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This is super interesting Marianna! Need to read the paper still but kinda surprising that the literal listener only does a bit better than the null model. Interesting to consider that generics might only be powerful if reasoning about what someone could have said instead

thanks Erik!

So kind of you, thanks Chantal!!! ❤️

Thank you so much Adele!!

thank you so much Dr. Fazio!

thank you Dr. Rust, really appreciate it!

Thank you so much Dr. Pfeifer, I really appreciate it!

Thank you Marianna ❤️ really appreciate it!!

I'm currently finishing up my degree at Princeton where I work with Kristina Olson studying social category cognition across development. I'm really a 'generalist' at heart; I love doing research and am passionate about doing science in the public interest. Any leads are greatly appreciated!

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Six months ago, I accepted a postdoc offer in a fabulous lab. Three days ago, the Trump administration terminated the NSF grant supporting the position. Today, my offer had to be rescinded, and my PhD defense is a week away. (1/3)

Anyone looking to take an amazing clinical psych student who would come to grad school with an NSF GRFP in hand? Interests in stigma, adversity, but flexible! (Side note that it is awful that nsf doesn’t let you defer, apply next yr w/grant in hand, and just count that as 1 of 2 deferral yrs)

Contextual Information Shifts Young Children’s Understanding of Gender Constancy Children’s understanding of the stability of gender over time has long been recognized as a hallmark of early childhood cognitive development. Prior research has argued that until roughly age 6, ch...

Dev psych textbooks often argue that until 6-8 yrs(!) kids lack gender constancy (i.e. they think a girl who puts on a suit becomes a boy). We found kids are *way* less likely to say this if given a reason for the change ("she put on a suit as a costume for the school play"): doi.org/10.1080/1524...

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Evidence for Infant-directed Speech Preference Is Consistent Across Large-scale, Multi-site Replication and Meta-analysis Abstract. There is substantial evidence that infants prefer infant-directed speech (IDS) to adult-directed speech (ADS). The strongest evidence for this claim has come from two large-scale investigati...

Our mega-analysis of infant-directed speech preference is now out at Open Mind, integrating data from a multi-lab replication (@manybabies.org) and a meta-analysis. w/ @chrismmcox.bsky.social, @chbergma.bsky.social, Maya Mathur, @mcxfrank.bsky.social + a fab team
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New paper with Kristina Olson, in which we generally find that kids' social ingroup preferences look bigger when they're assessed with a forced-choice design ("Which of these two kids do you like the most?") vs a continuous rating design ("How much do you like this one kid?" doi.org/10.1111/sode...

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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"

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super cool, congrats rodney et al!

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Hi Bluesky! I'm recruiting graduate students and postdocs to launch the Visual Learning Lab with me at UC San Diego in Summer/Fall 2024!

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Coming soon: the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, an open access reference work devoted to the study of the mind. @asifa_majid and I are co-editors in chief – articles will be posted starting in 2024.

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Rule-based categories are easier to learn when features are easier to name, for adults and 4-6-year-olds: srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
new paper w/ Catherine Bredemann, Megan Kaul, Kaitlynn Ellis, Haley Vlach, Heather Kirkorian, @glupyan.bsky.social #devpsyc #cogpsyc (1/2)

I’m hoping to recruit a PhD student to start fall 2024! Learn more here, along with general resources for folks applying to PhD programs in psychology: crib.psych.ucsb.edu/join-the-team

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How consistent are babies’ looking time preferences? @manybabies.org 1 found that preferences for infant-directed speech are robust. But, in work led by Melanie Schreiner, we find little evidence that preferences are consistent from session to session: psyarxiv.com/uwche/ #devpsyc #psychscisky (1/6)