Maybe @urvi.bsky.social @knle.bsky.social @kostaboskovic.bsky.social might have a good numerical magnitude scale reference?

Children's Evaluations of Empathizers Abstract. Children's evaluations of empathizers were examined using vignette-based tasks (N = 159 4- to 7-year-old U.S. children, 82 girls, 52% White) betw

What kind of rating scale are you thinking of? This paper of mine uses a 4-pt thumbs scale for appropriateness, and two others for different measures. But if you had a particular measure in mind, I might be able to point you to something that fits better. academic.oup.com/chidev/artic...

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

This project was so fun to work on with this stellar team!! It also has some cool age-related findings: older children think that people should make objects they don't like more accessible to others, but that liked objects should be protected from others by putting them in a hard-to-reach place!

Me presenting a talk called "Learning across domains: Emotion, surprise, and early cognition" at the CDS 2026 Early Career Symposium

Undergraduate student, Alyssa Doerksen, presenting a poster called "Counting the cost" - a collaboration with Madison Pesowski at UFV.

Undergraduate student, Eliza Mocanu, presenting a poster called "Mine, yours, ours" - a collaboration with Madison Pesowski at UFV.

Lab manager, Naomi Batarse, presenting a poster called, "Infants' reasoning about affiliation from vicarious emotions"

Highly recommend @cogdevsoc.bsky.social falling on your birthday week. Celebrated 30 early by giving a talk at the ECR symposium, seeing mentees present cool posters, and catching up with some of my favorite people!

Alexis Smith-Flores giving her Early Career Symposium talk at CDS 2026.

Bill Pepe hanging out in a Montreal bar with some interesting curios in the background.

Me with Isabel Herrera-Guevara, former SoCal Lab member and current PhD student in the UC Irvine DoSC Lab.

Coxi Jiang presenting her poster at CDS 2026.

CDS 2026 was full of excellent science and good times! A big thanks to all the speakers in the intuitive theories of care preconference, organized by @rtompkins.bsky.social -- so many new ideas and findings to think about!

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 ;)

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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

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 :)

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

Job ad linked below: Postdoc, Wesleyan U, Psychology Dept, to work with me & Dr. Royette Dubar. I’ll be at CDS in Montreal for Qs from potential applicants. Please share!

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I am on the job market!

Looking for postdocs and/or teaching-focused roles

I study explanations for inequality & what motivates civic engagement, at the intersection of cognitive, social, and developmental psychology with philosophy and policy

I appreciate any leads! lewry.princeton.edu/home

My lab at UW Madison is hiring a new lab manager! I’m looking for a motivated and detail-oriented person to help run the lab’s day-to-day, including our ongoing neuroimaging and behavioral studies. This is especially well suited for graduating undergrads thinking about grad school. Link below

Trust in leadership is essential to success

A new study found that PhD students who had greater trust in their graduate advisor finished their first year more motivated, higher in well-being, and more academically successful than those with lower advisor trust.
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Such effulgent work from a superstar team!!!

Back to reality: Children's early temporal reasoning applies to real but not hypothetical events Abstract. Time words like “yesterday” and “tomorrow” are hard for children to learn, and for researchers to study, because their referents change from day

New w/ @drbarner.bsky.social! We argue that children's struggle to represent the past and future in common tests of knowledge may stem from difficulties in hypothetical reasoning about imaginary timelines, rather than a lack of knowledge about time. 1/n
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So excited to share this new paper, out in JEP:G with the incredible @jamieamemiya.bsky.social, Gail Heyman, and @carenwalker.bsky.social! We tested how children and adults reason about disparate impact policies: formally neutral laws or rules that are indirectly discriminatory. (1/7)

Want to contribute to the work right now and you’re in MA, NH, or PA? Call your state reps and senators about these bills!

Second this! I really like Owlstown for easy & effective academic websites.

Academic PSA: Encourage your trainees to have some sort of online presence, or at the very least an email on the lab website, so they can be invited to give talks at other places.

Sincerely,
Someone who has spent a cumulative total of 3 hours unsuccessfully trying to track down email addresses

Photo of lab members at holiday party

Photo of lab members at holiday party

And that’s a wrap on my lab’s first semester 🎉 So grateful to work these wonderful folks (and Arya’s grateful that they are generous in their pets)

There’s a fantastic developmental science resource called Children Helping Science, at MIT (childrenhelpingscience.com). Researchers run child studies online, Parents sign up & participate with their kids. CHS got an offer from an anonymous donor: matching gifts up to $100K through December!

The Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Lab at UNL is hiring a Research Assistant Professor! Work with my wonderful colleague Tim Nelson on NIH-funded developmental/health projects and grow your own line of research. The DCN Lab is an amazing team with lots of opportunities and support.

I'm recruiting a grad student! My lab at NYU (psych dept) studies the computational basis of moral cognition and aims to build AI systems that are aligned with human values. Now admitting a PhD student for Fall 2026. Apps due 12/1. sites.google.com/corp/site/sy...

Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs The selective revision of beliefs in light of new evidence has been considered one of the hallmarks of human-level rationality. However, tests of this ability in other species are lacking. We examined...

Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵

Have a student considering applying to Lehigh for graduate school? The CAS application fee is waived (!!!) if they submit their application between Nov 3rd and Nov 8th or between Dec 1st and Dec 6th! If they have questions, please direct them to email incasgrd@lehigh.edu! #psychologyphd #gradschool

Exact numerical reasoning in blind children and adults What is the origin of exact numerical reasoning in humans? Previous studies report that innumerate humans are unable to recognize that two sets placed…

Just in: @drbarner.bsky.social & I find that blind adults and children who have symbols for large numbers, and use 1:1 correspondence to count, do not extend a similar 1:1 strategy to a set-matching task, which assesses their knowledge of Hume’s principle. A 🧵:

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Lehigh Psychology is hosting a virtual open house Monday, 10/27 @ 4:15 pm for prospective PhD students! If you have students considering our program, encourage them to register! They'll have a chance to chat w/ faculty & current grads + learn more about our department! lehigh.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Developing Intuitions That Close Friends Know the Content of Each Other’s Minds Abstract. To maintain and develop close relationships, people need to accurately represent the minds of their social partners. Although studies have characterized many aspects of children’s intuitive ...

New paper in Open Mind, with @emmayu23.bsky.social, Megan Richardson, and @ashleyjthomas.bsky.social! We find that by 6 years of age, children think that close friends know the content of each other’s minds.

direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

@openmindjournal.bsky.social

We’re recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to join our team! 🎉

I’m happy to share that I’ve opened back up the search for this position (it was temporarily closed due to funding uncertainty).

See lab page and doc below for details!