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Dr Harriet Tenenbaum

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Qualifications: B.A. Clark University, PhD University of California, Santa Cruz

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Phone: Work: 01483 68 9442
Room no: 35 AD 02

Office hours

Monday 11.00 to 12.00

Friday 11.00 to 12.00

Further information

Biography

I was a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education. I taught at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York Graduate School and at Kingston University before coming to Surrey.

Research Interests

In general, I am interested in how children learn from everyday interactions with others, such as conversations with parents and peers. I have two main lines of research. First, I am interested in how children learn about everyday science and emotion understanding. Much of this work has focused on how child gender influences conversations about science and emotion. Second, my work focuses on children’s reasoning about social issues, such as children’s rights (and especially rights for others) and rejection based on social groups.

Research Collaborations

Martin Ruck, City University of New York

Darryl Hill, City University of New York

Patricia Brooks, City University of New York

Patrick Leman, Royal Holloway

Jill Hohenstein, Kings College London

Andy Tolmie, Institute of Education

Publications

Journal articles

  • Tenenbaum HR, Ruck MD. (2012) 'British Adolescents' and Young Adults' Understanding and Reasoning About the Religious and Nonreligious Rights of Asylum-Seeker Youth'. Wiley Child Development, 83 (3), pp. 1102-1115.
    doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01755.x
  • Tenenbaum HR, Ford S, Alkhedairy B. (2011) 'Telling stories: Gender differences in peers' emotion talk and communication style'. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 29 (4), pp. 707-721.
    doi: 10.1348/2044-835X.002003
  • Ruck MD, Tenenbaum HR, Willenberg I. (2011) 'South African Mixed-race Children's and Mothers' Judgments and Reasoning about Children's Nurturance and Self-determination Rights'. WILEY-BLACKWELL SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, 20 (3), pp. 517-535.
    doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2011.00607.x
  • Leman PJ, Tenenbaum HR. (2011) 'Practising gender: Children's relationships and the development of gendered behaviour and beliefs'. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 29 (2), pp. 153-157.
    doi: 10.1111/j.2044-835X.2011.02032.x
  • Aldrich NJ, Tenenbaum HR, Brooks PJ, Harrison K, Sines J. (2011) 'Perspective taking in children's narratives about jealousy'. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 29 (1), pp. 86-109.
    doi: 10.1348/026151010X533238
  • Møller SJ, Tenenbaum HR. (2011) 'Danish Majority Children's Reasoning About Exclusion Based on Gender and Ethnicity'. Child Development, 82 (2), pp. 520-532.
    doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01568.x
  • Alfieri L, Brooks PJ, Aldrich NJ, Tenenbaum HR. (2011) 'Does Discovery-Based Instruction Enhance Learning?'. Journal of Educational Psychology, 103 (1), pp. 1-18.
    doi: 10.1037/a0021017
  • Tenenbaum HR, Prior J, Dowling CL, Frost RE. (2010) 'Supporting parent-child conversations in a history museum'. British Journal of Educational Psychology, 80 (2), pp. 241-254.
    doi: 10.1348/000709909X470799
  • Tenenbaum HR, Hill DB, Joseph N, Roche E. (2010) ''It's a boy because he's painting a picture': Age differences in children's conventional and unconventional gender schemas'. British Journal of Psychology, 101 (1), pp. 137-154.
    doi: 10.1348/000712609X433122
  • Tenenbaum HR. (2009) ''You'd be good at that': Gender patterns in parent-child talk about courses'. Social Development, 18 (2), pp. 447-463.
    doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9507.2008.00487.x
  • Tenenbaum HR, Alfieri L, Brooks PJ, Dunne G. (2008) 'The effects of explanatory conversations on children's emotion understanding'. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 26 (2), pp. 249-263.
    doi: 10.1348/026151007X231057
  • Frisina PG, Tenenbaum HR, Borod JC, Foldi NS. (2008) 'The effects of antidepressants in Parkinson's disease: A meta-analysis'. International Journal of Neuroscience, 118 (5), pp. 667-682.
    doi: 10.1080/00207450701239418
  • Frisina PG, Borod JC, Foldi NS, Tenenbaum HR. (2008) 'Depression in Parkinson's disease: Health risks, etiology, and treatment options'. Neuropsychiatric Disease and Treatment, 4 (1 A), pp. 81-91.
  • Tenenbaum HR, Callanan MA. (2008) 'Parents' science talk to their children in Mexican-descent families residing in the USA'. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 32 (1), pp. 1-12.
    doi: 10.1177/0165025407084046
  • Ruck MD, Tenenbaum HR, Sines J. (2007) 'Brief report: British adolescents' views about the rights of asylum-seeking children'. Journal of Adolescence, 30 (4), pp. 687-693.
    doi: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2007.04.001
  • Tenenbaum HR, Ruck MD, Tenenbaum HR. (2007) 'Are teachers' expectations different for racial minority than for European American students? A meta-analysis.'. Journal of Educational Psychology, 99 (2), pp. 253-273.
    doi: 10.1037/0022-0663.99.2.253
  • Tenenbaum HR, Porche MV, Snow CE, Tabors P, Ross S. (2007) 'Maternal and child predictors of low-income children's educational attainment'. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 28 (3), pp. 227-238.
    doi: 10.1016/j.appdev.2007.02.002
  • Aldrich NJ, Aldrich NJ, Tenenbaum HR. (2006) 'Sadness, anger, and frustration: Gendered patterns in early adolescents' and their parents' emotion talk'. Sex Roles, 55 (11-12), pp. 775-785.
    doi: 10.1007/s11199-006-9131-y
  • Crowley K, Callanan MA, Tenenbaum H, Allen E. (2001) 'Parents explain more often to boys than to girls during shared scientific thinking'. Psychological Science, 12, pp. 258-261.

Teaching

Social and Personality Development, Developmental 1 and Developmental 2

Departmental Duties

Co-leading the Enhancing Thinking Stream

Journal Editorship

I am the co-editor of the British Journal of Educational Psychology and will be the editor of this journal beginning in 2013.