Graduate Trainee Profile:
Bailey House
Graduate Trainee - Anthropology
Advisors: Professors Joan Silk and Clark Barrett
Year Entered Doctoral Program at UCLA: 2007
Undergraduate School/Major: Anthropology
Email: bailey.house@gmail.com

Research:
My main research program asks how children and non-human primates represent the mental states and perspectives of other individuals, and how they recruit these representations in their social interactions. The goal of this program is to try to understand how social cognitive capacities actually produce social behavior.  I am currently exploring this in the context of prosocial behavior in young children, and social learning in infants.

Publications and conference presentations:

House, B. and Silk, J. (2009, May). Altruistic behavior in children and non-human primates. Symposium, Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA.

House, B. and Silk, J. (2009, April). Altruistic behavior in children. Symposium, Society for Research on Child Development, Denver CO.

House, B (2008). Acquiring and discarding mental states during social learning. Oral presentation at the Symposium on Cognitive and Language Development, May, 2008.

House, B and Santos, L. The Origins of Biased Numerical Estimation: Anchoring effects in a Non-Human Primate (Macaca Mulatta). Poster presented at the Child Development Society, October, 2007.

House, B and Santos, L. The Origins of Anchoring and Adjustment: Biased Numerical Estimations in Non-Human Primates. Poster presented at the Society for Neuroeconomics, September, 2007.

Li, X., Baillargeon, R., House, B., Carey, S., Bonatti, L. Category-Based Individuation in 9.5-Month Olds: Non-Linguistic Priming Effects. Poster presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, 2007.

Honors and awards:

National Science Foundation IGERT Fellowship, UCLA Interdisciplinary Relationship Science Program, 2008-2010
UCLA Department of Anthropology Research Grant, 2008
UCLA Department of Anthropology Graduate Fellowship, 2007-2008

Current hobbies, interests, extracurricular activities:

Breakfast foods, classical history, movies, difficult and/or controversial literature, photography, and obscure knowledge.

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