Affiliation:

Department of Psychology

Faculty of Psychology and Sciences of Education

Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Research interests:

The development of cognitive flexibility: The Variability-Stability-Flexibility Pattern

Development of Categorization; Conceptual Development

Embodied/Grounded Cognition – implications for development and education

Giftedness; Insight in creative problem solving

Early education

CV

Subgroup in the lab: FCA (Flexibility and Grounded Cognition – “Cognitie ancorata” in Romanian)

• • members: dr. Doris Rogobete; Alexandru Bibire (PhD student), Andreea Chiș, Alisa Dancu, Delia Faur, Cătălina Secară (master students); Daniela Checicheș, Teodora Ciuca, Daniela Ghiolțan, Codruț Ștefan Toader (undergraduate students).
  • collaborators: Robert Goldstone (Professor, Indiana University);  Jon Star (Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education); Ronghuan Jiang (Assistant Professor, Shenzen University); Hippolyte Gros (Associate Professor, Universite Aix-Marseille); Ionuț Mone (Assistant Professor, UBB); Fernando Marmolejo-Ramos (Research Fellow, Univ. of South Australia, Australia); Vanessa Botan (Lecturer, Nottingham Trent University, UK), Mihaela Ţăranu (Postdoc, Aarhus University, Denmark); Alexandra Marian, Roxana Mateiu-Vescan, Octavian Ojog, Ligia Suciu (Psychologists); Lidia Grigoriu (PhD student UBB).