Highlights

Eleanor Myers is a psychology graduate of Princeton University, where she specialised in language development and child cognition. Her senior thesis examined social cue usage in naturalistic play among caregivers of infants with and without hearing loss.

During her studies she worked as a research assistant at the Princeton Baby Lab, investigating how caregivers provide non-verbal cues to support word learning in natural play sessions. She also spent a summer at Boston University’s Developing Minds Lab, where she led the design of an experiment exploring how three and four-year-olds reason about possibility.

After graduating, Eleanor worked for two years as Lab Manager of the Early Childhood Cognition Lab (PI: Dr. Tamar Kushnir) at Duke University. She is currently completing a Master of Arts in Teaching in Elementary Education at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and contributed to Simply Psychology as a writer between 2022 and 2023.

Professional Experience

• Lab Manager, Early Childhood Cognition Lab, Duke University (2023–2025): Managed day-to-day operations of the lab under PI Dr. Tamar Kushnir, whose research focuses on how young children learn about the world through social interaction and causal reasoning.
• Research Assistant, Princeton Baby Lab, Princeton University (2021–2023): Contributed to studies investigating how caregivers use non-verbal cues to support word learning in natural play, and how both caregivers and children actively shape the word-learning process. Responsibilities included participant recruitment, running studies, and coding video data.
• Research Assistant, Developing Minds Lab, Boston University (Summer 2022): Led the design of an experiment exploring how three and four-year-olds reason about mutually exclusive possible objects. Ran studies on the concept of possibility with children in the lab and at the Museum of Science, Boston.
• Summer Intern, High Meadows Environmental Institute, Princeton University (2020): Worked with Professor Laure Resplandy in the Princeton Geosciences Department on environmental research.
• Research Assistant, Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory, Rutgers University (2018): Worked with Professor Daphne Munroe on shellfish research.

Education

• MAT Elementary Education, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2025–2026, in progress)
• BA Psychology, Princeton University (2019–2023

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