This paper is now out! We increase growth mindsets among teachers by simply asking them to reflect on their mission as educators. See 🧵 below. Paper is free to access for 50 days: authors.elsevier.com/c/1gpv23QACxrd…

Join our In-Person Sherlock Study at the TECL Lab! For children aged 4 to 5 years old! *FREE Parking is provided at the TECL Lab at 100 St. George Street To thank you for stopping by, participants will receive a $10 e-giftcard! SIGN UP at tecl.ca/sign-up

So grateful for this opportunity! Excited to work with all these amazing people 💕☺️

Join TECL'S Sherlock Study! Explore children's persistence! All kids ages 4-5 years old are welcome to join us IN-PERSON at the TECL Lab (100 St. George St)! To thank you for stopping by, you'll receive a $5 Amazon or Indigo gift card! SIGN UP TODAY at tecl.ca/sign-up

Happy Halloween from L3. We swapped crafts for spooks this year

Come check out our lab's new research at CDS! ✨

First time at #CDS2024! So thankful for this opportunity to chat about research, meet new friends and be inspired by all the amazing talks and posters 🤩

Excited to share that my first paper is now out in Memory, work with Morgan Barense! So grateful to have had such a wonderful and fun undergrad thesis and paper writing experience, and for all the support that made this paper possible! 🗺️🖼️ tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Check out this new work from the lab showing that pointing out learning opportunities causes parents to step back and provide children with more autonomy. Bonus fun - this study involved watching many 4-year-olds dress up in hockey gear 🏒 😜

Applying to graduate programs in Psychology this fall? Consider applying to our 5th annual ✨Sneak Peek✨ program! Application link: tinyurl.com/YalePsych24 Application deadline: July 15th, 2024 Additional details below:

Come say hello at #Cogsci2024! 🥰

The lab loved sharing their work, meeting new people, and learning about new science at #CogSci2024

Here is a 4-year-old predicting instant and continuous success on a novel bean bag task. This is characteristic of young children’s optimism. Do little kids just not understand that mastery usually takes practice? New paper thread! tinyurl.com/53wv62tx 1/6

Our lab is hiring a part-time Philadelphia-based research assistant to help with data collection at our partner museum! This is a great opportunity for those interested in applying to jobs/programs in dev psych! For more info, see: learninglab.yale.edu/philly-app

My first first-author paper with Joey Heffner Gloria Feng Jutta Joormann & Robb Rutledge is now published in PNASNews! 🎉 Human- and ChatGPT-rated language sentiment of brief text responses predicted changes in depression. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… Yale Psychology Yale University 🧵(1/n)

New preprint with Jessa Stegall @jessastegall.bsky.social, Emily Hembacher, Michael C. Frank, and Hyowon (Hyo) Gweon: Young children infer the informativeness of others' praise. osf.io/preprints/psya… Adults give children a lot of praise, but do children always trust it?

For decades, developmental psychologists have observed that optimism declines with age. Why does this seemingly positive behavior diminish over time? In our Nature Reviews Psych article, Jessica Sommerville and I offer an integrated theory. nature.com/articles/s4415…

Overparenting is on the rise and hurts children’s motivation starting in early childhood. How can we help parents step back? Our new paper in Child Dev shows that pointing out learning opportunities reduces overparenting. Led by amazing Reut Shachnai srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cd…

How do we think about our future learning curves for a new skill? 💭 Check out our new paper on people's intuitions about skill acquisition julia_a_leonard Sam McDougle

Come check out the lab's research at SRCD this week! Society for Research in Child Development Leonard Learning Lab