Dr Kirsten Blakey

Screenshot of the first page of the paper: Nonverbal Rationality? 2-Year-Old Children, Dogs, and Pigs Show Unselective Responses to Unreliability but to Different Degrees

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨

Nonverbal rationality? 2-year-old children, dogs, and pigs show unselective responses to unreliability but to different degrees

Open access here: doi.org/10.1111/cdev...

Come talk to @feceozkan.bsky.social after her Reasoning talk session & @khblakey.bsky.social @normanjzeng.bsky.social & I during our posters today to hear about our epic journey to Ithaca!

UofT psych gets to #SPP2025: Public transit down, first car rental broke down 700m after leaving, endured flash floods in upstate NY. We finally made it (11 hours later!)

Epistemic Rationality Begins Unreflectively - Erkenntnis Recent research in analytic epistemology suggests that one can form a rational belief without being in the position to identify and assess the evidence in its support. The reach of such unreflective r...

New paper!

We develop a framework for understanding how reflective belief revision could emerge from unreflective responses to evidence, integrating epistemology and developmental psychology.

Epistemic Rationality Begins Unreflectively
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

#DevPsych #Epistemology

Check us out at #SRCD tomorrow! Great work led by @feceozkan.bsky.social and @khblakey.bsky.social

Excited to be organizing this symposium with @samuelronfard.bsky.social's support! 😊 Check out our session #SRCD25, Friday, 11.30 am, and hear from Joshua Confer, @anahidmodrek.bsky.social, and @lucaspbutler.bsky.social! @janengelmann.bsky.social

The Social & Cognitive Origins Group at Johns Hopkins University studies how humans and other animals think.

The Homewood campus of Johns Hopkins University in full spring bloom.

🚨RT!

The Social & Cognitive Origins group at @jhuartssciences.bsky.social (social-cognitive-origins.com), directed by Dr. Christopher Krupenye, is recruiting a full-time research assistant or lab manager to begin Summer 2025. The position has a one-year minimum, w/ the possibility of extension. 1/

Children also recognised that their generosity improved the recipient’s mood, but their own mood wasn’t consistently linked to how much they shared.

Children considered both need and reputation, but shared equally with recipients who were either needy with a negative reputation or not needy with a positive reputation, suggesting they did not have a preference for either factor.

Children (3–9 years) shared stickers with recipients who varied in need (needy vs. not needy) and reputation (sharing vs. not sharing).
As expected, they shared more with needy recipients. But they shared more generously when the recipient also had a positive reputation for sharing.

Children consider others’ need and reputation in costly sharing decisions - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Children consider others’ need and reputation in costly sharing decisions

New paper!

Children’s sharing is influenced by factors like others' need and reputation, but research has typically examined these factors in isolation. This study explores how different combinations of need and reputation affect costly sharing decisions.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How does the capacity to demonstrate intellectual humility - to recognize limits to one's beliefs or knowledge - develop and change? And are there things that can be done to foster greater intellectual humility?

Come join our SRCD pre-conference to discuss these questions and more!

We are excited to invite you to the pre-conference workshop, “Towards a developmental science of intellectual humility,” taking place before the 2025 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting. Wednesday, April 30th, 2025. Register at www.developingintellectualhumility.com/srcd-2025.

Have you ever wondered what’s your optimal mood for staying focused? 🤔 Our new paper in @Developmental Psychology explores how children and adults think about this question (w/ Brandon Goulding and @samuelronfard.bsky.social )

doi.org/10.1037/dev0...

Here is what we found...👀
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Past and current Stirling Uni folk #ASAB2023