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Zoe Liberman @zoeliberman.bsky.social · 5d

If you want to check out more, see my lab webpage: liberman.psych.ucsb.edu 3/3

Liberman Child Studies Lab | Psychological & Brain Sciences | UC Santa Barbara

We study the origins of infants' social knowledge, and how experience impacts learning and development across childhood.

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Zoe Liberman @zoeliberman.bsky.social · 5d

Work and learn with amazing colleagues in Development & Evolution! These labs are also searching for new students, so check them out! @anniewertz.bsky.social @brandonwoo.bsky.social @laurasimonelewis.bsky.social 2/3

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Zoe Liberman @zoeliberman.bsky.social · 5d

Spread the word: I'm looking to recruit a PhD student for Fall 2026 to @ucsb.bsky.social! Reach out if you are applying this cycle and hoping to study infant and child social cognition, specifically expectations about friendship and/or groups. Bonus: live in paradise! And.. 1/3

UCSB Campus. Meadow in the foreground with Storke Tower and mountains in the distance

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Zoe Liberman @zoeliberman.bsky.social · Jul 1

Check out @lizquinnjensen.bsky.social's paper on the Comparative Status Hypothesis: we find that the social identity of a person's competitor shifts whether that person is seen as a likely victim of discrimination.

We hope our work broadens focus beyond the victim-perpetrator dyad

Liz Quinn-Jensen @lizquinnjensen.bsky.social · Jul 1

Excited that this paper is finally out (in collaboration with @zoeliberman.bsky.social @saraburke.bsky.social & Brenda Major) in PSPB!

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The Comparative Status Hypothesis: Inferences About Discrimination Vary Based on Identity Salience - Elizabeth A. Quinn-Jensen, Anh L. K. Tran, Sara E. Burke, Brenda Major, Zoe Liberman, 2025

Past research examining when people label an outcome as discrimination has largely ignored contextual factors beyond the victim–perpetrator dyad. We contend tha...

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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.

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Redirecting

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · May 9

🧪 Ranking member Lofgren and 11 other House dems sent a fiery 7-page letter to acting NSF director today

"The cancelation of these awards suggests instead that NSF is willing to apply political censorship of awards under direction from President Trump and the DOGE teenagers"

Share widely #SaveNSF

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Zoe Liberman @zoeliberman.bsky.social · Apr 10

Its Give Day @ucsb.bsky.social! Support the Development + Evolution area in establishing a graduate student award! Our students work so hard, and we want to recognize them -- any amount helps: ucsb.scalefunder.com/gday/giving-....

🚨Please check “in honor of” and write: PBS DEVO Area🚨
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Zoe Liberman @zoeliberman.bsky.social · Apr 4

Interested in children's developing understanding of linguistic register? Check out a new paper-- led by past undergraduate lab member, Ishaan Ambrish (currently working with Ariel Starr at UW) and grad student
@shreyasodhi.bsky.social

Social Development @socialdevelopment.bsky.social · Apr 1

Just out in Social Development! Ambrish et al show that children use features of speech to determine who a speaker is addressing. Both mono- and bilingual children like people who they believed spoke “correctly”.
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Does Children's Developing Understanding of Linguistic Register Impact Their Social Preferences?

People use different communication patterns based on the context and who they are addressing. These differences, known as linguistic register, are common across human speech and recognized early in d...

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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · Mar 22

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.

More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.

I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

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Kate Humphreys (she/her) @klhumphreys.bsky.social · Dec 31

Happy New Year!! So thrilled to share this preprint (Kara Weisman, Lucy King, and I worked on this for 8+ yrs): "Beliefs about the development of mental life"

Read to find an interesting story on how people perceive different domains of capacities changing from birth to age 5 yrs.

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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · Dec 17

trying out some physics on Sora, OpenAI's video-creation-from-text-tool.

Here is "a blue block falling on a green sphere"

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Zoe Liberman @zoeliberman.bsky.social · Dec 11

Stay tuned for future projects that look at both expectations about dual identity *and* the development of social preferences based on immigration and acculturation behaviors

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Zoe Liberman @zoeliberman.bsky.social · Dec 11

In an elegant set of experiments, @shreyasodhi.bsky.social compared children's inferences about immigrants to their inferences about non-immigrants and travelers (people who *visited* a second country).

Children did not essentialize immigrants' national identity, and instead expected flexibility!

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Zoe Liberman @zoeliberman.bsky.social · Dec 11

Interested in how children think about immigrants?

🚨 New work led by @shreyasodhi.bsky.social 🚨

We find that children expect immigrants to have a dual identity--to be similar to both people from their host and heritage cultures

#devpsych

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<em>Child Development</em> | SRCD Journal | Wiley Online Library

Children in the United States (N = 488, 4–11 years, 239 females, 248 males, one other, 53% White; data collected 2021–2022) participated in three studies investigating their expectations about immigr...

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Zoe Liberman @zoeliberman.bsky.social · Dec 9

Congrats to @lizquinnjensen.bsky.social on both a new paper on judgements based on (racial) identity claims, and on a beautiful write up of her work for the @spspnews.bsky.social Character & Context Blog

Liz Quinn-Jensen @lizquinnjensen.bsky.social · Dec 9

Check out this blog post I wrote about my most recent publication with @zoeliberman.bsky.social

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Should a Biracial Person Identify with the Race of One of Their Parents, or Both? | SPSP

Perceivers’ own racial identity affects judgements of biracial people’s identity claims.

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Nicole Campione-Barr @campionebarr.bsky.social · Dec 5

Applications are now open (through Feb. 16th) for our NSF REU Site on the Scientific Study of Interpersonal Relationships across the Lifespan. If you know of an undergraduate scholar interested in relationships research broadly, send them our way!
undergradresearch.missouri.edu/interpersona...

NSF REU Site: Scientific Study of Interpersonal Relationships Across the Lifespan

The scientific study of interpersonal relationships over the lifespan is important to our broader understanding of the human experience. These relationships begin with our earliest interactions and…

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Zoe Liberman @zoeliberman.bsky.social · Nov 27

Not sure of such a study with younger babies, but that may be because babies have to be able to physically move (crawl) for the visual cliff paradigm. Many babies are not crawling until 9-10 mon. Younger infants do interesting stuff re:emotion. Check out Eric Walle or Ashley Ruba for examples

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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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Amy Boddy @amyboddy.bsky.social · Nov 22

🎉IAS is recruiting🎉

UCSB Integrative Anth Sciences is hiring a tenure-track evo anthropologist (assist/assoc prof):

Apply by 1/06/25
To apply: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02866

Please retweet!

Estimate: Assist:$95,000-$135,000 & Assoc:$120,000-$180,000. UCSB is an AA/EOE, including disability/vets.

Assistant/Associate Professor in Evolutionary Anthropology/Anthropology of Health

University of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!

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Bria Long @brialong.bsky.social · Nov 18

The Visual Learning Lab at UC San Diego is looking for a postdoctoral research fellow to join our lab!

Read more about our lab at www.vislearnlab.org

Home | The Visual Learning Lab at UCSD

Lab webpage for the Visual Learning Lab at UCSD, lead by Dr. Bria Long, Ph.D. Launching in July 2024!

www.vislearnlab.org

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Zoe Liberman @zoeliberman.bsky.social · Nov 16

Great list! Can you add me too? Thanks :)

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Annie Wertz @anniewertz.bsky.social · Oct 29

Hi everyone! I am looking for PhD students to join my (new) Lab for Infant Learning and Cognition (LILAC) at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Learn more about us here: sites.google.com/ucsb.edu/lilac Application info here: psych.ucsb.edu/prospective-.... Deadline is December 1st 👶🪴

Prospective Students | Psychological & Brain Sciences | UCSB

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Natalie Brito @nataliebrito.bsky.social · Nov 15

Developmental Psychology Starter Pack

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · Nov 14

a moving example of haka (arguably a form of music) used in political protest, in NZ parliament

also, since I like the science of this, also shows why "music bonds the group together" fundamentally misconstrues the behavior in question. it's not warm & fuzzy, haka is sending a clear message here !

Josh | writer, painter, tinkerer @tworuru.com · Nov 14

this rules

🇳🇿 #nzpol

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Nils Reimer @reimtime.bsky.social · Nov 13

I am hoping to recruit a Ph.D. student to join our Social Injustice and Social Change research group at UC Santa Barbara in Fall 2025! You can more information about the position, about our team, and about our research on our website. sisc.psych.ucsb.edu/posts/recrui...

Social Injustice and Social Change (UCSB) - Recruiting Ph.D. Students

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