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Andrew Shtulman @andrewshtulman.bsky.social · 2d

I see what you did there 😉

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Jamie Amemiya @jamieamemiya.bsky.social · 25d

Submit your work to Origins of the Social Mind at #SPSP2026! Our morning timeslot is compatible with a variety of fantastic afternoon preconferences (e.g., Social Cognition, Gender).

Deadline is 10/13! (Talks/posters can focus on any topic related to the origins of social cognition). See you there!

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Andrew Shtulman @andrewshtulman.bsky.social · 29d

Nice piece by @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social where he implies that the only interdisciplinary conversations worth having are those at SPP (@socphilpsych.bsky.social). I agree!

A big shoutout to @levelsof.bsky.social & @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social for putting together a conversation-inspiring SPP 2025!

Paul Bloom @paulbloomatyale.bsky.social · Sep 8

smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net/p/the-only-i...

The only interdisciplinary conversations worth having

(This is a niche post of interest to a relatively narrow community of scholars.

smallpotatoes.paulbloom.net

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Andrew Shtulman @andrewshtulman.bsky.social · Sep 2

New article in Cognition! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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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Andrew Shtulman @andrewshtulman.bsky.social · Aug 28

Oooh, the Spanish translation of Learning to Imagine is pretty!

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Martha W. Alibali @marthaalibali.bsky.social · Jul 18

As an inveterate em-dash user, I loved this. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations

“In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...

www.mcsweeneys.net

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Andrew Shtulman @andrewshtulman.bsky.social · Jun 26

The archive also includes the thousands of mollusks he gathered, described, and classified when he was just a teenager.

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Andrew Shtulman @andrewshtulman.bsky.social · Jun 26

I’m honored to be a keynote speaker at the 5th Jean Piaget Conference at the University of Geneva. A highlight of the conference waa a tour of the Jean Piaget archives, which includes 80,000 documents currently being organized and systemized. 10,000 of those documents are experimental protocols!

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Andrew Shtulman @andrewshtulman.bsky.social · Jun 26

“Some effects emerged that have the happiness of being significant”—that translation seems sound. Effects are happiest when they are significant.

Andrew Shtulman @andrewshtulman.bsky.social · Jun 25

Watched a presentation today delivered in French but translated into English at the bottom of the PPT slides using AI. "Translated" is a generous description. I'm pretty sure the speaker did not say "I've got some bananas for you after I've exploded my talk."

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Andrew Shtulman @andrewshtulman.bsky.social · Jun 25

A colleague asked if I've read Arisotle's Poetics recently. I'm flattered he thought I had read it at all.

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Andrew Shtulman @andrewshtulman.bsky.social · Jun 22

Ithaca airport keeps playing a message about TSA prefaced with “due to the increased situation.” I hate it when situations increase.

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Chaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social · Jun 21

The @socphilpsych.bsky.social presidential banquet begins with the (attempted) roast by John Doris of the (seemingly unroastable) @andrewshtulman.bsky.social

#SPP2025

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Andrew Shtulman @andrewshtulman.bsky.social · Jun 21

Is there a tradeoff between the breadth and depth of moral concern? Not at the level of individual perception. @joshrottman.bsky.social finds that people who are concerned about strangers as much as friends also show deeper concern for both. #SPP2025

(I never miss a Josh Rottman talk!)

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Andrew Shtulman @andrewshtulman.bsky.social · Jun 21

Infants have been shown to individuate objects before people in a visual occlusion task. Why? @brandonwoo.bsky.social, @ashleyjthomas.bsky.social, et al. find that engagement matters. Infants *do* individuate people who actively engage with them.

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Andrew Shtulman @andrewshtulman.bsky.social · Jun 21

Is learning always good? Zoe Jenkin argues that it’s not; learners are often worse off when they misapply newfound knowledge and need to recognize the superficiality of their understanding to make progress toward genuine expertise. #SPP2025

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Andrew Shtulman @andrewshtulman.bsky.social · Jun 21

Day 3 of #SPP2025. Marina Bedny shares fascinating evidence that congenitally blind people use the same intuitive theories of color as sighted people to predict and explain object coloration even when they disagree about what color an object tends to be.

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Andrew Shtulman @andrewshtulman.bsky.social · Jun 21

The highlight of Day 2 was @tamarkushnir.bsky.social singing “Pure Imagination” at a restaurant in Ithaca—a song by she dedicated to me. 😊

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Andrew Shtulman @andrewshtulman.bsky.social · Jun 20

@shannonspaulding.bsky.social delivers the 2025 Stanton Prize address, explicating the tools we use to understand other minds and how they lead to systematic types of mistakes. #SPP2025

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Andrew Shtulman @andrewshtulman.bsky.social · Jun 20

Do children use counterevidence to change their mind if changing their mind means disagreeing with their ingroup? No! Zoe Finiasz, @tamarkushnir.bsky.social, et al. find that children will refrain from revising their beliefs if their ingroup is defined by that belief. #SPP2025

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Andrew Shtulman @andrewshtulman.bsky.social · Jun 20

Josep Sommer and Tania Lombrozo uncover inconsistencies in belief with a clever question-asking paradigm with items like:

1. Do whales have hair? (No!)

2. Are whales mammals? (Yes!)

3. Do all mammals have hair? (Yes! Wait a minute…)

#SPP2025

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Andrew Shtulman @andrewshtulman.bsky.social · Jun 20

Kristin Andrew’s makes the case for using conceptual analysis to decide questions about shared mental traits in comparative psychology. #SPP2025

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Andrew Shtulman @andrewshtulman.bsky.social · Jun 20

Where do core cognitive skills come from? Justin Wood argues that space-time fitting to the statistics of environmental input can explain a lot of early emerging abilities. #SPP2925

Andrew Shtulman @andrewshtulman.bsky.social · Jun 20

Day 2 of #SPP2025 begins with a fascinating talk by @chriskrupenye.bsky.social on whether chimpanzees and bonobos have a theory of mind. Krupenye’s studies show that our ape cousins track others’ knowledge not just to obtain food but also for a seemingly intrinsic love of drama!

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Andrew Shtulman @andrewshtulman.bsky.social · Jun 19

Are evil acts always wrong? No! Ryan Wheat & Geoffrey Goodwin find that judgments of evil are qualitatively distinct from judgments of wrongdoing and seem to depend on disdain more than harm or injustice. #SPP2025

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