2019 – present: Researcher, Research in Individual Differences and Legal Psychology -RIDDLE Lab, Department of Psychology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca;
2008 – present: Researcher, Developmental Psychology Lab, Department of Psychology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca;.
2014 – present: Lecturer, Department of Psychology, Babeș-Bolyai University. Courses and seminars for Atypical Developmental Profiles (Psychology undergraduates); Research Project, Developmental Specificities during Childhood and Adolescence, Risk factors for criminal behavior, Cognitive and Socio-Emotional Evaluation in Children and Adolescents (Masters).
2009 – 2014: Seminars for the courses of Atypical Developmental Profiles (Psychology undergraduate) and Educational Psychology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca;
2008 – 2015: Teachers’ trainer for the courses: Atypical Developmental Profiles; Diagnosis and Intervention in Atypical Development; Developmental Specificities during Childhood and Adolescence.
2012: PhD in Psychology (Summa cum laude), Department of Psychology, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca. Thesis: Anxiety and memory functioning in children: an individual differences approach.
2009: M.A. in “Clinical Psychology, Psychological Counseling and Psychotherapy”, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca;
2007: B. Sc., Faculty of Psychology and Sciences of Education, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca
Kallay, E., & Cheie, L.* (2023). “Can I still blame my parents?” Links between perceived parenting, cognitive emotion regulation strategies, and adolescent mental health. Current Psychology, 42(31), 27259-27274. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12537.
Stefan, C. A., & Cheie, L. (2022). Self-compassion and social anxiety in late adolescence: Contributions of self-reflection and insight. Self and Identity, 21(2), 210-222. https://doi.org/10.1080/15298868.2020.1861082
Cheie, L., Opriș, A. M., & Visu-Petra, L. (2021) Remembering the future: Age-related differences in schoolchildren’s prospective memory depend on the cognitive resources employed by the task.” Cognitive Development 58 (2021): 101048. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2021.101048
Opriş, A. M., Cheie, L., & Visu-Petra, L. (2021). Back to the future: relating the development of episodic future thinking to cognitive and affective individual differences and to motivational relevance in preschoolers. Memory, 29(3), 362-378. https://doi.org/10.1080/09658211.2021.1896734
Opriș, A., Cheie, L., Trifan, C., & Visu-Petra, L. (2019) Internalizing symptoms and verbal working memory in school-age children: A processing efficiency analysis. International Journal of Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12537
Visu-Petra, L., Cheie, L., Câmpan, M., Scutelnicu, I., & Benga, O. (2018). Identifying early links between temperament, short-term and working memory in preschoolers. Early Child Development and Care, 188 (1), 32-45. DOI: 10.1080/03004430.2016.1246445
Cheie, L., MacLeod, C., Miclea, M., & Visu-Petra, L. (2017). When children forget to remember: Effects of reduced working memory availability on prospective memory performance. Memory & Cognition, 1-13. DOI: 10.3758/s13421-016-0682-z
Cheie, L., & Miu, A. C. (2016). Functional and dysfunctional beliefs in relation to adolescent health-related quality of life. Personality and Individual Differences, 97, 173-177. DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2016.03.029
Cheie, L., Veraksa, A., Zinchenko, Y., Gorovaya, A., & Visu-Petra, L. (2015). A cross-cultural investigation of inhibitory control, generative fluency, and anxiety symptoms in Romanian and Russian preschoolers. Child Neuropsychology, 21(2), 121-149, DOI: 10.1080/09297049.2013.879111.
Cheie, L., Miclea, M., & Visu-Petra, L. (2014). What was I supposed to do? Effects of individual differences in age and anxiety on preschoolers’ prospective memory. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 38(1), 52–61. DOI: 10.1177/0165025413506132.
Visu-Petra, L., Stanciu, O., Benga, O., Miclea, M., & Cheie, L. (2014). Longitudinal and concurrent links between memory span, anxiety symptoms, and subsequent executive functioning in young children. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 443. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00443.
Cheie, L., & Visu-Petra, L. (2012). Relating individual differences in trait-anxiety to memory functioning in young children: an investigation with task-irrelevant emotional stimuli. Journal of Individual Differences, 33(2), 109–118. DOI: 10.1027/1614-0001/a000079.
Cheie, L., Visu-Petra, L., & Miclea, M. (2012). Trait-anxiety, visual search and memory for facial identities in preschoolers: An investigation using task-irrelevant emotional information. Procedia – Social and Behavioural Sciences, 33, 622–626. DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.01.196.
Visu-Petra, L., Cheie, L., Benga, O., & Miclea, M. (2012). The structure of executıve functıons ın preschoolers: an ınvestıgatıon usıng the NEPSY Battery. Procedia – Social and Behavioural Sciences, 33, 627–631. DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.01.197.
Visu-Petra, L., Cheie, L., Benga, O., & Alloway, T. P. (2011). Effects of anxiety on simple retention and memory updating in young children. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 35 (1), 38–47. DOI: 10.1177/0165025410368945.
Visu-Petra, L., Cheie, L., Benga, O., & Miclea, M. (2011). Cognitive control goes to school: The impact of executive functions on academic performance. Procedia Social and Behavioral Sciences, 11, 240–244, DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2011.01.069
Visu-Petra, L., Tincas, I., Cheie, L., & Benga, O. (2010) Anxiety and visual-spatial memory updating in young children: An investigation using emotional facial expressions. Cognition & Emotion, 24(2), 223–240. DOI: 10.1080/02699930903387546
Visu-Petra, L., Miclea, M., Cheie, L., & Benga, O. (2009). Processing efficiency in preschoolers’ memory span: A longitudinal investigation of individual differences related to age and anxiety. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 103, 30 – 48.
Petruț, A., Cheie, L., & Visu-Petra, L. (2021). The Relationship between Test Anxiety and Math Anxiety in Primary School Children. In Clipa, O. (Ed.) Challenges in Education. Policies, Practice & Research, Vol. 88.(p. 119-133), Peter Lang, Berlin.
Cheie, L. (2016). Delincvența Juvenilă: Factori de risc și de protecție [In Romanian “Juvenile Delinquency: Risk and protective factors”] in Visu-Petra, G., Buta, M., & Visu-Petra, L. (Eds.) Psihologia Copilului în Context Judiciar: Fundamente Teoretice și Aplicative [Forensic Child Psychology: Theoretical and Applied Aspects], Cluj-Napoca: ASCR Press.
Visu-Petra, L., Cheie, L., & Mocan, O. (2014). Executive functioning in high-trait anxious children: A cognitive vulnerability factor? In Kathleen A. Moore, Krzysztof Kaniasty, Petra Buchwald, Albert Sesé (Eds.) Stress and Anxiety: Applications to Health and Well-Being, Work Stressors, and Assessment, (pp 153-160), Berlin: Logos Verlag.
Visu-Petra, L., Cheie, L., & Miu, A. C. (2013). Working Memory and Anxiety: Exploring the Interplay of Individual Differences across Development. In Alloway, T. P. & Alloway, R. G. (Eds) Working Memory: The New Intelligence (pp. 187-216). Frontiers in Cognitive Psychology series; Series Editors: Nelson Cowan and David Balota, New-York: Psychology Press.
Visu-Petra, L., & Cheie, L. (2012). Dezvoltarea Memoriei de Lucru. Exerciţii pentru preşcolari şi şcolari (Working Memory Development: Exercices for preschool-and school-age children). Cluj-Napoca: ASCR Press.
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