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Dr Emma Flynn - all publications

Books: sections

• Flynn, E. (2010). Underpinning Collaborative Learning. In Self and Social Regulation: Social interaction and the development of social understanding and executive functions. Sokol, B., Muller, U., Carpendale, J., Young, A. & Iarocci, G. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 312-336.
• Bancroft, D. & Flynn, E. (2005). Early cognitive development. In Psychological Development and Early Childhood. Oates, J., Grayson, A. & Wood, C. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd. 131-166.
• Flynn, E. (2004). Understanding minds. In Children's Cognitive and Language Development. Oates, J. & Grayson, A. Milton Keynes: Blackwell Publishing Ltd and the Open University. 231-258.
• Ding, S. & Flynn, E. (2000). Collaborative Learning- an underlying skills approach. In Rethinking Collaborative Learning. Joiner, R. Littleton, K., Faulkner, D. & Miell, D. London: Free Association Press. 3-18.

Journal papers: academic

• Wood, L.A., Kendal, R. & Flynn, E. (2013). Copy you or copy me?: The effect of prior personally-acquired, and alternative method, information on imitation. Cognition 127: 203-213.
• Flynn E.G., Laland K.N., Kendal R.L. & Kendal J.R. (2013). Developmental niche construction. Developmental Science 16(2): 296-313.
• Wood, L., Kendal, R. & Flynn, E. (2012). Context-dependent model-based biases in cultural transmission: Children’s imitation is affected by model age over model knowledgeable state. Evolution and Human Behavior 33(4): 387-394.
• Vale, G.L., Flynn, E.G. & Kendal, R.L. (2012). Cumulative culture and future thinking: Is mental time travel a prerequisite to cumulative cultural evolution?. Learning and Motivation 43: 220-230.
• Flynn, E. & Whiten, A. (2012). Experimental 'microcultures' in young children: identifying biographic, cognitive, and social predictors of information transmission. Child Development 83(3): 911-925.
• Kaley, F., Reid, V. & Flynn, E. (2012). Investigating the biographic, social and temperamental predictors of young infants’ sleeping, crying and feeding routines. Infant Behavior and Development 35: 596-605.
• Flynn, E. & Smith, K. (2012). Investigating the mechanisms of cultural acquisition: How pervasive is overimitation in adults? Social Psychology 43(4): 185-195.
• Kaley, F., Reid, V. & Flynn, E. (2011). The psychology of infant colic: A review of current research. Infant Mental Health Journal 32(5): 526-541.
• Hopper, L., Flynn, E., Wood, L. & Whiten, A. (2010). Observational learning of tool use in children: Investigating cultural spread through diffusion chains and learning mechanisms through ghost displays. Journal Of Experimental Child Psychology 106(1): 82-97.
• Flynn, E.G. & Whiten, A. (2010). Studying children’s social learning experimentally “in the wild”. Learning and Behavior 38(3): 284-296.
• Whiten, A. & Flynn, E. (2010). The Transmission and Evolution of Experimental Microcultures in Groups of Young Children. Developmental Psychology 46(6): 1694-1709.
• Flynn, E. & Whiten, A. (2008). Cultural transmission of tool use in young children: A diffusion chain study. Social Development 17(3): 699-718.
• Flynn, E. & Whiten, A. (2008). Imitation of hierarchical structure versus component details of complex actions by 3- and 5-year-olds. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 101(4): 228-240.
• Flynn, E (2008). Investigating children as cultural magnets: Do young children transmit redundant information along diffusion chains?. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 363(1509): 3541-3551.
• McGuigan, N., Whiten, A., Flynn, E. & Horner, V. (2007). Imitation of causally-opaque versus causally-transparent tool use by 3- and 5-year-old children. Cognitive Development 22: 353-364.
• Flynn, E. & Siegler, R. (2007). Measuring change: Current trends and future directions in microgenetic research. Infant and Child Development 16: 135-149.
• Flynn, E. (2007). The role of inhibitory control in false belief understanding. Infant and Child Development 16: 53-59.
• Flynn, E., Pine, K. & Lewis, C. (2007). Using the microgenetic method to investigate cognitive development: introduction to a special issue. Infant and Child Development 16: 1-6.
• Flynn, E. (2006). A microgenetic investigation of stability and continuity in theory of mind development. British Journal of Developmental Psychology 24(3): 631-654.
• Horner, V., Whiten, A., Flynn, E. & de Waal, F. (2006). Faithful replication of foraging techniques along cultural transmission chains by chimpanzees and children. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 103(37): 13878-13883.
• Whiten, A., Flynn, E., Brown, K. & Lee, K. (2006). Imitation of hierarchical action structure by young children. Developmental Science 9(6): 575-582.
• Flynn, E., O'Malley, C. & Wood, D. (2004). A longitudinal, microgenetic study of the emergence of false belief understanding and inhibition skills. Developmental Science 7(1): 103-115.

Journal papers: professional

• Flynn, E., Pine, K. & Lewis, C. (2006). The microgenetic method: Time for change?. The Psychologist 19(3): 152-155.