Our labmate Brandon Carrillo has recently lost his beloved grandmother, who contracted Covid after an earthquake evacuation. His family abroad is struggling to cover medical and funeral expenses. Please consider helping via gofundme and retweeting! tinyurl.com/5n6hc2zj

NEW FINDING: Family placements following severe deprivation lead to long-term gains in IQ. This study documents early adult outcomes from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project (BEIP), a randomized control trial of foster care (pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.10…), in @PNASnews.🧵

It's #PostdocAppreciationWeek so I want to give a shout-out to Mika Asaba, our postdoc in the Leonard Learning Lab who is a brilliant, deep thinker, an exceptionally thoughtful mentor, and an all-around superb human. Oh, and she happens to be on the job market this year!

First grade girls are more likely to stick with a challenging science game after pretending to be Marie Curie. Could similar role-playing help us diversify STEM? bit.ly/3BX2Aic Reut Shachnai Yale Psychology Lin Bian The University of Chicago Tamar Kushnir Duke Psychology & Neuroscience Duke Institute for Brain Sciences

A year ago my partner Camila (31) died by suicide while doing a PhD Yale University My Harvard University PhD advisor Emmanuel (41) died by suicide too Please share/help raise $ for Samaritans, Inc. to fight stigma, care for survivors & prevent suicide with phone hot-lines givengain.com/ap/martin-arag…

How can I help Turkey from Abroad? 1)TPF - Turkish Philanthropy Funds Turkish Philanthropy You can donate any kind of currency with Turkish Philanthropy Funds! PayPal payments are also possible. The $5 million pool opened has received $3.7 million and continues to receive donations.

We are hiring a recruitment coordinator to work with the developmental labs at Yale! Info and application here: tinyurl.com/3m66kjrt

Applying to graduate programs in Psychology this fall? Consider applying to our 4th annual ✨Sneak Peek✨ program! Application link: tinyurl.com/YalePsychSP23 Application deadline: June 30th, 2023 Additional details below: ⬇️ (1/4)

How do we infer other people's mental processing (e.g., if they are thinking through something for the first time, or recalling an answer)? Excited to present my work at #SPP2023 in tonight's poster session. Please stop by!

👇Unequal opportunities from the start: Low-SES preschoolers spoke substantially less than their high-SES peers during whole-class discussions, and these differences were *not* accounted for by SES differences in language proficiency. 1/5

Looking for some more incredible work at #CogSci2023? Don't worry, the Leonard Learning Lab has got you covered 😎🤩 Come check out these amazing women and their brilliant research during the conference! From parenting to learning behaviors -- you seriously don't want to miss out!

Our lab is hiring a part-time Philadelphia-Based Research Assistant to help with data collection at our partner museum! This is a great opportunity for those interested in applying to jobs/programs in dev psych! For more info, see: tinyurl.com/ll3raptm

Imagine you are about to learn a new skill, like darts🎯. Do you think you could accurately predict your learning curve? With Sam McDougle and julia_a_leonard, we find that you can! New preprint: osf.io/preprints/psya…

Many objects we interact with are owned by someone, but ownership information is not always in plain sight. With @Paulbloomatyale and Julian Jara-Ettinger, we look at how people decide when ownership is transferred. Now available Association for Psychological Science: shorturl.at/tABK4 1/7

Our lab is hiring a part-time Philadelphia-based research assistant to help with data collection at our partner museum! This is a great opportunity for those interested in applying to jobs/programs in dev psych! For more info, see: learninglab.yale.edu/philly-app