Kirsten Blakey, of our🧠 Mind & Knowledge cluster and Agency, Rationality and Epistemic Defeat (ARED), gave a talk at the Culture Conference in Zurich today.

Good morning Twitter! I am looking to recruit participants for a survey on animal intelligence in peer-reviewed research. If you have 30 minutes, please follow this link! -> stirlingpsych.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bs… Much appreciated! 🙏

We are delighted to announce the second ARED workshop, taking place on the 23rd and 24th May at the Messerli Research Institute, Vienna. If you are interested in attending please contact us via email: [email protected], but note that limited spaces are available.

The ARED team are very excited to be a part of Glasgow Science Festival! Come and see us at Glasgow Botanic Gardens on Sat 3rd & Sun 4th June.

Find out more about University of Stirling’s new state of the art Lifespan Lab in this excellent report by Kaye Nicolson of STV News which features Line Caes Lily FitzGibbon and Dr Kirsten Blakey news.stv.tv/v/new-stirling… Stirling Uni Psych Stirling Natural Sciences

#GlaSciFest 23 at the Glasgow Botanic Gardens! Activities change daily, so please check the website for our timetable. Venue: Glasgow Botanic Gdns Dates: 3rd to 8th June Times: 11-3 Public: Drop In Schools: Sessions still available to book! Cost: Free gla.ac.uk/events/science…

Researchers Dr Line Caes, Dr Lily FitzGibbon and Dr Kirsten Blakey explain the specialist laboratory which uses equipment for the study of behaviour, cognition, and brain function across the lifespan which has just opened at #UofStirling. #UofStirlingResearch #LifespanLab

🚨 Save the date! 🚨 Culture Conference will return to Zürich on February 8th and 9th, 2024! Once again we will be running a hybrid event, with possibilities to attend and present remotely. Abstract submission will open on September 1st. culture-conference.com

We are looking for 2-to-6-year-old children to come and visit us at Stirling Uni Psych and take part in our study. We are investigating how children of different ages revise their beliefs.

On November 30th, the ARED project is hosting a practitioner workshop on animal minds! We will be joined by speakers from Scottish SPCA 🐾, APDT, Battersea Public Affairs, OneKind, and Paws for Progress. Please fill out this form to register: forms.office.com/e/1GaZz3rTpi

On 31 January Prof. Mark Rowlands will give a public lecture titled "World on Fire: Climate, Extinction, Pandemic" at the University of Stirling. The registration link is available here: ared.stir.ac.uk/engagement/

We are delighted to announce the third ARED workshop taking place on the 1st and 2nd February 2024 at the University of Stirling and online. If you are interested in attending please register using the link on our website ared.stir.ac.uk/events/

Can infants, dogs, and pigs identify misleading information?🧒🐶🐷KirstenBlakey & team’s study suggests all struggle to generalize the reliability of informants' actions, challenging assumptions about basic #ReflectiveThinking in non-linguistic beings #CO3_2024 Dr Kirsten Blakey

Pleased to share our new pre-print! Non-verbal rationality? 2-year-old children, dogs and pigs show unselective responses to unreliability, but to different degrees doi.org/10.31234/osf.i…

What an incredible CO3 we had this year! Outstanding science, a fantastic new location, and lots of new faces and old. We hope you all found it as stimulating and fun as we did #CO3_2024 🐍🐒🦎🐀🐣🕷🐕 🦜🦍🐠🐿🦐🐬🙋‍♀️

We are very excited to be a part of the #GlaSciFest! Join us on the 15th and 16th of June at the Riverside Museum to learn about beliefs.

Children consider others’ need and reputation in costly sharing decisions nature.com/articles/s4159…

New Agency, Rationality and Epistemic Defeat (ARED) paper! We develop a framework for understanding how reflective belief revision could emerge from unreflective responses to evidence, integrating epistemology and developmental psychology. Epistemic Rationality Begins Unreflectively link.springer.com/article/10.100…

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Nonverbal rationality? 2-year-old children, dogs, and pigs show unselective responses to unreliability but to different degrees Open access here: doi.org/10.1111/cdev.7…

We are pleased to share our new journal article, "Nonverbal Rationality? 2-Year-Old Children, Dogs, and Pigs Show Unselective Responses to Unreliability but to Different Degrees" Dr Kirsten Blakey Stirling Uni Psych Stirling Philosophy srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cd…