Journal Articles

Moll, H., & Ni, Q. (2024). The development of sharing experiences: From dyadic engagement to taking others’ perspectives. Cologne Journal of Sociology & Social Psychology. Advance online publication. doi:10.1007/s11577-024-00953-3. [Link]

Ni, Q., Shoyer, J., Bautista, Z., Raport, A., & Moll, H. (2023). Toddlers’ expressions indicate that they track agent-object interactions but do not detect false object representations. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 231, 105639. [Link]

Ni, Q., Fascendini, B., Shoyer, J., & Moll, H. (2022). No signs of automatic perspective-taking or its modulation by joint attention in toddlers using an object retrieval task. Royal Society Open Science. [Link]

Moll, H., Ni, Q. & Stekeler-Weithofer, P. (2022). Ontogenetic steps of understanding beliefs: From practical to theoretical. Philosophical Psychology. [Link]

Moll, H., Pueschel, E., Ni, Q. & Little, A. (2021). Sharing experiences in infancy: From primary intersubjectivity to shared intentionality. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. 2437. [Link]

Under Review / In Progress:

Ni, Q., Fascendini, & Moll, H. (under review). Toddlers grasp others’ expectations by tracking their experiences.

Ni, Q., Kalkstein, D. A., & Hackel, L. M. (under review). The intentional stance drives relational reasoning in social observation. Available at SSRN 4671270.

Ni, Q., Fascendini, B., Miao, L., Chen, J., & Moll, H. (in prep). The role of experiential records in toddlers' false belief understanding.

Ni, Q. & Moll, H. (in prep). A fresh look at false belief tasks: Backward belief reasoning in preschool-aged children .

Conference Talks & Presentations

Ni, Q. & Moll, H. (2024, May). Affective insights: How children’s nonverbal expressions reveal their understanding of mental states [Poster presentation]. IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) 2024, Austin, TX.

Ni, Q. & Moll, H. (2024, Mar). Children’s reasoning about previous experiences based on subsequent belief-driven actions [Poster presentation]. Cognitive Development Society (CDS) 2024 Bi-Ennial Conference, Pasadena, CA.

Ni, Q., Fascendini, B., Miao, L., Cheng, J., & Moll, H. (2024, Mar). Beyond words: Revealing toddlers' understanding of mental states through expressions [Poster presentation]. Cognitive Development Society (CDS) 2024 Bi-Ennial Conference, Pasadena, CA.

Ni, Q., Hu, H., Nichols, R., & Moll, H. (2024, Mar). Do WEIRD children start out as or become analytic thinkers? [Poster presentation]. Cognitive Development Society (CDS) 2024 Bi-Ennial Conference, Pasadena, CA.

Jeong, D.C., Javier, M., Ni, Q., … & Miller, L.C. (2024, June). Avatar positivity: Body image disturbance in social VR self-avatar embodiment. The 74th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Gold Coast, Australia.

Javier, M., Wheeler, S., Ni, Q., …& Jeong, D.C. (2024, June). The alt-self: Investigating the inclusivity of self-avatar representations in Meta Horizon Worlds. The 74th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Gold Coast, Australia.

Ni, Q., Fascendini, B., Miao, L., & Moll, H. (2023, Mar). Witnessing others’ experiences perceptually and directly is necessary for toddlers’ mental state ascriptions [Flash talk]. Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) 2023 Biennial Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

Fascendini, B., Ni, Q., & Moll, H. (2023, Mar). The relation between the development of counterfactual thinking and Piagetian conservation [Poster presentation]. Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) 2023 Biennial Meeting, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.

Ni, Q., Fascendini, B., Miao, L., Henry, R., & Moll, H. (2023, Jan). The role of different tracked experiences in children's false-belief understanding [Paper presentation]. Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD) 2023 Annual Meeting, Budapest, Hungary.

Fascendini, B., Ni, Q., & Moll, H. (2023, Jan). The relation between the development of counterfactual thinking and Piagetian conservation [Poster presentation]. Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCCD) 2023 Annual Meeting, Budapest, Hungary.

Ni, Q., Fascendini, B., Shoyer, J., & Moll, H. (2022, Apr). No signs of automatic perspective-taking in an object retrieval task for toddlers [Poster presentation]. Cognitive Development Society (CDS) 2022 Bi-Ennial Conference, Madison, WI.

Ni, Q., Fascendini, B., Shoyer, J., & Moll, H. (2022, Jan). The role of jointness in preschoolers’ altercentric bias [Paper presentation]. BCCCD 2022 Annual Meeting.

Ni, Q., Shoyer, J., Bautista, Z., Raport, A., & Moll, H. (2021, Jul). Young children’s understanding of the nexus between appearances and belief formation [Poster presentation]. CEU Summer University 2021 "Representing the world in the developing mind: From objects to context". [Link]

Ni, Q., Shoyer, J., Bautista, Z., Raport, A., & Moll, H. (2021, Apr). “It’s not what you think it is”: 3-year-olds’ understanding that appearances can “deceive” and lead to false assumptions [Poster presentation]. SRCD 2021 Virtual Biennial Meeting.

Ni, Q. & Moll, H. (2021, Feb). “It’s not what you think it is”: 3-year-olds’ understanding that appearances can “deceive” and lead to false assumptions [Talk]. Kinds of Mindreading: A Graduate Conference on Theory of Mind, University of Connecticut. [Link]