Ny Vasil

Professor of psychology studying the development of reasoning about the complex interactions shaping the natural and social world.

[Kate Ritchie @kateritch]

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[Kate Ritchie @kateritch]

Our workshop on Genericity, Stability, and Structural Interactions will be held in Oakland this weekend! Keynote talks by Samia Hesni (BU) and Mahesh Srinivasan (Berkeley). We (@NyVasil and the UCI and CSUEB team) would love to see you there! (flyer with more info below)

[Kate Ritchie @kateritch]

Keep an eye out for upcoming project workshops and events in the next three years! And please get in touch with us if you’re interested or doing related work! ❤️

[Kate Ritchie @kateritch]

We’re excited to engage with work by so many, incl. James Woodward, Susan Gelman, @TaniaLombrozo, @marjorie_rhodes, @AndreiCimpian, Thomas Blanchard, @xphilosopher, @ahbailey04, @sterkenr, @EleonoreNeufeld, @PeretzLange, Alexander Noyes, @yarrowdunham, @JamieAmemiya…

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We’ll also be offering personalized mentoring and training in research methods to a diverse and inclusive group of undergraduate and grad students at @UCIrvine and @CSUEBnews

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(iii) affect interpretation and representation of regularities resulting in potential for (mis)communication in education and across political divides.

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(ii) also be flexible and restricted to a more specific social structural “bubble”. E.g., “Waiters earn tips” holds in the US today, and

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(i) be affected by the stability of a regularity across changes in times, places, and other circumstances. E.g., “Bears have fur” holds across locations, time periods, etc.

[Kate Ritchie @kateritch]

Using methods and theories from several Cog Sci disciplines, our research will explore how generalizations, stereotypes, and generic language across development can…

[Kate Ritchie @kateritch]

🚨@NyVasil and I are excited to share that we’ve been awarded a 3-year @NSF grant! We’ll be studying the developmental trajectory of how people learn, represent, and talk about generalizable regularities across social & natural domains 🧵