Haley Kragness

Assistant Professor in Psychology

Education

  • PhD Psychology, McMaster University
  • BS Psychology, Penn State University

Faculty Research Interests

All over the world, people sing, dance, and clap together to feel closer to others, to have fun, and to express themselves. In my research, I ask how we learn musical patterns, and how we harness musical learning to have socially and emotionally meaningful experiences, especially in the early years of life.

To learn more about our work, visit go.bucknell.edu/leaflab.

Recent and Representative Publications

Kragness, H. E., Mehl, K., & Belfi, A. M. (in press). Musical reward in young children. Music & Science. Open Access Post-Print

Kragness, H. E., Hannon, E. E., & Cirelli, L. K. (2023). The musical mind: Perspectives from developmental science. In Margulis, E. H., Loui, P., & D. Loughridge (Eds.). The Science-Music Borderlands: Reckoning with the Past and Imagining the Future (pp. 183-201). The MIT Press. Open Access Chapter

Kragness, H. E., Anderson, L., Chow, E., Schmuckler, M., & Cirelli, L. K. (2022). Musical groove shapes children’s free dancing. Developmental Science, e13249. Open Access Post-Print

Kragness, H. E., Johnson, E. K., & Cirelli, L. K. (2022). The song, not the singer: Infants prefer to listen to familiar songs, regardless of singer identity. Developmental Science, 25(1), e13149. Open Access Postprint

Recent Courses Taught

  • PSYC 204 Human Cognition
  • PSYC 300 Infancy
  • PSYC 216 Research Methods in Psychology
  • UNIV 200 Music and the Mind

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