Christine Fawcett
Researcher at Department of Psychology; Developmental Psychology
- E-mail:
- Christine.Fawcett@psyk.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Von Kraemers allé 1A och 1C
752 37 Uppsala - Postal address:
- Box 1225
751 42 UPPSALA
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Short presentation
I am interested in how children understand and engage in social interactions with others. How do children use social signals or interpret others’ behavior to determine their interactions goals? I also study interpersonal synchrony, including how infants align their behavior and physiological reactions with others. Finally, I am interested in how children develop gender categorization and stereotyping.
Biography
Education
- Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, Developmental Psychology, May, 2008,
- B.A., Miami University, Oxford, OH, Psychology with Honors, Minor in Applied Statistics, December, 2001
Current position
Uppsala University, Fr. June 2011, Department of Psychology, Uppsala, Sweden
Previous Employment
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, June 2008-May 2011, Communication Before Language Group, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Research Grants
- 2016 The Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences, “Pupillary Contagion in a Developmental Context” €635,000 over 3 years
- 2014 Swedish Research Council, “The Role of Synchronous Imitation in the Development of Joint Action” €350,000 over 4 years
- 2010 Marie Curie Individual Fellowship, “Infant Interaction” €180,000 over 24 months

Publications
Selection of publications
Eighteen-Month-Olds, but not 14-Month-Olds, Use Social Context to Bind Action Sequences
Part of Infancy, p. 115-125, 2015
Is ostension any more than attention?
Part of Scientific Reports, p. 5304, 2014
Infants' expectations about gestures and actions in third-party interactions
Part of Frontiers in Psychology, p. 321, 2014
The Child as Econometrician: A Rational Model of Preference Understanding in Children
Part of PLOS ONE, 2014
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Infants use social context to bind actions into a collaborative sequence
Part of Developmental Science, p. 841-849, 2013
Mimicry and play initiation in 18-month-old infants
Part of Infant Behavior and Development, p. 689-696, 2012
Recent publications
Preschoolers' Gender Identification Rigidity Relates to Their Gender-Typed Predictions for Others
Part of Social development (Oxford. Print), 2025
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Part of Journal of Cognition and Development, p. 100-126, 2024
- DOI for Early Childhood Educators' Math Anxiety and Its Relation to Their Pedagogic Actions in Swedish Preschools
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Part of Open Mind, p. 711-714, 2023
- DOI for The Synchrony-Prosociality Link Cannot Be Explained Away as Expectancy Effect: Response to Atwood et al. (2022)
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No transfer of arousal from other's eyes in Williams syndrome
Part of Scientific Reports, 2023
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Williams syndrome: reduced orienting to other's eyes in a hypersocial phenotype
Part of Journal of autism and developmental disorders, p. 2786-2797, 2023
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All publications
Articles in journal
Preschoolers' Gender Identification Rigidity Relates to Their Gender-Typed Predictions for Others
Part of Social development (Oxford. Print), 2025
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Part of Journal of Cognition and Development, p. 100-126, 2024
- DOI for Early Childhood Educators' Math Anxiety and Its Relation to Their Pedagogic Actions in Swedish Preschools
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Part of Open Mind, p. 711-714, 2023
- DOI for The Synchrony-Prosociality Link Cannot Be Explained Away as Expectancy Effect: Response to Atwood et al. (2022)
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No transfer of arousal from other's eyes in Williams syndrome
Part of Scientific Reports, 2023
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Williams syndrome: reduced orienting to other's eyes in a hypersocial phenotype
Part of Journal of autism and developmental disorders, p. 2786-2797, 2023
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Sharing a Common Language Affects Infants’ Pupillary Contagion
Part of Journal of Cognition and Development, p. 173-187, 2022
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How Does Preschoolers’ Conformity Relate to Parental Style, Anonymous Sharing, and Obedience?
Part of International journal of developmental science, p. 49-59, 2022
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Part of Cognition & Emotion, p. 928-942, 2022
- DOI for Individual differences in pupil dilation to others' emotional and neutral eyes with varying pupil sizes
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Kids attend to saliva sharing to infer social relationships
Part of Science, p. 260-261, 2022
Part of Infancy, p. 784-797, 2021
- DOI for Twelve-month-old infants’ physiological responses to music are affected by others’ positive and negative reactions
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Humans' Pupillary Contagion Extends to Cats and Dogs
Part of Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience, p. 153-166, 2021
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Part of Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
- DOI for The Role of Callous-Unemotional Traits on Adolescent Positive and Negative Emotional Reactivity: A Longitudinal Community-Based Study
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Conformity and its motivations are predicted by preschoolers’ and their parents’ personalities
Part of British Journal of Developmental Psychology, p. 573-588, 2018
Preschoolers' conformity (and its motivation) is linked to own and parents' personalities
Part of British Journal of Developmental Psychology, p. 573-588, 2018
Gaze Following Is Not Dependent on Ostensive Cues: A Critical Test of Natural Pedagogy
Part of Child Development, p. 2091-2098, 2018
Human eyes with dilated pupils induce pupillary contagion in infants
Part of Scientific Reports, 2017
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Early preschool environments and gender: Effects of gender pedagogy in Sweden
Part of Journal of experimental child psychology (Print), p. 1-17, 2017
Infants' use of movement synchrony to infer social affiliation in others
Part of Journal of experimental child psychology (Print), p. 127-136, 2017
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Callous-unemotional traits affect adolescents' perception of collaboration
Part of Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, p. 1400-1406, 2016
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Pupillary Contagion in Infancy: Evidence for spontaneous transfer of arousal
Part of Psychological Science, p. 997-1003, 2016
Eighteen-Month-Olds, but not 14-Month-Olds, Use Social Context to Bind Action Sequences
Part of Infancy, p. 115-125, 2015
Rock with me: The role of movement synchrony in infants’ social and non-social choices
Part of Child Development, 2015
Rock With Me: The Role of Movement Synchrony in Infants' Social and Nonsocial Choices
Part of Child Development, p. 976-984, 2015
1-and 2-year-olds' expectations about third-party communicative actions
Part of Infant Behavior and Development, p. 53-66, 2015
Is ostension any more than attention?
Part of Scientific Reports, p. 5304, 2014
Infants' expectations about gestures and actions in third-party interactions
Part of Frontiers in Psychology, p. 321, 2014
The Child as Econometrician: A Rational Model of Preference Understanding in Children
Part of PLOS ONE, 2014
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Infants use social context to bind actions into a collaborative sequence
Part of Developmental Science, p. 841-849, 2013
Mimicry and play initiation in 18-month-old infants
Part of Infant Behavior and Development, p. 689-696, 2012
Infants anticipate others’ social preferences
Part of Infant and Child Development, p. 239-249, 2012
Observation and Initiation of Joint Action in Infants
Part of Child Development, p. 434-441, 2012
Children reason about shared preferences
Part of Developmental Psychology, 2010
Similarity predicts liking in three-year-old children
Part of Journal of experimental child psychology (Print), 2010
Infants’ expectations about third-party verbal exchanges
Part of Infancy
Conference papers
Part of ICMI '22, p. 444-454, 2022
- DOI for End-to-End Learning and Analysis of Infant Engagement During Guided Play: Prediction and Explainability
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Part of Companion Publication of the 2021 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 2021
- DOI for Automatic Analysis of Infant Engagement during Play: An End-to-end Learning and Explainable AI Pilot Experiment
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Pupillary Correlates of Emotion and Cognition: A Computational Model
Part of 2019 9th International IEEE/EMBS Conference On Neural Engineering (NER), p. 903-907, 2019
2017
Pupillary Contagion in Infancy: Evidence for the Spontaneous Transfer of Arousal
2016
2015
Callous-Unemotional Traits Influence Pupil Dilation during Exposure to Negative Emotional Stimuli
2015
2015
Are Infants’ Social Preferences Grounded in Action Synchrony?
2015
2015
Swedish Gender-neutral Pedagogy Influences Preschoolers' Social Cognition about Gender
2015
Infants rely on third-party social information to reason about goals and predict behavior
2013
Action and Social Understanding in Early Development
2012
Action and Social Understanding in the First Years of Life
2012
Mimicry's Role in Play Initiation for 18-month-old Infants
2012