Congratulations to Taylor Wood, who successfully defended her Masters thesis. Taylor’s research examined children’s social judgments about others based on their trait and wealth status. Overall, children take into account whether a person is nice or mean to a greater extent than whether a person is wealthy or not wealthy in their judgments, but they’re also sensitive to the resources that they might be able to access if they associate with people who are wealthy. Committee members were Janet Boseovski (chair), Stuart Marcovitch, and Julie Mendez-Smith.
