Social Learning Lab

Hello bsky! Excited to share this paper as my very first post / repost :-) We show that children are sensitive to whether an adult offered promised help, and strategically consider this to decide what task to pursue (easy or hard?) and whether to explore vs. seek help!

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Theory of Minds: Early Understanding of Interacting Minds The idea that we understand others’ actions in terms of their underlying mental states has shaped decades of developmental research on social cognition. Existing work, however, has primarily focused o...

Officially out! In this review, Aaron Chuey and I discuss how existing work on ToM mostly focused on a single individual’s mental states (e.g., what Sally thinks). Extending ToM, we argue for ToMS—an understanding of how multiple individuals communicate and influence each others’ minds. t.ly/u4rtb

10.12.2025 23:30 — 👍 44    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 0

This week, we welcomed our new grad student, Karla Perez, and celebrated Hyo's birthday by painting pumpkins in the courtyard!

21.10.2025 17:16 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This week, our SymSys summer interns (Christine Zhao, Felicity Chang, and Chris Seo) presented their work at the Fall SymSys Poster Session!

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