Rebecca McGregor Reiner

Thanks #EduHK for a great conference! #MCLS2025 was one for the books and Hong Kong was a beautiful location!

Sorry to hear this, Emmett, but congrats on the graduation!!!

This is about all of us. Never forget that.

Wrapped up #SRCD25 by learning about the history of flour milling in Minneapolis at the Mill City Museum! A super cool end to an awesome week catching up with all my favorite developmental scientists! #supportscience #childrenmatter

To try or not to try: That is the (developmental) question - The International Congress of Infant Studies

My ICIS blog post about some of our lab's recent work:
infantstudies.org/to-try-or-no...

Exciting life update - I’ve accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Psychology position at Carlow University! I start in August while wrapping up my dissertation by December and I am so excited to be teaching in such an amazing liberal arts community!

Want to end #MCLS2024 on a great note? Check out an awesome symposium on diverse methodologies to explore parental involvement in children’s math learning chaired by Yuchen Song and myself at 10:45 today!

Are you interested in teaching and want to come work at Pitt? Check out our 3 full-time Teaching Assistant Professor positions in the Psychology department starting in Fall 2024! cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...

Excited for a new collaboration in 2024!

Love this! As a grad student, I’m teaching for the first time this semester and will definitely do this after I post grades this week!

@camillakgilmore.bsky.social Thanks for including my paper in your advent reading list! I totally agree - there are so many different ways we describe math talk and many of them focus on number of utterances. I’d love to see if these clusters replicate in other data!

I don’t know why Santa was content with checking his list only twice. I check all my recommendation letters 10+ times out of fear that I will ruin someone’s chances of getting into grad school by submitting the wrong letter! 😬

We are so excited to share our NY Times guest essay about talking with children about Santa!

The guest essay is here:
www.nytimes.com/2023/11/24/o...

The paper recently published in Developmental Psychology is here:
psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Math Discussers had children who spoke more about math. Parent math talk styles did not relate to children’s math or language skills. These results encourage the use of person-centered approaches to understand the nuances of how parents talk about math with their children.

I identified 3 styles of parent math talk from observations of parents interacting with their 4 year old children. Math Commentators used mostly math statements, Math Elicitors used mostly math questions, and Math Discussers used a mix of both.

Identifying parental math talk styles and relations to child talk and skills Prior studies on parental math talk often emphasize utterance frequency, with few distinguishing between utterance types (e.g., questions, statements,…

My first ever, first-author paper is out in the world! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Just discovered an amazing repository of open-access textbooks, with many options for different areas of Psychology. Consider adopting one of these for your undergraduate courses to promote equity and inclusion!

open.umn.edu/opentextbook...