Leonard Learning Lab
@leonardlearnlab.bsky.social
Leonard Learning Lab at Yale Psychology. We study children’s motivation and learning.
We are looking to hire a research assistant to help with data collection at our partner museum in Philadelphia!
Share with your undergraduates or post-baccs who are looking for more experience in cog dev research!
Please see the attached ad for more information: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Share with your undergraduates or post-baccs who are looking for more experience in cog dev research!
Please see the attached ad for more information: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Yale Leonard Learning Lab - Philadelphia RA Ad
Title: Philadelphia-Area-Based Research Assistant Position in the Yale Learning Lab The Leonard Learning Lab (PI: Dr. Julia Leonard) at Yale University has an opening for a research assistant to help...
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November 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
We are looking to hire a research assistant to help with data collection at our partner museum in Philadelphia!
Share with your undergraduates or post-baccs who are looking for more experience in cog dev research!
Please see the attached ad for more information: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Share with your undergraduates or post-baccs who are looking for more experience in cog dev research!
Please see the attached ad for more information: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Like a parent, AI can guide or smother. It's time to think about how we build this relationship.
Check out my new essay with Brett Smith www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/deve...
Check out my new essay with Brett Smith www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/deve...
Will AI Become a Helicopter Parent?
Like a parent, AI can guide or smother. It's time to think about how we build this relationship.
www.psychologytoday.com
September 1, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Like a parent, AI can guide or smother. It's time to think about how we build this relationship.
Check out my new essay with Brett Smith www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/deve...
Check out my new essay with Brett Smith www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/deve...
The Learning Lab is heading to CogSci 2025 (@cogscisociety.bsky.social) to share our latest research! Come say hello!
July 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The Learning Lab is heading to CogSci 2025 (@cogscisociety.bsky.social) to share our latest research! Come say hello!
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Wirecutter crowned Ben & Jerry’s the best vanilla ice cream. I scoffed.
Our lab managers Surya and Nat ran a blind taste test.
Guess what won?
Ben & Jerry’s.
Science is brutal.
Our lab managers Surya and Nat ran a blind taste test.
Guess what won?
Ben & Jerry’s.
Science is brutal.
June 30, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Wirecutter crowned Ben & Jerry’s the best vanilla ice cream. I scoffed.
Our lab managers Surya and Nat ran a blind taste test.
Guess what won?
Ben & Jerry’s.
Science is brutal.
Our lab managers Surya and Nat ran a blind taste test.
Guess what won?
Ben & Jerry’s.
Science is brutal.
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Honored to win the 2025 APS Janet Taylor Spence Award! You can read more about my research and journey here www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
Member Spotlight: 2025 Spence Awardee Julia Leonard on Celebrating Children’s Progress
This Yale University researcher discusses her efforts to understand children’s approach to learning.
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May 21, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Honored to win the 2025 APS Janet Taylor Spence Award! You can read more about my research and journey here www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
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New preprint! Despite ongoing efforts to combat gender bias in education, our work reveals a striking and under-explored challenge: By the time children enter elementary school, children already expect adults to hold gender stereotypes and approve when adults act on them.
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May 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
New preprint! Despite ongoing efforts to combat gender bias in education, our work reveals a striking and under-explored challenge: By the time children enter elementary school, children already expect adults to hold gender stereotypes and approve when adults act on them.
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New work from the lab shows that, with scaffolding, little optimistic 4-to-6-year-olds can understand that mastery takes practice. Out now in Child Development. @srcdorg.bsky.social
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April 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
New work from the lab shows that, with scaffolding, little optimistic 4-to-6-year-olds can understand that mastery takes practice. Out now in Child Development. @srcdorg.bsky.social
srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Congrats to my first PhD student Dr Flora Zhang!!!!! Make sure to check out her amazing work on intuitive theories of acquisition (and why they matter) @leonardlearnlab.bsky.social
April 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Congrats to my first PhD student Dr Flora Zhang!!!!! Make sure to check out her amazing work on intuitive theories of acquisition (and why they matter) @leonardlearnlab.bsky.social
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Come check out the lab's research at @srcdorg.bsky.social this week! @leonardlearnlab.bsky.social
April 28, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Come check out the lab's research at @srcdorg.bsky.social this week! @leonardlearnlab.bsky.social
✨New work from the lab!✨
Overparenting is on the rise and hurts children’s motivation starting in early childhood. How can we help parents step back? Our new paper in Child Dev shows that pointing out learning opportunities reduces overparenting.
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<em>Child Development</em> | SRCD Journal | Wiley Online Library
Overparenting—taking over and completing developmentally appropriate tasks for children—is pervasive and hurts children's motivation. Can overparenting in early childhood be reduced by simply framing...
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November 22, 2024 at 2:16 PM
✨New work from the lab!✨
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For decades, developmental psychologists have noticed that optimism declines with age. Why does this presumably good thing decrease across development? In this Nature Reviews Psych article, @jessicas.bsky.social and I draw from prior hypotheses to offer an integrated account.
New paper with the BRILLIANT and always amazing @julia-a-leonard.bsky.social! Developmental declines in optimism and their potential causes:
A unified account of why optimism declines in childhood
Nature Reviews Psychology - Optimism declines across early childhood, but there is no theoretical account for why such changes occur. In this Perspective, Leonard and Sommerville discuss and...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44159-024-00384-z.epdf?sharing_token=JVnW-1ZWM7UAxv[…]2JOSlipVxfqRevALtsVWx0VPUyF3Bm6qkXNmICCPCq6BROr6O7tsg6_Fxg%3D
November 19, 2024 at 1:46 PM
For decades, developmental psychologists have noticed that optimism declines with age. Why does this presumably good thing decrease across development? In this Nature Reviews Psych article, @jessicas.bsky.social and I draw from prior hypotheses to offer an integrated account.