This insightful study, lead by Mandi Ackerman, offers a social identity perspective on how kids start to think about their family social class and feel about people from other groups. Full of beautiful quotes from kids describing their background in their own words. Check it out!

NSF Developmental Science is looking for ad hoc reviewers. If you are interested in reviewing for us, please send an email with your CV to [email protected] and [email protected].

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

October's Editor's Choice: Someone Who Knows and Someone I Trust: Investigating How and With Whom U.S. 8- to 14-year-old Youth Seek to Learn about Racial Inequality Ellen Kneeskern Dr. Laura Elenbaas Free to Read: psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-12… 2/2

This creative study, led by Ellen Kneeskern, investigates how kids shape their own learning about racial inequality and opens up new questions about who kids trust with these conversations and why. Check it out!

Purdue HHS DEI Science Consortium Paper Highlight🎉Check out this wonderful research by Dr. Laura Elenbaas PurdueHDFS on how children seek out info about racial inequality, and how expertise, trust, and the relationship matter, published in Developmental Psychology (2023) psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-12…

My department is hiring! TT, assistant level, open area. I joined PurdueHDFS last year and would be very happy to talk about my positive experience getting started here with folks interested in applying. careers.purdue.edu/job/West-Lafay…

Pleased to be featured as Jean Piaget Society 's member-of-the-month for January '24 🤓 Check out these smart and sweet profiles of Tesha Sengupta Irving, Stuart Marcovitch, and Jessica McKenzie piaget.org/monthly-member… and see you at JPS in Toronto this June!

SBE U.S. National Science Foundation has a new DCL on the study on bias, prejudice, and discrimination (BPD) with a focus on contextualized models of BPD, developmental origins of BPD, and BPD against under-studied groups. For more details - nsf.gov/pubs/2024/nsf2…

Was an absolute delight (as always) to watch Rebecca Peretz-Lange present on a project we’ve worked on together! #CDS2024

Congratulations to #EdTerp faculty Professor Melanie Killen and Professor Emeritus Allan Wigfield, who are among 14 exceptional scholars recently elected to NAEd–one of the highest honors an education scholar can achieve: go.umd.edu/3xbHbTM

🤩🤓🤩 Absolutely bursting with pride for my partner Evan Westra who is now tenured!🎉and!🎉promoted!🎉 🤩🤓🤩

Closing out the '23-'24 academic year full of gratitude for this super smart, hardworking, and supportive Social Development Lab team! 😍

I am happy to share our new paper with Tara Mandalaywala and gorana__g and that just came out in Developmental Science. We found that 5-12 years old children hold beliefs about social mobility that are surprisingly more realistic than adults' beliefs in the “American Dream”.

😊 Elliot Friedman @cammiemcbride David Purpura

Back in the office today after three weeks of nerd vacation at Jean Piaget Society in Toronto and ISSBD in Lisbon. One of the top best parts of this job is getting to hang out with smart friends in beautiful places 😃

Excited to be a part of the Origins of the Social Mind preconference at #SPSP2025 Society for Personality and Social Psychology!