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!! 😊

Virtually@ #CogSci2023 😀

For decades, research has looked at infant-directed speech and actions, but what about infant-directed emotional expressions? Check out our poster (VP-Q-538-2398) on 'emotionese' with Hanqi Chen, Isobel Taylor, & Michael C. Frank

Paper: tinyurl.com/emotionese

I love this!

We're pleased to announce a new ManyBabies project, 'A Unified Approach to Demographic Data Collection for Research with Young Children Across Diverse Cultures': psyarxiv.com/agt3d/

thrilled to be co-organizing this fun pre-conference workshop, bridging multiple perspectives on ✨Intrinsically Motivated Open-Ended Learning ✨ Join me at my first NeurIPS!

Learn more / submit a paper👇
imol-workshop.github.io

Folks on the job market this year—check out three upcoming panel discussions on how to write research, diversity, and teaching statements! More info below, sign up here: forms.gle/ckmsENe4AM3eJC…

Enjoying this talk by Yang Wu at social-intelligence-human-ai.github.io

Excited to share our new paper🎉
How do people predict what emotions others will experience?

To study this remarkable feat of everyday social intelligence, we frame emotion prediction as causal reasoning over a Bayesian Theory of Mind.

📝 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.109…

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A new paper documenting changes in diversity and representation in infant participants over the last 10 years + suggestions for more inclusive science. A v. enjoyable collab with Alex Cristia @oakeslisa Lana Karasik and Sarah Rajendra onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

New paper, out now in PNAS! 🎉

This was a very fun collaboration with Alicia Chen, Taylor Burke, Fiery Cushman & Sam Gershman. 1/5

We will have an amazing lineup of speakers from robotics and cognitive science.

Happy to share this new paper w/ Alexis Smith-Flores, now out in @natrevpsych! In it we outline a theory about how intuitive psychology can support systematic joint reasoning about social relationships and emotions… (short thread)

New paper Collabra: Psychology University of California Press

In two online, child-friendly Exps, 2-year-olds mapped emotion words to face & body cues within valence. Mask exposure didn't correlate with performance. The results suggest an early ability to comprehend emotion words! doi.org/10.1525/collab…

Two-year-olds: better than we thought they would be at emotion word recognition!

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! 🧵

Question for emotion researchers: What's the latest system for coding facial expressions? I have some videos of participants talking while making naturalistic, dynamic emotional expressions. I'm interested in coding valence, arousal, & emotion categories. Any recommendations?

My lab just had a blast tackling an #EscapeRoom together! 🗝️ A fun-filled way to celebrate all our hard work and accomplishments during the school year 🥳 Already expecting the next fun lab event! 😆 #LabLife #GreatTimes

Kiara Sanchez I read five management books the summer before I started as faculty - here are my reviews of them: markallenthornton.com/blog/managemen…

Hey look, that's our paper! Thank you University of Toronto for highlighting the work we did on ideas vs. experiences of liking!

psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi…