Carolyn Baer
Assistant Professor
BA, MASc (Waterloo), PhD (UBC), Postdocs (UC Berkeley, Kwantlen Polytechnic)
Office: LHS C
Phone: (705) 748-1011 Ext. 6776
Email: carolynbaer@trentu.ca
Website: www.carolynbaer.com
Lab: Centre for Developing Minds (Link coming soon!)
Lab Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/centrefordevelopingminds/
Research Interests:
I study how children use uncertain input to decide what is true. My research focuses on our metacognitive sense of confidence, examining how adults and children use uncertainty as an informative signal to learn about the world and about the people around them. I have studied how children and adults represent uncertainty and how this changes throughout development, how children leverage uncertainty to make informed decisions, how children evaluate others as good teachers and good collaborators, how children themselves learn to be good teachers and good collaborators, and much more within the realm of cognitive and social development.
• Open to graduate students for Fall 2026
• Open to research practicum and reading course students 2025-2026
• Open to honours thesis students for Fall 2026 (please contact me in Winter 2026)