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Katie McAuliffe

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Cooperation, Morality, Justice, Norms, Evolution, Society, Culture, etc bccooperationlab.com bcvirtueproject.com Associate Prof @ Psychology & Neuroscience, Boston College

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Cooperation Lab @cooperationlab.bsky.social · Apr 29

Catch some of our Coop Lab members presenting about our latest work at the Society for Research in Child Development's biennial conference this weekend!

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Chris Krupenye @chriskrupenye.bsky.social · Mar 23

🚨RT!

The Social & Cognitive Origins group at @jhuartssciences.bsky.social (social-cognitive-origins.com), directed by Dr. Christopher Krupenye, is recruiting a full-time research assistant or lab manager to begin Summer 2025. The position has a one-year minimum, w/ the possibility of extension. 1/

The Social & Cognitive Origins Group at Johns Hopkins University studies how humans and other animals think.

The Homewood campus of Johns Hopkins University in full spring bloom.

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Katie McAuliffe @katiemcauliffe.bsky.social · Mar 19

Excited to share a new paper on children's third-party punishment across societies. This was a big collaborative effort and I'm so grateful to my wonderful co-authors for their contributions to this project.
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Blog: communities.springernature.com/posts/childr...

Across six societies children engage in costly third-party punishment of unfair sharing - Communications Psychology

Third-party punishment of unfair sharing is a hallmark of a normative concern for fairness in adults. Here, children in Canada, India, Peru, Uganda, USA, and Vanuatu show this same normative concern b...

www.nature.com

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Katie McAuliffe @katiemcauliffe.bsky.social · Mar 5

Just caught myself googling: "what should I do with a lot of lemons".

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Katie McAuliffe @katiemcauliffe.bsky.social · Feb 6

Was so fun to work on this with Julia (@juliamarshall.bsky.social) and Abby (not.yet.on.bsky.social)!

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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Katie McAuliffe @katiemcauliffe.bsky.social · Feb 5

What a superb lineup. Highly recommend this excellent preconference!

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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Sophie Arnold @sophieharnold.bsky.social · Jan 22

New paper! @katiemcauliffe.bsky.social + @andreicimpian.bsky.social

Men tend to ask for higher salaries and more promotions for themselves than do women. We examined kids' beliefs about negotiation and how they may contribute to developing gender differences in negotiation

doi.org/10.1037/dev0...

APA PsycNet

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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

cooperationisland.com

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Chris Krupenye @chriskrupenye.bsky.social · Sep 26

🚨 Johns Hopkins psych & brain sci is hiring! 🚨

TWO open-rank faculty positions: one in cognition, broadly construed, the other in cognitive neuroscience

We're excited about lots of research areas & approaches, including development & animal cognition!

apply.interfolio.com/155721

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Katie McAuliffe @katiemcauliffe.bsky.social · Sep 9

A question from a grad student who will be applying to tenure-track jobs. Research area is dev psych. Would it be more useful from an application perspective to have experience teaching Dev Psych or Intro? I'm not sure so keen to hear others' opinions.

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Katie McAuliffe @katiemcauliffe.bsky.social · Mar 15

Friends going to CDS - hope you can check out presentations by all these great people!

Katie McAuliffe @katiemcauliffe.bsky.social · Sep 26

Hi everyone 👋

Excited to be on here and to not be inundated with random viral videos!

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