Exciting news for those interested in moral development during early childhood years! Members of our team published a new article in Social Development: Preschoolers’ moral judgment and punishment attribution. See here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/so…

Dr. Narcisa Prodan presented the lab's projects on children's deception, parenting by lying & advanced theory of mind during 2 symposia & 1 poster presentation at the 27th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioural Development-ISSBD in July @Lisbon

Dr Maria Stefania Ionel delivered a great oral presentation on the "Climbing Anxiety Scale (CAS-20): Preliminary Development and Validation" at the FEPSAC (European Federation of Sport Psychology) Congress (Innsbruck, Austria), the largest Sport Psychology Conference in Europe😊

The Riddle Lab Team @ ESC #eurocrim2024 Bucharest participated with an interesting Symposium on individual differences in personality & deceptive conduct predisposing to criminal behavior & recidivism Thanks to our colleagues @ Law Faculty, Bucharest University for organizing it

Our latest research on personality and criminal behaviour got featured in PsyPost - Psychology Research News tinyurl.com/bde4e9jc 🥳 Check the original paper here, open access nature.com/articles/s4159…

LabTALK Series continues with another fantastic collaborative event featuring our new RiddleLab guest Laura Varutti, psychologist & researcher, University of Bergamo. 𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐑𝐢𝐝𝐝𝐥𝐞𝐋𝐚𝐛 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬 & 𝐯𝐨𝐥𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐣𝐨𝐢𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐨𝐧/𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞.

Our lab members, Prof Laura Visu-Petra & PhD Candidate Andreea Turi are presenting during a Science Festival: SciFest2024- Science of Crime Investigation 2024 & bringing some of our research to a wider audience. If you are in Cluj, check out this event: facebook.com/SciFestClujNap…

Exciting news: we’re launching the Mind Riddles Blog featured in Psychology Today! ✨ Check out our first post: "Encourage Kids to Tell the Truth, Even With Santa Watching" 🎅Insights from Prof. Victoria Talwar on child development and deception! shorturl.at/Wdhbn

We wish you all a wonderful New Year and invite you to check our second blog post on the very topic of welcoming the New Year by reflecting on the past, catalyzing regrets into action and engaging in mental travel: shorturl.at/xcR2b Stay tuned for more inquiries this year📷

Our new Mind Riddles blogpost got featured on the Psychology Today Homepage shorturl.at/9hUd7 We discuss the complex interplay between social anxiety and the ability to understand other minds, via egocentric thinking and intolerance of uncertainty shorturl.at/blpOO

Our latest Mind Riddles blog post on Psychology Today on the emotional wellbeing impact of using AI Chatbots as more than just tools for information search is available here: shorturl.at/75Xzb

We had a great applied LabTalk last week facilitated by PhD student Daria Mihaela Solescu 👏 She shared tips and tricks for a 1st Stage Registered Report and some hands-on experience with Zotero for adding references to papers🧐

Our latest Psychology Today Mind Riddles post explores individual, interpersonal and collective reasons which explain the fascination for personalities on the Dark Side of the personality spectrum - It might be more than the cookies...🍪🍪 shorturl.at/ZvmS9

Last month our lab was busy with 2 colleagues presenting in international conferences, Dr Narcisa Prodan and PhD student Alexandra Bulbuc, & a 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ 𝑊𝑒𝑒𝑘 𝑖𝑛 𝐶𝑙𝑖𝑚𝑏𝑖𝑛𝑔 & 𝐸𝑥𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑚𝑒 𝑆𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑠 organised by Dr Maria Stefania Ionel 👏👏👏

Our RIDDLE Lab members, Lect. Lavinia Cheie and Asist. Narcisa Prodan, published an article on psychosocial well-being and influencing factors in children with migrant parents, in 𝐽𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝐹𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝑅𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑐ℎ. See the article here: tinyurl.com/yyphwesx