As I prepare to watch my kid compete at the @naqt.com tournament, I’m excited to share this piece I wrote about how trivia competitions can help teens (and everyone) retain cognitive skills as we increasingly outsource our thinking to technology. www.ajc.com/opinion/2026...

Quiz Bowl and trivia challenges strengthen teens’ brains in the AI era

The students competing at the Quiz Bowl National Championship in Atlanta will demonstrate how we can retain the knowledge and skills that make us human and have fun doing so.

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Come join the University of Louisville KID lab members for science and socializing at the Cognitive Development Society meeting in Montreal this week!

Another fantastic paper by my stellar former grad student @laurengh.bsky.social in which we show that one of the reasons kids as young as age 4 trust Google is because it is familiar to them.

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🚨 Out now in Child Development! We asked 4- to 8-year-old children about getting answers from Google and a teacher. By age 6, children endorsed Google’s ability to answer correctly more often and believed that Google would also be better at answering questions about the world around them.

🚨 Out now in Child Development! We asked 4- to 8-year-old children about getting answers from Google and a teacher. By age 6, children endorsed Google’s ability to answer correctly more often and believed that Google would also be better at answering questions about the world around them.

“I’ve seen Google before!”: Young children's intuitions about Google's capabilities

Abstract. Google Search is a popular tool for acquiring information online, but little is known about children's trust in search engines. Across two studie

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Check out these TWO new tenure-track positions open in Psychology at UofL! (and please reach out with questions) Quantitative Methods (Open Area): uofl.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UofLCa... Learning & Memory: uofl.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UofLCa...

🚨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...

Short rant with question at end: I agreed to write a review for a journal I had never reviewed for before and was given only 2 weeks to do it. The manuscript was directly based on several of my papers and I spent hours working on a detailed review. (1/4)

I'm excited to be teaching a grad writing course this fall based on Barbara Sarnecka's The Writing Workshop book. Would anyone out there who has done this be willing to share their syllabus? I'm looking for ideas on how to plan a 14 week session, and other good writing resources for my students.

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