Anondah Saide

Dr. Anondah Saide is a developmental psychologist with a mixed-methods research approach. Dr. Saide’s research program spans two distinct but related areas. The first pertains to the complex interplay between culture and cognitive development. For example, Dr. Saide seeks to understand how family background influences children’s reasoning about religious (e.g., God), scientific (e.g., germs), and existential (e.g., death) concepts. By extension, Dr. Saide examines how cognitive biases may enhance or constrain the learning of cultural concepts.

The second area of her research program examines how cultural concepts become components of worldview commitments (e.g., political, religious, moral) in adulthood and the socioemotional correlates (e.g., anxiety) of those commitments. Dr. Saide's scholarship is committed to promoting transparency, diverse perspectives, and public engagement in the scientific process. Dr. Saide’s scholarship can be found in journals such as Cognitive Science, the British Journal of Developmental Psychology, the Journal of Cognition and Culture, and Frontiers in Psychology.

Saide, A. R., McCaffree, K. J., &Richert, R.A. (2021). Does “faith” in science correlate with indicators of well-being? Evidence for differential effects by gender. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 21(1-2), 178-199. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685373-12340102

Saide, A. R., &Richert, R.A. (2021). Concepts of God and germs: Social mechanisms and cognitive heuristics. Cognitive Science, 45(5), e12942. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12942

Saide, A. R., &Richert, R. A. (2020). Socio-cognitive and cultural influences on children’s concepts of God. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 20(1-2), 22-40. https://doi.org/10.1163/15685373-12340072

Richert, R. A. Saide, A. R. (2020). Religious engagement. In S. Hupp &J. D. Jewell (Eds.), The Encyclopedia of Child and Adolescent Development. John Wiley &Sons, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119171492.wecad425

Ly, A., Saide, A. R., &Richert, R. A. (2020). Perceptions of prayer and conventional medicine’s efficacy for health concerns. Journal of Religion and Health, 59(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-018-0704-1

McCaffree, K. J., Saide, A. R., &Shermer, M.B. (2020). The racial dynamics underlying crime commission, emotionality, and last statements among executed offenders in Texas. Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice, 18(1), 72-94. https://doi.org/10.1080/15377938.2019.1693466