Faculty Profile for Dr. Jennifer Marie Clegg

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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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, 51, 695–707. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-021-01270-2

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
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
Reviewer / Referee
Society for Research in Child Development
2018-2024