PI: Dr. Anahid Modrek @FeistyScientist
📍CSUSB, Psychology Dept.
The Learning to Learn(L2L) Lab studies cognitive, sociocultural processes that affect learning.
✨✨✨NEWS✨✨✨
...after several interviews, and COMPETING OFFERS(!), #L2L is excited to congratulate former undergraduate RA-
*SOON-TO-BE-DR.* ZUMANA NOOR
...on her decision to pursue her PhD in Psychology at Northeastern University! Zumana will be a clinician/scientist!
✨New Paper✨
Now out w/ #SallyDrew in *Creativity Research Journal* @tandfonline
Modrek, A. S., & Drew, S. (2025). Integrating Imagination with Evidence When Writing. Creativity Research Journal.
link:https://t.co/n9rnUIxHxz
#imagination#pedagogy#creativityresearch
Teachers’ evidence-based, argumentative prompts did not link to learners’ exploratory, imaginative writing (it only linked to students’ evidence-based, argumentative writing).
We found the reverse, however, for exploratory, imaginative prompts: predicting both forms of learning.
✨✨✨NEWS✨✨✨
...after several interviews, and COMPETING OFFERS(!), #L2L is excited to congratulate former undergraduate RA-
*SOON-TO-BE-DR.* ZUMANA NOOR
...on her decision to pursue her PhD in Psychology at Northeastern University! Zumana will be a clinician/scientist!
American Educational Research Association (#AERA) @AERA_EdResearch, in partnership with Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness (#SREE) @sreesociety, has filed a #lawsuit against the Department of Education.
LINK: https://t.co/RGUNxGPGaK
✨✨✨ ...remember me? 😎
Excuse me as I decide between COMPETING PhD offers!
Looking forward to being a clinical/counseling psychologist, with the best program that will support my work as both a scientist and clinician.
STAY TUNED!
🚨✨FULL STOP✨🚨
Oh, what's that?
Recent graduate Zumana Noor has turned down her PhD Clinical Psychology offer in California (in NorCal!) to pursue a full-time research position at @Nemours before starting a PhD.
...take notes, people, that's how it's dooonnnee.
#L2LAlumni
💥💥💥SOME NEWS💥💥💥
...after receiving several interviews, and subsequent offers(!), #L2L is excited to congratulate-
*SOON-TO-BE-DR.* JILLIAN ANDERSON
...on her decision to pursue her PhD in Psychology at the University of Mississipi, Department of Psychology!
💥New Paper💥
Now out with @TaniaLombrozo in Cognitive Science!
Modrek, A. & Lombrozo, T.(2024) Allow me to explain: Benefits of explaining extend to distal academic performance. Cognitive Science.
https://t.co/ZVSfKUcjdN
#cogsci#cognitivescience@cogsci_soc @WileyPsychology
@FeistyScientist & @WolfsSharon examine the structure of executive functioning in a longitudinal sample of Ghanaian children ages 3-12, finding diversification of executive functioning structure emerges earlier than expected ⬇️
https://t.co/ivd3ERLNv9
@WileyPsychology
🚨New Paper🚨
Now out with Sharon Wolf (@WolfsSharon) in @SocDevJournal !
Modrek, A. S., & Wolf, S. (2024). Is the development of diversification in executive functioning universal? Longitudinal evidence from Ghana. Social Development, e12764.
https://t.co/vZoIaovkLQ
🎉🎉🎉
Excited to be starting a project with the @newtechnetwork schools, investigating factors from discipline, to learning, to extracurricular activities, and effects on academic achievement (GPA and/vs. State Standardized Test Scores)... and more!
@gatesfoundation
😎#IYKYK
Excited to share our latest collaborative paper, "Using Games to Understand the Mind," now published in Nature Human Behaviour!🎉 Congratulations to @jacobsherson , @jrafner , and the entire team! Dive into new insights on using games to study cognition and human behavior.
Congratulations to graduating senior, Rachel Reyes, joining #L2Lalumni, on presenting her senior honors thesis!
Rachel presented at the 35th @HumBehEvoSoc Conference at @AarhusUni_int in Denmark.
Rachel received not one, but two, travel awards to present her thesis.
Nice job!
...see you all in San Francisco at #APS24SF !
Will be giving a ✨Flash Talk✨ in the #Cognitive session.
"Integrating Explanation and Evidence in Belief Revision."
...with colleague/collaborator/co-author #DeannaKuhn
See you all in #SF in a couple weeks!
@PsychScience