Academic CV
Publications
Liberman, Z., Woodward, A. L., Keysar, B., & Kinzler, K. D. (in press).
Exposure to multiple languages enhances communication skills in infancy. Developmental Science.
Fan, S.*, Liberman, Z.*, Keysar, B., & Kinzler, K. D. (2015).
The exposure advantage: Early exposure to a multilingual enviornment promotes effective communication. Psychological Science, 26 (7), 1090-1097.
*authors contributed equally to this work
Krogh-Jespersen, S., Liberman, Z., & Woodward, A.L. (2015).
Think fast! The relationship between goal prediction speed and social competence in infants. Developmental Science, 18 (5) 815-823.
Liberman, Z., Kinzler, K.D., & Woodward, A.L. (2014)
Friends or foes: Infants use shared evaluations to infer others' social relationships. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143 (3), 966-971
Hamlin, J.K., Mahajan, N., Liberman, Z., & Wynn, K. (2013).
Not like me=bad: Infants prefer those who harm dissimilar others. Psychological Science, 24 (4), 589-594.
Skills
SPSS
R-Studio
Languages
English - Native
Spanish - Proficient
Under Review
Liberman, Z., Woodward, A. L., Sullivan, K. R., & Kinzler, K. D. (under review).
An early emerging system for reasoning about the social nature of food
Liberman, Z., Woodward, A. L., & Kinzler, K. D. (under review).
Preverbal infants infer third-party social relationships based on language
Steckler, C., Liberman, Z., Slevinski, J., Le, D. T., & Hamlin, J. K. (under review).
Feeling out the role of feeling in infant sociomoral evaluations.
Research
Awards
2013-2016: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
2015: Norman H. Anderson Research Award
2014: Psychology Graduate Student Organization Research Award
2012: NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, Honorable Mention
2011: APAGS/ Psi Chi Junior Scientist Fellowship, Honorable Mention
2011: Mellon Mays Undergraduate Research Grant
2010: Yale College Dean's Fellowship in the Social Sciences
Education
University of Chicago
​2011 - present
Masters of Arts in Psychology earned in June, 2013. Currently pursuing Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology. I work with Dr. Amanda Woodward, Dr. Katherine Kinzler, Dr. Boaz Keysar, and Dr. Alex Shaw.
Yale University
​2007 - 2011
Graduated phi beta cappa and magna cum laude with distinction in the psychology major. As an undergraduate I worked in labs for Dr. Karen Wynn and Dr. Kristina Olson. My senior thesis investigated the role of similarity and group membership in infants' social evaluations.
Teaching
Teaching Assistant: Developmental Psychology
​Spring 2015
Led two weekly discussion sections for 48 undergraduate students. Graded reading responses, and exams.
Teaching Assistant: Psychology of Decision Making
​Fall 2014
Led a weekly discussion section for 24 undergraduate students. Graded reading responses, class presentations, and final papers.
Teaching Assistant: Experimental Design 1 & 2
Winter 2014; Spring 2014
Gave a series of six lectures on categorical data analysis for first and second year graduate students. Graded problems sets and exams.