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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · Jul 28

Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird.

(he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...

I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird

YouTube video by Benn Jordan

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Sam McDougle @actlab.bsky.social · Jul 24

Happy to announce that my lab @ Yale Psychology (actcompthink.org) will be accepting PhD applications this year (for start in Fall '26)!

Come for the fun experiments on human learning, memory, & skilled behavior, stay for the best 🍕 in the US.

Please reach out if you have any questions!

Homepage of the Action, Computation, & Thinking (ACT) Lab, Yale department of psychology

actcompthink.org

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Kristina Olson @olsonista.bsky.social · Jul 23

A new piece - well, almost a whole book! - by our team, reflecting more than a decade of work.

Society for Research in Child Development @srcdorg.bsky.social · Jul 23

💙 SRCD is pleased to announce the latest Monograph on gender identities and sexual orientation across childhood and adolescence. Read the full issue here: srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Benedek Kurdi @benedek.bsky.social · Jul 1

Updated preprint with Zephyr Weinreich, @yarrowdunham.bsky.social, and @ericman.bsky.social showing that implicit attitudes are not only sensitive to negation; they even reflect the distinction between easy-to-negate bipolar and difficult-to-negate unipolar adjectives: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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shredberg @shredberg.bsky.social · Jun 18

Trans rights are human rights. Trans people of all ages deserve the right and access to healthcare. Protect trans youth.

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Daniel Gilbert @danielgilbert.bsky.social · May 19

Since 1954, "The Handbook of Social Psychology" has been the field’s most authoritative reference work, and today is the launch of the 6th edition with 50 new chapters by 100 leading scholars. Best news? The HSP is now an open-access public resource—free to read, download, and share. the-hsp.com

Cover of the Handbook of Social Psychology 6th edition 2025

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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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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...

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Benedek Kurdi @benedek.bsky.social · Feb 21

🚨🚨🚨 Preprint with Zephyr Weinreich, @yarrowdunham.bsky.social, and @ericman.bsky.social in which we show that implicit attitudes are not only sensitive to negation; they even reflect the distinction between easy-to-negate bipolar and difficult-to-negate unipolar adjectives: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Laura Schlingloff-Nemecz @laurasn.bsky.social · Nov 27

The Manybabies4 paper is out! Infants' Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large-Scale, Multi-Lab, Coordinated Replication Study onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... 1000 babies tested in 37 labs; "Overall, 49.34% of infants preferred Helpers over Hinderers in the social condition"

Infants’ Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large‐Scale, Multi‐Lab, Coordinated Replication Study

Evaluating whether someone's behavior is praiseworthy or blameworthy is a fundamental human trait. A seminal study by Hamlin and colleagues in 2007 suggested that the ability to form social evaluatio...

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Julia Leonard @julia-a-leonard.bsky.social · Nov 22

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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Yarrow Dunham @yarrowdunham.bsky.social · Mar 22

Come see members of the Social Cognitive Development Lab at Yale present their work at #CDS2024! Go Team!

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Yarrow Dunham @yarrowdunham.bsky.social · Feb 21

My lab is recruiting undergraduates for a *funded* summer internship for June & July to assist with projects in social cognitive development! Details at www.socialcogdev.com/join-us

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Benedek Kurdi @benedek.bsky.social · Jan 17

I'm recruiting a full-time lab programmer/lab manager. Please share the ad widely. Questions can be sent to [lastname][at]illinois[dot]edu. illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

The building of the University of Illinois Psychology Department in Champaign, IL

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · Jan 7

hi #psychscisky #neuroskyence I will be hiring a postdoc in 2024, to work on auditory perception here in Auckland NZ 🇳🇿

info about the lab at themusiclab.org
apply at tinyurl.com/musiclab-pos...

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Experimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · Nov 28

Yale has a unique program in which students can get a Combined PhD in Psychology and Philosophy

The admissions process for this program is pretty counterintuitive in certain respects, so I wrote up an informal explainer about how to apply

Application deadline: December 1

Notes on Applying to the Combined Program

How to Apply to Yale's Combined Program in Philosophy and Psychology The application process for Yale's philosophy/psychology combined program is a bit counterintuitive, so I thought it might be help...

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Rodney Tompkins @rtompkins.bsky.social · Nov 13

Reposting here!

New paper with @ktvasq.bsky.social, Emily Gerdin, @yarrowdunham.bsky.social, and @zoeliberman.bsky.social in JEP: General:

"Expectations of intergroup empathy bias emerge by early childhood"

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mark brandt @mjbsp.bsky.social · Nov 7

Meltem Yucel (@drmeltemyucel.bsky.social) just won SPSPs Emerging Scholar award!

Recently, she found that young children (between ~4 & ~8) do not perceive distributional fairness as a moral norm. Nor is it obviously conventional.

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#socialpsyc #PsychSciSky

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Peter Sokol-Hessner @p1sh.bsky.social · Oct 6

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ASFP @asfp.io · Oct 6

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Yarrow Dunham @yarrowdunham.bsky.social · Sep 30

I like this thought! Obviously in some cases it is all just numbers somewhere, but things like property definitely have a different feel...

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Yarrow Dunham @yarrowdunham.bsky.social · Sep 30

we didn't present any idea or argument but in one version we did say something like: The parents have $x in assets and $x in debts, how much of each should go to the children? Despite knowing how it would really work most still endorsed getting all assets and no debts!

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Yarrow Dunham @yarrowdunham.bsky.social · Sep 30

In some cases this seems right. In terms of our effect we've wondered about this in a sort of identifiable victim sense, like, who cares if the bank loses out but for a specific to lose out...
But in other cases not repaying a debt IS inflicting a loss on someone else.

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Yarrow Dunham @yarrowdunham.bsky.social · Sep 29

totally, though someone is presumably getting harmed when you don't pay your debts...

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Yarrow Dunham @yarrowdunham.bsky.social · Sep 29

totally! the laws also differ here, you do inherit both from spouses, but in other cases you are in fact shielded from debts (though if assets > debts you have to settle debts before getting the remainder of the assets)