Melissa Burch

Biography
Melissa Burch, assistant professor of cognitive development, received her B.A. in Psychology from Franklin and Marshall College. She earned her Ph.D. in Child Development with a minor in Interpersonal Relationships from the University of Minnesota. Melissa’s research interests center on memory development, particularly memory for personal experiences. She has been exploring how parental verbal support may contribute to children’s ability to recall the past. In addition, she is interested in how emotion may affect reports of past experiences and how parents and children talk about these events. She is currently examining autobiographical memory from a cross-cultural perspective to study how different socialization experiences may relate to the detail included in memory reports.

Education
Franklin &amp; Marshall College, B.A. in Psychology, minor in Anthropology

University of Minnesota, Ph.D. in Child Psychology, minor in Interpersonal Relationships

Courses
Memory Systems: Getting it, Using it, Keeping it: Fall 2009 (crosslisted with NS) Cognitive Development: Fall 2009