Milica Nikolic

The shortcut to close bonds? Asking meaningful questions The right questions can help us connect with strangers – and create closer bonds between parents and children.

BBC article on our work showing that having deep conversations with their parents can make children feel more loved. "Rather than just talking about leisure and work, the parents and kids spoke about topics that really matter."

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

I am very excited to start a new research program on the emergence of distinct emotions in early decelopment, funded by the European Research Council Starting grant!

A huge thank you to my mentors, collaborators, colleagues, coaches, advisors, and my husband for supporting me along the way!

Social Dynamics 2025 | Universiteit Utrecht Universiteit Utrecht

🧠 Call for Participation: Social Dynamics 2025
🗓️ 20-21 November 2025
📍Utrecht University, The Netherlands
🔗 socialdynamics2025.sites.uu.nl

ft @antoniahamilton.bsky.social @escross.bsky.social @suzannedikker.bsky.social @milicanikolic.bsky.social, @dcrafa.bsky.social + many more

Last-Minute Alert: The JASP Workshop Series Starts this Monday. Join us in Amsterdam or Online! - JASP - Free and User-Friendly Statistical Software Still no plans for next week? Then join us for one of our JASP workshops, either in Amsterdam or online. Next Monday we kick things off with “Discovering Statistics Using JASP.” Guided by Andy Field’s...

Our workshop series starts next week!

Monday: Discovering Statistics;
Tuesday: State-of-the-art meta-analysis;
Wednesday: Machine learning without tears
Thursday & Friday: Bayesian hypothesis testing

Attend one or all of them, in person or online
jasp-stats.org/2025/06/27/l...

🚨 Postdoc Opportunity!!!
The Toronto Early Cognition Lab (@UofT) is hiring a postdoc to study early optimism in infants & young children.
Work w/ multi-method approach, amazing undergrads & grads.
Start: Fall 2025 or later.
Details: jessica.sommerville@utoronto.ca
RTs appreciated 💫

Very excited that the next @isreorg.bsky.social conference will take place in Brisbane, Australia. Join us for a week of exciting research on emotion!

Amazing news! Congrats Antonia!

From being to identity: analysis and synthesis of the self | Royal Society Discussion meeting organised by Professor Tony Prescott, Professor Agnieszka Wykowska, Professor Sarah Garfinkel, and Professor Paul Verschure.

A stellar line-up at this @royalsociety.org event on the Self, 19-20 May : Garfinkel, Wykowska, Prescott, Verschure, Zavahi, Schectman, , Li, Southgate, Lanillos, Brugger, Addis,Vogeley, Preller,Tsakiris, Blanke. Join us! royalsociety.org/science-even...

Emotions: An Interdisciplinary Perspective - UvA Summer School This interdisciplinary summer program expands participants’ knowledge and understanding of emotion as a key motivator of human behavior.

I am delighted to announce the speakers for our summer school on emotion, taking place June 30 – July 4 in Amsterdam, including Agneta Fischer, Bert Bakker, @gijsschumacher.bsky.social, Disa Sauter, Ute Frevert, Marie Rosenkrantz Lindegaard, Elisa Militaru, Ilya Veer, Laura Keesman and myself.

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Developmental Psychology APA's peer reviewed journal, Developmental Psychology advances knowledge and theory about development across the life span.

We have two upcoming special issues at Developmental Psychology with open calls for letters of intent.

Please do submit, as we are excited to continue providing leading and lively science in the pages of the journal.

www.apa.org/pubs/journal...

The two calls:

1/3
@apajournals.bsky.social

Contagious Crying Revisited: A Cross‐Cultural Investigation Into Infant Emotion Contagion Using Infrared Thermal Imaging Contagious crying in infants has been considered an early marker of their sensitivity to others’ emotions, a form of emotional contagion, and an early basis for empathy. However, it remains unclear w...

Excited to share a new paper!
The development of emotion contagion- out in #DevSci

We used the cool method of infra-red thermal imaging to examine #EmotionContagion in #infants using a #crosscultural sample from Uganda and UK
@durhampsych.bsky.social

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More Than a Small Brain: The Importance of Studying Neural Function during Development The nervous system contains complex circuits comprising thousands of cell types and trillions of connections. Here, we discuss how the field of “developmental systems neuroscience” combines the molecu...

This story is another great example of why we can’t just extrapolate what we know about neuroscience in the developed brain to neuroscience in the developing brain.

www.jneurosci.org/content/44/4...

A Curated List of Data Science Free Courses Happy New Year! 🎉 Are you considering learning a new data science or engineering skill as part of your New Year’s resolution? Here is a collection of free courses and resources covering a variety of t...

Happy New Year! 🎉

Are you considering learning a new data science skills as part of your New Year’s resolution? Here is a collection of free courses covering a variety of topics, including #Python, #RStats, #statistics, #math, #machinelearning, #deeplearning, etc.

www.linkedin.com/pulse/curate...

I am delighted to announce that Disa Sauter and I are organizing a summer school, Emotion: An Interdisciplinary Perspective, at the University of Amsterdam 30 June - 4 July 2025. We are also excited to offer four full scholarships through our faculty.

summerschool.uva.nl/content/summ...

Can I please be added, too? Thanks

A clever study probing infants’ false beliefs

Give yourself (and your future readers) an early present and read every word of this blog post on scientific writing by @dingdingpeng.the100.ci ...

We're launching Devstart, a website to help anyone getting started with developmental science methods and programming. Here's the website with the first tutorials: tommasoghilardi.github.io/DevStart/
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Excited to share our new work exploring how people learn from acceptance and rejection: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We find that the brain's 'social rejection' network tracks changes in how others value us—separate from reward learning about positive outcomes.

See Begum’s thread below for more!

Quiz: How social media savvy is your child? Quiz: How social media savvy is your child? - Learn more and get Common Sense Media's research-backed tips.

So many parents want to know when social media may be safe for their child.
The American Psychological Association and Common Sense Media teamed up to make this free resource!
Hope it is useful!!!
www.commonsensemedia.org/articles/qui...

This elephant learned to use a hose as a shower. Then her rival sought revenge Behaviors reveal sophisticated tool use—and possible “pranking”—among pachyderms

An interesting observational study of elephants’ behaviours at the Berlin zoo. Can elephants be envious? www.science.org/content/arti...

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🚨 Funded PhD position in my lab 👶🧠 @kinderstudien.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
We are looking for a PhD student to work on an FWF-funded project on "Selective Neural Entrainment and Dynamic Attention in Infants" jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Project-...

Postdoc Position: Multimodal Signalling in Face-to-Face Communication at the Donders Centre for Cognition 1. Introduction How do we communicate our intentions to one another in conversational face-to-face interaction? What role do visual bodily signals play in this process, and how do they interact with l

Come join us as a post-doc on NWO project 'Multimodal Signalling in Face-to-Face Communication' 😃 at the Donders Centre for Cognition. Deadline 8th December! Dutch language proficiency required.
ru.varbi.com/what:job/job...

Could you please add me, too?

Gentle reminder:
The deadline to apply for this position is this Friday.
cheers!

For decades, developmental psychologists have noticed that optimism declines with age. Why does this presumably good thing decrease across development? In this Nature Reviews Psych article, @jessicas.bsky.social and I draw from prior hypotheses to offer an integrated account.

The big idea: why we should take teenage love more seriously Adolescent passions shape our future selves, and can be every bit as powerful – and perilous – as adult relationships

"It is as though we give ourselves permission to acknowledge the power of adolescent love in stories, but cannot acknowledge it publicly about ourselves."

My article about teenage love now online

www.theguardian.com/science/2024...