How Super Are Superheroes?: The Influence of Superhero Media on Boys
D. Galvez-Cepeda & L. M. Ward
Society for Research on Adolescence (SRA) Biennial Meeting · Toronto, Canada · April 15-18, 2026
Publications
Research shared, discussed, and built collaboratively.
A growing record of publications and presentations on gender, identity, learning, and children’s social understanding.
Selected work
Publications and presentations.
Choosing Friends: How Children Weigh Gender and Gender Expression in Their Peer Preferences
D. Galvez-Cepeda, S. A. Gelman, & L. M. Ward
Cognitive Development Society (CDS) Biennial Meeting · Montreal, Canada · April 9-11, 2026
Beyond Traditional Labels: Assessing Childhood Gender Identity with the Continuous Gender Identity Measure (CGIM)
D. Galvez-Cepeda & E. Congdon
Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Biennial Meeting · Minneapolis, MN · May 1, 2025
Adolescent boys’ aggressive responses to perceived threats to their gender typicality
A. Stanaland, S. Gaither, A. Gassman-Pines, D. Galvez-Cepeda, & A. Cimpian
Developmental Science, e13544
Helpful Hands: Gestures Boost Young Children’s Performance in a Memory Task
D. Galvez-Cepeda, D. O’Connor, I. Rodden, H. Dineen, & E. Congdon
Eastern Psychological Association (EPA) Annual Meeting · Philadelphia, PA · March 2, 2024
Gesture Action Speech Production (GASP) in Children
M. Vera, J. Perry, E. Tumminaro, M. Novack, D. Galvez-Cepeda, H. Dineen, E. Wakefield, & E. Congdon
Eastern Psychological Association (EPA) Annual Meeting · Philadelphia, PA · March 1, 2024
Under (Extrinsic) Pressure: Gender Hierarchy Perceptions & Parents’ Sexism Predict Children’s Gender Conformity Pressure
D. Galvez-Cepeda, A. Stanaland, A. Poddar, & A. Cimpian
Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Annual Convention · San Diego, CA · February 10, 2024
How Biased Is Your Dataset?: Using VLM’s to Audit Geographic Representation in Indoor Scene Datasets
M. Adeyemi, D. Galvez-Cepeda, S. Dodson, A. Ganeshan, & D. Ritchie
Brown CS Undergraduate Research Symposium · Providence, RI · May 2, 2023
“Men, Women, or Both?”: Perceptions of Gender Power Differentials in Young Children
D. Galvez-Cepeda, A. Stanaland, & A. Cimpian
Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) Biennial Meeting · Salt Lake City, UT · March 25, 2023
Individual & Social Factors in the Development of Status Aspirations
D. Galvez-Cepeda, A. Stanaland, A. Poddar, & A. Cimpian
Society for Personality and Social Psychology (SPSP) Annual Convention · Atlanta, GA · February 25, 2023