Lee, Ruth

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Lee, Ruth

Email:

r.lee@yorksj.ac.uk

Department:

School of Education, Language, and Psychology

Biography

Expertise:

Temporal cognition, Development of predictive language processing

Job title:

Senior Lecturer

Biography:

I completed an MEd 'conversion course' in Psychology of Education at the University of Manchester in 2008, and received my PhD from the University of Toronto in 2018. I held postdoctoral posts at Queen's University Belfast and the University of York between 2018 and 2021, before returning to Queen's University Belfast as a Lecturer in Education at the School of Psychology in 2021. I joined York St. John in 2022.

Qualifications:

PhD, Developmental Psychology and Education, University of Toronto, 2018 MEd, Psychology of Education, University of Manchester, 2008 BA(Hons), Russian Studies, University of Sheffield, 1995

My Latest

Shardlow, Jack, Lee, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8854-1968, O'Connor, Patrick A., Hoerl, Christoph and McCormack, Teresa (2025) Discounting past experience and the utility of memory: an empirical study. Synthese. (In Press)
Fayter, Debra, Cutting, Nicola ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3155-9566, Mirkovic, Jelena and Lee, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8854-1968 (2024) The relationship between metalinguistic awareness and advanced theory of mind in bilingual and monolingual children. In: Child Language Symposium, 9-11 July 2024, Newcastle, UK. (Unpublished)
Lee, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8854-1968, Grugan, Michael, Hegarty, Bronagh, Mullan, Sionán, Hart, Lucy, Pickup, Hannah and Strouse, Gabrielle A. (2024) A measure of closeness between grandparents and grandchildren. In: International Congress for Infant Studies, 8-11 July 2024, Glasgow. (Unpublished)
Jarosz, Patrycia, Lee, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8854-1968 and Ganea, Patricia (2024) Young Children’s Inferences of Story Outcomes Based on Verbal and Pictorial Information. In: 53rd annual meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, May 31 to June 2, 2024, Toronto. (Unpublished)
Dixon, Heleena, Shevchenko, Jennifer ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8717-0437 and Lee, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8854-1968 (2024) The effect of positive episodic simulation on future predictions in anxious and non-anxious individuals. In: Experimental Psychology Society, 2024, York, UK.
Lee, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8854-1968, Shardlow, Jack, Hoerl, Christoph, O'Connor, Patrick A. and McCormack, Teresa (2023) Temporal asymmetries and the relative utility of memory and experience. In: 30th conference of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, 28-31 August, 2023, Prague, Czechia. (Unpublished)
Lee, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8854-1968, Shardlow, Jack, Hoerl, Christoph, Fernandes, Alison and McCormack, Teresa (2022) Towards an account of intuitive time. In: Experimental Philosophy (X-PHI) Workshop, 2022, Norwich. (Unpublished)
Shardlow, Jack and Lee, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8854-1968 (2024) The folk concept of time. In: Emery, Nina, (ed.) Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Time. Routledge (In Press)
Nyhout, Angela ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3852-9527 and Lee, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8854-1968 (2022) Young children are not driven to explore imaginary worlds. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45.
O’Connor, Patrick A. and Lee, Ruth ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8854-1968 (2023) ‘We can’t see your slides!’ Undergraduate psychology students’ perceptions of emergency remote teaching. Psychology Teaching Review, 29 (1). pp. 25-36.

My Most Viewed

#	Item title
1	‘We can’t see your slides!’ Undergraduate psychology students’ perceptions of emergency remote teaching	68	41
2	Contextual modulation of appearance-trait learning	64	16
3	Toward an Account of Intuitive Time	57	14
4	Past-future preferences for hedonic goods and the utility of experiential memories	55	29
5	Spontaneous first impressions emerge from brief training	53	19
6	Exploring people’s beliefs about the experience of time	49	13
7	Children’s semantic and world knowledge overrides fictional information during anticipatory language processing	45
8	A measure of closeness between grandparents and grandchildren	45
9	Pain in the Past and Pleasure in the Future: The Development of Past–Future Preferences for Hedonic Goods	44	17
10	Looking ahead: Children’s inferences from picture books	44