PUBLICATIONS
BOOKS AND BOOK CHAPTERS
Aguiar, N. R. & Taylor, M. (forthcoming). Beyond Flights of Fancy?
The Relations Between Children's Imaginary Companions, Creativity, and Coping. In J. Hoffmann, J. Kaufman, & S. Russ (Eds.) Handbook of Lifespan Development of Creativity, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press
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Taylor, M., & Aguiar, N. R. (in preparation). Imaginary companions and the children who create them. 2nd Edition. New York: Oxford University Press.
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Taylor, M., & Aguiar, N.R. (2013). How real is the imaginary? Children's capacity to gain comfort from imaginary relationships. In S. A. Gelman & M. R. Banaji (Eds.), Navigating the social world: The early years (pp. 113-116). New York: Oxford University Press.
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Calvert, S. L., Putnam*, M. M., Aguiar, N. R., Ryan, R., Wright*, C., Liu*, A. Y., & Barba, E. (2020). Young children's mathematical learning from intelligent characters. Child Development.
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Bailey, J., Bailenson, J. N., Obradović, J., & Aguiar, N. R. (2019). Immersive virtual reality challenges children’s inhibitory control and influences their social behavior. Journal of Applied Social Development, 64, 101052.
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Frolich, M.*, Aguiar, N. R., & Putnam, M. M.*, Calvert, S. L. (2019). Adult Reports of Pokémon GO Play: Stronger Parasocial Relationships Predict Increased Nostalgia and Decreased App Play. Imagination, Cognition, and Personality.
Aguiar, N. R., Richards, M. N., Bond, B. J., Putnam, M. M.*, & Calvert, S. L. (2019). Children’s parasocial breakups with media characters from the perspective of the parent. Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 38(3), 193-220.
Aguiar, N. R., Richards, M. N., Bond, B. J., Brunick, K. L., & Calvert, S. L. (2019). Parents’ perceptions of their children’s parasocial relationships: The recontact study. Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 38(3), 221-249.
Taylor, M., Mottweiler, C. M., Aguiar, N. R., Naylor, E. R., & Levernier, J. G. (2018). Paracosms: The Imaginary Worlds of Middle Childhood. Child Development.
Aguiar, N. R., Mottweilier, C. M., Taylor, M., & Fisher, P. A. (2017). The Imaginary Companions Created by Children Who Have Lived in Foster Care. Imagination, Cognition and Personality, 36(4), 340-355.
Aguiar, N. R., & Taylor, M. (2015). Children’s concepts of the social affordances of virtual characters and stuffed animals, Cognitive Development, 34, 16-27.
Aguiar, N. R., Stoess, C. J., & Taylor, M. (2012). The development of children’s ability to fill the gaps in their knowledge by consulting experts. Child Development, 83(4), 1368-1381.
MANUSCRIPTS UNDER REVIEW
Aguiar, N. R. A Paradigm for Assessing Children’s Concepts of Artificially Intelligent Virtual Characters
Aguiar, N. R., Biedermann, M., Duval, C. & Calvert, S. L. Learning from Mobile App Play: Can Preschoolers Transfer STEM Concepts from 2D to 3D sources?
Horowtiz, J. E., Charania, S., Aguiar, N. R., & Calvert, S. L. Embodied food characters: The unhidden persuaders in children’s knowledge about and preferences for food and beverages.
MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION
Liu, A. Y., Aguiar, N. R., & Calvert, S. L. You’ve got a friend in smartphones: Adult Parasocial Relationships with smartphones.