Bio

Degree

PhD in Psychology

University of California, Davis

BS in Psychology

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

Published Works

• Dumontheil, I., Lyons, E. K., Russell, A. T., Zelazo, D. P. (2022). A Preliminary Neuroimaging Investigation of the Effects of Mindfulness Training on Attention Reorienting and Amygdala Reactivity to Emotional Faces in Adolescent and Adult Females. (in press). Journal of Adolescence.
• Lyons, K., Erickson, C. . Risk/reward decisions in adults. https://journals.sagepub.com/description/EAX.
• Barney, T. S., Lyons, E. K., Bridgmon, D. K. (2020). The Boots on The Ground: Convention Manager. (). Society for the Teaching of Psychology E-Books.
• Jackson Shumate, L. S., Schliemann, S., McKinney, L., Ignizio, S. G., Lyons, E. K., Dillen, F. B. (2018, May). Community based research as service learning. MSU Denver Professional Development Conference.
• Lyons, K. (2016). Attachment through the Life Course. Diener Education Fund Publishers. , www.nobaproject.com
• Lyons, K., DeLange, J. (2016). Mindfulness matters in the classroom: The Effects of mindfulness training on brain development and behavior in children and adolescents. (). Springer.
• Lyons, K. (2016). Social Neuroscience. Diener Education Fund Publishers. , www.nobaproject.com
• Lyons, K. (2016). Theory of Mind. Diener Education Fund Publishers. , www.nobaproject.com
• Shapiro, S., Lyons, K., Miller, R., Butler, B., Vieten, C., Zelazo, P. (2015). Contemplation in the classroom: A new direction for childhood education. Educational Psychology Review, 27-30. .
• Coughlin, C., Hembacher, E., Lyons, K., Ghetti, S. (2015). Introspection on uncertainty and judicious help-seeking during the preschool years. Developmental Science, 1857-971. .
• Tagar, M., Federico, C., Lyons, K., Ludeke, S., Koenig, M. (2014). Heralding the authoritarian? Orientation toward authority in early childhood. Psychological Science, 2583-892. .
• McWilliams, K., Goodman, G., Lyons, K., Avila-Mora, E. (2014). Memory for child sexual abuse information: Simulated memory error and individual differences. Memory & Cognition, 4251-163. .
• Coughlin, C., Lyons, K., Ghetti, S. (2014). Remembering the past to envision the future in middle childhood: Developmental Linkages between Prospection and Episodic Memory. Cognitive Development, 306-100. .
• Dumontheil, I., Lyons, K., . (2014). Meditation May Improve Self-Control in Adolescents. Eltern Magazin,
• Lyons, K., Ghetti, S. (2013). I don't want to pick!: Metacognitive monitoring and inhibitory control support early strategic behavior. Child Development, 8426-736. .
• Lyons, K., & Koenig, M. (2013). The development of social cognition in theory and action. (pp 19-40). New York: Oxford University Press.
• Ghetti, S., Lyons, K., & DeMaster, M. D. (2012). The development of episodic memory: Binding processes, controlled processes, and introspection on memory states. (pp 144-167). New York: Oxford University Press.
• Zelazo, D. P., Lyons, K. (2012). The potential benefits of mindfulness training in early childhood: A developmental social cognitive neuroscience perspective. , 654-160. .
• Zelazo, D. P., Lyons, K. (2011). Mindfulness training in childhood. , 541-65. .
• Lyons, K., & Zelazo, D. P., . (2011). Monitoring, metacognition, and executive function: Elucidating the role of self-reflection in the development of self-regulation. (pp 379-411). Academic Press.
• Lyons, K., & Ghetti, S. (2011). The development of uncertainty monitoring in early childhood. , 82778-1787. .
• Lyons, K., Ghetti, S., & Cornoldi, C. (2010). Age differences in the contribution of recollection and familiarity to false memory formation: A new paradigm to examine developmental reversals. , 1355-362. .
• Ghetti, S., Castelli, P., Lyons, K. (2010). Knowing about not remembering: Developmental dissocaitions in lack-of-memory monitoring. , 1311-621. .
• Lyons, K., & Ghetti, S. (2010). Metacognitive development in early childhood: New questions about old assumptions. (pp 259-278). Springer.
• Ghetti, S., Lyons, K., Lazzarin, F., & Cornoldi, C. (2008). The development of metamemory monitoring during retrieval: The case of memory strength and memory absence. , 9957-181. .

Research Interests

child development, metacognition, executive function, self-regulation, training studies, mindfulness

Teaching Interests

human development, child psychology, cognitive development, research methods, early childhood, adolescence, educational psychology, social development