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]

Conference Papers

Jeong, D., Kanzawa, M., Burke, T., Ni, Q., ... & Miller, L. (2025, June). The Proteus Paradox: The negative body image impact of inclusive avatar representation in VR. Paper presented at the 75th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Denver, CO, United States. Top Paper Award, Health Communication Division.

Javier, M., Wheeler, S., Ni, Q., Drivas, M., Wong, K. G., Fitzsimmons, S., ... & Jeong, D. C. (2024, October). The Alt-Self: Investigating the Inclusivity of Self-Avatar Representations in Social VR. In Companion Proceedings of the 2024 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY) (pp. 131-138). [Link]

Fascendini, B., Ni, Q., & Moll, H. (2023). The Relation Between the Development of Counterfactual Thinking and Piagetian Conservation. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 45, No. 45). [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

Burke, T., Kanzawa, M., Mitri, D., Schmidt, E., Delatorre, B., Wong, K., Panda, R., Hackman, B., Drivas, M., Ni, Q., ... & Jeong, D. (2025, June). Promoting body paws-itivity with representative avatar customization in a VR yoga experience. Paper presented at the 75th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Denver, CO, United States.

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

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

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]