Brandon Woo (@brandonwoo) Bsky

Employment

The Institute of Child Development is still recruiting 2 NIMH-funded T32 Postdoctoral Training Program in Developmental Psychopathology!
icd.umn.edu/employment

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Can chimpanzees prepare for mutually exclusive possibilities individually or collectively?

Check out our new paper in Phil Trans @royalsociety.org, led by @drelizabethwarren.bsky.social, and funded by @templetonworld.bsky.social!

And stay tuned for the next paper, clarifying the mechanism!

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Today, Dr. Weber was recognized for his pioneering work using naturalistic paradigms in fMRI research. We’re proud to see the Media Neuroscience Lab’s work honored through his recognition as a SANS Founding Fellow. #SANS2026

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Our new paper is out in Child Development! We’re the first to use the looking-while-listening paradigm to examine emotion word comprehension in early childhood.

Work with my fantastic grad student @chenhanqi.bsky.social 🙌

Read more: academic.oup.com/chidev/advan...

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Junior Specialist, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences University of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!

Job alert! @brandonwoo.bsky.social and I are searching for a new lab manager. We are excited to add a new member to our awesome community of soc cog dev researchers! Spread the word :)
Full ad here: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF03106

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Reading the room: Children integrate multiple social factors to predict and interpret objects' locations Abstract. Adults infer social information from objects' locations by integrating multiple causal factors, which is often challenging for children. To test

New paper in Child Development!

When we enter others' homes, we learn about them from the placement of their belongings. This requires integrating multiple social factors (social context, pref). We find 6+yo succeed at integration & 'read the room' in this way!
academic.oup.com/chidev/artic...

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How do we represent maps of social relationships in the mind & brain? To find out, we tracked 1st-year university students’ friendships, as well as students’ *beliefs* about who was friends with whom in their network.

Yang breaks down what we found in the quoted thread 👇🏻

Broader context below:

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I’m offering a lightly used set of regalia in UC Berkeley colors to a junior faculty member, preference for a mom and 1st gen scholar. DM me your details— I’ll ship for free.

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OSF

🧵 New preprint with my advisor, Alex Shaw!
We asked: What does “popularity” actually mean? Is it a distinct status category with specific features? We turned to elementary-schoolers, who have just begun to experience their own "popularity hierarchies," for some answers.

osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Our paper finding that infants infer helpers’ relationships, and not their dispositions, is now out in PNAS! Sharing in case anyone needs something to read on the way home from #CDS2026 ;)

doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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ISMP was formed to create an interdisciplinary and international home for moral psychology, aimed at fostering deeper engagement across traditions, methodologies, and cultural contexts.

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We are offering two 4-year PhD positions in our new SNF project "The Evolutionary Roots of Altercentrism"

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A shared code for perceiving and imagining objects in human ventral temporal cortex Mental imagery allows us to remember previous experiences and imagine new ones. Animal studies have yielded rich insight into mechanisms for visual perception, but the neural mechanisms for visual imagery remain poorly understood. We determined that ...

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

"mental imagery reactivates the same sensory codes used during visual stimuli, suggesting the existence of a generative model capable of synthesizing detailed sensory contents from an abstract, semantic representation."

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Flyer summarizing CDS Symposium: Title: Children’s developing understanding of the rights and responsibilities of collective decision-making Time: Saturday, April 11th, 2:30-4:00PM (Symposium S3.2 in Montreal 4) Talk 1: Children’s emerging understanding of emotional effort and its implications for representation in collective decision-making (Mia Radovanovic & Samuel Ronfard) Talk 2: Who should be the leader? Children’s democratic preferences when selecting a leader (Isabel Alessandra Herrera Guevara, Lana Isabel Abad, & Nadia Chernyak) Talk 3: Deciding together or alone?: Children’s expectations of leaders’ decision-making behaviors (Nicole H. Park & Isobel A. Heck) Talk 4: Holding leaders accountable: Examining 3-8-year-old children’s evaluation of leadership failure (Jessica J. Lee & Andrew Scott Baron)

Come check out our symposium on Saturday at #CDS2026! I'm biased but I think we have a really cool set of talks thinking about power as something that is negotiated dynamically and bidirectionally, and I'll be presenting new work done with @samuelronfard.bsky.social 🙌

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Assistant Professor (Human Development) Please refer to the How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) job aid for instructions on how to apply. If you are an active McGill employee (ie: currently in an active contract or position at McGill University), do not apply through this Career Site. Login to your McGill Workday account and apply to this posting using the Find Jobs report (type Find Jobs in the search bar). Job Description One Tenure-track Position in the Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology (ECP), McGill University Assistant Professor: Human Development Program Land Acknowledgement McGill University is on land which has long served as a site of meeting and exchange amongst Indigenous peoples, including the Haudenosaunee and Anishinabeg nations. We acknowledge and thank the diverse Indigenous peoples whose presence marks this territory on which peoples of the world now gather. 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We’re hiring at McGill (ECP) — Assistant Professor in Human Development

Come work with us 🙂

Genuinely great group, collaborative culture, amazing students, and Canada!

Focus on early childhood but is open. Must study development

Happy to chat if you’re considering applying or know someone great.

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Check out our lab #CDS2026! Talks on early intuitions about democracy, consequences of household inequality, and cross-cultural data on intuitive beliefs about social exclusion.

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A list of talks and poster presentations to be given by Rodney Tompkins (Thursday preconference, Friday talk in symposium on when helping backfires, poster in Saturday lunch session), Bill Pepe (poster Friday evening), Coxi Jiang (poster Friday evening), and Tori Hennessy (poster Saturday evening, to be presented by co-author Angela Liu)

Members of the SoCal lab are presenting their work at #CDS2026! Check out where to find us below

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Schedule of research presentations from the Lehigh Little Learners Lab at CDS 2026 in Montreal!

Can't wait for #CDS2026! My lab is excited to share some of our ongoing work featuring collaborations with Madison Pesowski's KIDS Lab at UFV! I hope you'll stop by and chat :)

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poster with photo of members of the child brain and perception lab, includes details of poster presentations during CDS conference happening on Friday April 10th and Saturday April 11th

Attending @cogdevsoc.bsky.social CDS this week? Check out my lab's work during these poster sessions!
Shout-out to @zsuzsakaldy.bsky.social for the idea to make this type of flyer before the conference :)

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Come see the Thomas Lab's work at @cogdevsoc.bsky.social conference! #CDS2026

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Thank you! Looking forward to seeing you too!

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Information about the posters from the members of the lab Poster Session 2on Friday, April 10 5:45 to 7:00 pm Children’s understanding of common ground in relationships Raissa Cheng | P2-111 Children expect emotional consolation to occur in close relationships Emma Yu | P2-148 Infants track the social targets of their parents’ gaze Brandon Woo | P2-155

Looking forward to #CDS2026! Come learn about the work that my students and I are doing

@emmayu23.bsky.social @cogdevsoc.bsky.social

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Come check out the lab's work at CDS!

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The Causality in Cognition Lab -- a supportive, bluesky-colored team -- is looking for a predoc to join us! Here are infos about the lab (cicl.stanford.edu) and the position (careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/iriss-p...). The application deadline is May 1st.

Please share, thank you 🙏

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Infographic displaying the Early Social Concept Lab's presentations at the Cognitive Development Society conference.

Counting down to #CDS2026! My students are so excited to share their work with you -- please stop by! See you in Montreal 🇨🇦🫎🥐 @cogdevsoc.bsky.social

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From a Baby’s Point of View: How Infants’ Face Diets Shape Their Face Perception - Charisse B. Pickron, Laurie Bayet, 2026 Individual variations in face-perception expertise become apparent by the second year of life. We propose that infants’ “face diet”—the nature and quantity of t...

New paper! Had lots of fun writing this with @lauriebayet.bsky.social There is so much more to say about extrinsic and intrinsic experiences which shape infants' face perception and learning, hopefully this keeps & starts conversations about a topic we love!

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Prenatal and multimodal origins of face perception - Nature Reviews Psychology Nature Reviews Psychology - Prenatal and multimodal origins of face perception

My (very) short piece on how prenatal experience with the mother's voice may rapidly scaffold the development of face perception in newborn infants is now out in @natrevpsychol.nature.com !

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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The CANDLab at Yale is hiring a new full-time research assistant! Excellent opportunity to gain post-bacc experience before applying to PhD programs in child and adolescent clinical psychology and neuroscience. 🧠 candlab.yale.edu/sites/default/files/downloads/YaleCANDLab_RA_2026.pdf

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UMD LEAD Lab Manager Ad The Language, Experience, and Development (LEAD) lab at the University of Maryland, College Park, directed by Dr. Rachel Romeo (she/her/hers), is seeking a lab manager. Expected start date is early su...

I am hiring a new lab manager for the @umdleadlab.bsky.social to start this summer! Job ad and link to apply here. Please re-post and share with your seniors, and/or anyone else who would be a good fit! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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