Donia completed her BA in Psychology at McGill University and is currently a PhD candidate in the School and Applied Child Psychology program. Donia is interested in research about methods and factors that differentiate children’s true and false disclosures. She has been with the Talwar Child Development Lab since 2013.
Selected Publications
Foster, I., Wyman, J., Tong, D., Colwell, K., & Talwar, V. (2018). Does eyewitness and interviewer gender influence children’s reports? An experimental analysis of eyewitness and interviewer gender on children’s testimony. Psychiatry, psychology, and law : an interdisciplinary journal of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law, 26(4), 499–519. https://doi.org/10.1080/13218719.2018.1507844
Wyman, J., Tong, D., Foster, I., Crossman, A., & Talwar, V. (2022). The effectiveness of cognitive instructions when children provide true and false eyewitness reports of another’s transgression. Police Practice and Research, 23(3), 290-307.
Wyman, J., Foster, I., Lavoie, J., Tong, D., & Talwar, V. (2018). Detecting children’s false allegations and recantations of a crime. Psychology, Crime & Law, 24(6), 652-671.
Tong, D., Isik, I., & Talwar, V. (2023). A cross-cultural comparison of the relation between children’s moral standards of honesty and their lie-telling behavior. Journal of experimental child psychology, 231, 105665. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2023.105665
Tong, D., & Talwar, V. (2021). Understanding the development of honesty in children through the domains‐of‐socialization approach. Infant and Child Development, 30(6), e2268.
Tong, D., Wyman, J., & Talwar, V. (2021). Using cognitive instructions to elicit narrative differences between children’s true and false testimonies. Applied Cognitive Psychology, 35(6), 1559-1573.
Tong, D., & Talwar, V. (2020). Students’ moral evaluations and judgments of cyberbullying: The influence of previous experiences. Current Psychology. Early view online. 1-10. doi: 10.1007/s12144-020-00916-9