Excited to share my 1st first-author paper, now out in JPSP! People want to feel like they belong and fit in at work but how do we foster belonging? We introduce *microinclusions* as a strategy to increase belonging, fit, and commitment in tech companies psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/ps…

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: tinyurl.com/ll3raptm

How do we identify people who are kind and mindful of others? In new work with Isaac Davis, Yarrow Dunham, and Julian Jara-Ettinger, we show how observers detect kindness from people's personal choices that indirectly impact others. 🧵 1/n authors.elsevier.com/c/1hZaf2Hx2tX4Z

Our fearless inaugural lab manager Bella Fascendini is going to grad school (🥳🎉), so the CoLab is hiring a lab manager!! Please share with anyone who wants to deepen their experience in cog sci before grad school. Review starts on 3/15! research-princeton.icims.com/jobs/18575/res…

Imagine you are about to learn a new skill, like darts🎯. Do you think you could accurately predict your learning curve? With Sam McDougle and julia_a_leonard, we find that you can! New preprint: osf.io/preprints/psya…

Check out Flora’s really cool new study:

We conducted some analysis to see if the youth vote trends in other states held up in MA for Vote No Preference MA. They do. It’s clear that younger voters will not commit to voting for Joe Biden when he continues to fund a genocide. Shoutout to Mika Asaba for crunching the numbers

My study with Hyowon (Hyo) Gweon & Megan Merrick is out! While infants usually look longer at unexpected than expected events, we show that this pattern can be reversed by emotion cues: Infants actually "expect the unexpected" following other people's surprise! doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a…

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

My lab's very first conference! #CDS2024 Cog Dev Society We have a small group coming this year but I'm really excited to share some of my lab's new work. I'll also be at the first poster (P1-79) to catch up with old and new friends and colleagues. Come say hi!! 😊

Persistence is crucial for kids’ development, but parents often take over & solve problems for them. What can help parents step back? New paper w/ Mika Asaba, Lynn Hu, julia_a_leonard shows pointing out learning opportunities reduces over-parenting! tinyurl.com/TOprp 1/5

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 🏒 😜

My team at Stanford SPARQ is hiring up to two research scientists! A great fit for social psychologists who want to work in field-based settings and in direct collaboration with practitioners and communities. Academics, alt-academics, and others apply! sparq.stanford.edu/multiple-posit…

Many objects we interact with are owned by someone, but ownership information is not always in plain sight. With @Paulbloomatyale and Julian Jara-Ettinger, we look at how people decide when ownership is transferred. Now available Association for Psychological Science: shorturl.at/tABK4 1/7

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

It's finally out! With incredible co-authors Mika Asaba & Lynn Hu 🥳

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

Hiring a part-time Design & Research Associate! Details here: tinyurl.com/TangleDesignRe… Apply here: forms.gle/46twwHFJPKXxDo… What you'll do: ✨ Design prototypes for math activities 🔬 Coordinate experiments in education contexts 🤖 Explore AI tools, educational applications