Women, or Both?”: Perceptions of Gender Power Differentials in Young Children. Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Biennial Meeting. Salt Lake City, UT – March 25, 2023. [poster here]
D. Galvez-Cepeda, A. Stanaland, A. Poddar, & A. Cimpian (2023) Individual & Social Factors in the Development of Status Aspirations. Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Annual Convention. Atlanta, GA – February 25, 2023. [poster here]
Contact me
danigc (at) umich (dot) edu
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Daniela Galvez-Cepeda 