1st book review! “Lombrozo unpacks the psychology of explanations in rich detail and sharply analyzes how explaining can help and hinder…The result is a fresh, engrossing take on an important aspect of human behavior.” 😀 www.publishersweekly.com/9780063395008

Why We Ask Why: The Science of Explanation and the Human Drive to Understand by Tania Lombrozo

People explain what they experience, feel, and encounter in order to understand the present and anticipate the future, according...

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Yale Psychology is hiring an Assistant Professor in Clinical Psychology! Review of applications will begin on September 2, 2026. Link: apply.interfolio.com/188806 Please share widely & apply!

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!

Had so much fun at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology last week! First talk of my life and it was an amazing experience! @socphilpsych.bsky.social #SPP2026

Can infants or other animals represent "mutually exclusive possibilities"? In a new paper in JEP:G, we argue for specifying: in thinking or seeing? We show that in object perception (shared with infants and many animals), the answer is yes. (w Peter Mazalik & Roman Feiman) osf.io/preprints/ps... /1

💥New paper alert! Dyadic Decisions About Effort: How Caregivers Shape Young Children’s Persistence (with @reutshachnai.bsky.social) One of my favorites! If you’re curious about what we’ve been up to in @leonardlearnlab.bsky.social, take a look! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Who is the Big Tobacco of today? In new work, we find 50% of high profile social media papers are connected to big tech through funding, collaboration and employment. Most connections aren't disclosed. @jbakcoleman.bsky.social @jevinwest.bsky.social @carlbergstrom.com 1 arxiv.org/abs/2601.11507

Industry Influence in High-Profile Social Media Research

To what extent is social media research independent from industry influence? Leveraging openly available data, we show that half of the research published in top journals has disclosable ties to indus...

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A common problem w/ studies testing non-WEIRD groups is they compare multiple groups using the same WEIRD measure. How can we compare groups w/ apples-apples measures w/o distorting cross-cultural differences? We explore this in this new paper! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The Development of Morality and Conventionality Across Cultures: Implementing a Two‐Stage Model for Cross‐Cultural Research

Establishing a shared sense of right and wrong is an essential milestone for human cooperation, raising the question of whether a universal set of moral intuitions exists. However, tests of universa.....

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Are you a US-based PhD student WITHOUT summer funding who is interested in adolescent development, trans youth, and/or gender? Reach out to me about applying to join my lab in Summer 2026 for the VIPS program! psych.princeton.edu/diversity/vi...

🎉 Excited to share our new paper “Children infer social group attitudes from evaluative behavioral information but do not extend them to unfamiliar group members.” in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology: 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2025.106401

Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird. (he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...

I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird

YouTube video by Benn Jordan

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Happy to announce that my lab @ Yale Psychology (actcompthink.org) will be accepting PhD applications this year (for start in Fall '26)! Come for the fun experiments on human learning, memory, & skilled behavior, stay for the best 🍕 in the US. Please reach out if you have any questions!

A new piece - well, almost a whole book! - by our team, reflecting more than a decade of work.

Society for Research in Child Development@srcdorg.bsky.social · last yr.

💙 SRCD is pleased to announce the latest Monograph on gender identities and sexual orientation across childhood and adolescence. Read the full issue here: srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Updated preprint with Zephyr Weinreich, @yarrowdunham.bsky.social, and @ericman.bsky.social showing that implicit attitudes are not only sensitive to negation; they even reflect the distinction between easy-to-negate bipolar and difficult-to-negate unipolar adjectives: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Benedek Kurdi@benedek.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨🚨🚨 Preprint with Zephyr Weinreich, @yarrowdunham.bsky.social, and @ericman.bsky.social in which we show that implicit attitudes are not only sensitive to negation; they even reflect the distinction between easy-to-negate bipolar and difficult-to-negate unipolar adjectives: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Trans rights are human rights. Trans people of all ages deserve the right and access to healthcare. Protect trans youth.

Since 1954, "The Handbook of Social Psychology" has been the field’s most authoritative reference work, and today is the launch of the 6th edition with 50 new chapters by 100 leading scholars. Best news? The HSP is now an open-access public resource—free to read, download, and share. the-hsp.com

🚨 I’m hiring a full-time lab manager to help me build my lab start in July or August 2025! 🚨 If you know any stellar candidates who might be interested, please send this their way. 🗓 Application review begins April 15 ⏰ Final deadline is April 25 📎 Apply here ➡️ lnkd.in/evhfqzTP

Excited to share a new paper on children's third-party punishment across societies. This was a big collaborative effort and I'm so grateful to my wonderful co-authors for their contributions to this project. Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s44... Blog: communities.springernature.com/posts/childr...

Across six societies children engage in costly third-party punishment of unfair sharing - Communications Psychology

Third-party punishment of unfair sharing is a hallmark of a normative concern for fairness in adults. Here, children in Canada, India, Peru, Uganda, USA, and Vanuatu show this same normative concern b...

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🚨🚨🚨 Preprint with Zephyr Weinreich, @yarrowdunham.bsky.social, and @ericman.bsky.social in which we show that implicit attitudes are not only sensitive to negation; they even reflect the distinction between easy-to-negate bipolar and difficult-to-negate unipolar adjectives: osf.io/preprints/ps...

The Manybabies4 paper is out! Infants' Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large-Scale, Multi-Lab, Coordinated Replication Study onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... 1000 babies tested in 37 labs; "Overall, 49.34% of infants preferred Helpers over Hinderers in the social condition"

Infants’ Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large‐Scale, Multi‐Lab, Coordinated Replication Study

Evaluating whether someone's behavior is praiseworthy or blameworthy is a fundamental human trait. A seminal study by Hamlin and colleagues in 2007 suggested that the ability to form social evaluatio...

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Overparenting is on the rise and hurts children’s motivation starting in early childhood. How can we help parents step back? Our new paper in Child Dev shows that pointing out learning opportunities reduces overparenting. srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

<em>Child Development</em> | SRCD Journal | Wiley Online Library

Overparenting—taking over and completing developmentally appropriate tasks for children—is pervasive and hurts children's motivation. Can overparenting in early childhood be reduced by simply framing...

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Come see members of the Social Cognitive Development Lab at Yale present their work at #CDS2024! Go Team!

My lab is recruiting undergraduates for a *funded* summer internship for June & July to assist with projects in social cognitive development! Details at www.socialcogdev.com/join-us

I'm recruiting a full-time lab programmer/lab manager. Please share the ad widely. Questions can be sent to [lastname][at]illinois[dot]edu. illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

hi #psychscisky #neuroskyence I will be hiring a postdoc in 2024, to work on auditory perception here in Auckland NZ 🇳🇿 info about the lab at themusiclab.org apply at tinyurl.com/musiclab-pos...

Yale has a unique program in which students can get a Combined PhD in Psychology and Philosophy The admissions process for this program is pretty counterintuitive in certain respects, so I wrote up an informal explainer about how to apply Application deadline: December 1

Notes on Applying to the Combined Program

How to Apply to Yale's Combined Program in Philosophy and Psychology The application process for Yale's philosophy/psychology combined program is a bit counterintuitive, so I thought it might be help...

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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-...

Meltem Yucel (@drmeltemyucel.bsky.social) just won SPSPs Emerging Scholar award! Recently, she found that young children (between ~4 & ~8) do not perceive distributional fairness as a moral norm. Nor is it obviously conventional. psycnet.apa.org/record/2022-... #socialpsyc #PsychSciSky

Need more convincing that ASFP is worth YOUR time? Dr @yarrowdunham.bsky.social thinks it is - read what he has to share below!

ASFP@asfp.io · 3y ago

Editing with ASFP is fun and easy, and the impact is BIG. Join faculty editors like Dr. Yarrow Dunham! Complete the brief editor interest form and we'll email you when registration opens this Sunday: forms.gle/R8Lb1VE1UedM... #psychscisky @yarrowdunham.bsky.social