Stella Christie

心理学系教授

脑与智能实验室首席研究员

清华大学THBI儿童认知研究中心创始人

Stella Christie 2004年毕业于哈佛大学，获得心理学学士学位，2010年在美国西北大学获得认知心理学博士学位，随后在英属哥伦比亚大学作为博士后继续科学研究。2012年加入斯沃斯莫尔学院担任助理教授并于2018年晋升为长聘副教授，期间曾到斯坦福大学进行访问交流。2018年，Stella Christie受聘清华大学心理学系长聘副教授，并创建和领导清华大学心理系儿童认知研究中心，同时也担任清华大学脑与智能实验室的首席研究员。2022年，Stella Christie受聘为清华大学心理学系长聘教授。

Stella Christie博士是认知科学家，尤其关注认知发展与学习过程，主要研究内容为类比推理的形成与发展，包括语言习得、空间智力、数的概念、社会认知以及创造性问题解决能力等。她的数篇研究发表于高影响力学术期刊。2016年，Stella Christie博士被提名为认知科学界最负盛名的奖项之一，James McDonnell Understanding Human Cognition奖。

研究简介：

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为什么人类比其他动物聪明？我的假设是人类可从事物的表象发现背后的逻辑关系和规律。小到理解一个简单的词汇如“妈妈”，大到数学运算和看地图，这些都基于对关系的了解和思考。我的研究目标为深入探索关系思维，具体分为以下三个方面：

（1）初始阶段：人类和其他动物掌握了哪些关系？

（2）方法和工具：如何通过学习方法和工具提高思考关系的能力？

（3）应用：社会关系。我们如何理解和处理复杂的社会关系？

通过对儿童和类人猿的研究，我们实验室发现了人类和其他动物在关系认知方面的相似和差异之处。最终，我希望在初始阶段，通过使用学习方法和工具—语言和对比，来提升人们的思维能力。

教育背景

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1999-2004 哈佛大学 心理学学士 magna cum laude with highest honors

2004-2010 西北大学 认知心理学博士

工作履历

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学术成果

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*通讯作者

研究报告

Gao,Y.,Que,K.,Tan,Z.,Zhang,Y.,&Christie, S.(2022). Analogy Use in Parental Explanation.Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4w58m1v

白红红 & Stella Christie. (2022).如何培养早期儿童的创造力. 早期儿童发展, 1: 36-48.

高杨., 阙可鑫., & Stella Christie. (2022). 为什么婴幼儿爱问“为什么”. 早期儿童发展, 1: 24-35.

吕金云., 方艺瑾., 樊薇薇., 杨慧颖., & Stella Christie. (2022). 早期玩耍是终身学习的基础. 早期儿童发展, 1: 9-23.

Christie, S. (2021). Why play equals learning: Comparison as a learning mechanism in play. Infant and Child Development, e2285. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2285

Zhang, J., & Christie, S. (2021). East-west revisited: Is holistic thinking relational thinking?. In Fitch, T., Lamm, C., Leder, H., & Teβmar-Raible, K., (Eds.) Proceedings of the 43th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 1635-1641

Christie, S. (2021). Learning Sameness: Object and Relational Similarity Across Species. Current Opinion of Behavioral Science, 37, 41-46.

*Christie, S., Yang, G., & Qiuchen, M. (2020). Development of Analogical Reasoning: A Novel Perspective from Cross-Cultural studies.Child Development Perspectives.

*Christie, S., & Jinyun, L, Yijin F, Xili H (2020). The Cognitive Science of Designing Urban Spaces for Children.Landscape Architecture Frontiers, 2(8), 84-99.

*Christie, S. (in press). Relational and Object Similarity in Children and Apes.Current Opinion of Behavioral Science.

Orticio, E., &*Christie, S. (2020). Object Bias Disrupts Rule-Based Generalization Across Domains. In Denison, S., Mack, M, Xu, Y., & Armstrong, B. C.(Eds.)Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

*Christie, S. (2017). Structure mapping for social learning.Topics in Cognitive Science, 9, 758-775.

*Christie, S., Gentner, D., Call, J., & Haun, D. (2016). Sensitivity to relational similarity and object similarity in apes and children.Current Biology, 26(4), 531-535.

Noyes, A. & *Christie, S. (2016). Children prefer diverse samples for inductive reasoning in the social domain.Child Development, 87(4), 1090-1098.

*Christie, S. & Gentner, D. (2014). Language helps children succeed on a classic analogy task.Cognitive Science,38(2), 383-397.

*Hespos, S.J., Dora, B., Rips, L.J. & Christie, S. (2012). Infants make quantity discriminations for substances.Child Development,83(2), 554-567.

*Christie, S. & Gentner, D. (2010). Where hypotheses come from: Learning new relations by structural alignment.Journal of Cognition and Development,11(3), 356-373.2010 Editor’s Choice Award for Best Article.

*Gentner, D. & Christie, S. (2010). Mutual bootstrapping between language and analogical processing.Language and Cognition,2(2), 261-283.

*Gentner, D. & Christie, S. (2008). Relational language supports relational cognition in humans and apes.Brain and Behavioral Science,31, 2.

*Christie, S. & Gentner, D. (2007). Relational similarity in identity relation: The role of language. In Vosniadou, S. & Kayser, D. (Eds.)Proceedings of the Second European Cognitive Science Conference.

Gentner,D.& *Christie,S.(2006).Usingnumberstostructurespace.In Sun, R.& Miyake,N.(Eds.)ProceedingsoftheTwenty-Eight Annual meeting of the Cognitive ScienceSociety.

*Jameson, J. Gentner, D.,Day,S., Christie, S. Colhoun, J. & Bartels, D. (2005). Clarifyingtheroleofalignabilityinsimilaritycomparisons.In Bruno,B.G.,Barsalou, L. & Buciarrelli, M. (Eds.)Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 1048-1053.

*Mast, F.W., Ganis, G., Christie, S. & Kosslyn, S.M. (2003). Four types of mental imagery processing in upright and tilted observers.Cognitive Brain Research,17, 209-213.

书籍章节

*Christie, S. (2020). Multiple Exemplars of Relations. In Childers,Jane B.(Ed.),Language and Concept Acquisition from Infancy Through Childhood(pp. 221-245). Springer, Cham.

*Christie, S. (2018). Analogical Reasoning. In: M. Bornstein, M. Arterberry, K. Fingerman, & J. Lansford (Eds.)SAGE Encyclopedia of Lifespan Human Development, Sage Publication.

*Christie, S. & Gentner, D. (2012). Language and cognition in development. In: M.M. Spivey, K. McRae, & M. Joanisse, (Eds.)Cambridge Handbook of Psycholinguistics, Cambridge University Press.

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联系方式

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电话：+86 010 62783675

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