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Dr. Lawson is a developmental psychologist with research interests in the area of early cognitive development. His work explores the development of categorization and reasoning from infancy into the preschool years. He has additional interests in understanding adult reasoning and decision-making.
Dr. Lawson received Bachelor's degrees in Psychology and Philosophy from Northeastern University (Boston, MA) in 2000. In 2007 he received his Ph.D. in Educational Psychology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Lawson then spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher at Carnegie Mellon University before joining the SJU Department of Psychology in Fall 2009
Further details about Dr. Lawson's research and background are available through the Cognitive Development Lab website (Coming soon!).
Educational Background:
- Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, Madison
- B.A. Northeastern University
Select Publications:
Lawson, C.A., & Kalish, C.W. (2009). Sample selection and inductive generalization. Memory & Cognition, 37, 596-607.
Lawson, C.A., & Fisher, A.V. (2008). Children's attention to property likelihood as a guide to property projection. In B.C. Love, K. McRae, & V.M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Kalish, C.W., & Lawson, C.A. (2007). Negative evidence and inductive generalization. Thinking & Reasoning, 13(4), 394-425.
Lawson, C.A. & Kalish, C.W. (2006). Inductive inferences across time and identity: Are category members more alike than single individuals? Journal of Cognition and Development, 7(2), 233-252.