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Wordbank is an open database of children's vocabulary development across languages, archiving parent reports of what their children say. Today we are updating Wordbank, adding 10k children, 9 new languages, and data on bilinguals. wordbank.stanford.edu

Very excited about this workshop on social curiosity!! We have a fantastic lineup of speakers who represent various perspectives & methods, and registration is free (see info below). Hope to see you there, either virtually or in person in Göttingen! :)

Every year I read a lot of grad school applications from accomplished people that don't give me the info I'm looking for. It feels like a major hidden curriculum thing. So here's (my opinion on) how to write a great Statement of Purpose/Research for a PhD program. 🧵 1/

My colleague Steven Roberts was recently invited to comment on a "debate" about diversity at a Association for Psychological Science journal. His experience was troubling and surreal, and lays bare the very biases he studies. He describes it in this important pre-print. 1/ psyarxiv.com/xk4yu

Do you want to do a psychology experiment while following best practices in open science? My collaborators and I have created Experimentology, a new open web textbook (to be published by MIT Press but free online forever). experimentology.io Some highlights! 🧵

Time to clear up some of the misconceptions and incorrect claims in this thread and accompanying paper:

Apply to work with amazing Natalia Vélez (natvelali.bsky.social @ 🦋)!!

We are hiring too! This full-time research coordinator will work with two labs (Hyowon (Hyo) Gweon Michael C. Frank). Review begins 3/27, start ASAP, more info👇

📣📣 New episode!! A conversation w/ Mika Asaba & Hyowon (Hyo) Gweon about reputational thinking in young children. As humans we care deeply about what others think of us. How does this tendency develop? What are its underpinnings and consequences? Listen: disi.org/the-i-of-the-b…

People are testing large language models (LLMs) on their "cognitive" abilities - theory of mind, causality, syllogistic reasoning, etc. Many (most?) of these evaluations are deeply flawed. To evaluate LLMs effectively, we need some principles from experimental psychology.🧵

Huge congratulations to Talia Konkle talia konkle, recipient of the inaugural Lila R. Gleitman Prize 🏆 She’s a Professor of Psychology at Harvard University with a Ph.D. in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Learn about all her scientific achievements at cognitivesciencesociety.org/gleitman-prize/

New paper, out now in PNAS! 🎉 This was a very fun collaboration with Alicia Chen, Taylor Burke, @fierycushman & Sam Gershman. 1/5

So glad this paper is out! All credit goes to the amazing Sophie Bridgers, Costanza De Simone, and Azzurra Ruggeri -- I just cheered along :-)

Excited to share an open dataset of 321 3-12yo children who completed our ToM booklet task, as well as all task materials + guides for administration & coding. Preprint: psyarxiv.com/gczp9 OSF: osf.io/g5zpv/ W/ Koraima, Hyowon (Hyo) Gweon, Rebecca Saxe

We are hiring a pre-doc fellow! It's a great opportunity for those who want more research experience before starting PhD. Deadline 2/29, info: iriss.stanford.edu/predoc Also recruiting in our dept: @CameronTEllis Judy Fan Tobias Gerstenberg Jordan Starck & Laura Carstensen Please RT!

So happy to finally share this preprint! It includes our initial findings (out as a cogsci paper) and several follow-up experiments. The results demonstrate the power of learning from minimal statistical evidence, applied to inferences about the informativeness of praise!