Frankie T. K. Fong

OECS thematic collections.

If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind.

Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!

Screenshots of TANGO-CC trials. In Training 1, an agent looks at a balloon that falls to the ground, and participants have to respond by clicking/touching the balloon. In Training 2, the balloon falls behind the hedge while its flight is still visible. Participants respond by clicking the hedge where they think the balloon is. In test trials, the balloon’s movement and final position are covered by a hedge, and participants respond by clicking the hedge. In the task, all movements are smoothly animated (no still pictures). Yellow frames indicate the time point when participants respond (only illustrative, not shown during the task).

🚨Paper alert 🚨

Need a social cognition task for measuring individual- and community-level variation? We are excited to share the TANGO-CC with you! 👀

Paper: doi.org/10.1177/2515...

w/ @mcxfrank.bsky.social @patkanngiesser.bsky.social @kirstensutherland.bsky.social
@elmanubohn.bsky.social...

Child Development Perspectives | SRCD Developmental Science Journal | Wiley Online Library Recent empirical investigations have concentrated primarily on studying imitation as a social tool that satisfies social motivations, while other potential reasons for and forms of imitation have att...

New paper with Daniel Haun in Child Development Perspectives 📝🤓 “Two Gaps in Studying High-Fidelity Imitation”
All feedback welcome srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Would love to join as well :) thanks!

Understanding cultural variation in cognition one child at a time Nature Reviews Psychology - Cross-cultural developmental research is crucial for understanding the roots of human cognition. Although group-level analyses can reveal how culture co-varies with...

Understanding cultural variation in cognition one child at a time

"... individual-level analyses are needed to discern how specific cultural and ecological factors influence cognitive development."

w/ @frankiefong.bsky.social, Sarah Caldwell, Roman Stengelin & Daniel Haun

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Studying Great Apes and Cultural Diversity To Understand the Human Mind Psychologists want to understand how the human mind is extraordinary among animal minds and where the unique aspects of human minds and behaviors come from. To build scientific understanding of human ...

I am very delighted for this one! here is our latest work with Dustin Eirdosh and Daniel Haun. I hope all the children around you enjoy it!!
kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

"A universal of human social cognition: Children from 17 communities process gaze in similar ways"

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Preprint for our large-scale cross-cultural study (N = 1377) on gaze-following. We found the same key processing signatures in all communities we studied.

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Broadening Participation in Cognitive Science. Apply today!

📣 Exciting news! We're accepting applications for our Broadening Participation Grant. Apply for grants up to $5,000 to increase accessibility and inclusion of under-represented communities in #CogSci

Learn more at cognitivesciencesociety.org/broadening-p... and submit you application by May 24! 🗓️

How can I find what I want? Can children, chimpanzees and capuchin monkeys form abstract representat... Abstract concepts are a powerful tool for making wide-ranging predictions in new situations based on little experience. Whereas looking-time studies s…

New paper 📃 out now in Cognition

Preschoolers and, to a lesser extent, chimpanzees but possibly not capuchin monkeys consider abstract patterns in sampled evidence to guide efficient foraging

sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We're launching Devstart, a website to help anyone getting started with developmental science methods and programming. Here's the website with the first tutorials: tommasoghilardi.github.io/DevStart/
Please share widely! 1/4

Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences

We are opening two tenure-track positions
(please repost!)

Human Evolutionary Social Science
Computational Social Science

Come join a truly interdisciplinary department, within a world-class school of economics, in beautiful southern France!

Deadline Jan 31st

www.tse-fr.eu/groups/depar...

Group leader position in comp-psych / cross-cult-psych at MPI EVA in Leipzig (Haun group). 6 years (+2). Deadline January 31st. Details here:
www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...

👁️Variation in gaze understanding across the life span: A process-level perspective👁️

Lead: Julia Prein

We study basic social-cognitive skills across the lifespan

✅ reliable task suitable from 3 to 80
✅ computational model to explain individual differences
✅ tests of model implications

Very interesting Rohan. This year, in Germany, we are also doing St Nicholas on 5th/6th December - I already told my kids I don’t know if they will get Lollies/chocolates in their shoes. They told me maybe Santa will still give them a present later.

Excited to announce a free conference/workshop on 'The Psychology of Santa'.

Five great speakers on five great topics. Breakout rooms afterwards to discuss the state of the field and future directions.

All levels welcome. Registration necessary.

durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Career - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Join us! New, fully funded PhD positions available in the Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology at MPI-EVA in Leipzig.
www.eva.mpg.de/comparative-...

Job Opportunity at York St John University: 2 x Lecturers in Psychology

Join our lovely team at York St John Psychology!

Three positions open for applications: jobs.yorksj.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
jobs.yorksj.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

🚨New preprint!🚨

PREVIC: An adaptive parent report measure of expressive vocabulary in children between 3 and 8 years of age

We used IRT to build an *adaptive* parent report measure for children beyond the CDI (in German)

Task, materials, data ... everything open access

osf.io/preprints/ps...

------------------Support the channel------------Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thedissenterPayPal: paypal.me/thedissenterPayPal Subscription 3 Dollars: ht... #849 Claudio Tennie: The Differences Between Ape Culture and Human Culture

"The Dissenter" Show (Ricardo Lopes) has interviewed me about ape culture. Its always a pleasure to work with him. I checked but he is not (yet) on bsky and so instead of him doing tbis I'll link to the interview here myself:

youtu.be/FB31IrHUQds

🕸️ cultevo

Registered Reports in Child Development: Introduction to the Special Section Registered Reports (RRs) are an emerging format for publishing empirical journal articles in which the decision to publish an article is based on sound conceptualization, methods, and planned analyse....

Child Development the journal of SRCD has now made Registered Reports a permanent submission option. Moin Syed has a thread on the former bird app regarding it but info can also be found here #devpsych srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Call for Editorial Fellows at Developmental Psychology.

*Early Career (w/i 10yrs PhD)

*Members of underrepresented communities (e.g., minoritized, LGBTQ+, w/ disabilities, Global South, etc) or record of advocacy.

*1-year term; $1,000 USD stipend

As my first post here, I would like to share a recently published paper I wrote with Mark Nielsen & Kathleen Corriveau, “I copy you as I believe you know about our culture: Combining imitation and selective trust literatures” Any feedback is welcome
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....