Job alert! @brandonwoo.bsky.social and I are searching for a new lab manager. We are excited to add a new member to our awesome community of soc cog dev researchers! Spread the word :) Full ad here: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF03106

Junior Specialist, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences

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New paper with Ben Morris and Alex Shaw out last week in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social! We find that children are sensitive to who has better evidence when evaluating how people behave in disagreements. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 1/3

Calibrated deference: Children's evaluations of responses to disagreement across knowledge gaps

Declaring that you are right or wrong is not merely a factual matter, but often a deeply social decision about when to own up to the limits of your kn…

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Spread the word: I'm looking to recruit a PhD student for Fall 2026 to @ucsb.bsky.social! Reach out if you are applying this cycle and hoping to study infant and child social cognition, specifically expectations about friendship and/or groups. Bonus: live in paradise! And.. 1/3

Check out @lizquinnjensen.bsky.social's paper on the Comparative Status Hypothesis: we find that the social identity of a person's competitor shifts whether that person is seen as a likely victim of discrimination. We hope our work broadens focus beyond the victim-perpetrator dyad

Liz Quinn-Jensen@lizquinnjensen.bsky.social · last yr.

Excited that this paper is finally out (in collaboration with @zoeliberman.bsky.social @saraburke.bsky.social & Brenda Major) in PSPB! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Big congrats to @rthompkins.bsky.social on this paper! Happy to finally see this out in the world. Our work builds on findings from @juliamarshall.bsky.social on the impact of social relationships on moral expectations, with a focus on how children think about lying and liars.

Rodney Tompkins@rtompkins.bsky.social · last yr.

New paper with past honors student Vanessa Chao and @zoeliberman.bsky.social in press at JECP: “Children can consider social relationships when evaluating liars” By the early elementary school years, people judge it as worse and meaner for a friend (vs. classmate) to lie. doi.org/10.1016/j.je...

🧪 Ranking member Lofgren and 11 other House dems sent a fiery 7-page letter to acting NSF director today "The cancelation of these awards suggests instead that NSF is willing to apply political censorship of awards under direction from President Trump and the DOGE teenagers" Share widely #SaveNSF

Its Give Day @ucsb.bsky.social! Support the Development + Evolution area in establishing a graduate student award! Our students work so hard, and we want to recognize them -- any amount helps: ucsb.scalefunder.com/gday/giving-.... 🚨Please check “in honor of” and write: PBS DEVO Area🚨 #devpsych

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Interested in children's developing understanding of linguistic register? Check out a new paper-- led by past undergraduate lab member, Ishaan Ambrish (currently working with Ariel Starr at UW) and grad student @shreyasodhi.bsky.social

Social Development@socialdevelopment.bsky.social · last yr.

Just out in Social Development! Ambrish et al show that children use features of speech to determine who a speaker is addressing. Both mono- and bilingual children like people who they believed spoke “correctly”. @zoeliberman.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

Happy New Year!! So thrilled to share this preprint (Kara Weisman, Lucy King, and I worked on this for 8+ yrs): "Beliefs about the development of mental life" Read to find an interesting story on how people perceive different domains of capacities changing from birth to age 5 yrs. osf.io/kq4j7

trying out some physics on Sora, OpenAI's video-creation-from-text-tool. Here is "a blue block falling on a green sphere"

Interested in how children think about immigrants? 🚨 New work led by @shreyasodhi.bsky.social 🚨 We find that children expect immigrants to have a dual identity--to be similar to both people from their host and heritage cultures #devpsych srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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

Children in the United States (N = 488, 4–11 years, 239 females, 248 males, one other, 53% White; data collected 2021–2022) participated in three studies investigating their expectations about immigr...

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Congrats to @lizquinnjensen.bsky.social on both a new paper on judgements based on (racial) identity claims, and on a beautiful write up of her work for the @spspnews.bsky.social Character & Context Blog

Liz Quinn-Jensen@lizquinnjensen.bsky.social · 2y ago

Check out this blog post I wrote about my most recent publication with @zoeliberman.bsky.social spsp.org/news/charact...

Applications are now open (through Feb. 16th) for our NSF REU Site on the Scientific Study of Interpersonal Relationships across the Lifespan. If you know of an undergraduate scholar interested in relationships research broadly, send them our way! undergradresearch.missouri.edu/interpersona...

NSF REU Site: Scientific Study of Interpersonal Relationships Across the Lifespan

The scientific study of interpersonal relationships over the lifespan is important to our broader understanding of the human experience. These relationships begin with our earliest interactions and…

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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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🎉IAS is recruiting🎉 UCSB Integrative Anth Sciences is hiring a tenure-track evo anthropologist (assist/assoc prof): Apply by 1/06/25 To apply: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02866 Please retweet! Estimate: Assist:$95,000-$135,000 & Assoc:$120,000-$180,000. UCSB is an AA/EOE, including disability/vets.

Assistant/Associate Professor in Evolutionary Anthropology/Anthropology of Health

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The Visual Learning Lab at UC San Diego is looking for a postdoctoral research fellow to join our lab! Read more about our lab at www.vislearnlab.org

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Lab webpage for the Visual Learning Lab at UCSD, lead by Dr. Bria Long, Ph.D. Launching in July 2024!

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Hi everyone! I am looking for PhD students to join my (new) Lab for Infant Learning and Cognition (LILAC) at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Learn more about us here: sites.google.com/ucsb.edu/lilac Application info here: psych.ucsb.edu/prospective-.... Deadline is December 1st 👶🪴

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a moving example of haka (arguably a form of music) used in political protest, in NZ parliament also, since I like the science of this, also shows why "music bonds the group together" fundamentally misconstrues the behavior in question. it's not warm & fuzzy, haka is sending a clear message here !

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this rules 🇳🇿 #nzpol

I am hoping to recruit a Ph.D. student to join our Social Injustice and Social Change research group at UC Santa Barbara in Fall 2025! You can more information about the position, about our team, and about our research on our website. sisc.psych.ucsb.edu/posts/recrui...

📢 New job alert: The Dept. of Psychological & Brain Sciences at UCSB is hiring a new Director for our Brain Imaging Center! Join us in sunny Santa Barbara and please help spread the word! (Full Professor position—due by Dec 2) 🧠 🌊 recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02858

Brain Imaging Center Director, Psychological & Brain Sciences

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Hiring a postdoc to study exciting questions about humans' early understanding of the social world :) Required text: The Liberman Lab is hiring a Postdoc. Apply at recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02748 by May 22. A reasonable estimate for this position is $64,480- $77,327. UCSB is an AA/EOE, including vets

📣 Seeking PhD applicants passionate about fMRI, EEG, & data science to study race/ethnicity & religion effects on how we see ourselves & world around us. We’re a supportive & hard-working lab committed to open science. Applications due 12/1. Still time to apply — spread the word! spl.psych.ucsb.edu

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-...

Hello! 👋🏽 Come be my colleague at Duke! We are hiring a TT developmental psychologist at the early or late assistant professor stage with a preference for basic processes of cognitive and/or social development. Review starts 12/1! #PsychSciSky #PsychJob academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25972

We are hiring in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience at UIUC Psychology . Posting here too in case you missed it.

🚨Job Alert x2! UCSD Psych has two assistant professor openings this year: 1. Computational approaches to understanding behavior and/or its neural mechanisms. apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03684 2. Social psych, broadly defined. apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03683 Apply for either (or both?) by November 7th!