Leonard Learning Lab

Will AI Become a Helicopter Parent? Like a parent, AI can guide or smother. It's time to think about how we build this relationship.

Like a parent, AI can guide or smother. It's time to think about how we build this relationship.

Check out my new essay with Brett Smith www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/deve...

01.09.2025 20:34 — 👍 11    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1

The Learning Lab is heading to CogSci 2025 (@cogscisociety.bsky.social) to share our latest research! Come say hello!

28.07.2025 15:03 — 👍 30    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 1

Wirecutter crowned Ben & Jerry’s the best vanilla ice cream. I scoffed.
Our lab managers Surya and Nat ran a blind taste test.
Guess what won?
Ben & Jerry’s.
Science is brutal.

30.06.2025 21:15 — 👍 17    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Member Spotlight: 2025 Spence Awardee Julia Leonard on Celebrating Children’s Progress This Yale University researcher discusses her efforts to understand children’s approach to learning.

Honored to win the 2025 APS Janet Taylor Spence Award! You can read more about my research and journey here www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...

21.05.2025 12:10 — 👍 59    🔁 6    💬 4    📌 0

OSF

New preprint! Despite ongoing efforts to combat gender bias in education, our work reveals a striking and under-explored challenge: By the time children enter elementary school, children already expect adults to hold gender stereotypes and approve when adults act on them.

osf.io/preprints/ps...

14.05.2025 19:31 — 👍 30    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 1

New work from the lab shows that, with scaffolding, little optimistic 4-to-6-year-olds can understand that mastery takes practice. Out now in Child Development. @srcdorg.bsky.social

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

28.04.2025 13:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Congrats to my first PhD student Dr Flora Zhang!!!!! Make sure to check out her amazing work on intuitive theories of acquisition (and why they matter) @leonardlearnlab.bsky.social

09.04.2025 23:43 — 👍 30    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 1

Come check out the lab's research at @srcdorg.bsky.social this week! @leonardlearnlab.bsky.social

28.04.2025 13:49 — 👍 29    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 1

✨New work from the lab!✨

22.11.2024 14:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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.

19.11.2024 13:45 — 👍 90    🔁 27    💬 8    📌 1