🚨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...

A few weeks ago, I presented a poster at the Society for Philosophy & Psychology at Cornell University on my work titled, "Unlike Father, Like Son: The End of History Illusion Across Generations." #SPP2025 @socphilpsych.bsky.social 1/3🧵

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

“I like preregistration for science for the same reason that architects like to build scale models before designing the building. Preregistration helps me form my expectations, allows me to make more reasonable design choices, and makes it easier for me to be surprised in useful ways.” (in comment)

Why I like preregistration (and it’s not about p-hacking). When done right, it unifies the substance of science with the scientific method. statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2025/01/16/w...

New paper in Cognitive Psychology with first author Vivian Liu! We investigate U.S. children's and adults' perceptions of discrimination. authors.elsevier.com/c/1kEp32Hxod...

Age related improvements between 5- and 8-years-old in understanding that emotions can cause intrusive thoughts and that those intrusive thoughts make it harder to pay attention and learn.

Luis de la Viña@ldelavina.bsky.social · 2y ago

In their verbal responses, children and adults mention motivation at similar rates. However, with increasing age, children are more likely to reference intrusive thoughts as a source of distraction (e.g., “She will be thinking about what made her happy instead of listening to the teacher”). 🧵 5/6

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