We'r bringing back the ✨BRIDGING THE TECHNOLOGICAL GAP WORKSHOP✨!!!

Join us in Aug MPI-EVA Leipzig to learn about cutting-edge tech innovations like eye-tracking & motion-tracking to study human & animal minds.

More info and app here: eva.mpg.de/comparative-cu…

It is happening again!

Join our workshop
✨BRIDGING THE TECHNOLOGICAL GAP✨
to learn about technological innovations to study the human and animal mind.

Apply here: https:/www.eva.mpg.de/comparative-cultural-psychology/events/2024-btg2/

Are you interested in how and when children discriminate and what we can do about it? Want to study these basic questions using innovative VR-experiments? We are looking for a PhD-student!
Sociale Wetenschappen - Universiteit Utrecht Utrecht University

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Apply by Dec 1 to the UCSD Cognitive Science PhD program: cogsci.ucsd.edu/graduates/phd-…. We have an incredible community working on language + cognition + development - if that's up your alley, check us out! I'll also be considering applications to join my new lab opening in Fall 2024.

We often blame people for the beliefs they hold.

Does this mean we think people can choose their beliefs, like they can choose their actions?

We find children and adults generally think we can select our beliefs, but think we are restricted by evidence and morality.

Out now!

'Children and adults' #intuitions of what people can believe,' by Joshua Confer and Jan Engelmann from UCBerkeley Psychology, and Hanna Schleihauf (@UniUtrecht) in #ChildDevelopment Journal (2023): doi.org/10.1111/cdev.1…

Prominent Iranian singer, Mehdi Yarahi, has been arrested for releasing a video titled 'Take Off Your Headscarf'. As the anniversary of Mahsa Jina Amini approaches, protests are intensifying and the regime's response is becoming increasingly aggressive. #WomanLifeFreedom

New paper: We know a lot about how schools, teachers and parents contribute to educational inequality. But what about social processes in the classroom? This work shows that children (7-9) perpetuate competence-based inequality nature.com/articles/s4153… Youth Studies npj Journals

Just finished a wonderful two-weeks workshop with #SICSS - ODISSEI ! I learned a lot about how to apply #machinelearning 🧠 to data from the LISS panel and CBS (Statistics Netherlands) 👩‍💻! A special thanks to Tom Emery, Javier Garcia-Bernardo (@[email protected]), and all others involved 💫!

Very excited for this in Vienna next week!

How does children's social environment shape their curiosity and exploration? Come to our SRCD symposium with @JaraEttinger , Cristina Galusca, and Peter Zhu on Saturday at 1:30 pm to find out! Society for Research in Child Development

'How children revise their beliefs in light of reasons,' by Hanna Schleihauf, Esther Herrmann, Julia Fischer, Jan Engelmann in #ChildDevelopment Journal (2022): doi.org/10.1111/cdev.1…

Do chimpanzees reason logically? Can they for example reason through a disjunctive syllogism (A or B; not A; therefore B)? In a Registered Report, published today, we ran 5 experiments and don’t find strong evidence for this capacity in chimpanzees: doi.org/10.1111/cdev.1…