New paper with @samuelronfard.bsky.social on learning from disagreement! Children and adults prefer learning from people who agree with them, despite recommending that others seek disagreement. We also explore how to increase interest in disagreement. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

How to Increase Children's and Adults’ Interest in Learning From Disagreement

We often avoid talking to people who disagree with us, missing potentially valuable learning opportunities. Across four preregistered studies, we examined children's (6–11 years) and adults’ interes...

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Can 3-6 year-olds distinguish between reliable vs. unreliable informants? A study of 93 #kids found the children were sensitive to source reliability, with limited abilities to generalize across contexts. doi.org/10.1016/j.je... #devPsych #cogSci #epistemology #xPhi #parenting

🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Nonverbal rationality? 2-year-old children, dogs, and pigs show unselective responses to unreliability but to different degrees Open access here: doi.org/10.1111/cdev...

Come talk to @feceozkan.bsky.social after her Reasoning talk session & @khblakey.bsky.social @normanjzeng.bsky.social & I during our posters today to hear about our epic journey to Ithaca!

UofT psych gets to #SPP2025: Public transit down, first car rental broke down 700m after leaving, endured flash floods in upstate NY. We finally made it (11 hours later!)

New paper! We develop a framework for understanding how reflective belief revision could emerge from unreflective responses to evidence, integrating epistemology and developmental psychology. Epistemic Rationality Begins Unreflectively link.springer.com/article/10.1... #DevPsych #Epistemology

Epistemic Rationality Begins Unreflectively - Erkenntnis

Recent research in analytic epistemology suggests that one can form a rational belief without being in the position to identify and assess the evidence in its support. The reach of such unreflective r...

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Check us out at #SRCD tomorrow! Great work led by @feceozkan.bsky.social and @khblakey.bsky.social

Excited to be organizing this symposium with @samuelronfard.bsky.social's support! 😊 Check out our session #SRCD25, Friday, 11.30 am, and hear from Joshua Confer, @anahidmodrek.bsky.social, and @lucaspbutler.bsky.social! @janengelmann.bsky.social

🚨RT! The Social & Cognitive Origins group at @jhuartssciences.bsky.social (social-cognitive-origins.com), directed by Dr. Christopher Krupenye, is recruiting a full-time research assistant or lab manager to begin Summer 2025. The position has a one-year minimum, w/ the possibility of extension. 1/

New paper! Children’s sharing is influenced by factors like others' need and reputation, but research has typically examined these factors in isolation. This study explores how different combinations of need and reputation affect costly sharing decisions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Children consider others’ need and reputation in costly sharing decisions - Scientific Reports

Scientific Reports - Children consider others’ need and reputation in costly sharing decisions

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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 ago

We 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.

We 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.

Have you ever wondered what’s your optimal mood for staying focused? 🤔 Our new paper in @Developmental Psychology explores how children and adults think about this question (w/ Brandon Goulding and @samuelronfard.bsky.social ) doi.org/10.1037/dev0... Here is what we found...👀 🧵1/6

Past and current Stirling Uni folk #ASAB2023