Yale is hiring in developmental psychology (open rank )! We're especially interested in complementing and broadening our area, including via somewhat less traditionally central such as cross-cultural and comparative approaches. Feel free to reach out with questions!

"Zoo settings don't just remove confounds — they create new ones." A paper worth reading. goo.gl/scholar/FT8aKg @zannaclay.bsky.social @levedacheng.bsky.social eng.bsky.social @janengelmann.bsky.social @ctennie.bsky.social @northernlimitpt.bsky.social @romanwittig.bsky.social @lirsamuni.bsky.social

Which factors are more vs. less important in predicting memory? We systematically investigated the contributions of image memorability, valence, arousal, attention, and test delay. Image memorability was the strongest predictor of memory. Proud of this work led by @hartwakeland.bsky.social!

My supervisor Kano is advertising multiple open positions! Check out the doc :) Open Positions @ Kyushu Univ (Kano Lab) Postdoc / Tech staff / PhD-MSc Eye-gaze & social cognition (exp + field + CV) 🎥 youtu.be/rXT-yjQzJxU 📁 docs.google.com/document/d/1... @animalopps.bsky.social

groupdemo kyushu 04132026

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What are children's *naturalistic* everyday experiences like? Nele's paper presents a crucial resource (100+h of 🎥 w/ annotations) that will help us to build the tools we need to study what it's like to be a child in the wild. 🙏to @jacobsfoundation.bsky.social @maxplanck.de @dfg.de for funding!

Nele-Pauline Suffo@nelesuffo.bsky.social · 4mo ago

I am excited to share my first publication in Behavior Research Methods! 🚀 We’ve released ChildLens: 109 hours of open-access, annotated egocentric video/audio from children (ages 3–5). Paper: rdcu.be/fdfAI

It took 3 years to complete this paper and it was difficult(!) but I think both @ctennie.bsky.social and I are grateful for the varied perspectives we gained as a result of this collaboration. If you work on ape culture, hopefully you'll feel the same doi.org/10.1017/ehs.... [Opens in a new window]

Brokering peace in the ape (culture) wars | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge Core

Brokering peace in the ape (culture) wars - Volume 8

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Mindscape 346 | Erica Cartmill on How Human and Animal Minds Think and Play. #MindscapePodcast www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2026...

Far too long in the making.. but finally out in #AnimalBehaviour @asab.org: Orang-utans and chimpanzees #cooperate strategically based on the partner’s incentives. doi.org/10.1016/j.an... w/ @elisafelsche.bsky.social , Josep Call & @federicorossano.bsky.social

New article out exploring great ape name recognition! We find partial evidence that zoo-living chimps & bonobos know each other's names 👀 Huge thanks to Animal Behavior and Cognition (a great open-access journal) & co-authors for your collaboration!🎉🐵 unsvr1.com/web/abc/work...

Do Great Apes Know Each Other's Names? Probing Great Ape Comprehension of Social Vocal Labels — Animal Behavior and Cognition

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🚨From Joshua Confer, Allison Champ, Dorsa Amir, Hanna Schleihauf & Jan Engelmann: Group membership biases children’s evaluation of evidence

Group membership biases children’s evaluation of evidence - Nature Communications

People often form beliefs and reason about evidence as members of social groups. Here, the authors show that group membership biases even young children’s evaluation of evidence, leading them to adopt...

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People form beliefs not only as individual agents, but as members of social groups. Children (4-6 years old) who belonged to a group were more convinced by evidence that supported their ingroup’s belief (and were less convinced by evidence that opposed their ingroup): www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Thrilled to share our latest paper, out now in Science Advances! We explored the development of cooperative behaviors — fairness, trustworthiness, forgiveness, & honesty —  across five societies, culturally contextualizing them & seeing how they correlate. (1/5) www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Why do otherwise rational people disagree about the same evidence? Our new paper finds that group membership is a deeply rooted influence on how we form beliefs, leading even preschoolers to bias their evidential standards and form inaccurate beliefs. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Imagination in bonobos! I am thrilled to share a new paper w/ Amalia Bastos, out now in @science.org We provide the first experimental evidence that a nonhuman animal can follow along a pretend scenario & track imaginary objects. Work w/ Kanzi, the bonobo, at Ape Initiative youtu.be/NUSHcQQz2Ko

Apes Share Human Ability to Imagine

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Thank you so much @evolutionsoup.bsky.social for talking to me about our recent research on chimpanzee belief revision and metacognition! www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-li...

The Chimpanzee Metacognition Experiment ~ with PROFESSOR JAN ENGELMANN

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Excited to share this work done with @alex-primate.bsky.social and Daniel Haun @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social (the first publication from my PhD!), where we found that chimpanzees sustained a collective resource for longer in groups of four compared to dyads rdcu.be/e0qPR

Iain Douglas-Hamilton was a champion for elephants 🐘 & one of the inspirations for my own research. He was among the 1st to study ele social behaviour & it was his life's work to protect them Sending my condolences to all the friends & family during this sad time www.bbc.com/news/article...

Iain Douglas-Hamilton, pioneering elephant conservationist, dies aged 83

His groundbreaking field research was instrumental in banning the international ivory trade and protecting elephants from poachers.

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🔔 New paper out on Social evaluation of skill and competence in primates @mariehirel.bsky.social, @williamohearn.bsky.social and @julxf.bsky.social made this happen www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Social evaluation of skill and competence in primates

Social life is a continuous interplay of observing and interacting with conspecifics, predicting their behavior, and responding to their actions. This…

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Come work with me on cognitive diversity, development & dynamics in beautiful Amherst, Massachusetts! Graduate student applications are due a week from today. cognitiveconstructionlab.com

Benjamin Pitt@benjaminpitt.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I’ll be considering graduate school applications for Fall 2026 – positions are fully funded, typically for 5 years. Deadline to apply to the Cognition program is December 1. Come do science with me in beautiful Amherst, Massachusetts! www.umass.edu/natural-scie...

Fully funded #PhDposition in Comparative Cultural Psychology @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social. We will use touchscreen experiments & eyetracking to study mental simulations in nonhuman apes & human children across different cultures. All info here: www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit... Please share / apply!🙏

Positions available - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

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Are humans the only rational animals? For thousands of years, we’ve thought so. Our new paper, out today in Science, suggests otherwise! We present evidence that chimpanzees possess several core capacities for rational thought. Check out Emily's thread: bsky.app/profile/emil...

Emily M. Sanford@emilymsanford.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵

Are humans really the only rational animals? Our NEW PAPER 🎉 out in @science.org suggests otherwise! In a large collaboration led with my joint first author @hanna-schleihauf.bsky.social, we show that “Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs” 🧵

Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs

The selective revision of beliefs in light of new evidence has been considered one of the hallmarks of human-level rationality. However, tests of this ability in other species are lacking. We examined...

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Dr. Jane made an indelible mark on our understanding of chimpanzees and other species, and also of humankind and the environments we all share. She inspired curiosity, hope, and compassion in countless people, and paved the way for many others. #ThankYouJane #RememberingJane Photo: Marko Zlousic

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"A signaling theory of self-handicapping" 📢New from: @yangxiang.bsky.social @gershbrain.bsky.social @tobigerstenberg.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A signaling theory of self-handicapping

People use various strategies to bolster the perception of their competence. One strategy is self-handicapping, by which people deliberately impede th…

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I’m hiring!! 🎉 Looking for a full-time Lab Manager to help launch the Minds, Experiences, and Language Lab at Stanford. We’ll use all-day language recording, eye tracking, & neuroimaging to study how kids & families navigate unequal structural constraints. Please share: phxc1b.rfer.us/STANFORDWcqUYo

Research Coordinator, Minds, Experiences, and Language Lab in Graduate School of Education, Stanford, California, United States

The Stanford Graduate School of Education (GSE) seeks a full-time Research Coordinator (acting lab manager) to help launch and coordinate the Minds,.....

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💙New paper!💙 How is knowledge transmitted across generations in a foraging society? With @danielredhead.bsky.social we found: In BaYaka foragers, long-term skills pass in smaller, sparser networks, while short-term food info circulates broadly & reciprocally academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

Transmission networks of long-term and short-term knowledge in a foraging society

Abstract. Cultural transmission across generations is key to cumulative cultural evolution. While several mechanisms—such as vertical, horizontal, and obli

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Update: the deadline for the Biological Basis of Behavior has been extended to Sept 18th! ✨ aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05054 Please reach out to Linda Wilbrecht if you have any questions about the position.

Assistant Professor - Biological Basis of Behavior - Department of Psychology

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Amitai Shenhav@ashenhav.bsky.social · 12mo ago

These job ads have now been posted! 🎉 Social/Personality: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05020 Biological Basis of Behavior: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05054 Please spread the word!

My comment on Fillipo Torresan & @manuelbaltieri.bsky.social's "Disentangled representations for causal cognition" in Physics of Life Reviews: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... I argue that there is little meaningful analogy between learning from "pixels" vs "experience," but I praise

Disanalogies between causal learning in animals vs. machines: Comment on “disentangled representations for causal cognition” by F. Torresan & M. Baltieri

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