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.
- Clegg, J. M., Wen, N. J., & Legare, C. H. (2023). Cooperative signaling in the sandbox: Future directions for examining collective ritual in child development. Religion, Brain, & Behavior.
- McLoughlin, N., Cui, Y. K., Davoodi, T., Payir, A., Clegg, J. M., Harris, P. L., & Corriveau, K. H. (2023). Expressions of uncertainty in invisible scientific and religious phenomena during naturalistic conversation. Cognition, 237. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105474
- Davoodi, T., Jamshidi‐Sianaki, M., Payir, A., Cui, Y. K., Clegg, J. M., McLoughlin, N., … Corriveau, K. H. (2023). Miraculous, magical, or mundane? The development of beliefs about stories with divine, magical, or realistic causation. Memory. & Cognition. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-021-01270-2
- 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
Selected Awards
- 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
- Award / Honor Recipient: Alpha Chi Honor Society Favorite Professor, Alpha Chi Honor Society. November 2019
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: January 15, 2021 - January 12, 2023). 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.
- Clegg, Jennifer Marie (Co-Principal), Warnell, Katherine R. (Co-Principal). The Development of Prosocial Lying in Childhood, Texas State University, $1600. (Submitted: October 2018). Grant.
- Clegg, Jennifer Marie (Co-Principal). Do You Believe in Magical Objects?: The Importance of Artifacts in Ritual Success, Templeton Foundation Seed Grant, $10000. (Funded: 2017 - 2018). Grant.
Selected Service Activities
Member
Institutional Review Board
August 2023-May 2024
Member
Student Awards Committee
August 2023-May 2024
Reviewer / Referee
National Science Foundation
November 2023-January 2024
Ad-hoc Reviewer
Developmental Science
2018-2023
Member
Graduate Program Committee
August 2020-December 2023