Research Interests
- Working Memory, Long-Term Memory, and Learning
- Control of Cognition
- Inter- and Intra-Individual Differences
- Culturally Informed and Responsive Science and Pedagogy
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- Test Performance and Achievement
- Intervention
- Open Science and Secondary Data Approaches
Education
Ph.D., Princeton University
Additional Campus Affiliations
Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology
Recent Publications
Johnson, R. M., Little, C., Shero, J. A., van Dijk, W., Holden, L., Daucourt, M., Norris, C., Ganley, C. M., Taylor, J. & Hart, S. (in press). Educational Experiences of United States Children during the 2020-2021 School Year in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Developmental Psychology.
Holden, L., & Goldstein, B. (2024). Brief mindset intervention changes attitudes but does not improve working memory capacity or standardized test performance. Education Sciences, 14(3), 227.
Holden, L., & Tanenbaum, G. J., & Ashley, A. (2023). Toward Inclusive and Identity Safe Learning for Supporting Racialized Student Achievement. Infant and Child Development, e2477.
Holden, L., & Tanenbaum, G. J. (2023). Modern Assessments of Intelligence Must Be Fair and Equitable. Journal of Intelligence, 11(6), 126.
Tanenbaum, G. J., & Holden, L., (2023). A Review of Patient Experiences and Provider Education to Improve Transgender Health Inequities in the USA. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20 (20), 6949.
Holden, L., Haughbrook, R., & Hart, S. (2022). Developmental behavioral genetics research on school achievement is missing vulnerable children, to our detriment. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2022(183-184), 47-55.
Martinez, K., Holden, L., Hart, S., Taylor, J. (2022). Examining Grit and Mindset in Concurrent and Future Reading Comprehension: A Twin Study. Developmental Psychology, 58(11), 2171.
Prather, R.W., Benitez, V.L., Kendall Brooks, L. Dancy, C.L., Dilworth-Bart. J., Dutra, N.B., Faison, M.O., Figueroa, M., Holden, L.R., Johnson, C., Medrano, J., Miller-Cotto, D., Matthews, P.G., Manly, J.J., Thomas, A.K. (2022). What Can Cognitive Science do for people? Cognitive Science, 46 (6), e13167.
Holden, L., & Hart, S. (2021). Intelligence Can Be Used to Make a More Equitable Society but Only When Properly Defined and Applied. Journal of Intelligence, 9(4), 57.
Holden, L., LaMar, M., & Bauer, M. (2021). Evidence for a cultural mindset: Combining process data, theory, and simulation. Frontiers in Psychology, 3998.
Delaney, P., Godbole, N., Holden, L., & Chang, Y. (2018). Working memory capacity and the spacing effect in cued recall. Memory, 26 (6), 784-797.