Sharing our Trends in Cognitive Sciences paper conceptualizing "camouflaging", i.e. some autistic people modify behaviors to hide differences & adapt to the neurotypical societies, as part of impression management (IM). Funded by CAMH Research UofTPsychiatry CIHR Institute of Gender & Health 1/5 cell.com/trends/cogniti…

Join us during our fun park studies for kids ages 17-36 months! Meet us on Friday June 24 at Canoe Landing Park from 9:30am-12:30pm. Help us learn how moral behaviours develop in early childhood! As our thank-you, you’ll receive a $10 Amazon/Indigo gift card and a goody bag!

Most kids love pretend play. But did you know that pretend play can reduce gender gaps in STEM? Our new paper in press Association for Psychological Science shows that pretending to be a woman role model boosts 4-7 yr old girls’ science persistence Tamar Kushnir, Lin Bian 🧵1/4 cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/voices.uchicag…

Looking forward to attending #CogSci2022 this week! Feel free to come stop by P1-14-2162 during session 1 (Thursday 10:20-12:00) to hear about how children and adults make third-parties evaluations of generosity!

How do we decide who owns what? With Paul Bloom and @JaraEttinger, we find that people actually have conflicting intuitions! Come chat with me about ownership at the Friday (7/29) poster session from 8:30 to 10:10am #CogSci2022

From #CDS2022 (Madison) — I know it’s been a while lol

Our labmate @_BrandoCarrillo has recently lost his beloved grandmother, who contracted Covid after an earthquake evacuation. His family abroad is struggling to cover medical and funeral expenses. Please consider helping via gofundme and retweeting! tinyurl.com/5n6hc2zj

Exciting finding by Woo & Spelke, confirming the existence of an early implicit form of ToM: "Well before children connect beliefs to social behavior in verbal tasks, toddlers engage in intention-based evaluations of social agents with false beliefs." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.111…

Developmental psychologists, how do you measure social class or SES in families that participate in your research? The measure linked below was recommended to us, but it feels like some of the questions could make parents uncomfortable.

TECL Live is back for the new school year! Join us after school to celebrate the fall season with TECL Live TOMORROW Fri Oct 7 at 4:30PM! Sign up HERE: eventbrite.ca/e/tecl-live-fo…

Call for child participants ages 8-11, living in the USA who were raised in meat-eating families, but chose to go vegetarian/vegan/pescatarian on their own to participate in our 15-minute research study on how diet choices relate to personality. Please share and RT! 🧵1/2

What are you thankful for? Join us this Friday Oct 14 after school at 4:30PM to celebrate Thanksgiving and the season of pumpkins! Sign up TODAY at: eventbrite.ca/e/tecl-live-fo…

I am speaking at SPSP 2023 Annual Convention. Please check out my poster if you're attending the event! #SPSP2023 - via #Whova event app

Hope to see you all at #SRCD23

Children Helping Science is relaunching! We are merging with the Lookit platform (lookit.mit.edu) to create a central hub for remote studies for babies & children. Zoom studies? ✅ Surveys? ✅ Any link? ✅ Advertising elsewhere? ✅ Bring them on over! 🧵

🚨new paper with Jessica Sommerville (Toronto Early Cognition Lab) ! Generalizing across moral sub-domains: infants bidirectionally link fairness and unfairness to helping and hindering (frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…)

Now in press: Studies led by Zachary Witkower show that the dominance display is reliably recognized as dominance, and not confused with prestige, by the Mayangna (indigenous people in Nicaragua) and very young Canadian children. First evidence that dominance display is universal.

Introducing the Director of DMO, Michael Rizzo! Dr. Rizzo is an Assistant Professor at UIUC. He is also the Director of the Developing Equitable Minds Lab. You can read a short bio about him at our website here: publish.illinois.edu/developing-min…

Using a modified Moral Foundations Questionnaire, we found that Islamophobic attitudes were higher among adults who believed Muslims undervalue the harm/care moral foundation. New Paper with Dr. Caroline Erentzen and Dr. Alison Chasteen Intergroup Relations Lab doi.org/10.1037/rel000…