Barbara W Sarnecka

Barbara W. Sarnecka is a Professor of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. She is the creator of the graduate Writing Workshop seminar, guiding dozens of doctoral students and postdocs to produce their best writing while maintaining their health and sanity. Professor Sarnecka is currently conducting randomized controlled trials to investigate how doctoral writing groups affect writing productivity, skill development and well-being in doctoral students across the sciences...See more

Barbara W. Sarnecka is a Professor of Cognitive Sciences at the University of California, Irvine. She is the creator of the graduate Writing Workshop seminar, guiding dozens of doctoral students and postdocs to produce their best writing while maintaining their health and sanity. Professor Sarnecka is currently conducting randomized controlled trials to investigate how doctoral writing groups affect writing productivity, skill development and well-being in doctoral students across the sciences and humanities. Other research in her lab focuses on conceptual change and cognitive development from infancy through adulthood. This includes studies of numerical cognition in early childhood, social cognition in infancy through childhood, exploratory play and decision-making in middle childhood, conceptual change in science education, and adult moral cognition and reasoning. See less