I'm excited my commentary to @ashleyjthomas.bsky.social theory paper on infant representations of relationships is out! I, with Amanda Woodward, propose a novel relationship account of the infant resource distribution literature aligned with Thomas's core argument: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Hi everyone! My paper on cognitive representations of relationships and their developmental origins is finally out! I had a blast responding to the commentary and was honored to be able to engage with people who laid the foundation for my research program. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

I'm doubly excited to share this paper! Not only is it a project I'm proud of, but it's also my first first-author publication! Check out the results below.

Jessica Sommerville@jessicas.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Stoked to share our new lab pub led by the amazing @normanjzeng.bsky.social ! After watching multi-party agent events, infants expect agents to preserve their moral "role" in a resource distribution task. Indiv. variability predicted by infants' social contact. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Out in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social with @jaeminhwang.bsky.social, David Sobel (@candmlab.bsky.social), and @jessicas.bsky.social! Most studies of infants’ fairness expectations focus on resource distribution, but in everyday life, we engage in many different kinds of resource exchanges.

The Toronto Early Cognition Lab is headed to Pasadena for CDS next week! Come check out our work 😊 normanjzeng.bsky.social elainewang.bsky.social jessicas.bsky.social