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 currently the postdoctoral project director for the Developing Belief Network and a part-time researcher in the Conceptual Development Lab at foundry10. In Summer 2025, I will begin a new position as a preceptor of quantitative psychology in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University.

Teaching

Starting in Fall 2025, I will be the instructor of record for PSY 1900: Introduction to Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences (offered every semester). I will also be teaching an advanced undergraduate-level tutorial on data visualization in R, starting in Spring 2026.

Prior to joining the Department of Psychology at Harvard University, 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)

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)

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