Zoe Liberman

If you want to check out more, see my lab webpage: liberman.psych.ucsb.edu 3/3

Work and learn with amazing colleagues in Development & Evolution! These labs are also searching for new students, so check them out! @anniewertz.bsky.social @brandonwoo.bsky.social @laurasimonelewis.bsky.social 2/3

UCSB Campus. Meadow in the foreground with Storke Tower and mountains in the distance

Spread the word: I'm looking to recruit a PhD student for Fall 2026 to @ucsb.bsky.social! Reach out if you are applying this cycle and hoping to study infant and child social cognition, specifically expectations about friendship and/or groups. Bonus: live in paradise! And.. 1/3

Check out @lizquinnjensen.bsky.social's paper on the Comparative Status Hypothesis: we find that the social identity of a person's competitor shifts whether that person is seen as a likely victim of discrimination.

We hope our work broadens focus beyond the victim-perpetrator dyad

Big congrats to @rthompkins.bsky.social on this paper! Happy to finally see this out in the world.

Our work builds on findings from @juliamarshall.bsky.social on the impact of social relationships on moral expectations, with a focus on how children think about lying and liars.

🧪 Ranking member Lofgren and 11 other House dems sent a fiery 7-page letter to acting NSF director today

"The cancelation of these awards suggests instead that NSF is willing to apply political censorship of awards under direction from President Trump and the DOGE teenagers"

Share widely #SaveNSF

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Its Give Day @ucsb.bsky.social! Support the Development + Evolution area in establishing a graduate student award! Our students work so hard, and we want to recognize them -- any amount helps: ucsb.scalefunder.com/gday/giving-....

🚨Please check “in honor of” and write: PBS DEVO Area🚨
#devpsych

Interested in children's developing understanding of linguistic register? Check out a new paper-- led by past undergraduate lab member, Ishaan Ambrish (currently working with Ariel Starr at UW) and grad student
@shreyasodhi.bsky.social

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.

More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.

I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

Happy New Year!! So thrilled to share this preprint (Kara Weisman, Lucy King, and I worked on this for 8+ yrs): "Beliefs about the development of mental life"

Read to find an interesting story on how people perceive different domains of capacities changing from birth to age 5 yrs.

osf.io/kq4j7

trying out some physics on Sora, OpenAI's video-creation-from-text-tool.

Here is "a blue block falling on a green sphere"

Stay tuned for future projects that look at both expectations about dual identity *and* the development of social preferences based on immigration and acculturation behaviors

In an elegant set of experiments, @shreyasodhi.bsky.social compared children's inferences about immigrants to their inferences about non-immigrants and travelers (people who *visited* a second country).

Children did not essentialize immigrants' national identity, and instead expected flexibility!

<em>Child Development</em> | SRCD Journal | Wiley Online Library Children in the United States (N = 488, 4–11 years, 239 females, 248 males, one other, 53% White; data collected 2021–2022) participated in three studies investigating their expectations about immigr...

Interested in how children think about immigrants?

🚨 New work led by @shreyasodhi.bsky.social 🚨

We find that children expect immigrants to have a dual identity--to be similar to both people from their host and heritage cultures

#devpsych

srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Congrats to @lizquinnjensen.bsky.social on both a new paper on judgements based on (racial) identity claims, and on a beautiful write up of her work for the @spspnews.bsky.social Character & Context Blog

NSF REU Site: Scientific Study of Interpersonal Relationships Across the Lifespan The scientific study of interpersonal relationships over the lifespan is important to our broader understanding of the human experience. These relationships begin with our earliest interactions and…

Applications are now open (through Feb. 16th) for our NSF REU Site on the Scientific Study of Interpersonal Relationships across the Lifespan. If you know of an undergraduate scholar interested in relationships research broadly, send them our way!
undergradresearch.missouri.edu/interpersona...

Not sure of such a study with younger babies, but that may be because babies have to be able to physically move (crawl) for the visual cliff paradigm. Many babies are not crawling until 9-10 mon. Younger infants do interesting stuff re:emotion. Check out Eric Walle or Ashley Ruba for examples

Infants’ Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large‐Scale, Multi‐Lab, Coordinated Replication Study Evaluating whether someone's behavior is praiseworthy or blameworthy is a fundamental human trait. A seminal study by Hamlin and colleagues in 2007 suggested that the ability to form social evaluatio...

The Manybabies4 paper is out! Infants' Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large-Scale, Multi-Lab, Coordinated Replication Study onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... 1000 babies tested in 37 labs; "Overall, 49.34% of infants preferred Helpers over Hinderers in the social condition"

Assistant/Associate Professor in Evolutionary Anthropology/Anthropology of Health University of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!

🎉IAS is recruiting🎉

UCSB Integrative Anth Sciences is hiring a tenure-track evo anthropologist (assist/assoc prof):

Apply by 1/06/25
To apply: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02866

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Estimate: Assist:$95,000-$135,000 & Assoc:$120,000-$180,000. UCSB is an AA/EOE, including disability/vets.

Home | The Visual Learning Lab at UCSD Lab webpage for the Visual Learning Lab at UCSD, lead by Dr. Bria Long, Ph.D. Launching in July 2024!

The Visual Learning Lab at UC San Diego is looking for a postdoctoral research fellow to join our lab!

Read more about our lab at www.vislearnlab.org

Great list! Can you add me too? Thanks :)

Hi everyone! I am looking for PhD students to join my (new) Lab for Infant Learning and Cognition (LILAC) at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Learn more about us here: sites.google.com/ucsb.edu/lilac Application info here: psych.ucsb.edu/prospective-.... Deadline is December 1st 👶🪴

Developmental Psychology Starter Pack

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a moving example of haka (arguably a form of music) used in political protest, in NZ parliament

also, since I like the science of this, also shows why "music bonds the group together" fundamentally misconstrues the behavior in question. it's not warm & fuzzy, haka is sending a clear message here !

I am hoping to recruit a Ph.D. student to join our Social Injustice and Social Change research group at UC Santa Barbara in Fall 2025! You can more information about the position, about our team, and about our research on our website. sisc.psych.ucsb.edu/posts/recrui...

Brain Imaging Center Director, Psychological & Brain Sciences University of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!

📢 New job alert: The Dept. of Psychological & Brain Sciences at UCSB is hiring a new Director for our Brain Imaging Center! Join us in sunny Santa Barbara and please help spread the word! (Full Professor position—due by Dec 2) 🧠 🌊 recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02858

Hiring a postdoc to study exciting questions about humans' early understanding of the social world :)

Required text: The Liberman Lab is hiring a Postdoc. Apply at recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02748 by May 22. A reasonable estimate for this position is $64,480- $77,327. UCSB is an AA/EOE, including vets

📣 Seeking PhD applicants passionate about fMRI, EEG, & data science to study race/ethnicity & religion effects on how we see ourselves & world around us. We’re a supportive & hard-working lab committed to open science. Applications due 12/1. Still time to apply — spread the word! spl.psych.ucsb.edu

Reposting here!

New paper with @ktvasq.bsky.social, Emily Gerdin, @yarrowdunham.bsky.social, and @zoeliberman.bsky.social in JEP: General:

"Expectations of intergroup empathy bias emerge by early childhood"

psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-...

Yes! It would be great to get your input. I am about to be on maternity leave again (early Dec), but if you have virtual speakers in your lab meeting ever, Oya would be a great guest! Feel free to email me and I can connect you :)