Laura E.

Michaelson
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience ! 345 UCB ! Boulder, CO 80309
(609) 670-1556 ! laura.michaelson@colorado.edu

DEGREES AND CERTIFICATES

Ph.D. Candidate, Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive Science, University of Colorado Boulder
Graduate Certificate, Quantitative Methods in the Behavioral Sciences, University of Colorado, 2017
M.A., Cognitive Psychology, University of Colorado, 2013
B.A. with Honors, Cognitive Science, Vassar College, 2009

RESEARCH INTERESTS AND AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION

Social influences on cognition and decision-making; implications for education, social justice, public health

Evaluation research, quantitative methods, statistical analysis, causal inference

PAPERS, PUBLISHED AND IN PRESS

Doebel, S., Michaelson, L. E., & Munakata, Y. (In press). Beyond personal control: The role of
developing self-control abilities in the behavioral constellation of deprivation. [Peer commentary on The
behavioral constellation of deprivation: causes and consequences, by G. V. Pepper & D. Nettle].
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, in press.

Doebel, S., Barker, J. E., Chevalier, N., Michaelson, L. E., Fisher, A. V., & Munakata, Y. (2017). Getting
ready to use control: Advances in the measurement of young childrens use of proactive control. PloS
one, 12(4), e0175072.

Michaelson, L. E., & Munakata, Y. (2016). Trust matters: Seeing how an adult treats another person
influences preschoolers' willingness to delay gratification. Developmental Science, 19(6), 1011-1019. DOI:
10.1111/desc.12388

Lurquin, J. H., Michaelson, L. E., Barker, J. E., Gustavson, D. E., von Bastian, C. C., Carruth, N. P., &
Miyake, A. (2016). No evidence of the ego-depletion effect across task characteristics and individual
differences: A pre-registered study. PLoS One, 11(2), e0147770.

Barker, J. E., Semenov, A. D., Michaelson, L. E., Provan, L. S., Snyder, H. R. & Munakata, Y. (2014).
Less-structured time in children's daily lives predicts self-directed executive functioning. Frontiers in
Psychology, 5. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00593

Michaelson, L. E.*, de la Vega, A.*, Chatham, C. H., & Munakata, Y. (2013). Delaying gratification
depends on social trust. Frontiers in Psychology, 4:355. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00355

PAPERS, SUBMITTED AND IN PREPARATION

Michaelson, L.E., & Pomerance, J. (In preparation). Impacts of the 2008 financial crisis on social trust
among American adults.

Leopold, D. R.*, Michaelson, L. E.*, Wakeman, H., Munakata, Y., Willcutt, E. G., Boeldt, D. L., Carol, E.
E., Kirshner, B. R., McKimmy, C., Pacheco, J. E., Shedro, M. A., Torres, F., & Dimidjian, S.

Last updated: 07/2017

 Contemplative and mindfulness programs for children and classrooms: Protocol for a systematic review
and meta-analysis. PROSPERO 2017: CRD42017059816. Available from osf.io/54xv7.
*These authors contributed equally to this work

Gustavson, D. E., Lurquin, J. H., Michaelson, L. E., Barker, J. E., Carruth, N. P., & Miyake, A. (In
preparation). Examining the relationship between executive function and internalizing psychopathology:
Lower general executive function is associated with trait worry.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Munakata, Y., Michaelson, L. E., Barker, J. E., & Chevalier, N. (2013). Executive functioning during
infancy and childhood. Morton, J.B., topic ed. In: Tremblay, R.E., Boivin, M., & Peters, R., eds.
Encyclopedia on Early Childhood Development [online]. Montreal, Quebec: Centre of Excellence for Early
Childhood Development and Strategic Knowledge Cluster on Early Child Development; 1-7.

HONORS, AWARDS, & SCHOLARSHIPS

2017 Methods Training Scholarship, Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado Boulder

2017 Dosier/Muenzinger Award for Outstanding Contribution to Translational Research, University of

Colorado Boulder

2017 James E. Schafer Leadership Scholarship, University of Colorado Boulder

2016 Greatest Impact on the CU Community, CU Student Government, University of Colorado Boulder

2016 Dosier/Muenzinger Award for Outstanding Teaching, University of Colorado Boulder

2016 Carol B. Lynch Fellowship for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Colorado Boulder

2015 Student Service Award, University of Colorado Boulder

2013 Sheryl R. Young Memorial Scholarship, University of Colorado Boulder

2013 Poster Prize, Social and Affective Neuroscience Society

2011 Merit Based Fellowship, University of Colorado Boulder

2011 Travel Award, United Government of Graduate Students, University of Colorado Boulder

RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Graduate Research Assistant, Child & Family Well-Being Pilot Program (PI: Sona Dimidjian), University
of Colorado Boulder, 2016-present

Graduate Research Assistant, Blueprints for Healthy Youth Development Project (Director: Fred Pampel),
Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado Boulder, 2016-present

Research Intern, Assuring Better Child Health and Development Partnership, Boulder County Public
Health, 2015

Graduate Research Assistant, NICHD R01, Representations yielding task-dependent flexibility. (PI:
Yuko Munakata), University of Colorado Boulder, 2011-2013
 Clinical Research Coordinator, NIMH RC2, Neurodevelopmental Genomics Project. (PI: Raquel Gur)
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 2009-2011

Research Intern, Cognitive Neuroscience & Brain Imaging Laboratory, Thomas Jefferson University, 2009

Undergraduate Research Assistant, Cognitive Development Center, University of Colorado Boulder, 2008

Undergraduate Research Assistant, Center for Autism Research, Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia, 2007

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Spring 2016 Graduate Instructor of Record

PSYC 2145-003, Introduction to Cognitive Psychology (developed and taught all course
material including curriculum, syllabus, in-class and online quizzes, in-class activity
assignments, written essays, mid-term exams, final exams)

Fall 2015 Graduate Teaching Assistant

PSYC 2145-001, Introduction to Cognitive Psychology (taught guest lectures and review
sessions, prepared original course content, created and managed online learning platform,
graded exams and written assignments)

Spring 2015 Graduate Teaching Assistant

PSYC 3456, Psychology of Personality (taught guest lectures, managed assessment
spreadsheets, graded exams and written assignments)

Spring 2015 Graduate Teaching Assistant

PSYC 2606, Social Psychology (taught guest lectures, managed assessment spreadsheets,
graded exams and written assignments)

Fall 2014 Graduate Teaching Assistant

PSYC 3684, Developmental Psychology (taught review sessions, created and managed
online learning platform, graded exams and written assignments)
Spring 2013 Graduate Teaching Assistant
PSYC 4175/5175, Computational Cognitive Neuroscience (taught two weekly lab sessions
and guest lectures, developed and taught course material for labs on neural network
modeling, graded written assignments and final projects)

2008-2009 Undergraduate Teaching Intern

Vassar College Cognitive Science Program (taught weekly recitation sessions, graded
quantitative and written assignments, held regular office hours)

HONORS THESIS STUDENTS SUPERVISED

Laura Meyer (summa cum laude): Exploring the mechanisms of implementation intentions: A preschool
intervention

Anjela Sargent (magna cum laude): The Relationship Between the Development of Time Perception and
Delay of Gratification

Lena Lazar (magna cum laude): The role of language in the development of cognitive flexibility
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Michaelson, L. E. & Corker, K. (2017, July). Improving measurement in research. Workshop at the 2nd
Annual Meeting of the Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science, Charlottesville, VA.

Michaelson, L. E., & Pomerance, J. (2017, February). Psychosocial effects of the 2008 financial crisis on
trust and decision-making. Paper accepted for presentation at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive
Science Society, London, UK.

Michaelson, L. E., & Pomerance, J. (2017, May). Impacts of the 2008 financial crisis on social trust.
Poster abstract submitted for presentation at the 2017 Boulder Summer Conference on Consumer Financial
Decision Making, Boulder, CO.

Barker, J. E., Michaelson, L. E., & Munakata, Y. (2017, April). Childrens ability to engage proactive
control predicts their willingness to delay gratification. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the
Society for Research in Child Development, Austin, TX.

Niebaum, J., Brenkert, S., Michaelson, L. E., Flint, K., & Munakata, Y. (2016, April). What impact do
research toys have, and how can we measure it? Poster presented at the National Living Laboratory Annual
Meeting, Boston, MA.

Michaelson, L. E. & Munakata, Y. (2016, January). Social trust and willingness to delay gratification in
two notoriously impulsive populations. Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for
Personality and Social Psychology, San Diego, CA.

Lurquin, J. H., Michaelson, L. E., Barker, J. E., Gustavson, D., Carruth, N., von Bastian, C., & Miyake, A.
(2015, November). No evidence of the ego depletion effect across task characteristics and individual
differences. Poster presented at the Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

Gustavson, D., Lurquin, J. H., Carruth, N., Michaelson, L. E., Barker, J. E., von Bastian, C., & Miyake, A.
(2015, November). Executive dysfunction in trait anxiety: Evaluating and extending attentional control
theory. Poster presented at the Psychonomic Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

Doebel, S., Barker, J., Chevalier, N., Michaelson, L. E. & Munakata, Y. (2015, October). Getting ready to
use control: Advances in measuring a key developmental transition in how children engage executive
function. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Columbus, OH.

Michaelson, L. E. & Munakata, Y. (2015, March). Preschoolers are less willing to delay gratification in an
untrustworthy social context. In Perone, S. (Chair), Thinking beyond the lab: Understanding cognition
across contexts can advance the application of developmental research. Syposium conducted at the
Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Philadelphia, PA.

Michaelson, L. E., De la Vega, A., Chatham, C., & Munakata, Y. (2013, April). Delaying gratification
depends on social trust. Poster presented at the 6th Annual Meeting of the Social and Affective
Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

de la Vega, A. D., Chatham, C. H., Herzmann, G., Michaelson, L. E., & Munakata, Y. (2013, April).
Oxytocin increases willingness to delay gratification. Poster presented at the 6th Annual Meeting of the
Social Affective Neuroscience Society, San Francisco, CA.

Michaelson, L. E. & Munakata, Y. (2013, April). Contradictory effects of labels on cognitive flexibility:
Exploring a developmental puzzle. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in
Child Development, Seattle, WA.
AFFLIATIONS & SERVICE ACTIVITIES

Invited Community Board Leader, PsychMAP Facebook Group, 2017-present

Founder and Director, Open Science Interest Group, University of Colorado Boulder, 2015-present
Student Ambassador, Center for Open Science, 2014-present
Open Science Lobbyist, Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, 2012-present
Liaison to Graduate and Professional Students, CU Student Government, 2015-2016
Student Representative, Graduate Student Social Climate Task Force, 2015-2016
Executive Vice President, United Government of Graduate Students, 2012-2015
Graduate Student Representative, Boulder Faculty Assembly Executive Committee, 2013-2015
Senator (Graduate School), CU Student Government Legislative Council, 2012-2013
Assistant to the Academic Executive, Vassar Student Association, 2006-2007
Ad-hoc reviewer for: Cognition; Developmental Psychology; Journal of Clinical and Counseling
Psychology; Journal of Experimental Child Psychology; Psychological Bulletin; Psychological
Science; Frontiers in Psychology; Mindfulness

SKILLS & WORKSHOPS

Proficient in analysis programs and languages including R, Stata, MPlus, and SPSS; experience using SAS,
Python, Matlab, Unix, Git

Workshops attended:
Applied Multilevel Modeling, ICPSR, June 2017
Software Carpentry Bootcamp, Women in Science and Engineering, January 2015)
fMRI Image Acquisition and Analyses, Mind Research Network, Janunary 2014)