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CV

Education

2021 - Present

Ph.D. Candidate

I am a member of the Human Development and Media Lab and the Cognitive Communication Science Lab

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I conduct my research with community partners like the Early Childhood Lab School and the Museum of Science and Curiosity

 

I also partner with companies like LingoKids to assess the most effective ways to support children's learning in digital spaces.  

University of California, Davis

2022-2024

M.S. Child Development

My master's work focused on how virtual reality can support children's STEM learning. 

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The project was featured on KCRA as well as the UC Davis homepage.

University of California, Davis

2016-2019

B.A. Communication Studies

As an undergraduate student, I was the lab manager for the Center on Media and Human Development. I worked on NSF-funded projects about children's learning from interactive media.

Northwestern University

Publications

2025

JOURNAL OF EARLY CHILDHOOD RESEARCH

Snyder, A.L., Shawcroft, J., Cingel, D.P., & Ruiz, J.B. (2025). Parents' differential attitudes toward children's media use by race and anxiety about children's futures. Journal of Early Childhood Research.

2025

MASS COMMUNICATION AND SOCIETY

Krcmar, M., Cingel, D. P., Vigil, S. L., & Snyder, A. L. (2025). The Effects of Fantastical Characters and Prosocial Message Duration on Children’s Narrative, Emotional, and Moral Lesson Comprehension of a Cartoon. Mass Communication and Society, 1-26.

2025

JOURNAL OF CHILDREN AND MEDIA

Shawcroft, J., Snyder, A. L., Cingel, D. P., & Ruiz, J. B. (2025). Parent problematic media use, child reactivity, and income: Context for parents’ use of media emotion regulation strategies in the United States. Journal of Children and Media, 1-22.

2025

JOURNAL OF CHILD AND FAMILY STUDIES

Snyder, A. L., Taylor, L. B., & Cingel, D. P. (2025). The Family Context and the Use of Media for Emotion Regulation During Early Childhood: Testing the Tripartite Model of Children’s Emotion Regulation and Adjustment. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 1-12.

2024

JOURNAL OF CHILDREN AND MEDIA

Snyder, A. L., Cingel, D. P., & Patterson Williams, A. (2024). US Parents’ scientific literacy and efficacy: Associations with children’s STEM media engagement. Journal of Children and Media, 18(4), 543-554.

2023

MASS COMMUNICATION AND SOCIETY

Cingel, D. P., Snyder, A. L., & Vigil, S. L. (2024). Minding Children’s Media Morals: Parents’ Moral Foundation Salience Differentially Relates to Attitudes and Motivations Toward Children’s Educational Media. Mass Communication and Society, 27(5), 1085-1106.

2023

JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION

Cingel, D. P., Krcmar, M., Marple, C., & Snyder, A. L. (2023). The development and validation of a measure of moral intuition salience for children and adolescents: The Moral Intuitions and Development Scale. Journal of Communication, 73(2), 179-191.

2023

JOURNAL OF CHILDREN AND MEDIA

Snyder, A. L., Bonus, J. A., & Cingel, D. P. (2023). Representations of LGBQ+ families in young children’s media. Journal of Children and Media, 17(1), 154-160.

2023

PSYCHOLOGY IN THE SCHOOLS

Snyder, A.L. , LeBoeuf, L., & Lillard, A. S. (2023). “My Name Is Sally Brown, and I Hate School!”: A retrospective study of school liking among conventional and Montessori school alumni. Psychology in the Schools, 60(3), 541-565.

2022

JOURNAL OF SCHOOL CHOICE

Snyder, A.L., Tong, X., & Lillard, A. S. (2022). Standardized test proficiency in public Montessori schools. Journal of School Choice, 16(1), 105-135.

© 2025 by Allyson Snyder.
 

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