Great pop-up panel with @ag.state.mn.us about policing and developmental science in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the re-election of Donald Trump at #SRCD2025

Feel free to message me if you didn't get a chance to see the poster in person and you would like a copy!

At #SRCD2025?

Check out poster 100 from 10 AM to 11 AM today!

We investigate whether children discriminate based on gender when evaluating ordinary and improbable claims.

The Think Lab will be at #SRCD2025 - looking forward to seeing many of you there!

Are parents' understandings of their children's science interests well-calibrated? Read this first first-author pub from @anthonyjmonroe.com to learn more how parent and child ratings of children's science interests may align 🤝🏻 or diverge ✋🏻🤚🏻!

Many thanks to my co-authors, @ramblecamble.bsky.social, Kristen Damico, @danovitch.bsky.social, @candicemmills.bsky.social, and to you for reading through this thread!

Here's the link to the article: doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
And here's the accepted manuscript on OSF (if you can't access the article through the publisher): doi.org/10.31234/osf...

Big takeaway: Parents are likely underestimating their children's interest in science, and their judgments are biased by their own science attitudes. A big next step would be seeing if these perceptions by parents relate to the science opportunities they provide their children.

We did find a source of bias in parents though: Parents who held more positive attitudes toward science themselves judged their children to be more interested in science (and vice-versa), suggesting an assumed-similarity bias among parents.

Overall, parents showed some accuracy in judging their children's interests. However, they were more accurate when judging non-science topics, and they tended to *underestimate* children's interest in science topics.

We asked children how much they were interested in five science and five non-science topics, and parents judged their children's level of interest in the same topics.

I am excited to share that my first first-author article was recently published in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology! If you would like to read it yourself, I will link it below, but I'll also share some of the highlights here.

Guess it's probably time to set this account up!

The Think Lab will be at the Cognitive Development Society conference this week. Come visit us!