D矇sia Bacon

Desia Bacon  

Assistant Professor

Department of Psychology

desia.bacon@sjsu.edu

 

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Keywords
Economic Geography, Built Environment, Healthy City, Active Mobility

Current Research Activities:

De��sia Bacon earned her MS and PhD in (Developmental) Psychology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow, a Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Fellow, and a Morse Scholar. Broadly, De��sia is interested in how children use the varied information in their environment to help them learn. Her primary research centers on the intersection of language and social development, with a specific focus on how young children utilize perceptual and social cues in their diverse environments to facilitate their language learning. Before pursuing graduate education, De��sia earned her BS in Psychology at the University of Central Florida where she was a McNair Scholar.