About Me
I am a fifth-year PhD student in Developmental Psychology at Stanford University working primarily with Ellen Markman (Markman Lab) and Carol Dweck. I also collaborate with Tobias Gerstenberg to build computational models of people's lay beliefs about abstract concepts.
Broadly, I am interested in cognitive development and the relation between language and thought, especially in the social domain. Specifically, I am interested in conceptual understanding, categorization, inductive inferences, generic language, gender, and sexuality. Besides psychology, I am an avid reader of philosophy and literature. In the long run, I hope to combine cognitive science, philosophy, and literary analysis to investigate categorization principles, category-atypicality, category normativity, and abstract/metaphorical thinking about concepts.
Research
Publications
Guo, C., Dweck, C. S. & Markman, E. M. (2021). Gender categories as dual-character concepts? Cognitive Science PDF
Ambwani, S., Baumgardner, M., Guo, C., Simms, L., & Abromowitz, E. (2017). Challenging fat talk: An experimental investigation of reactions to body disparaging conversations. Body Image PDF
Roberts, S. O., Guo, C., Ho, A. K., & Gelman, S. A. (2017). Children’s descriptive-to-prescriptive tendency replicates (and varies) cross-culturally: Evidence from China. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology PDF
Conference Proceedings
Guo, C., Dweck, C. S., & Markman, E. M., (2018). Gender categories as dual-character concepts? Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society PDF
Get In Touch
If you have any questions about my research or would like to collaborate, please don’t hesitate to contact me!