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Bristol, United Kingdom
Occupation
Research Officer
About
Nicola and I have two wonderful sons: Faolán (born November 2003) and Comghall (August 2005). They are hard work, but lots of fun!
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I have recently completed my PhD, entitled "Young children's reporting of peers' behaviour". This is the phenomenon known as "tattling" in the US, or "telling tales" over here. I have used a mix of participant observation and behavioral ecology to study tattling in two Belfast pre-schools. I have also conducted an experiment with children to see how well they recall various types of social and non-social information, and have analyzed instances of tattling in the CHILDES and HRAF databases. My work is informed by an evolutionary perspective: I see tatt