The Child Lab

The Child Lab does science with parents and children via online video chat. It is run by Prof. Frank Keil's Cognition and Development Lab at Yale University.

[The Child Lab @thechildlab]

1/2 "What's more like an owl? The blue answer (airplane) or the green answer (cow)?" In our studies, you and your child video chat with a Yale researcher. We get to learn how children think, and your child gets a prize! Find more information and sign up at https://t.co/rcCIBHY3lE

[Carolyn Baer @carebaer7]

Hey child dev hivemind, I need some help finding studies where children track their own performance over time.
Especially cases where children make a 'global' judgment about their performance at the end (e.g. how good are you, how many right, etc.)
Any leads? 🕵‍♀️

[The Child Lab @thechildlab]

if ubiquity in everyday congition is a good index of how important some feature of cognition is, the IOED is definitely one of Frank's most important findings.

here's an explainer thread we wrote awhile ago!

https://t.co/zdMJgrPk3l

[worms cited @christapeterso]

ok fr this is called an ILLUSION OF EXPLANATORY DEPTH. when people know how to USE something they are prone to thinking they understand how it WORKS when they have no idea. zippers and the computer mouse are kind of paradigmatic examples

[Reut Shachnai @Reut_Shachnai]

Our labmate @_BrandoCarrillo has recently lost his beloved grandmother, who contracted Covid after an earthquake evacuation. His family abroad is struggling to cover medical and funeral expenses. Please consider helping via gofundme and retweeting!
https://t.co/aWDcZnJtF3

[hollyhuey @hollyahuey]

How do children’s drawings change across development? My new @cogsci_soc #CogSci2022 paper w/ @judyefan @brialong @justintheyang @krgeorge introduces a new dataset with every part labeled from >2K drawings of 16 visual concepts produced by 4-8 y.o. children!

[Xiuyuan Flora Zhang 张修远 @flora_xy_zhang]

Come check out all the cool work from our lab at #CogSci22!

[Maureen Gill @maureengill_aca]

Out today in Cognition! W/ @jfkominsky, Thomas Icard, and @xphilosopher, a novel interaction effect of norm violations on causal judgment.

The influence of norm violations depends - in predictable ways - on the norms of other events in the scenario.

https://t.co/dAGxQj27Uh

[Velisar @VelisarM]

I’m happy to finally report the data from the main project of my phd. Over 8 conditions of 32 8mo-old infants, we tested the hypothesis that human cognition starts altercentric instead of egocentric (Southgate, 2013; 2020)
https://t.co/CkLkmTENUi
1/17

[Tessa Davis @TessaRDavis]

Poorly designed slides can destroy your presentation.

Here are 9 must follow rules to create slides that pop and keep your audience engaged:🧵👇

[Athena Akrami @AthenaAkrami]

The group of @nickyclayton22 has been the driving force in the comparative study of animal cognition (particularly crow family), for decades. The loss would be unimaginable if we let her lab shut down due to lack of funding.

https://t.co/vpP4Bn5I35

[Rebecca Peretz-Lange @PeretzLange]

dev psych twitter: looking for studies where young children provide confidence ratings for their judgments (e.g., participant: "I think the answer is x." researcher: "Do you think it's definitely x or probably x?" participant: "I think it's probably x").

[Tobias Gerstenberg @tobigerstenberg]

I've updated the course notes for the grad stats (https://t.co/fjKOKLSBRG) class I help teach here at Stanford.

You can find them compiled into a 📓 here: https://t.co/7KIRonY0zX

The lecture slides that go with the notes are here: https://t.co/Xbaqpj5IiO

#RStats

[Sarah Joo @SehrangJoo]

Excited to be presenting this work at #CogSci2022! We look at cases where how intentionally someone acts changes how much people judge them to *cause* an outcome--and argue that this phenomenon extends far beyond causal judgments. https://t.co/gyxxQCHkph

[mekline.bsky.social @melissaekline]

To round out #CDS2022, a gigantic plea for the citations that will help us keep online infrastructure available (and free):

If you presented OR SAW a poster/talk at CDS with data collected using either LOOKIT or CHILDREN HELPING SCIENCE, reply with the details!!

[Rosie Aboody @AboodyRosie]

New paper out in JEP-G, only 4 years in the making: By age 6, kids endorse well-sourced claims over those that are merely widely-repeated.
With the amazing @sami_r_yousif, @msheskin, and Frank Keil
Official ($): https://t.co/Hqu8UCyC3J
Free: https://t.co/f4OMtmgCPq (1/4)

[Bill Thompson @billdthompson]

Over the last five years @cocosci_lab we've been building the capacity to conduct larger and more structured simulations of cultural evolution in the lab. The results of our latest experiment (with @basvanopheusden & @tedsumers) were just published. https://t.co/4kSLHg2hKy

[Adeyemi Adetula @AdeyemiAdetula1]

I have received none of the money I was promised to support my PhD for a year and a half.
I have borrowed money, skipped lunch, and slept without heat.
I ask you to support me in keeping my dreams alive.
To support me, visit https://t.co/vMK6i4tKKe. 1/2

[Richard R Clark 🇺🇦 @rclarkie]

Lovely twitter people - I don't know how many of you are also #instagram users but I'm looking for a wee favour. I've a 12yr old who loves woodwork. He spends hours on his lathe making bowls and creating chopping boards which he's sells to save up for a mountain bike. 1/3

[Dr. Candice Mills @CandiceMMills]

We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join our team! See below for an overview, and check out UTD's job portal to apply: https://t.co/X3Zhg90b57

Please share, and feel free to reach out to me if you have questions!

[Sami Yousif @sami_r_yousif]

The last few years, Frank and I have published several papers on area/size perception. Recently, we've enjoyed discussing these ideas with Joonkoo Park, who has some concerns about our approach.

Our reply to his commentary is now published in Cognition: https://t.co/vjbdPKEe8J

[Stanislas Dehaene @standehaene.bsky.social @StanDehaene]

The @sioroberts paper is accompanied by mini-experiments that you can try right off the NYT web site... but we also have a full experiment for you, in case you can spare 10 minutes:
Can you spot the geometric outlier?
https://t.co/MShPTk43pp