Christopher Osterhaus

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    • Dealing with evidence
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Measuring scientific reasoning in elementary school

Measuring scientific reasoning in elementary school

Research, Scientific reasoning

Find out about our new instrument to measure scientific reasoning in elementary school. The full instrument consists of 21 questions and it takes about 90 minutes to administer it. There…

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How people interpret contingency tables

How people interpret contingency tables

Dealing with evidence, Research

Contingency tables are widely used to show the relation between two dichotomous variables. Which strategies do people use when they interpret contingency tables? Our recent study discovered a new strategy. Find…

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Social cognition and friendships

Social cognition and friendships

Research, Social cognition, Theory of Mind

Friendships are important in life. In a recent study in elementary school, we found that children’s feelings of loneliness are related to some, but not all aspects of their social…

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Scientific reasoning in kindergarten: A comprehensive inventory

Scientific reasoning in kindergarten: A comprehensive inventory

Research, Scientific reasoning

Already 6-year-olds show basic abilities in scientific reasoning! Our recent study also reveals substantial individual differences in kindergarten: While some children are very skilful in scientific reasoning, others still find…

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A model of scientific reasoning

A model of scientific reasoning

Research, Scientific reasoning

Which cognitive abilities are associated with scientific reasoning in elementary school? Our study with 402 second-, third-, and fourth-graders showed that scientific-reasoning skills are associated with inhibition, intelligence, language skills,…

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Measuring experimentation skills in elementary school

Measuring experimentation skills in elementary school

Research, Scientific reasoning

Understanding the principles of experimentation is a crucial aspect of scientific reasoning. To measure children’s experimentation skills, we developed an instrument that assesses their understanding of experimental designs. Download a…

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Theory of Mind and loneliness in kindergarten and elementary school

Theory of Mind and loneliness in kindergarten and elementary school

Publications

Koerber, S., & Osterhaus, C. (2020). Some but not all aspects of (advanced) Theory of Mind predict loneliness. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 38, 144–148. doi:10.1111/bjdp.12302 Children’s (advanced) theory of mind (AToM) has been…

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Theory of Mind and intelligence in 4-year-olds

Theory of Mind and intelligence in 4-year-olds

Publications

Osterhaus, C., Putnick, D. L., Kristen-Antonow, S., Kloo, D., Bornstein, M. H., & Sodian, B. (2020). Theory of Mind and diverse intelligences in 4-year-olds: Modeling associations of false beliefs with children’s…

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Measuring emerging scientific-reasoning skills

Measuring emerging scientific-reasoning skills

Publications

Osterhaus, C., Koerber, S., & Sodian, B. (2020). The Science-P Reasoning Inventory (SPR-I): Measuring emerging scientific-reasoning skills in primary school. International Journal of Science Education.doi:10.1080/09500693.2020.1748251 [Supplementary materials] Scientific reasoning is a crucial…

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Interpreting data

Interpreting data

Publications

Osterhaus, C., Magee, J., Saffran, A., & Alibali, M. W. (2019). Supporting successful interpretations of covariation data: Beneficial effects of variable symmetry and problem context. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72, 994–1004. doi:10.1177/1747021818775909…

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About

Christopher Osterhaus is a postdoctoral research associate in psychology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.

My research explores how children come to understand complex social situations and how they acquire scientific reasoning skills.

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