This is the first paper out from a grant with Alex Shaw from @templetonfdn.bsky.social to look at developmental roots of intellectual humility. Keep a look out for our next studies... on question asking!
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Interestingly, although children think it is good to capitulate to a knowledgable teaching, they do not always rate deference positively. When someone's initial claim was stronger than their social partner's, children instead judged standing one's ground positively.
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New paper with Ben Morris and Alex Shaw out last week in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social! We find that children are sensitive to who has better evidence when evaluating how people behave in disagreements.
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Please also feel free to register for our virtual open house if you are looking for a #phd in #devpsych #devscience #PsychSciSky I'll be there for the faculty meet and greet part
If you want to check out more, see my lab webpage: liberman.psych.ucsb.edu 3/3
Work and learn with amazing colleagues in Development & Evolution! These labs are also searching for new students, so check them out! @anniewertz.bsky.social @brandonwoo.bsky.social @laurasimonelewis.bsky.social 2/3
UCSB Campus. Meadow in the foreground with Storke Tower and mountains in the distance
Spread the word: I'm looking to recruit a PhD student for Fall 2026 to @ucsb.bsky.social! Reach out if you are applying this cycle and hoping to study infant and child social cognition, specifically expectations about friendship and/or groups. Bonus: live in paradise! And.. 1/3
Check out @lizquinnjensen.bsky.social's paper on the Comparative Status Hypothesis: we find that the social identity of a person's competitor shifts whether that person is seen as a likely victim of discrimination.
We hope our work broadens focus beyond the victim-perpetrator dyad
Big congrats to @rthompkins.bsky.social on this paper! Happy to finally see this out in the world.
Our work builds on findings from @juliamarshall.bsky.social on the impact of social relationships on moral expectations, with a focus on how children think about lying and liars.
🧪 Ranking member Lofgren and 11 other House dems sent a fiery 7-page letter to acting NSF director today
"The cancelation of these awards suggests instead that NSF is willing to apply political censorship of awards under direction from President Trump and the DOGE teenagers"
Share widely #SaveNSF
Its Give Day @ucsb.bsky.social! Support the Development + Evolution area in establishing a graduate student award! Our students work so hard, and we want to recognize them -- any amount helps: ucsb.scalefunder.com/gday/giving-....
🚨Please check “in honor of” and write: PBS DEVO Area🚨
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Interested in children's developing understanding of linguistic register? Check out a new paper-- led by past undergraduate lab member, Ishaan Ambrish (currently working with Ariel Starr at UW) and grad student
@shreyasodhi.bsky.social
Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.
More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.
I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
Happy New Year!! So thrilled to share this preprint (Kara Weisman, Lucy King, and I worked on this for 8+ yrs): "Beliefs about the development of mental life"
Read to find an interesting story on how people perceive different domains of capacities changing from birth to age 5 yrs.
osf.io/kq4j7
trying out some physics on Sora, OpenAI's video-creation-from-text-tool.
Here is "a blue block falling on a green sphere"
Stay tuned for future projects that look at both expectations about dual identity *and* the development of social preferences based on immigration and acculturation behaviors
In an elegant set of experiments, @shreyasodhi.bsky.social compared children's inferences about immigrants to their inferences about non-immigrants and travelers (people who *visited* a second country).
Children did not essentialize immigrants' national identity, and instead expected flexibility!
Interested in how children think about immigrants?
🚨 New work led by @shreyasodhi.bsky.social 🚨
We find that children expect immigrants to have a dual identity--to be similar to both people from their host and heritage cultures
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Congrats to @lizquinnjensen.bsky.social on both a new paper on judgements based on (racial) identity claims, and on a beautiful write up of her work for the @spspnews.bsky.social Character & Context Blog
Applications are now open (through Feb. 16th) for our NSF REU Site on the Scientific Study of Interpersonal Relationships across the Lifespan. If you know of an undergraduate scholar interested in relationships research broadly, send them our way!
undergradresearch.missouri.edu/interpersona...
Not sure of such a study with younger babies, but that may be because babies have to be able to physically move (crawl) for the visual cliff paradigm. Many babies are not crawling until 9-10 mon. Younger infants do interesting stuff re:emotion. Check out Eric Walle or Ashley Ruba for examples
The Manybabies4 paper is out! Infants' Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large-Scale, Multi-Lab, Coordinated Replication Study onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... 1000 babies tested in 37 labs; "Overall, 49.34% of infants preferred Helpers over Hinderers in the social condition"
🎉IAS is recruiting🎉
UCSB Integrative Anth Sciences is hiring a tenure-track evo anthropologist (assist/assoc prof):
Apply by 1/06/25
To apply: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02866
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Estimate: Assist:$95,000-$135,000 & Assoc:$120,000-$180,000. UCSB is an AA/EOE, including disability/vets.
The Visual Learning Lab at UC San Diego is looking for a postdoctoral research fellow to join our lab!
Read more about our lab at www.vislearnlab.org
Great list! Can you add me too? Thanks :)
Hi everyone! I am looking for PhD students to join my (new) Lab for Infant Learning and Cognition (LILAC) at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Learn more about us here: sites.google.com/ucsb.edu/lilac Application info here: psych.ucsb.edu/prospective-.... Deadline is December 1st 👶🪴
Developmental Psychology Starter Pack
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a moving example of haka (arguably a form of music) used in political protest, in NZ parliament
also, since I like the science of this, also shows why "music bonds the group together" fundamentally misconstrues the behavior in question. it's not warm & fuzzy, haka is sending a clear message here !
I am hoping to recruit a Ph.D. student to join our Social Injustice and Social Change research group at UC Santa Barbara in Fall 2025! You can more information about the position, about our team, and about our research on our website. sisc.psych.ucsb.edu/posts/recrui...
📢 New job alert: The Dept. of Psychological & Brain Sciences at UCSB is hiring a new Director for our Brain Imaging Center! Join us in sunny Santa Barbara and please help spread the word! (Full Professor position—due by Dec 2) 🧠 🌊 recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02858
