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Thomas Serre @thomasserre.bsky.social · 15d

Brown’s Department of Cognitive & Psychological Sciences is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor, working in the area of AI and the Mind (start July 1, 2026). Apply by Nov 8, 2025 👉 apply.interfolio.com/173939

#AI #CognitiveScience #AcademicJobs #BrownUniversity

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Setayesh Radkani @setayeshradkani.bsky.social · Aug 8

🚨Out in PNAS🚨
with @joshtenenbaum.bsky.social & @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social

Punishment, even when intended to teach norms and change minds for the good, may backfire.

Our computational cognitive model explains why!

Paper: tinyurl.com/yc7fs4x7
News: tinyurl.com/3h3446wu

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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The Mind & Morality Lab @ Brown University @mindandmoralitylab.bsky.social · Jun 30

🚨We're hiring! The Mind & Morality Lab is seeking a Lab Manager to start this September. Excited about research on social cognitive development? Apply here: forms.gle/4rKXD2x1vmkD.... Learn more about us: sites.brown.edu/mindmorality....
⏳ We’re reviewing applications on a rolling basis—apply early!

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Zoe Liberman @zoeliberman.bsky.social · Jun 23

Big congrats to @rthompkins.bsky.social on this paper! Happy to finally see this out in the world.

Our work builds on findings from @juliamarshall.bsky.social on the impact of social relationships on moral expectations, with a focus on how children think about lying and liars.

Rodney Tompkins @rtompkins.bsky.social · Jun 22

New paper with past honors student Vanessa Chao and @zoeliberman.bsky.social in press at JECP:

“Children can consider social relationships when evaluating liars”

By the early elementary school years, people judge it as worse and meaner for a friend (vs. classmate) to lie.

doi.org/10.1016/j.je...

Redirecting

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Matti Wilks @mattiwilks.bsky.social · Jun 2

It's just one month until the @phair-society.bsky.social Animal Advocacy Conference in Edinburgh! I caught up with @marikasbell.bsky.social and Luke McGuire to talk all things conference on the Deal with Animals Podcast!

www.thedealwithanimals.com/post/what-sp...

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What Sparks Change in Our View of Animals? PHAIR 2025 with Dr. Matti Wilks and Dr Luke McGuire

This discussion reiterates the critical intersection where psychology meets animal advocacy. This knowledge is not just for academics but for anyone eager to contribute to a world where compassion ext...

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Julia Marshall @juliamarshall.bsky.social · May 28

🥳🥳 New paper in @nathumbehav.nature.com: “When development constricts our moral circle." Contrary to popular belief, younger kids may start out with broader moral circles than older ones. Check it out here 👉 rdcu.be/eoaSe
w/ @mattiwilks.bsky.social @karrineldner.bsky.social & Lucius Caviola

When development constricts our moral circle

Nature Human Behaviour - Although many believe our moral circles expand with age, this Perspective discusses an early-emerging tendency to care for others.

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Julia Marshall @juliamarshall.bsky.social · Apr 25

im so sorry, ryan! UGH

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Julia Marshall @juliamarshall.bsky.social · Apr 15

ugh im so sorry margaret, thinking of you

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ajua duker @ajuaduker.bsky.social · Apr 10

🚨 I’m hiring a full-time lab manager to help me build my lab start in July or August 2025! 🚨

If you know any stellar candidates who might be interested, please send this their way.

🗓 Application review begins April 15
⏰ Final deadline is April 25
📎 Apply here ➡️ lnkd.in/evhfqzTP

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Ashley Thomas @ashleyjthomas.bsky.social · Feb 10

I am hiring a lab manager to start ~ July 1st.

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Job Search Welcome | Harvard University

Visit Harvard Careers to explore job opportunities, create a profile, and apply for open positions.

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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · Feb 6

I'm hiring a lab manager to start this summer/fall, to work on transformative experience, identity change, and empathy in the digital age.

Details here:
www.crockettlab.org/research-spe...

Please share!

Research Specialist 2025 — Crockett Lab

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Cooperation Lab @cooperationlab.bsky.social · Feb 5

Check out @katiemcauliffe.bsky.social, @juliamarshall.bsky.social, and Abby McLaughlin's new feature review in TICS!

Beyond punishment: psychological foundations of restorative interventions: Trends in Cognitive Sciences www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Beyond punishment: psychological foundations of restorative interventions

Work on the psychology of justice has largely focused on punishment. However, punishment is not our only strategy for dealing with conflict. Rather, emerging work suggests that people often respond to...

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Margaret Echelbarger @bskybymidge.bsky.social · Jan 31

The @spspnews.bsky.social Origins of the Social Mind preconf is 19 days away! This year, our guiding theme is "Understanding the building blocks of social group dynamics." This topic is so important & we're learning from THE experts (look at the lineup!). I believe in this precon so much that...1/2

Flyer reads: Join us virtually for the Origins of the Social Mind Preconference. Understanding the building blocks of social group dynamics. February 19th, 2025. 8:30am-4:30pm MT on Zoom. We then list the speakers. Plenary Speakers: Kristin Pauker, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, "Non-verbal transmission of bias in development." Arnold Ho, University of Michigan, "Toward an understanding of the origins of intergroup conflict." We then list the invited talks: Jocelyn Dautel (Queens University Belfast), Laura Elenbaas (Purdue University), Mirya Holman (University of Houston), Grace Hwang (UC, Santa Cruz), Zarin Machanda (Tufts University), Sylvia Perry (Northwestern University), Laura Taylor (University College Dublin). We also note that there are 20+ poster presentations from researchers at all career stages and opportunities to meet scholars from a diverse array of scientific disciplines. Finally, we note the student price of $49 and include the registration link.

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Julia Marshall @juliamarshall.bsky.social · Jan 31

Register to attend the VIRTUAL Origins fo the Social Mind Preconference at SPSP! We have a great line-up of folks and are excited to foster discussions on the building blocks of social group dynamics. Looking forward to see people there!

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Alexis Smith-Flores @asmithflores.bsky.social · Jan 30

🎉 I'm hiring a lab manager to start August 2025 and help build my lab at Lehigh. Submit a CV, cover letter, transcript, and 2 reference contacts by March 14th. The full job description is linked below. Please share with any students or mentees who might be interested! #devpsy
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Julia Marshall @juliamarshall.bsky.social · Jan 24

🎉Postdoc Alert! I am recruiting a postdoc to start Summer 2025 in the Mind & Morality Lab at Brown. If you're interested, please send a CV, cover letter, and names of at least two references to [email protected] by 2/28. If you have questions, don't hesitate to reach out!

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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · Jan 2

Excited to share that our BBS target article — "Children as agents of cultural adaptation" — is online & open for commentary! In it, @sheinalew.bsky.social & I argue that children's peer cultures might play an important & understudied role in cultural adaptation.

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Gabor Brody @gaborbrody.bsky.social · Nov 21

New Paper is out with @romanfeiman.bsky.social and Athulya Aravind in @psychscience.bsky.social

We argue that children are not biased to assume that words are mutually exclusive.

We speculate that previous experiments find mutual exclusivity because they present (grammatically) biased words

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Julia Leonard @julia-a-leonard.bsky.social · Nov 19

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.

Jessica Sommerville @jessicas.bsky.social · Nov 18

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

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Katie McAuliffe @katiemcauliffe.bsky.social · Oct 11

Very excited to announce the launch of Cooperation Island, a new research platform for measuring social decision-making in children ages 5+. Shout out to co-pilots Julia Marshall and
Shalini Gautam! Check it out at: cooperationisland.com

COOPERATION ISLAND

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Julia Marshall @juliamarshall.bsky.social · Sep 5

Excited that the Origins of the Social Mind pre-conference will be back at the 2025 SPSP conference! We've assembled a stellar line-up of speakers and are accepting poster submissions to the pre-conference. See the line-up here: tinyurl.com/2uwcmafy. & submit posters by 10/17: tinyurl.com/2z63hv3p

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Simon Columbus @simoncolumbus.bsky.social · Jun 3

Cooperation Colloquium this week:

Julia Marshall @juliamarshall.bsky.social
The role of intergroup dynamics in shaping cooperative behavior in development

Friday, June 7
15:00 UTC+2 // 9 am ET

Sign-up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...

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Julia Marshall @juliamarshall.bsky.social · May 4

I want to share this paper, out now in Open Mind: direct.mit.edu/opmi/article... Matti Wilks & I examined whether children's obligation judgments are sensitive to social & physical distance. For the most part, they were somewhat but much less so at younger ages. Check it out! 🎉

Does Distance Matter? How Physical and Social Distance Shape Our Perceived Obligations to Others

Abstract. Debates within moral philosophy have long centered on the question of whether we are more obligated to help those close to us compared to those who are farther away. Despite these debates, w...

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Martin Zettersten @mzettersten.bsky.social · Apr 18

Our mega-analysis of infant-directed speech preference is now out at Open Mind, integrating data from a multi-lab replication (@manybabies.org) and a meta-analysis. w/ @chrismmcox.bsky.social, @chbergma.bsky.social, Maya Mathur, @mcxfrank.bsky.social + a fab team
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Evidence for Infant-directed Speech Preference Is Consistent Across Large-scale, Multi-site Replication and Meta-analysis

Abstract. There is substantial evidence that infants prefer infant-directed speech (IDS) to adult-directed speech (ADS). The strongest evidence for this claim has come from two large-scale investigati...

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Julia Marshall @juliamarshall.bsky.social · Apr 17

Check out this new Registered Report (srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....)! In this work, we examined whether intergroup bias shapes the expression of third-party punishment in children. To our surprise, intergroup context didn't seem to matter. Read the paper for more info! 🎉

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