Kara Weisman

[email: kgweisman at gmail] [cv: pdf] [Google Scholar: profile]

I study folk theories and their role in shaping people’s behaviors, relationships, and experiences. I am particularly interested in the ways in which conceptual representations do and do not vary across development, across cultural settings, and across individuals.

I am a Senior Researcher at the education research organization foundry10, where I am the Principal Investigator of the Conceptual Development Lab. From 2020-2025 I was the postdoctoral project director for the Developing Belief Network.

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Teaching

I taught the following courses as a graduate student at Stanford University:

PSYCH 141: Cognitive Development

• Fall 2017: Guest Lecturer (Instructor: Hyo Gweon)
• Spring 2017: Teaching Assistant & Guest Lecturer (Instructor: Hyo Gweon)

PSYCH 10/STATS 60: Introduction to Statistical Methods: Precalculus [course website]

• Winter 2017: Teaching Assistant (Instructor: Karen Larocque)
• Winter 2015: Grader (Instructor: Ewart Thomas)

PSYCH 113S: Developmental Psychology [syllabus] [lectures]

• Summer 2016: Co-Instructor (with Kyle MacDonald)

PSYCH 253: Statistical Theory, Models, & Methodology [course website]

• Spring 2016: Teaching Assistant (Instructor: Ewart Thomas)

PSYCH 175: Early Learning and Social Cognition

• Winter 2016: Teaching Assistant (Instructor: Hyo Gweon)

PSYCH 60: Introduction to Developmental Psychology [syllabus] [instructional videos]

• Fall 2015: Teaching Assistant & Guest Lecturer (Instructor: Mike Frank)

PSYCH 252: Statistical Methods for Behavioral & Social Sciences [course website]

• Fall 2014: Teaching Assistant (Instructors: Ewart Thomas & Benoit Monin)