Kathleen Corriveau

Dr. Kathleen Corriveau is the associate dean for faculty affairs and a professor at BU Wheelock College of Education & Human Development. She also directs the  Social Learning Laboratory at BU Wheelock. Her research focuses on social-cognitive development of trust in early childhood, bridging ideas from developmental and social psychology and applying them to educational settings. Previously, she served as the associate dean for research.

Dedicated to enhancing school readiness for all children, Dr. Corriveau is a former National Academy of Education/Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow, and is the current recipient of a National Science Foundation CAREER award exploring the role of adult explanations in STEM learning, as well as a $10 million grant from the Templeton Foundation to form the Developing Belief Network, an international network of researchers interested in the cross-cultural development of religious cognition. She has published articles in numerous refereed journals, including Child Development, Developmental Psychology, and Cognitive Science. She is the coeditor of The Questioning Child: Insights from Psychology and Education and serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Cognition and Development and the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, and as a consulting editor for Child Development and Developmental Psychology.

Dr. Corriveau’s work has received national media attention, with media coverage from New York Daily News, USA Today, Huffington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Chicago Reader, The Week UK, Religion News Service, World Religion News, Philosophy News, Slate, Swedish Radio, the Economist, and CBC Radio. She has received numerous awards, including named Fellow from the Association for Psychological Science and American Psychological Association, and an Early Career Impact Award from the Federation of Associations in Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Templeton Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, the Association for Psychological Science, and the American Psychological Association.