RECENT WRITING
Gibbs, H.M., Burchinal, M., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2021, November 30). The 'real' economic advantage of investing in families this holiday season. Brookings Institution, Education Plus Development. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/education-plus-development/2021/11/30/the-real-economic-advantage-of-investing-in-families-this-holiday-season/
Gibbs, H.M., Blinkoff, E., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2021, December 15). Time for Bin Busting: Teach Math, Reading, and Social Skills Together. EdWeek, As a Psychologist. https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/opinion-time-for-bin-busting-teach-math-reading-and-social-skills-together/2021/12
Blinkoff, E., Gibbs, H.M., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (in press). Teaching in the Ways that Brains Learn: Human Development Can Be Our Guide. In Smith, C., Carney, R.N., & Fong, C.J. (Eds.) Teaching Human Development for Educators. IAP series: Theory to Practice: Educational psychology for Teachers and Teaching. Southern Illinois University.
Gibbs, H.M., Hadani, H.S., Golinkoff, R.M., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (in press). Playing into the Future: A 21st-Century Model for Education. In I. Ahmed & F. Kolbitz (Eds.) Imagining Post-COVID Education Futures. Center for Genocide Studies, University of Dhaka; in association with Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Bangladesh.
Hirsh-Pasek, K.*, Blinkoff, E.*, Rumper, B., Gibbs, H. M., & Golinkoff, R. M. (2022). The role of science in education policy making. In L. Cohen-Vogel, J. Scott, & P. Youngs (Eds.), Handbook of education policy research (2nd ed.). AERA. [Manuscript under review]. * = Co-first authors
Hirsh-Pasek, K.*, Masters, A. S.*, Christie, S., Gibbs, H. M., Evans, N. S., Fletcher, K. K., Pesch, A., Yang, H., Fan, W., Todaro, R. D., Golinkoff, R. M., & Xu, F. (2022). Where global science meets playful learning: Implications for home, school, and city planning [White paper]. The Lego Foundation and the Yidan Foundation. www.learningthroughplay.com. * = Co-first authors
Pesch, A., Ochoa, K.D., Fletcher, K., Bermudez, V., Todaro, R., Salazar, J. Gibbs, H.M., Ahn, J., Bustamante, A.S., Hirsh-Pasek, K. (in press). Reinventing the public square and early educational settings through culturally informed, community co-design: Playful Learning Landscapes. Frontiers in Psychology.
EDUCATION
B.A. Psychology (minor in Philosophy)
Cum Laude, Thomas E. Bellavance Honors
Salisbury University, 2016
Ph.D. Human Development and Quantitative Methodology
University of Maryland College Park, 2021
Graduate Advisor: Dr. Lucas Payne Butler
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Temple Infant and Child Lab
Post-Doctoral Advisor: Dr. Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS
Butler, L.P., Schmidt, M.F.H., Tavassolie N.S., & Gibbs, H.M. (2018). Children's evaluation of verified and unverified claims. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 176. 73-83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2018.07.007
Butler, L.P., Gibbs, H.M., & Tavassolie, N.S. (2020). Children's developing understanding that even reliable sources need to verify their claims. Cognitive Development, 54, 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2020.100871
Butler, L.P., Gibbs, H.M., & Levush, K.C. (2020). Look again: Pedagogical demonstration facilitates children's use of counter-evidence. Child Development, 91, 1194-1210. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13414