Faculty Profile for Dr. Jennifer Marie Clegg

Dr. Jennifer Marie Clegg
Assistant Professor — Psychology
THH 253
phone: (512) 245-2526
Selected Scholarly/Creative Work
- Wen, N. J., Clegg, J. M., & Legare, C. H. (2019). Smart conformists: Children and adolescents associate conformity with intelligence across cultures. Child Development, 90(3), 746–758. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12935
- Ezra, P. R., Goble, P. M., Trahan, M. H., & Clegg, J. M. (n.d.). Moderating Effects of Religiosity on Depression and Paternal Involvement. Journal of Child and Family Studies. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-024-02984-y
- Nissel, J., Xu, J., Wu, L., Li, H., Clegg, J. M., & Woolley, J. (2024). Why Wearing a Yellow Hat is Impossible: Chinese and U.S. Children’s Possibility Judgments. Cognition, 251, 105856. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105856
- Wen, N. J., Amir, D., Clegg, J. M., Davis, H., Dutra, N., Kline, M., … Rawlings, B. (n.d.). Construct validity in cross-cultural, developmental research: Challenges and strategies for improvement. Evolutionary Human Sciences.
- Clegg, J. M., Wen, N. J., & Legare, C. H. (2023). Cooperative signaling in the sandbox: Future directions for examining collective ritual in child development. In Invited, refereed commentary on Lang & Kundt (2023) in Religion, Brain, and Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1080/2153599X.2023.2214398
Selected Awards
- Award / Honor Recipient: SRCD Developmental Science Teaching Institute Travel Award. March 2023
- Award / Honor Recipient: Achievement Award for Excellence in Research Funding and Sponsored Programs, College of Liberal Arts. August 2021
- Award / Honor Recipient: Achievement Award for Excellence in Service, College of Liberal Arts. August 2021
- Award / Honor Recipient: Alpha Chi Honor Society Favorite Professor, Alpha Chi Honor Society. November 2020
- Award / Honor Nominee: Hoffman Academic Award for Intercultural Competence (University Nominee), University of Vechta. July 2020
Selected Grants
- Clegg, Jennifer Marie (Principal), Kelemen, Deborah (Co-Principal), Corriveau, Kathleen H (Co-Principal). Natural and supernatural representations in nonreligious households: Examining nonreligious parents’ and children’s explicit and implicit beliefs, John Templeton Foundation, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $234800. (Submitted: August 6, 2019, Funded: March 2021 - March 2024). 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.
Selected Service Activities
Member
Master's of Psychological Research Assessment Committee
August 2024-May 2025
Member
Institutional Review Board
August 2023-May 2025
Organizer
Science in the Parks
January 2019-May 2025
Member
The Junior League of Austin
2014-May 2025
Reviewer / Referee
Documentation of Reviews
2019-2024