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marjorie rhodes

@marjorierhodes.bsky.social

I do developmental cognitive science at nyu; interested in social cognition, conceptual development, science for social change, and language and thought

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Marianna Zhang @mariannazhang.bsky.social · last yr.

📣 new paper! people use some categories to generalize (e.g., we generalize something we learn about one tiger 🐯 to other tigers 🐅), but not others (e.g., we don't generalize from one pedestrian 🚶 to other pedestrians 🚶‍♂️). how do people learn what categories allow for generalization? 🧵

continuum of inductive potential from low (relatively minimal categories whose members are dissimilar) to high (coherent meaningful categories whose members are similar) above a cartoon child. an icon of a tiger appears under "high" inductive potential, with "closes eyes when happy" appearing as a feature of a tiger in a zoo, with an arrow pointing to the tiger icon, and a dashed arrow extending it to a tiger on a savanna. an icon of a pedestrian appears under "low" inductive potential, with "closes eyes when happy" appearing as a feature of a woman on a street, with Xs over arrows pointing to the pedestrian icon, and to a different pedestrian.

Edouard Machery @edouardmachery.bsky.social · 3y ago

SPP abstracts for the 50th Anniversary Meeting are due in one month, with a great lineup of speakers and events!

debkelemen @debkelemen.bsky.social · 3y ago

Still stunned that @levelsof.bsky.social and I got this "band" back together for a CDS preconf. CDS registration opens soon so register quick while seats last! 🙏🙏to Susan Gelman, Larry Hirschfeld, Scott Atran, Susan Carey, Alison Gopnik, Paul Harris, Frank Keil, Alan Leslie, Liz Spelke Henry Wellman

Paul Bloom @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social · 3y ago

My thoughts on AI alignment. In the @newyorkers.bsky.social www.newyorker.com/science/anna...

Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social · 3y ago

Out today! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Chaz Firestone@chazfirestone.bsky.social · 3y ago

Can you tell, just by looking, what someone else is trying to learn? For my first bluesky post, I'd love to highlight a new paper by Sholei Croom on *epistemic action understanding*! Paper is @ philpapers.org/rec/CROSAU But the magic is really in the demos! perceptionresearch.org/epistemicaction

A figure laying out an "epistemic action understanding" task. The left panel shows (a cartoon depiction of) someone being filmed shaking a box, trying to determine either how many objects are inside, or the shapes of the objects inside. The right panel shows the task: Naive observers have to watch videos of the person shaking the box and guess which video shows which task ("Which is number? "Which is shape?").

Rodney Tompkins @rtompkins.bsky.social · 3y ago

Reposting here! New paper with @ktvasq.bsky.social, Emily Gerdin, @yarrowdunham.bsky.social, and @zoeliberman.bsky.social in JEP: General: "Expectations of intergroup empathy bias emerge by early childhood" psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-...