Research Talks
Fast, A. (2018, May). What governs goodness? Investigating motivations for young children’s generous behavior. Talk presented at the 3rd Annual Los Angeles Behavioral Economics Laboratory-Institute for Economic Policy Research (LABEL-IEPR) conference at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.
Fast, A., & Olson, K. R. (2017, April). Transgender children’s beliefs about gender stability. Symposium talk presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Austin, TX.
Fast, A., Morelli, S., Zaki, J., Cook, M., & Olson, K.R. (2015, March). To see or be seen?: Motivations underlying generosity. Symposium talk presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Philadelphia, PA.
Olson, K.R., & Fast, A. (2015, March). Why protect ideas?: How the basis for IP law influences perceptions of IP. Symposium talk presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychology-Law Society, San Diego, CA.
Poster Presentations
Fast, A. & Riggs, A. (2023, March). Children’s evaluation of norm violations in pretend play. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Salt Lake City, UT.
*Bahten, S., *Hebel, K., *Thompson, L., Riggs, A., & Fast, A. (2022, June). Children’s understanding of cultural norms in pretend play. Poster presented at the annual WWU Psychology Department PsychFest.
†Lutz, E.T.H., *Robbins, S., *Wimer, T., *Strauss, S., *Beer, T., *Putman, M., & Fast, A. (2022, June). Adults expect greater happiness from costly giving to an needy ingroup member. Poster presented at the annual WWU Psychology Department PsychFest.
*Maloof, M., *Andersen, S., & Fast, A. (2021, June). Adults expect greater happiness from giving to an ingroup member. Poster presented at the annual WWU Psychology Department PsychFest.
Fast, A., *Andersen, S., *Maloof, M., *Aker, A., *Beer, T., *Reyes, E., *Zieger, B. (2021, May). Adults expect greater happiness from giving to an ingroup member. Poster presented at the Association for Psychological Science 2021 Virtual Conference.
Alonso, D., Gulgoz, S., Glazier, J., Fast, A., Olson, K. (2019, Oct). Similarities in transgender and cisgender children’s gender development. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Louisville, KY.
Fast, A., & Olson, K.R. (2019, March). Sources of children’s happiness from giving to others. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD.
Fast, A., *Ravi, S., & Olson, K.R. (2019, March). Better to give than to receive? 5-year-olds mistakenly believe they are happier from receiving. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD.
Fast, A., & Olson, K.R. (2019, February). Sources of children’s happiness from giving to others. Poster presented at the first Northwest Social Cognitive Development Conference, Friday Harbor, WA.
*Ravi, S., Fast, A., & Olson, K. R. (2018, May). Children’s happiness from giving: When experience and expectation diverge. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA.
*Ravi, S. Fast, A., & Olson, K.R. (2018, May). Children who enjoy social interactions are more likely to help, share, and comfort others. Poster presented at the 21st Annual Undergraduate Research Symposium, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Fast A., Enright, E.A., Sommerville, J.A., Olson, K.R. (2017, October). Evaluating consistency of 5-year-olds’ prosocial behaviors and fairness evaluations. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Portland, OR.
Fast A., Sommerville, J. A., & Olson, K. R. (2017, April). Emotional benefits of giving for 5-year-old children. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Austin, TX.
Fast, A., & Olson, K.R. (2016, May). Experimental investigations on the basis for intellectual property rights. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL.
Olson, K.R., Fast, A., & DeMeules, M. (2016, May). Gender constancy understanding in a gender diverse sample. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL.
Fast, A., Haga, S., Horton, R., Zhu, R., Olson, K.R. (2015, October). Perceptions of the limits of knowledge across the lifespan. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Columbus, OH.
Fast, A., & Van Reet, J. (2015, March). Less real = more acceptable: Children’s moral reasoning in pretense. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Philadelphia, PA.
Fast, A., & Van Reet, J. (2013, October). Pretend doesn’t make it right: Moral reasoning in pretense. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Memphis, TN.
Van Reet, J., McInnis, C., & Fast, A. (2012, May). Measuring the representation of pretend object substitutions. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, IL.
Fast, A., McInnis, C., & Van Reet, J. (2011, July). The cognitive representation of pretense. Poster presented at the RI-INBRE Fellowship Conference at the University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI.
* Undergraduate student co-author
† Graduate student co-author