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Social Learning Lab
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Social Learning Lab at Stanford University. We study children's cognitive development and how they learn from the social world.

PI: Dr. Hyowon Gweon @hyogweon.bsky.social
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Hello bsky! Excited to share this paper as my very first post / repost :-) We show that children are sensitive to whether an adult offered promised help, and strategically consider this to decide what task to pursue (easy or hard?) and whether to explore vs. seek help!
What do kids choose to do when they think that someone will help them? What about when no one will help?

New paper: "Young children strategically adapt to unreliable social partners" - led by Kat Shannon, with @hyogweon.bsky.social and Willem Frankenhuis.

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November 12, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Officially out! In this review, Aaron Chuey and I discuss how existing work on ToM mostly focused on a single individual’s mental states (e.g., what Sally thinks). Extending ToM, we argue for ToMS—an understanding of how multiple individuals communicate and influence each others’ minds. t.ly/u4rtb
Theory of Minds: Early Understanding of Interacting Minds
The idea that we understand others’ actions in terms of their underlying mental states has shaped decades of developmental research on social cognition. Existing work, however, has primarily focused o...
www.annualreviews.org
December 10, 2025 at 11:30 PM
This week, we welcomed our new grad student, Karla Perez, and celebrated Hyo's birthday by painting pumpkins in the courtyard!
October 21, 2025 at 5:16 PM
This week, our SymSys summer interns (Christine Zhao, Felicity Chang, and Chris Seo) presented their work at the Fall SymSys Poster Session!
October 10, 2025 at 6:24 PM