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Gülgöz, S., & Martin, C. L. (2025). Introduction to the special issue on gender diversity in development. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 43(2), 223–232. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12563

Alonso, D. J., Jordan, A., & Gülgöz, S. (2025). Children’s attitudes about transgender identity disclosure and concealment. British Journal of Developmental Psychology.
https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/bjdp.12493 VIEW OS 

Gülgöz, S., Alonso, D. J., Olson, K. R., & Martin, C. L. (2025). Memory biases for gender-typed images in a gender-diverse group of children. British Journal of Developmental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12490  VIEW OSF 

Benda, M., Stewart, A. S., Rueppel, M., Gülgöz, S., & Roy, A. (2024). Cognitive Development, in Troop-Gordon & Neblett (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Adolescence, Second Edition.

Fine, R. D., Olson, K. R. , Gülgöz, S., Horton, R., & Gelman, S. A. (2023). Gender essentialism predicts prejudice against gender nonconformity in two cultural contexts. Social Development. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1111/sode.12720 VIEW OSF

Gülgöz, S., Edwards, D. L., & Olson, K. R. (2022). Between a boy and a girl: Measuring gender identity on a continuum. Social Development. 
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/sode.12587 VIEW OSF 

Gülgöz, S., Alonso, D. J., Olson, K. R. & Gelman, S. A. (2021). Transgender and cisgender children’s essentialist beliefs about sex and gender identity. Developmental Science, 00:1-14.
https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13115 VIEW OSF  

Glazier, J. J., Gülgöz, S., & Olson, K. R. (2020). Gender encoding in transgender and cisgender children. Child Development. 
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7722060/pdf/nihms-1620834.pdf VIEW OSF

Gülgöz, S.,  Glazier, J. J., Enright, E. A., Alonso, D. J., Durwood, L. J., Fast, A. A., Lowe, R., Ji, C., Heer, J., Martin, C. L., & Olson, K. R. (2019). Similarity in transgender and cisgender children’s gender development. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1909367116 https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.1909367116 VIEW OSF  

Gülgöz, S., DeMeules, M., Gelman, S. A., & Olson, K. R. (2019). Gender essentialism in transgender and cisgender children.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/desc.13115 VIEW OSF  
 
Rubin, J. D., Gülgöz, S.,  Alonso, D., & Olson, K. R. (2019). Transgender and Cisgender Children’s Stereotypes and Beliefs About Others’ Stereotypes. Social Psychological and Personality Science. doi: 10.1177/1948550619879911
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8043623/pdf/nihms-1602750.pdf 


Roberts, S. O., Ho, A., Gülgöz, S., Leeka, J., & Gelman, S. A. (2019). The Roles of Group Status and Group Membership in the Practice of Hypodescent. VIEW PUBLICATION VIEW OSF 

Rae, J. R., Gülgöz, S., Durwood, L., DeMeules, M., Lowe, R., Lindquist, G., Olson, K. R. (2019). Predicting early childhood gender transitions. https://journals.
sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/0956797619830649
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Gülgöz, S., Gomez, E., DeMeules, M. R., & Olson, K. R. (2018). Children’s evaluation and categorization of transgender children. Journal of Cognition and Development. VIEW PUBLICATION VIEW OSF  

Olson, K. R., & Gülgöz, S. (2018). Early findings from the TransYouth Project: Gender development in transgender children. Child Development Perspectives, 12, 93-97. doi: 10.1111/cdep.12268 VIEW PUBLICATION

Gülgöz, S. & Gelman, S. A. (2018). Status hierarchy. In M. Bornstein (Ed.), The Sage encyclopedia of lifespan development. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. 

Gülgöz, S., & Gelman, S. A. (2017). Who’s the boss? Concepts of social power across development. Child Development, 88, 946-963. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12643 VIEW PUBLICATION

Gülgöz, S. (2016). Sosyal kategori kavramlarinin gelisimi [The development of social categories]. In C. Aydin, T. Goksun, A. Kuntay, & D. Tahiroglu (Eds.), Aklın Çocuk Hali: Zihinsel Gelişim Çalışmaları [Studies in Cognitive Development]. Koc University Press: Istanbul, Turkey. 

Jipson, J., Gülgöz, S., & Gelman, S. A. (2016). Parent-Child Conversations Regarding the Ontological Status of a Robotic Dog. Cognitive Development, 39, 21-35. doi: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2016.03.001 VIEW PUBLICATION 

Gülgöz, S., & Gelman, S. A. (2015). Children's recall of generic and specific labels regarding animals and people. Cognitive Development, 33, 84-98. doi: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2014.05.002 VIEW PUBLICATION