Cat Hicks, PhD

Cat Hicks, PhD

San Diego, California, United States
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I'm a psychologist for technology teams which is also a role I've invented because I fell…

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Experience

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    Pluralsight

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    Greater San Diego Area

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    Mountain View, CA

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    San Diego, California

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    Greater San Diego Area

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    La Jolla, CA

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    La Jolla, CA

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    Mountain View, CA

Education

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    University of California, San Diego

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    Activities and Societies: Faculty Search Representative, Career Transition Representative, Graduate Student Association Representative

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    Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Psi Chi, Phi Alpha Theta, Alpha Phi Omega

Publications

  • "It's like coding in the dark": The need for learning cultures within coding teams

    Catharsis Consulting

    This report presents data from a qualitative research project with twenty-five full-time code writers, who completed a “debugging” task and an in-depth interview on their learning, problem-solving, and feedback experiences while onboarding to a new collaborative codebase. We use the term "Learning Debt" to describe how an environment that discourages learning can dampen code writers' creativity and knowledge-sharing, and give practical recommendations for fostering a better learning culture.

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  • Use of Khan Academy Official SAT Practice and SAT Achievement: An Observational Study.

    Khan Academy

    In this report, Khan Academy and College Board jointly analyze OSP usage by more than half a million students in the class of 2019 between their PSAT/NMSQT®and their first SAT in order to associate the use of OSP with their SAT performance.

    See publication

  • Predicting knowledge workers’ participation in voluntary learning with employee characteristics and online learning tools

    Journal of Workplace Learning

    See publication

  • Young Children Selectively Expect Failure Disclosure to High Achieving Peers

    Infant and Child Development

    Other authors
    • David Liu

  • Do Numeric Ratings Impact Peer Reviewers?

    Learning at Scale, Vancouver BC

    Other authors
    See publication

  • Young Children's Beliefs About the Disclosure of Failure and Success

    British Journal of Developmental Psychology

    Two experiments in found that young (3- to 7-year-old) children reason that people are more likely to self-disclose positive than negative information, and that children also predict more disclosure in a supportive versus unsupportive peer environment. Additionally, children's reasoning changes with age: younger children were less likely to expect people to withhold their performance information than older children. These findings point to the preschool ages as a crucial beginning to children's…

    Two experiments in found that young (3- to 7-year-old) children reason that people are more likely to self-disclose positive than negative information, and that children also predict more disclosure in a supportive versus unsupportive peer environment. Additionally, children's reasoning changes with age: younger children were less likely to expect people to withhold their performance information than older children. These findings point to the preschool ages as a crucial beginning to children's developing recognition of people's reluctance to share performance information.

    Other authors
    • David Liu
    • Gail Heyman
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  • Do attitudes toward societal structure predict beliefs about free will and achievement? Evidence from the Indian caste system

    Developmental Science

    Other authors
    • Mahesh Srinivasan
    • Yarrow Dunham
    • David Barner

  • Framing Feedback: Choosing Review Environment Features that Support High Quality Peer Assessment

    CHI 2016

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Courses

  • Categorical Methods in Statistics

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  • Developmental Neurobiology/Theory of Mind

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  • Quantitative Methods in Psychology

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  • Rady School of Management MicroMBA

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  • Seminar in Biopsychology

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  • Seminar in Cognitive Psychology

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  • Seminar in Developmental Psychology

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  • Seminar in Psycholinguistics

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  • Seminar in Social Psychology

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Projects

  • Design Features to Improve Online Peer Review

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    Research on improving novice review for peer assessment situations (e.g., student-driven assessment for online courses).

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  • Children's Disclosure of Success and Failure in the Classroom

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    Original research projects investigating age-related declines in communicative classroom and achievement environments, especially focusing on environmental cues that prompt students to hide performance information and fail to ask for needed help in learning.

    See project

  • The GradStudio Project

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    Research and software work on peer assessments for massive online learning environments. The GradStudio Project helps students get and give writing and revisions help on graduate application essays, and examined ways to help nonexperts give high quality comments in a crowdsourced writing environment.

    Other creators
    See project

Honors & Awards

  • Advisory Council Member for the USD Center for Digital Civil Society

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  • Design Lab Fellow

    The Design Lab, UC San Diego

  • Anderson Fellowship

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  • First Honors (Highest Graduating GPA)

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  • National Merit Scholar

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  • Phi Beta Kappa

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Languages

  • English

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • Latin

    Limited working proficiency

Organizations

  • American Psychological Association

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  • Association for Computing Machinery

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