Thanks, Pam! I'll take a look at your paper.

This sounds super interesting! Will def take a look

Thanks! 🙏🏾

Interesting, though I wonder if this also applies to tasks in which kids rate external things rather than internal states. For example, the task in question requires children to rate how often various objects make an interesting effect happen.

An ideal measure would thus have answer choices that vary in some kind of numerical magnitude, if that makes sense.

Hi, Alexis. Thanks for this and for your question! I'll take a look. The task in question requires children to report how often a given object made a blicket machine go.

Have any of you used rating scales in your work? If so, I’d greatly appreciate any citations you’d be willing to share in the comments. If you haven’t used them yourself but know of studies that have, I’d love those references too.

TIA!

Developmental science colleagues:

One of my students and I are about to launch a study that requires 3- and 4-year-olds to use a rating scale. The problem is that I've never used age-appropriate ratings scales with children, and I'm drawing a blank on studies that have.

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...

Enjoyed speaking with Barbara for this piece and explaining how online dynamics can make vaccine hesitancy and rare vaccine harms seem much more common and increase parental concern

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 :)

Looking forward to seeing you again, my friend. Safe travels.

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

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Maybe parentese is a better way to describe the phenomenon I'm referring to

On this Easter I'm sitting here wondering why we academics have this sing-song way of talking when giving talks

IYKYK

Why you stink at fact-checking Cognitive psychologists know the way our minds work means we not only don’t notice errors and misinformation we know are wrong, we also then remember them as true.

It's International Fact-Checking Day!

Here's an old article from me about why we generally stink at fact-checking and the important role that professional fact-checkers serve in the information ecosystem.

theconversation.com/why-you-stin...

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Newb question but how does it work if you want to take a sabbatical at a different university?

Unofficial for now, but we hope to recruit a developmental science postdoc soon to work at Wesleyan U with me (cognition + development) and Dr Royette Dubar (sleep & psychosocial adjustment, science of parenting). Particular focus on undergrad research mentoring. Keep an eye out for the official ad!

that is a bit odd -- perhaps he was dealing with something at that time that could explain this?

Where does that leave Hegseth's "lethality" talking point if all of the Black service men and women just...quick?!

fucking 🤡

Thanks for linking this! Very fascinating (and compelling) stuff.

This is extremely fascinating and adds an interesting wrinkle to the whole story. Now I need to go back and re-read the M&J paper

Love this but wonder how these findings might be reconciled with the classic face findings with unknown faces (think Johnson & Morton) or even the in-utero face findings. I quite like Lisa Scott and Michael Arcaro's account on this -- preference for high-contrast objects and lots of face experience.

that time of year again?

ugh, can't wait for better men than fetterman

him, when he feels it in his bones

always nice to chat with my friend Richard (pratherlab.bsky.social)