# Annette Henderson

Annette Margaret Elizabeth Henderson is a New Zealand developmental psychologist, and is a full professor at the University of Auckland, specialising in the development of cooperation in children. She was awarded a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship and has been a principal investigator on two Marsden grants.

## Academic career

Henderson completed a Master of Science at the University of Calgary and a PhD titled Conventionality and children's word learning at Queen's University. Henderson completed postdoctoral research at the University of Maryland, before joining the faculty of the University of Auckland in 2009, rising to full professor in 2024. Henderson established and is the director of the Early Learning Laboratory at Auckland. Henderson was president of the Australasian Human Development Association from 2019, and served on the editorial board of the Journal of Cognition and Development.
Henderson was awarded a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship in 2015, to research the impact of culture and interactions with caregivers on the development of cooperation in young children, by comparing children in New Zealand and Vanuatu. Henderson has also been a principal investigator on two Marsden grants, a fast start grant in 2013 called Shaping cooperation: identifying how genes, experience, and socio-cognitive ability influence the development of cooperation in early childhood, with Donald Love, and a full grant in 2017 called Conflict recovery in families: Why inevitable conflict does not have to be detrimental, with Nickola Overall and Elizabeth Peterson.
Henderson featured as one of the psychologists on the TVNZ series Secret Life of Girls.

## Selected works

* Suzanne Hala; Stacey Hug; Annette Henderson (August 2003). "Executive Function and False-Belief Understanding in Preschool Children: Two Tasks Are Harder Than One". Journal of Cognition and Development. 4 (3): 275–298. doi:10.1207/S15327647JCD0403_03. ISSN 1524-8372. Wikidata Q125164342.
* Amanda L Woodward; Jessica A Sommerville; Sarah A Gerson; Annette Henderson; Jennifer Buresh (1 January 2009). "The emergence of intention attribution in infancy". Psychology of Learning and Motivation: Advances in Research and Theory. 51: 187–222. doi:10.1016/S0079-7421(09)51006-7. ISSN 0079-7421. PMC 3997181. PMID 24771952. Wikidata Q37719262.
* Lauren H Howard; Annette Henderson; Cristina Carrazza; Amanda L Woodward (26 September 2014). "Infants' and young children's imitation of linguistic in-group and out-group informants". Child Development. 86 (1): 259–275. doi:10.1111/CDEV.12299. ISSN 0009-3920. PMC 4358791. PMID 25263528. Wikidata Q35174613.
* Annette M E Henderson; Amanda L Woodward (30 June 2011). ""Let's work together": what do infants understand about collaborative goals?". Cognition. 121 (1): 12–21. doi:10.1016/J.COGNITION.2011.05.008. ISSN 0010-0277. PMC 3163231. PMID 21722884. Wikidata Q35185069.
* Susan A Graham; Hayli Stock; Annette M E Henderson (1 May 2006). "Nineteen-Month-Olds' Understanding of the Conventionality of Object Labels Versus Desires". Infancy. 9 (3): 341–350. doi:10.1207/S15327078IN0903_5. ISSN 1525-0008. PMID 33412676. Wikidata Q104792612.
* Suzanne Hala; Carmen Rasmussen; Annette Henderson (1 February 2005). "Three types of source monitoring by children with and without autism: the role of executive function". Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 35 (1): 75–89. doi:10.1007/S10803-004-1036-4. ISSN 0162-3257. PMID 15796124. Wikidata Q50306516.
* Nickola C. Overall; Valerie T. Chang; Paula R. Pietromonaco; Rachel S. T. Low; Annette M. E. Henderson (16 February 2021). "Partners' Attachment Insecurity and Stress Predict Poorer Relationship Functioning During COVID-19 Quarantines". Social Psychological and Personality Science. 13 (1): 285–298. doi:10.1177/1948550621992973. ISSN 1948-5506. Wikidata Q125179032.