Andrew Shtulman

Professor, cognitive developmental psychologist, and author of SCIENCEBLIND (Basic) and LEARNING TO IMAGINE (Harvard). I love academic bureaucracy and sarcasm.

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Learning to Imagine: The Science of Discovering New Possibilities (https://t.co/TuJ9gWBlmu) is coming out Nov. 14!

To celebrate, I will be posting an image and caption from each chapter over the next several days. Here’s the table of contents to start things off.

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New article alert! https://t.co/pLm00R3TDB
Children are able to differentiate fake news from real news even before exposure to fake news on social media. This ability improves with age & even more so with cognitive reflection or the disposition to question an initial intuition.

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Do you think kids can tell the difference between what’s real and what’s not better than adults? In our latest episode, @Occidental’s Andrew Shtulman joined host @MollyThomasTV to talk about how kids can fall prey to misinformation.

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"PhD student finds lost city in Mexico jungle by accident"

So does that count as 1 of his 3 papers or all 3?

https://t.co/3CjmBRGldW

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Thank you, @ucicogsci and @nadia_chernyak, for inviting me to speak about the development of cognitive reflection. I have lots of ideas for new studies after that stimulating Q&A!

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I don't think that word means what you think it means.

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Is nature a peaceable kingdom or red in tooth & claw?

In this new Science & Education paper we show that students who hold overly benevolent views of nature demonstrate lower levels of evolution understanding independent of other biological knowledge.

https://t.co/UoL6jgYn7c

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That’s my boy!

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Princeton 17, MIT 4 | 7:24 Q4

FIRST CAREER GOAL FOR TEDDY🚨

💻https://t.co/OTHIRU39DY

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Princeton 17, MIT 4 | 7:24 Q4

FIRST CAREER GOAL FOR TEDDY🚨

💻https://t.co/OTHIRU39DY

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Cognitive reflection predicts children's science understanding but does it also predict domain-general scientific reasoning?

Yes! Andrew Young & I find that cognitively reflective children are better at evaluating covariation data independent of age & EF

https://t.co/uifabX02bS

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The Dept. of Psychology at @Occidental College is searching for two Assistant Professors of Clinical Psychology. If you have a PhD in Psychology and do research in an area with clinical applications, please consider applying! https://t.co/lZ5Brxw29O

The deadline is October 1.

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Shame on you, @npr. At last night’s #debate2024 an angry, incoherent felon denied he lost the 2020 election, fawned over dictators, and claimed immigrants are eating pets. And your 30-second summary this morning was “they both made good points about the economy.”

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Even more improbable.

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How improbable

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Another successful @Occidental Summer Research Program. Students like these make research so much fun!

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Congratulations, Dr. @RuiWang_623, on an excellent PhD thesis and an excellent viva! I was delighted to participate as an external examiner, even from afar. @elle_phd @Sander_vdLinden @CamEdFac @Cambridge_Uni

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@paulbloomatyale “Even a blind pig sometimes finds a truffle.” Whoa—them’s fighting words!

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Wonderful new work by Jenny Nissel and colleagues.

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Replicating a developmental trend originally found by @andrewshtulman & Susan Carey, US children became increasingly likely to judge improbable events possible with age. Chinese children’s possibility judgments followed a different pattern…

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It's book release day!!! (Although you could have ordered & received a copy for a few weeks now). "Why Theatre Education Matters: Understanding its Cognitive, Social, and Emotional Benefits" is now officially out in the world. (https://t.co/2UxGeHSBiE)🧵 (More trapeze below, too)

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@hnabavi1 My lab doesn't do any neuroscience but neurons are involved in thinking, of course. And neurons are way cooler than someone holding their chin looking toward the sky.

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One of my RAs decided we need a lab logo, and I love what she came up with.

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I can practically hear the chorus of palms slapping foreheads at that lab meeting.