Education
Present: Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan
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2024: PhD in Experimental Psychology, University of Louisville
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2021: MS in Experimental Psychology, University of Louisville
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2019: MA in Drama Therapy (Applied Psychology), New York University
2017: BS in Neuroscience & BA in Theatre, Furman University
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Publications
Girouard-Hallam, L.N., Williams-Gant, A.J., Danovitch, J.H., & Corriveau, K. (accepted as conference proceeding for SUM25). When is it OK not to know?: Children and adults’ beliefs about smart speaker virtuous ignorance.
Oh, S., Zhang, C., Girouard-Hallam, L.N., Zhou, Z., March, H.S., Jayaramu, S., & Xu, Y. (accepted as conference proceeding for SUM25). “Hey Curio, can you tell me more?”: Children’s Information Seeking and Trust in AI.
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Girouard-Hallam, L.N. & Danovitch, J.H. (2025). Children’s trust in Google’s ability to answer questions about the past, present, and future. Computers in Human Behavior, 108596.
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Yang, Y., Girouard-Hallam, L. N., Radevski, M., & Domoff, S. E. (2024). Psychology in the digital age. Translational Issues in Psychological Science, 10(2), 95–99. https://doi.org/10.1037/tps0000416
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Girouard-Hallam, L.N. & Norris, M.N. (2024). Overheard and understood: A systematic review of children’s learning from overhearing. Translational Issues in Psychological Science. https://doi.org/10.1037/tps0000399
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Girouard-Hallam, L.N. & Danovitch, J.H. (2024). Can we Google that?: Children’s beliefs about the capacities of three technological devices. In L. K. Samuelson, S. L. Frank, M. Toneva, A. Mackey, & E. Hazeltine (Eds.), Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 46, No. 46).
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Girouard-Hallam, L.N. & Danovitch, J.H. (2024). How does Google get its information?: Children’s judgments about Google search. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 42(3), 334-347. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12487
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Girouard-Hallam, L. N., Tong, Y., Wang, F., & Danovitch, J. H. (2023). What can the internet do?: Chinese and American children’s attitudes and beliefs about the internet. Cognitive Development, 66, 101338. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2023.101338
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Girouard-Hallam, L.N, & Danovitch, J.H. (2023). Children’s interactions with virtual assistants: Moving beyond depictions of social agents. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, e34. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X22001649
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Girouard-Hallam, L.N., & Danovitch, J.H. (2022). Children’s trust in and learning from digital voice assistants. Developmental Psychology, 58(4), 646–661. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001318
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Girouard-Hallam, L., & Danovitch, J. (2022). Children’s Judgments About Asking for Past, Present, and Future Information from Google and a Person. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 44, No. 44). Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5nv331jn
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Girouard-Hallam, L.N., Streble, H.M.*, & Danovitch, J.H. (2021). Children’s mental, social, and moral attributions toward a familiar digital voice assistant. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, 3(5), 118-1131. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbe2.321
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Danovitch, J. H., Mills, C. M., Duncan, R. G., Williams, A., & Girouard, L. N. (2021). “How helpful is this observation?”: Children’s evaluations of scientific evidence. Cognitive Development, 58(2). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2021.101017
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Danovitch, J. H., Mills, C. M., Duncan, R. G., Williams, A. J., & Girouard, L. N. (2020). “How helpful is this observation?”: Children’s evaluations of scientific evidence. In S. Denison., M. Mack, Y. Xu, & B.C. Armstrong (Eds.), Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1873-1879). Cognitive Science Society.
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Dean, M.E., Girouard, L., & Witherspoon, H. (2019). The Animation Project: School-based drama therapy and 3D digital storytelling with adolescent populations. Drama Therapy Review, 6. https://doi.org/10.1386/dtr.5.1.103_1
Awards and Honors
2024
Guy Stevenson Award for Excellence in Graduate Studies (Outstanding Graduate Student), University of Louisville
University of Louisville Dissertation Completion Award
Mentored Undergraduate Research Grant, University of Louisville
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2023
SRCD SECC Dissertation Research Funding Award
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Association for Psychological Science Student Research Grant Award
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Society for the Improvement for Psychological Science Commendation Award
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2022
Diversity & Inclusion Conference Award for CogSci 2022
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University of Louisville Psychological and Brain Sciences Service Award
2021
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Summer Program in Quantitative Methods of Social Research Scholarship for Developmental, Child, and Family Psychology
Communicating Science Conference (ComSciCon) 2021 Flagship Conference (selected participant with honorarium)
University of Louisville Dean’s Citation for Excellence in Masters Degree Studies
University of Louisville Psychological and Brain Sciences Junior Research Excellence Award
2020
University of Louisville Mentored Undergraduate Student Research Grant Award
Research Conference Presentations
Girouard-Hallam, L.N. & Danovitch, J.H. (2023, October). What does Google know?: Young children’s beliefs about the capacities of google search. Poster presented at Purdue University Emerging Perspectives on Early STEM Learning, Development, and Education Workshop.
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Girouard-Hallam, L.N. & Danovitch, J.H. (2023, September). What does Google know?: Young children’s beliefs about the capacities of google search. Poster presented at Children and Screens Media and the Minds conference.
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Girouard-Hallam, L.N. (2023, April). Children’s intuitions about digital informants. Invited talk presented to the Curiosity and Learning Lab at Nuh Naci Yazgan University in Turkey, PI: Burcu Unlutabak.
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Girouard, L.N., & Danovitch, J.H. (2022). Children’s Judgments About Asking for Past, Present, and Future Information from Google and a Person. Talk presented at Cognitive Science Society’s Annual Conference.
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Girouard, L.N., Tong, Y., Wang, F., & Danovitch, J.H. (2022). A New Measure of Children's Attitudes and Beliefs about the Internet. Talk presented at the Cognitive Development Society Biannual Conference.
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Girouard, L.N., & Danovitch, J.H. (2022). Is it a “smart” speaker?: Children’s selective trust in a novel digital voice-assistant. Talk presented at the Graduate Student Regional Research Conference (Louisville, KY).
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Girouard, L.N., & Danovitch, J.H. (2021). Is the device always right?: Children’s trust in and learning from a novel digital voice-assistant. Flash talk presented at the Annual Conference for the Association for Psychological Science.
Girouard, L.N., & Danovitch, J.H. (2021). Hey Alexa, can you answer that? Children’s evaluations of familiar and novel voice-assistants. Talk presented at the Annual Conference for the Midwestern Psychological Association.
Teaching
Talks
Holmes, A. & Girouard-Hallam, L.N. (2023) Doing Good with Data: A Data Simulation Workshop for Bringing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to Graduate Statistics. Professional development session presented at the Midwestern Psychological Association’s Annual Conference.
Holmes, A. & Girouard-Hallam, L.N. (2022). Doing Good with Data: Bringing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion to Graduate Statistics. Highlighted symposium presented at Society for the Teaching of Psychology’s Annual Conference.
Norris, M.N. & Girouard-Hallam, L.N. (2022). Developing a Series of Professional Development Workshops for Undergraduate Research Assistants. Symposium presented at Society for the Teaching of Psychology’s Annual Conference.
Girouard-Hallam, L.N. & Norris, M.N. (2022) Inclusive Teaching through Active Learning for the Graduate Teaching Assistant. Poster presented at Society for the Teaching of Psychology’s Annual Conference.
Awards
2023 University of Louisville Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Experimental Psychology Excellence in Teaching Award
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2022 Society for the Teaching of Psychology Annual Conference on Teaching Graduate Student Travel Award
Certificate
2021 EdX STEM Inclusive Teaching Training Certification
Related Education
Cognition and Instruction (Grade: A, Fall 20)
Teaching Assistant Courses
Graduate Student Statistics 1 & 2 (Spring 22, Fall 22, & Spring 2023, University of Louisville)
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Advanced Multivariate Statistics (Summer 2023, ICPSR, University of Michigan)
Service
Ad Hoc Journal, Conference Proceedings, and Presentation Reviewing
Translational Issues in Psychological Science
-Guest Associate Editor, Special Issue on Social Cohesion
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International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction
Cognitive Science Annual Conference (CogSci)
Conference for Interaction Design and Children (IDC ACM)
University of Louisville Undergraduate Poster Symposium
Louisville Regional Science Fair
Service to the Field
APA Science Student Council, Cognitive Psych. Rep. (2021-2023), Chair (2022-2023)
Communicating Science Conference, Logistics Committee Member (2021-2022)
Communicating Science Conference, Logistics and Programming Liaison (2022-present)
Undergraduate Psychology Workshops, organizer and speaker, virtual series with 1000+ participants (2022-2023)
R Ladies Panels and Workshops, organizer and speaker, virtual series with 900+ participants (2022-present)
University Service
Inclusive Teaching and Active Learning Workshop Leader, Professional Development Programming, Graduate Network of Arts and Science, University of Louisville (2021- present)
REACH training for undergraduate students, volunteer, University of Louisville (Summer 2022)
“First Gen Card” Program for first generation students, volunteer, University of Louisville (2021-present)
Graduate Student Council, Student Representative, University of Louisville (2021-2022)
Lab and Department Service
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Graduate Professional Development Leader, Knowledge in Development Lab, University of Louisville (Summer 2022)
Undergraduate Professional Development co-leader, Knowledge in Development Lab, University of Louisville (2021-2022)
Transition Ambassador Program (TAP) for first year students, co-founder, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Louisville (2021-present)
Experimental Psychology Peer Mentorship Program, organizer and member, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Louisville (2020-present)
Experimental Program Student Representative, Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, University of Louisville (2020-2022)
Graduate School Informational Meeting, Graduate Student panel leader, University of Louisville (Fall 2021)
Community Service
R-Ladies Louisville Chapter, co-organizer, Louisville KY (2022-present)
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