Publications

Note: Electronic copies of these journal articles are provided as a professional courtesy for personal use only. These articles are copyrighted by the journals in which they appear. Commercial use or mass reproduction of these articles is prohibited.

Stucke, N. J., & Doebel, S. (In press). Early childhood executive function predicts concurrent and later social and behavioral outcomes: A review and meta-analysis. Psychological Bulletin. Link to preprint.

Doebel, S., & Frank, M. C. (In press). Broadening convenience samples to advance theoretical progress and avoid bias in developmental science. Journal of Cognition and Development. PDF

Doebel, S., & Müller, U. (2023). The future of research on executive function and its development: An introduction to the special issue. Journal of Cognition and Development, 24(2), 161-171. PDF

Doebel, S., & Lillard, A. S. (2023). How does play foster development? A new executive function perspective. Developmental Review, 67, 1-9. PDF

Doebel, S., & Munakata, Y. (2022). Unraveling the nature of children’s self-directed speech: The role of social processes in five-and six-year-olds’ overt and partially covert speech on three tasks. Collabra, 8(1), 1-11. PDF

Doebel, S., Stucke, N. J., & Pang, S. (2022) Kindchenschema and cuteness elicit interest in caring for and playing with young children, but less so in the presence of masks. Scientific Reports, 12, 1-8. PDF

Stucke, N. J., Stoet, G., & Doebel, S. (2022) What are the kids doing? Exploring young children’s activities at home and relations with externally-cued executive function and child temperament. Developmental Science. PDF, Link to video abstract

Yannier, N., Hudson, S.E., Koedinger, K.R., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R.M., Munakata, Y., Doebel, S., Schwartz, D.L., Deslauriers, L., McCarty, L., Callaghan, K., Theobald, E. J., Freeman, S., Cooper, K. M., & Brownell, S. E. (2021). Active learning: “Hands-on” meets “minds-on”. Science, 374(6563), 26-30. PDF

Doebel, S. (2020). Rethinking executive function development. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 15, 942–956. PDF

Doebel, S., Michaelson, L. E., & Munakata, Y. (2020). Good things come to those who wait: Delaying gratification likely does matter for later achievement. Commentary on Watts, Duncan, & Quan: ‘Revisiting the Marshmallow Test: A Conceptual Replication Investigating Links Between Early Delay of Gratification and Later Outcomes’. Psychological Science. PDF (See also this summary.)

Doebel, S. & Munakata, Y. (2018). Group influences on self-control: Children delay gratification and value it more when their in-group delays and their out-group doesn’t. Psychological Science. PDF

Doebel, S., Michaelson, L. E., & Munakata, Y. (2018). Beyond personal control: The role of developing self-control abilities in the behavioral constellation of deprivation. Invited commentary to appear in Brain and Behavioral Sciences. PDF

Doebel, S., Dickerson, J. P., Hoover, J. D., & Munakata, Y.  (2017). Using language to get ready: Labels help children engage proactive control. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. PDF

Doebel, S. & Munakata, Y. (2017). Talking to ourselves to engage control? Testing developmental relations between self-directed speech, cognitive control, and talkativeness. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society. PDF

Doebel, S., Barker, J., Chevalier, N., Michaelson, L., Fisher, A. V. & Munakata, Y. (2017). Getting ready to use control: Advances in the measurement of young children’s use of proactive control. PLOS ONE. Open Access Publication

Doebel, S. & Zelazo, P. D. (2016). Seeing conflict and engaging control: Experience with contrastive language benefits executive function in preschoolers. Cognition. 157, 219-226. PDF

Doebel, S., Rowell, S. F., & Koenig, M. A. (in press). Young children detect and avoid logically inconsistent sources: The importance of communicative context and executive function. Child Development, 87, 1956-1970. PDF

Doebel, S. & Zelazo, P. D. (2015). A meta-analysis of the Dimensional Change Card Sort: Implications for developmental theories and the measurement of executive function in children. Developmental Review, 38, 241-268. PDF

Doebel, S. & Zelazo, P. D. (2013). Bottom-up and top-down dynamics in young children’s executive function: labels aid 3-year-olds’ performance on the Dimensional Change Card Sort. Cognitive Development, 28, 222-232. PDF

Doebel, S. & Koenig, M. A. (2013). Children’s use of moral behavior in selective trust: Discrimination versus learning. Developmental Psychology, 49, 462-469. PDF

Other Writings and Presentations

Did the Marshmallow test really get debunked? Medium. April, 2019.

How your brain’s executive function works and how to improve it. TEDxMileHigh. Dec, 2018.

Identifying with others who control themselves could strengthen your own self-control. The Conversation. May, 2018.