Frankie Fong
Guest
Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
phone: +49 (0) 341 3550 404
e-mail:
frankie_fong@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Research Interests
Curriculum Vitae
Languages
Other Research Information
Publications
Research Interests
I am generally interested in the following topics, studying factors that influence how children navigate their living environments as they grow:
- Social learning: (Over)imitation, conformity, selective trust, flexibility & adaptability
- Cross-cultural comparison
- Digital media effect
- Pretend/Imaginative play
- Parenting style
Curriculum Vitae
Current Position
| 2022 - present | Postdoctoral Scientist |
| 2022 - present | Honorary Research Fellow |
Career
| 2020 - 2021 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia Department of Psychology, University of Texas at Austin, USA |
| 2016 - 2019 | PhD student (Developmental Psychology) Thesis: Preschool Children’s Normative and Instrumental Learning |
| Oct 2018 | Visiting Researcher |
| 2014 - 2015 | Research Assistant Parenting and Family Support Centre University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia |
| 2013 | Research Assistant Early Cognitive Development Centre University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia |
Languages
- Chinese: Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka (native)
- Malaysian Malay (fluent)
- English (fluent)
- Japanese (basic)
Other Research Information
Teaching & Mentorship
| 2016 - 2019 | PSYC2030: Developmental Psychology |
| 2019 - 2021 | Honors and PhD thesis |
Editorial Service
| 2022-present | Assistant Editor Infant and Child Development |
Memberships
- Comprehensive Assessment of Family Media Exposure (CAFE) Consortium
- Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Digital Child
Selected Presentations
| 2021 | A Project that Raises More Questions and Answers |
| 2020 | Post PhD Pathways and Possibilities |
| 2020 | Methodological and Ethical Considerations in Cross-Cultural Developmental Research |
| 2018 | Preschool Children’s Normative and Instrumental Learning |
| 2018 | Preschool Children’s Normative and Instrumental Learning |
Research Awards & Funding
| 2020-2022 | The Issachar Fund and Templeton Religion Trust Subaward (led by University of Texas at Austin; administered by University of Queensland) |
| 2021 | Texas Global Faculty Research Seed Grant, University of Texas at Austin |
| 2018 | University of Queensland Graduate School Candidate Travel Award |
Publications
2024
Bohn, M., Fong, F. T. K., Pope-Caldwell, S. M., Stengelin, R., & Haun, D. B. M. (2024). Understanding cultural variation in cognition one child at a time. Nature Reviews Psychology, 3(10), 641-643. |
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Fong, F. T. K., Kirkland, K., Puah, E. L., & Jang, D. (2024). At what age can children initiate and execute a mutually beneficial exchange? (advance online). Developmental Psychology. |
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Zhao, M., Fong, F. T. K., Whiten, A., & Nielsen, M. (2024). Children's distinct drive to reproduce costly rituals. Child Development, 95(4), 1161-1171. |
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Fong, F. T. K., Puebla, G., & Nielsen, M. (2024). The role of conventionality and design in children’s function judgments about malfunctioning artifacts. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 240: 105835. |
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Fong, F. T. K., Puebla, G., & Nielsen, M. (2024). The role of conventionality and design in children’s function judgments about malfunctioning artifacts. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 240: 105835. |
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Stengelin, R., Bohn, M., Sánchez Amaro, A., Haun, D. B. M., Thiele, M., Daum, M. M., Felsche, E., Fong, F. T. K., Gampe, A., Giner Torréns, M., Grueneisen, S., Hardecker, D. J. K., Horn, L., Neldner, K., Pope-Caldwell, S. M., & Schuhmacher, N. (2024). Responsible research is also concerned with generalizability: Recognizing efforts to reflect upon and increase generalizability in hiring and promotion decisions in psychology. Meta-Psychology, 8. |
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Zhao, M., Fong, F. T. K., Whiten, A., & Nielsen, M. (2024). Do children imitate even when it is costly? New insights from a novel task. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 42(1), 18-35. |
Open Access2023
Fong, F. T. K., Nielsen, M., & Corriveau, K. H. (2023). I copy you as I believe you know about our culture: Combining imitation and selective trust literatures. Infant and Child Development, e2453. |
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Rawlings, B. S., Davis, H. E., Anum, A., Burger, O., Chen, L., Morales, J. C. C., Dutra, N., Dzabatou, A., Dzokoto, V., Erut, A., Fong, F. T. K., Ghelardi, S., Goldwater, M., Ingram, G., Messer, E., Kingsford, J., Lew-Levy, S., Mendez, K., Newhouse, M., Nielsen, M., Pamei, G., Pope-Caldwell, S., Ramos, K., Rojas, L. E. E., dos Santos, R. A. C., Silveira, L. G. S., Watzek, J., Wirth, C., & Legare, C. H. (2023). Quantifying quality: The impact of measures of school quality on children's academic achievement across diverse societies (advanced online). Developmental Science, e13434. |
2022
Fong, F. T. K., Nielsen, M., & Legare, C. H. (2022). Revisiting an extant framework: Concerns about culture and task generalization. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45: e257. |
Dutra, Natália B., Chen, Lydia, Anum, Adote, Burger, Oskar, Davis, Helen E., Dzokoto, Vivian A., Fong, Frankie T. K., Ghelardi, Sabrina, Mendez, Kimberly, Messer, Emily J. E., Newhouse, Morgan, Nielsen, Mark G., Ramos, Karlos, Rawlings, Bruce, Dos Santos, Renan A. C., Silveira, Lara G. S., Tucker-Drob, Elliot M. and Legare, Cristine H. (2022). Examining relations between performance on non-verbal executive function and verbal self-regulation tasks in demographically-diverse populations. Developmental Science, e13228. doi: 10.1111/desc.13228
2021
Nielsen, Mark, Fong, Frankie T. K. and Whiten, Andrew (2021). Social learning from media: the need for a culturally diachronic developmental psychology. Advances in Child Development and Behavior. (pp. 317-334) San Diego, CA USA: Academic Press. doi: 10.1016/bs.acdb.2021.04.001
Fong, Frankie T. K., Imuta, Kana, Redshaw, Jonathan and Nielsen, Mark (2021). The digital social partner: Preschool children display stronger imitative tendency in screen‐based than live learning. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, 3(4), 585-594. doi: 10.1002/hbe2.280
Fong, Frankie T. K., Imuta, Kana, Redshaw, Jonathan and Nielsen, Mark (2021). When efficiency attenuates imitation in preschool children. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 39(2), 330-337. doi: 10.1111/bjdp.12366
Fong, Frankie T. K., Sommer, Kristyn, Redshaw, Jonathan, Kang, Jemima and Nielsen, Mark (2021). The man and the machine: Do children learn from and transmit tool-use knowledge acquired from a robot in ways that are comparable to a human model? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 208, 105148. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105148
Fong, Frankie T. K., Redshaw, Jonathan and Nielsen, Mark (2021). A cross-cultural comparison: imitation of inefficient tool use in Australian and Malaysian preschool children. Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, 5 (1), 37-47. doi: 10.1007/s41809-021-00077-6
2020
Wang, Zhidan, Fong, Frankie T. K. and Meltzoff, Andrew N. (2020). Enhancing same‐gender imitation by highlighting gender norms in Chinese pre‐school children. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 39 (1), 133-152. doi: 10.1111/bjdp.12356
Fong, Frankie T. K., Mondloch, Catherine J. and Nelson, Nicole L. (2020). Interactive situations reveal more about children’s emotional knowledge. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 198, 104879. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2020.104879
Xie, Linghao, Wang, Zhidan, Yu, Zhou and Fong, Frankie T. K. (2020). Relationship between SES and preschoolers’ sociality: the mediating effect of household screen media experience. Early Child Development and Care, 1-13. doi: 10.1080/03004430.2020.1838498
Wang, Zhidan, Zhu, Xiaoyu, Fong, Frankie T. K., Meng, Jing and Wang, Haijing (2020). Overimitation of children with cochlear implants or hearing aids in comparison with children with normal hearing. Infants and Young Children, 33 (1), 84-92. doi: 10.1097/IYC.0000000000000157
