Manuscripts

• Ritter, L. J., Lapan, C., Rawson, P. & Case, E. L. (2022). “Wear long sleeves and say bless you:” Working as an “other” in conservative academia. In M. Mackinem, L.J. Ritter, & A. Bagasra (Eds.), The changing faces of higher education: From Boomers to Millennials (pp. 185-205). Vernon Press.  https://vernonpress.com/book/1426 
• Benton D. T., & Lapan, C. (2022). Moral masters or moral apprentices? A connectionist account of sociomoral evaluation in preverbal infants. Cognitive Development. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2022.101164
  
• Boseovski, J. J., & Lapan, C. (2021). Trait or situation? Children’s use of social categories, biology, and emotions to explain the causes of behavior. Cognitive Development, 58. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2021.101019.
• Rimm-Kaufman, S., Merritt, E., Lapan, C., Decoster, J., Hunt, A., Bowers, N. (2021). Can service-learning boost science achievement, civic engagement, and social skills? A randomized controlled trial of Connect Science. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 74. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2020.101236.
  
• Lapan, C., & Boseovski, J. J. (2017). When peer performance matters: Effect of expertise and traits on children’s self-evaluations after social comparison. Child Development, 88(6), 1860-1872. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12941
  (Supplemental Materials)
• Lapan, C., & Boseovski, J. J. (2017). The effects of guilt on preschoolers’ cognitive flexibility and inhibition. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 41, 95-102. doi:10.1016/j.ecresq.2017.06.004
• Lapan, C., & Boseovski, J. J. (2016). Theory of mind and children's trait attributions about average and typically stigmatized peers. Infant and Child Development, 25(2), 158-178. doi: 10.1002/icd.1923
• Lapan, C., Boseovski, J. J., & Blincoe, S. (2016). “Can I believe my eyes?” Three- to six-year-olds’ willingness to accept contradictory trait labels. Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 62(1), 24-47.  doi: 10.13110/merrpalmquar1982.62.1.0022
• Boseovski, J. J., Lapan, C., & Bosacki, S. (2013). Children's trait and emotion attributions in socially ambiguous and unambiguous situations. The Journal of Genetic Psychology: Research and Theory on Human Development, 174(4), 366-386. doi:10.1080/00221325.2012.685991

Popular Press

• Lapan, C (2022 August 24). Being LGBTQ+ in towns and gowns. Psychonomic Society. https://featuredcontent.psychonomic.org/being-lgbtq-in-towns-and-gowns/

Selected Conference Presentations

• Lapan, C. & Cook, C. (2022). Children’s selective trust: Consideration of disability status and expertise. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the South Eastern Psychological Association, Hilton Head, SC.
• Lapan, C. (2022). Willingness of faculty and students to engage in racial dialogues. Symposia presented at the annual meeting of the South Eastern Psychological Association, Hilton Head, SC.