PUBLICATIONS

2021-2025

Rennels, J.L., Kayl, A.J., & Kulhanek, K.M. (2024). Leveraging machine learning to study how temperament scores predict pre-term birth status. Global Pediatrics, 9, 100220. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gpeds.2024.100220

Rennels, J.L. (2023). Recommendations for investigating the cross-category effect among Hispanic and Latino populations. Perspectives on Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916221100508

Soderstrom, M., Werker, J.R., Tsui, A., Skarabela, B., Seidl, A., Searle, A., Ryjova, Y., Rennels, J.L., et al. (accepted pending data collection). Testing the relationship between preferences for infant-directed speech and vocabulary development: A multi-lab study. Journal of Child Language.

Rennels, J.L., & Insouvanh, K.* (2022). Developmental research assessing bias would benefit from naturalistic observation data. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, e89. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X21000765

2016-2020

Rennels, J.L., Kayl, A.J.*, & Kulhanek, K.M.* (2020). Individual differences in infants’ temperament affect face processing. Brain Sciences, 10(8), 474 https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci10080474 (Editor’s Choice Award for this Special Issue on The Study of Eye Movements in Infancy).

The ManyBabies Consortium.^ (2020). Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed speech preference. Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 3, 24-52. https://doi.org/10.1177/2515245919900809

Rennels, J.L., & Kayl, A.J.* (2020). Infants and adults represent faces differently. Developmental Psychology, 56, 1-14. http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.library.unlv.edu/10.1037/dev0000853

Rennels, J.L., & Verba, S.A.* (2019). Gender typicality of faces affects children’s categorization and judgments of women more than of men. Sex Roles, 81, 355-369. doi:10.1007/s11199-018-0997-2

Juvrud, J.*, Rennels, J.L., Kayl, A.J.*, Gredebäck, G., & Herlitz, A. (2019). Attention during visual preference tasks: Relation to caregiving and face recognition. Infancy, 24, 356-367. doi:10.1111/infa.12285

Rennels, J.L., Juvrud, J.*, Kayl, A.J.*, Asperholm, M., Gredebäck, G., & Herlitz, A. (2017). Caregiving experience and its relation to perceptual narrowing of face gender. Developmental Psychology, 53, 1437-1446. doi:10.1037/dev0000335

Rennels, J.L., & Kulhanek, K.M.* (2017). Differential trajectories in the development of attractiveness biases toward female and male targets. In M. Levine (Ed.), Perception of Beauty (pp. 125-144). Rijeka, Croatia: InTech. doi:10.5772/intechopen.69342

Rennels, J.L., & Verba, S.A.* (2017). Attentional and affective biases for attractive females emerge early in development. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, 35. doi:10.1017/S0140525X16000613

Juvrud, J.*, & Rennels, J.L. (2017). “I don’t need help”: Gender differences in how gender stereotypes predict help-seeking. Sex Roles, 76, 27-39. doi:10.1007/s11199-016-0653-7

Rennels, J.L., & Kayl, A.J.* (2017). How experience affects infants’ facial categorization. In H. Cohen & C. Lefebvre (Eds.), Handbook of Categorization in Cognitive Science, 2nd ed. (pp. 637-652). Amsterdam: Elsevier. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-08-101107-2.00026-9

Rennels, J.L., Kayl, A.J.*, Langlois, J.H., Davis, R.E.*, & Orlewicz, M.^ (2016). Asymmetries in infants’ attention toward and categorization of male faces: The potential role of experience. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 142, 137-157. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2015.09.026

2011-2015

Rennels, J.L., & Kayl, A.J.* (2015). Differences in expressivity based on attractiveness: Target or perceiver effects? Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 60, 163-172. doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2015.05.012

Rennels, J.L., & Langlois, J.H. (2015). Children’s beliefs in reciprocation of biases and flexibility. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 137, 39-56. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2015.03.007

Cummings, A.J.*, & Rennels, J.L. (2015). Facial expression and social communication. In B. Flores (Ed.), Emotional and Facial Expressions: Recognition, Developmental Differences and Social Importance (pp. 1-23). Hauppauge, NY: Nova Science Publishers, Inc.

Rennels, J.L., & Langlois, J.H. (2014). Children’s classification and lexicalization of attractiveness, sex, and race concepts: Differential displays of these concepts and relatedness to bias and flexibility. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 126, 1-18. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2014.02.009

Rennels, J.L., & Langlois, J.H. (2014). Children’s attractiveness, gender, and race biases: A comparison of their strength and generality. Child Development, 85, 1401-1418. doi:10.1111/cdev.12226

Cummings, A.J.*, & Rennels, J.L. (2014). How mood and task complexity affect children’s recognition of others’ emotions. Social Development, 23, 80-99. doi:10.1111/sode.12038

Rennels, J.L., & Cummings, A.J.* (2013). Sex differences in facial scanning: Similarities and dissimilarities between infants and adults. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 37, 111-117. doi:10.1177/01650254124724111

Rennels, J.L. (2012). Physical attractiveness stereotyping. In T. Cash (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Body Image and Human Appearance (pp. 636-643). Oxford, UK: Elsevier.

2002-2010

Rennels, J.L., & Davis, R.E^. (2008). Facial experience during the first year. Infant Behavior & Development, 31, 665-678. doi:10.1016/j.infbeh.2008.04.009

Rennels, J.L., Bronstad, P.M., & Langlois, J.H. (2008). Are attractive men’s faces masculine or feminine? The importance of type of facial stimuli. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 34, 884-893. doi:10.1037/0096-1523.34.4.884

Ramsey-Rennels, J.L., & Langlois, J.H. (2007). How infants perceive and process faces. In M. Lewis & A. Slater (Eds.), Introduction to Infant Development, 2nd ed. (pp. 191-215). New York: Oxford University Press.

Ramsey-Rennels, J.L., & Langlois, J.H. (2007). Infants’ differential processing of female and male faces. Reprinted in E.N. Junn & C.J. Boyatzis (Eds.), Annual Editions: Child Growth and Development 08/09, 5th ed. McGraw-Hill/Dushkin.

Ramsey-Rennels, J.L., & Langlois, J.H. (2006). Infants’ differential processing of female and male faces. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 15, 59-62. doi:10.1111/j.0963-7214.2006.00407.x

Hoss, R.A., Ramsey, J.L., Griffin, A.M., & Langlois, J.H. (2005). The role of facial attractiveness and facial femininity/masculinity in sex classification of faces. Perception, 34, 1459-1474. doi:10.1068/p5154

Ramsey, J.L., Langlois, J.H., & Marti, N.C. (2005). Infant categorization of faces: Ladies first. Developmental Review, 25, 212-246. doi:10.1016/j.dr.2005.01.001

Ramsey, J.L., & Fowler, M.L. (2004). “What do you notice?” Using posters containing questions and general instructions to guide preschoolers’ science and mathematics learning. Early Child Development and Care, 174, 31-45. doi:10.1080/0300443032000153471

Ramsey, J.L., Langlois, J.H., Hoss, R.A., Rubenstein, A.J., & Griffin, A.M. (2004). Origins of a stereotype: Categorization of facial attractiveness by 6-month-old infants. Developmental Science, 7, 201-211. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7687.2004.00339.x

Ramsey, J.L., & Langlois, J.H. (2002). How infants perceive faces. In M. Lewis & A. Slater (Eds.), Introduction to Infant Development (pp. 167-191). New York: Oxford University Press.

Ramsey, J.L., & Langlois, J.H. (2002). Effects of the “beauty is good” stereotype on children’s information processing. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 81, 320-340. doi:10.1006/jecp.2002.2656