A.A., (1981) University of Maryland (Iraklion AS, Crete, Greece)
Undergraduate: General Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Intermediate Statistics and Research Methods, History of Psychology, Seminar in Psychological Research
Young children’s language acquisition Bilingualism
How language affects thinking (linguistic relativity)
Development of investment literacy
Forbes, J.F. & Kara, S. M. (in press). Confidence Mediates How Investment Knowledge Influences Investing Self-Efficacy, Journal of Economic Psychology.
Forbes, J.N., Poulin-Dubois, D., Rivero, M.R., & Sera, M.D. (2009) Grammatical gender affects bilinguals’ conceptual gender: Implications for linguistic relativity and decision making. The Open Applied Linguistics Journal, 1, 69-77.
Forbes, J.; Kara, S.M., & Doyle, J. (2009). Numeracy, Remuneration, and Ethical Contexts Influence Investment Advisors’ Decisions. Poster presented at the 2009 Meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, San Francisco, CA
Poulin-Dubois, D., & Forbes, J.N. (2006). Word, Intention, and Action: A two-tiered model of action word learning. In K Hirsh-Pasek & R.M. Golinkoff (Eds.), Action meets word: How children learn verbs. Oxford University Press.
Current Grants:
(2002-2004). National Institute of Health Grant. ($116,914)
Toddlers’ Use of Actors Intentions to Learn Verbs.
