Dr. Selmeczy joined the Psychology Department in Fall of 2019. Her research program focuses on understanding 1.) how individuals introspect on their memory and how these thoughts guide decision-making, 2.) the environmental and contextual factors that influence memory decisions, and 3.) how these abilities develop throughout the lifespan, particularly during childhood. Her research has been funded by federal agencies such as the National Institutes of Health and published in leading journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America and Child Development.

For additional and up to date information about my research lab please check out my lab website.

​​​​​​Dr. Selmeczy is currently accepting both graduate and undergraduate students and invites students to contact her with any questions.

Here are some things you will gain from joining Dr. Selmeczy’s lab:

• experience working in a research laboratory including designing research studies, collecting and analyzing data, and opportunities to present your work at academic conferences and in peer reviewed journal publications 
• experience working with children and families in a professional setting
• experience learning computer and programming skills 
• knowledge about developmental and cognitive psychology
• a professional reference and letter of recommendation 

Development, Memory, Decision-Making, Metacognition & Learning

PSY 3620 - Developmental Psychology
PSY 4620 - Seminar in Developmental Psychology

Ph.D., Psychology, Washington University in St. Louis, 2014
M.A., Psychology, Washington University in St. Louis, 2011
B.S., University of California, Davis, 2008

Research Gate Profile: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Diana_Selmeczy/publications

Selmeczy, D., Kazemi, A., & Ghetti, S. (2021). Developmental Differences in Subjective Recollection and Its Role in Decision Making. Child Development, 92(6), e1308–e1325. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13611 

Selmeczy, D., Ghetti, S., Zheng, L. R., Porter, T., & Trzesniewski, K. (2021). Help me understand: Adaptive information-seeking predicts academic achievement in school-aged children. Cognitive Development, 59, 101062. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2021.101062

Leckey, S., Selmeczy, D., Kazemi, A., Johnson, E. G., Hembacher, E., & Ghetti, S. (2020). Response latencies and eye gaze provide insight on how toddlers gather evidence under uncertainty. Nature Human Behaviour, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-020-0913-y 

Porter, T., Schumann, K., Selmeczy, D., & Trzesniewski, K. (2020). Intellectual humility predicts mastery behaviors when learning. Learning and Individual Differences, 80, 101888. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lindif.2020.101888 

Selmeczy, D., Fandakova, Y., Grimm, K. J., Bunge, S. A., & Ghetti, S. (2019). Longitudinal trajectories of hippocampal and prefrontal contributions to episodic retrieval: Effects of age and puberty. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 36, 100599. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2018.10.003 

Selmeczy, D., & Ghetti, S. (2019). Here is a hint! How children integrate reliable recommendations in their memory decisions. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 177, 222–239. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2018.08.004

Diana Selmeczy, Ph.D.

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