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Dr. Mathilde H. Prenevost is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Psychology at Lancaster University, where she works within the Active Learning Lab (ALL). Her primary research involves developing the Curiosity Battery—a comprehensive tool for assessing curiosity in school-aged children—and investigating children's sudden insight problem-solving mechanisms.
She earned her PhD from the University of Oslo, where her doctoral research centered on children's sudden insight phenomena. This foundational work directly informs her current methodological innovations in psychological measurement.
Dr. Prenevost's research program bridges epistemic emotions theory with practical assessment design, emphasizing the critical interplay between theoretical frameworks and measurement validity in developmental contexts. Her work specifically targets how children experience and articulate curiosity and 'aha' moments during problem-solving, with implications for educational psychology and cognitive development research.
Her 2025 publications reveal a cohesive research trajectory examining children's metacognitive awareness during insight experiences, confidence-accuracy relationships in problem-solving, and developmental trajectories of understanding 'aha' phenomena. These studies consistently advance methodological rigor in studying complex cognitive-emotional constructs within developmental psychology.
Actively engaged in public scholarship, Dr. Prenevost participates in outreach initiatives including the ICDL Family Fun Day and Campus in the City festival. She leads the 2025 Curiosity Workshop, which fosters multidisciplinary methodological collaboration on curiosity research across academic disciplines.
