Portrait of Dr. Amy Weimer

Dr. Amy Weimer

  • School Director - Professor at School of Family & Consumer Sciences, College of Applied Arts

Scholarly and Creative Works

2025

  • Warnell, K. R., Huang, R., Weimer, A. A., & Kuri, D. (n.d.). Exploring advanced theory of mind development across sociocultural contexts: an evaluation of the Strange Stories in children from Mexico and U.S.-Mexico border communities. Infant and Child Development.

2024

  • Sierra, F. J., Weimer, A. A., Lin, Y.-C., Jou, J., Castillo, N., Garcia, C., … Romero, F. (2024). Relations among Degree of Bilingualism and Bilateral Information Processing in Children and Adults. International Journal of Bilingualism. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/1367006924127
  • Weimer, A. A., Huang, R., Rojo, L., & Warnell, K. R. (n.d.). Language Dominance Moderates Links Between Theory of Mind and Children’s Externalizing Behaviors in a Multilingual Community. Cognitive Development. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101540

2023

  • Schenk, K., Weimer, A. A., & Warnell, K. R. (2023). Assessing Child Life Specialists’ Management of Challenging Behaviors in Autistic Pediatric Patients. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-023-06032-4
  • Schenk, K., Weimer, A. A., & Warnell, K. R. (n.d.). Assessing Child Life Specialists’ Management of Challenging Behaviors in Autistic Pediatric Patients. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disabilities. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-023-06032-4
  • Fabricius, W. V., Gonzales, C. R., Pesch, A., & Weimer, A. A. (2023). Perceptual access reasoning: What are the alternatives?  . Cognitive Development, 66. https://doi.org/doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2023.101306

2022

  • Flynn, T. B., Goble, P., Bishop, N. J., & Weimer, A. A. (2022). Early childhood hospitalization and problematic behaviors: A propensity score analysis. Journal of Child Health Care.
  • Weimer, A. A., Cortez, N., & Razo, N. (2022). Does chess-playing relate to theory of mind? An examination of the interrelations among theory of mind, perspective-taking, and empathic concern in chess-players. Studies in Psychology, 43(3), 389–413.
  • Nauman, C., Goble, P., Alfaro, E. C., & Weimer, A. A. (2022). Adolescent academic success: Teacher-child interactions as a buffer for negative mother-child relationships in early childhood. Journal of Child and Family Studies. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-022-02496-7
  • Chapman, A., Weimer, A. A., Torres-Avila, M., Trejo, C., & Racelis, A. (2022). The effects of teaching undergraduate freshmen biology courses in Spanish and English. Springer Nature Social Sciences. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-022-00551-0

2021

  • Fabricius, W., Gonzales, C. R., Pesche, A., Weimer, A. A., Pugliese, J., Carroll, K., … Spinrad, T. (2021). Perceptual access reasoning in developing a representational theory of mind. Monographs of the Society for Research In Child Development, 86(3), 1–163. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/mono.12432
  • Weimer, A. A., Warnell, K. R., Ettekal, I., Cartwright, K. B., Guajardo, N. R., & Liew, J. (2021). Correlates and antecedents of theory of mind development throughout middle childhood and adolescence. Developmental Review, 59. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dr.2020.100945
  • Gasquoine, P. G., Weimer, A. A., Estevis, E., & Perez, E. (2021). Survey of Spanish language neuropsychological test use in the assessment of Hispanic Americans/Latino/as/x. Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 36(7), 1350–1360.
  • Stegall-Rodriguez, S., Weimer, A., & Warnell, K. R. (2021). Alternative perspectives: Relations between belief reasoning and ambiguous figure perception in bilingual children. Infant and Child Development, 30, e2258. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2258

2020

  • Weimer, N. E., Weimer, A. A., Wright, N. B., & Brown, D. A. (2020). Strengthening Latinx success in STEM: The effects of mentoring in an undergraduate research program. The Chronicle of Mentoring & Coaching, 4(13), 452–456.
  • Weimer, A. A., Burleson, C., Stegall, S., & Russell, E. (2020). Theory of mind and social competence among school-age Latino children. Early Child Development and Care, 190, 902–910. https://doi.org/10.1080/03004430.2018.1499625

2019

  • Gasquoine, P. G., Weimer, A. A., & Orta, M. (2019). Specificity rates for non-clinical, bilingual, Mexican Americans with California Verbal Learning Test3, Verbal Fluency, and Rey 15-IR Performance Validity Measures. The Clinical Neuropsychologist, 33(8), 1445–1454. https://doi.org/10.1080/13854046.2018.1530374
  • Weimer, A. A., Davis, V. W., & Salinas, D. (2019). Traversing two worlds: Influences upon career perspectives of Mexican American music education majors. Texas Music Education Research, 14–29.

2018

  • Weimer, A. A., Gil, M., & Esquierdo, J. (2018). Understanding diverse bilingual learners: The need for a transdisciplinary lens. In Handbook of Research on Engaging Immigrant Families and Promoting Academic Success for English Language Learner. United States of America: IGI Global Publication.
  • Weimer, A. A., Stephens, I., & Esquierdo, J. (2018). Spanish and English- Speaking Bilingual Learners’ Experiences in the Home, School, and Community. Journal of Bilingual Education Research and Instruction, 19(2).

2017

  • Weimer, A. A., Parault Dowds, S. J., William, F. V., Paula, S. J., & Go, S. W. (2017). Development of constructivist theory of mind from middle childhood to early adulthood and its relation to social cognition and behavior., 154, 28–45. Retrieved from dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2016.10.002
  • Rogers, D., Caleron Galassi, M. L., Espinosa, J. C., Weimer, A. A., Gonzalez Ramirez, M. T., Colunga Rodriguez, C., & del Carmen Quezada-Berumen, L. (2017). Non-childhood sexual abuse prevalence and patterns in Mexican American and Mexican college students., 26(2), 191–210. https://doi.org/10.1080/10926771.2016.1270379
  • Gasquoine, P., Weimer, A. A., & Amador, A. (2017). Specificity rates for non-clinical, bilingual, Mexican Americans on three popular performance validity measures, 31, 587–597.
  • Chapman, A., Ward, H. C., Tiwari, A., Weimer, A. A., Duran, J., Guerra, F., & Sale, R. (2017). The role of language in anatomy and physiology instruction, 79(3), 184–190. Retrieved from http://www.nabt.org/websites/institution/index.php?p=26

2016

  • Gasquoine, P., Weimer, A. A., & Lawton, D. M. (2016). A reply to Bak et al., 74, 318–319.
  • Weimer, A. A., & Gasquoine, P. (2016). Belief reasoning and emotion understanding in balanced bilingual and language-dominant Mexican American young children, 177(2), 33–43. Retrieved from dx.doi.org/10.1080/00221325.2016.1138793

2015

  • Lawton, D., Gasquoine, P., & Weimer, A. A. (2015). Age of dementia diagnosis in community dwelling bilingual and monolingual Americans, 66, 141–145.
  • Sutin, A., Rogers, D., Mercado, A., Weimer, A. A., Colunga Rodriguez, C., Gonzalez, M., … Terraciano, A. (2015). The association between personality traits and body mass index varies with nativity among individuals of Mexican origin., 90, 74–79. Retrieved from doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2015.02.036

2014

  • Weimer, A. A., Esquierdo, J., & Guajardo, F. (2014). Composing a new community infused with bilingual, biliterate, and bicultural realities, 1(1), 28. Retrieved from https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-tmRfmnoob1aEtOSFNka1ZVajg/view

2013

  • Brickman, S., Alfaro, E., Weimer, A. A., & Watt, K. (2013). Academic Engagement: Hispanic Developmental and Nondevelopmental Education Students, 37(2), 14–31.

2012

  • Croyle, K. L., Weimer, A. A., & Eisenman, R. (2012). Context of assessment changes relationships between test anxiety and related variables. International Journal of Adolescence and Youth, 17, 11–20. Retrieved from doi 10.1080/02673843.2011.645625
  • Rios, D., Chebotko, A., Reilly, C., Carlson, R., Tomai, E., Weimer, A. A., … Rampersad, J. (2012). Improving STEM Education in Research: Preliminary Report on the Development of a Computer-Assisted Student-Mentor Research Community, 03(05), 612–618. https://doi.org/10.4236/ce.2012.35090

2011

  • Chan, W., McCrae, R. R., Rogers, D., Weimer, A. A., Greenberg, D. M., & Terraccianiano, A. (2011). Relative rater wealth predicts perceptions of outgroup competence., 45(6), 597–603. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrp.2011.08.001
  • Weimer, A. A., Meza, K., & Gasquoine, P. (2011). ¿Se habla Español? Parental report v. picture vocabulary scores in classifying the language dominance of bilingual Mexican American 3- to 7-year olds, 13, 49–59.

2010

  • Gasquoine, P., Cavazos, A., Cantu, J., & Weimer, A. A. (2010). Bilingualism and Hispanic American intelligence test scores. In Bilinguals: Cognition, education, and language processing. (pp. 181–199). New York, NY: Nova Science Publishers.
  • Fabricius, W. V., Boyer, T. W., Weimer, A. A., & Carroll, K. (2010). True or false: Do five-year-olds understand belief? Developmental Psychology, 46(6), 1402–1416. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0017648

2008

  • Baham, M., Weimer, A. A., Braver, S. L., & Fabricius, W. V. (2008). Sibling relationships in blended families. In The International Handbook of Stepfamilies: Policy and Practice in Legal, Research, and Clinical Environments (pp. 175–208). North Ryde, NSW, Australia: John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd.

2005

  • Weimer, A. A., & Guajardo, N. R. (2005). False belief, emotion understanding, and social skills among Head Start and non-Head Start children, 16, 341–366.