Faculty Profiles

Dr. Katherine Rice Warnell

Associate Professor — Psychology

THH 253G

phone: (512) 245-5564

kaw234@txstate.edu

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

Warnell, K. R., & Redcay, E. (2019). Minimal coherence among varied theory of mind measures in childhood and adulthood. Cognition, 191, 103997. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.06.009
McNaughton, K. A., Kirby, L. A., Warnell, K. R., Alkire, D., Merchant, J., Moraczewski, D., … Redcay, E. (2023). Social-interactive reward elicits similar neural response in autism and typical development and predicts future social experiences. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 59, 101197. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2023.101197
De La Cerda, C., Clegg, J. M., & Warnell, K. R. (2023). Everyone’s a Critic (Sometimes): Young Children Show High Awareness of, But Lower Adherence to, Prosocial Lying Norms. The Journal of Genetic Psychology: Research and Theory on Human Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221325.2022.2158439
Warnell, K. R., De La Cerda, C., & Frost, A. (2022). Disentangling relations between attention to the eyes and empathy. Emotion, 22(3), 586–596. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000998
Pluymen, P., Pequet, A., Thomas, H., & Warnell, K. R. (2021). Capturing individual differences in social motivation using a novel interactive task. Personality and Individual Differences, 177, 110725. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110725

Award / Honor Recipient: Presidential Distinction Award in Scholarly/Creative Activities, Texas State University. February 28, 2020
Award / Honor Recipient: Alpha Chi Favorite Professor Award, Alpha Chi National Honor Society. April 2021
Award / Honor Nominee: Departmental Nominee Presidential Award in Teaching at Assistant Professor Level, Texas State University. February 1, 2021
Award / Honor Recipient: Alpha Chi Favorite Professor Award, Alpha Chi National Honor Society. November 2020
Award / Honor Recipient: Panhellenic Council Professor Appreciation, Panhellenic Council. October 2020

Warnell, Katherine Rice. Social Cognition and Perception in Interactive Contexts, Department of Psychology, Texas State University, $8000. (Funded: October 1, 2022 - August 31, 2023). Grant.
Warnell, Katherine Rice (Principal). Language-Based Social Biases in Monolingual and Bilingual Young Adults, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $1500. (Submitted: July 31, 2021). Grant.
Warnell, Katherine Rice (Principal). Social Cognitive Mechanisms of Social Anxiety, Department of Psychology, Texas State University, Texas State University, $2000. (Funded: March 1, 2021 - August 31, 2021). Grant.
Warnell, Katherine Rice (Principal), Clegg, Jennifer M (Co-Principal). The Development of Prosocial Lying in Childhood, Research Enhancement Program, Texas State University, Texas State University, $16000. (Funded: December 15, 2018 - August 31, 2021). Grant.

Member

Applied Psychology Assistant Professor Search Committee

August 2023-Present

Member

Cognitive Development Society Mentorship Committee

June 1, 2023-Present

Member

Promotion & Outreach Committee

September 1, 2022-Present

Member

Mentoring Program Committee

September 1, 2022-Present

Chair

Graduate Committee

June 1, 2022-Present