Dr. Candice Mills
@candicemmills.bsky.social
Developmental psychologist studying children's thinking and learning | Prof @ UTD | @cogdevsoc secretary
We're getting close to the early bird registration deadline for CDS! Please see the below for more information.
The Cognitive Development Society (CDS)@cogdevsoc.bsky.social · 8mo agoHeading to the Cognitive Development Society meeting in Montreal? Make sure to register! Early bird registration ends on Thursday, February 19. For more information, please visit our website: cogdevsoc.org/registration/
The Journal of Cognition and Development is looking for a new Editor-in-Chief. Please consider applying or spreading the word to someone who you think would be a great fit!
The Cognitive Development Society (CDS)@cogdevsoc.bsky.social · 9mo agoThe Journal of Cognition and Development, the official journal of the Cognitive Development Society, is seeking nominations for the Editor-in-Chief, with the term to begin on July 1, 2026. Application materials are due February 16. For more information, visit: cogdevsoc.org/journal/
🧵New preprint: Adults often agree with their ingroup even when evidence says otherwise. Why? To find out, we studied kids, who show the same tendency but *before* political identities take hold. With developmental data, we can see the basic psychological ingredients. doi.org/10.31234/osf... 1/11
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The poster submission due date for CDS is almost here!
The Cognitive Development Society (CDS)@cogdevsoc.bsky.social · 9mo agoHappy New Year! Poster submissions for CDS 2026 are due by Thursday, January 8th.
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
If you've ever visited ChildrenHelpingScience.com, please consider donating below! There's a campaign for matching contributions, and every bit helps.
Melissa Kline Struhl@mekline.bsky.social · 10mo agoThis is a fundraising post! An anonymous donor is matching contributions to Children Helping Science up to 100K through the end of the year - if it's in your giving budget, please consider supporting open science infrastructure! giving.mit.edu/search/node/... Details below...
A reminder: poster submissions for CDS 2026 are due by January 8, 2026. For more information, please view our website: cogdevsoc.org/submissions/
Check out a recent article that talks about some of our research related to children's experiences transitioning to skepticism about Santa Claus! We'll have a lot more to say about this in the upcoming couple of years with some new projects. @thaliargoldstein.bsky.social
Texas Monthly@texasmonthly.bsky.social · 10mo agoStudies have found that adults who recall their parents lying to them frequently feel more anxious and show more aggression. https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/santa-claus-lie/
Very pleased to share our new review in @natrevpsychol.nature.com on integrating cognitive neuroscience and clinical perspectives of metacognition in mental health! With @tobiasuhauser.bsky.social, Lena Jelinek, and Steffen Moritz. (1/3) Web: www.nature.com/articles/s44... PDF: rdcu.be/ePxUG
Integrating cognitive neuroscience and clinical perspectives on metacognitive mechanisms in psychopathology - Nature Reviews Psychology
Cognitive neuroscience and clinical psychology have made substantial advances in knowledge about metacognitive processes, but these fields have progressed in parallel. In this Review, Seow et al. inte...
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CDS Secretary here! Please follow our CDS account to receive reminders of upcoming deadlines and opportunities as well as to learn about new articles in the Journal of Cognition and Development.
The Cognitive Development Society (CDS)@cogdevsoc.bsky.social · 11mo agoPoster submissions for CDS2026 are now open! Submit your work for consideration at CDS 2026 in Montreal, Canada. Submissions are due by January 8, 2026. For more information, please view our website: cogdevsoc.org/submissions/
🎉UTD now has a #PCSAS accredited Clinical program🎉 I can/hope to accept clinical folks through psych or cogneuro PhD for Fall 2026! bbs.utdallas.edu/departments/...
– Clinical Psychological Science
Clinical Psychological Science Grounded in science. Designed for those who lead, question, and innovate. Doctoral training in Clinical Psychological Science at UT Dallas is grounded in the clinical sc...
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New paper! One of the things I love about our findings in this paper is that even children who thought they knew a lot about a topic in absolute terms sometimes recognized that an expert would know a little or a lot more than them. That's a start!
Judith Danovitch@danovitch.bsky.social · last yr.🚨New publication alert: How do children think about how much they know in absolute terms and relative to what an expert knows? with @candicemmills.bsky.social @ajwilliamsgant.bsky.social @patelkhushboo.bsky.social @nataliequint3ro.bsky.social Currently free at authors.elsevier.com/a/1lknv51Y-X...
Please consider submitting to our special issue @socialdevelopment.bsky.social on Political Engagement in Childhood and Adolescence: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...
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We are upgrading Wiley Online Library over the weekend of May 17th–18th. All content will continue to be available, but some functionality may not work as expected. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
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Think Lab members have made it back from #SRCD2025! It's a lab tradition that after a conference, each person who attended shares a 2-3 minute overview of a poster or presentation they enjoyed. It's a great way to discuss all we learned. Wishing I saw more of you there... but next time!
NEW: NSF announces it's "terminating awards that are not aligned with agency priorities...including but not limited to those on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and misinformation/disinformation." #HigherEd #AcademicSky
Updates on NSF Priorities
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Substantial updates to the list of cancelled grants👇 - THANK YOU to all who have contributed. Crowdsourcing restores faith in humanity. - It's still a work in progress. You'll see more updates shortly. - There are multiple teams & efforts engaged in tracking & advocacy. More to come soon!
Rescinded NIH & NSF Grants
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How do we change our minds about our knowledge or beliefs? And why is it sometimes so difficult for people to realize they might be wrong? We study these sorts of questions with kids, but here's a story of someone trying to convince his dad to disengage w/ conspiracies: www.npr.org/2025/02/26/g...
How a son spent a year trying to save his father from conspiracy theories
Zach Mack spent a year attempting to rescue his father from the depths of the conspiracy rabbit hole. Their family was forced to reckon with clashing realities, ideological divides and misinformation.
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How does the capacity to demonstrate intellectual humility - to recognize limits to one's beliefs or knowledge - develop and change? And are there things that can be done to foster greater intellectual humility? Come join our SRCD pre-conference to discuss these questions and more!
Samuel Ronfard@samuelronfard.bsky.social · 2y agoWe are excited to invite you to the pre-conference workshop, “Towards a developmental science of intellectual humility,” taking place before the 2025 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting. Wednesday, April 30th, 2025. Register at www.developingintellectualhumility.com/srcd-2025.
The Cognitive Development Society now has a Bluesky account!
The Cognitive Development Society (CDS)@cogdevsoc.bsky.social · 2y agoWelcome to our Bluesky community! We're excited to connect, share updates, and engage with you. Follow us and be part of the conversation!
Here's another one, trying to build from what we know about kids to provide advice on how parents might manage the Santa Claus myth.
Los Angeles Times@latimes.com · 2y agoWeighing when to tell your children about Santa? Don’t let them resort to Google. Here’s how you can do it without ruining the Christmas magic. www.latimes.com/california/s...
This is the first Christmas since our initial Santa article was published (doi.org/10.1037/dev0...), so @thaliargoldstein.bsky.social and I have had some opportunities this season to talk with reporters or see the project discussed in newsletters, articles, and blogs. This is a fun one!
Amos Wollen@goingawoll.bsky.social · 2y agoWhy it’s OK to lie about Santa Claus. 🧵 1/
APA allows editors to designate one manuscript from each issue for special recognition. Given the stellar work, this is one of the hardest & most challenging parts of the job. So, to finish up the calendar year, here are the 12 Editor's Choice Articles from 2024 in Developmental Psychology. 1/13
To celebrate deleting my twitter, I'm reposting some of my classic cognitive development memes from the other site. First, one of my all-time faves
Hello BlueSky! A quick intro for new folks: I'm a developmental psychologist interested in children's thinking and learning. Some ongoing studies are examining topics like early biological reasoning, parent explanation, intellectual humility, curiosity, and skepticism about Santa Claus.
if you are an NIH-funded investigator, or really just a person doing developmental science #psychscisky #neuroskyence in the states, you should be concerned about this proposal to eliminate the NICHD. take 5 minutes to write to NIHReform@mail.house.gov to voice your concern. Here's what I just sent
Pam Davis-Kean, PhD@umpamdk.bsky.social · 2y agoThere is a proposal to consolidate and change the names of the NIH Centers. They are requesting feedback on the proposal. Note the changes in NIA and NICHD which would dramatically change these Institutes. They note changes are to restore trust in science. energycommerce.house.gov/posts/chair-...
I am excited to share that my first first-author article was recently published in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology! If you would like to read it yourself, I will link it below, but I'll also share some of the highlights here.
The Think Lab will be at the Cognitive Development Society conference this week. Come visit us!
Finally got Bluesky running again on my computer and discovered this great news! Thanks to Koraly and the Developmental Psychology team, including several great reviewers, for helping us to improve our manuscript! More Santa research to come!
Koraly@drkoraly.bsky.social · 3y agoJanuary's Editor's Choice: Debunking the Santa myth: The process and aftermath of becoming skeptical about Santa. @candicemmills.bsky.social @thaliargoldstein.bsky.social Pallavi Kanumuru, Anthony J Monroe, @nataliequint3ro.bsky.social psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-...