New review paper on the development of friendship psychology/ cognition (w/ @zoeliberman.bsky.social):
By age 6, children appear to recognize friendship as a ranking-based relationship with outstanding social expectations and obligations.
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New paper in Child Development!
When we enter others' homes, we learn about them from the placement of their belongings. This requires integrating multiple social factors (social context, pref). We find 6+yo succeed at integration & 'read the room' in this way!
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Across the lifespan, friends are critical social partners. Prominent evolutionary theories—such as the Banker's Paradox (Tooby & Cosmides, 1996)—propo…
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Abstract. Adults infer social information from objects' locations by integrating multiple causal factors, which is often challenging for children. To test
Attending CDS 2026? Consider joining us at the morning pre-conference workshop on intuitive theories of care and protection in development @cogdevsoc.bsky.social
Rodney Tompkins
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Rodney Tompkins
I'm hiring a new lab manager for my lab @ UCSD! For more info on the lab, check out our website: lillab.ucsd.edu
Target start date is June 1 (flexible) and application deadline is March 26. Please share with anyone you think might be a good fit!
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Hmm, line of text at the bottom is not visible - Shirley Liu's poster on causal reasoning about defaults is at Sat 1:00-2:15, P3-L-115!
This project was a joy to work on with a spectacular team: First author Rob Santiago, now a PhD student at Cornell; @asmithflores.bsky.social, now a prof at Lehigh; and Madison Pesowski, now a prof at UFV.
I’m on-route to #CDS2026! Rodney Tompkins is presenting several streams of work across both my and Lindsey’s labs. In our poster, we find kids+adults make rich, nuanced social inferences about people from the presence of protective architecture in towns (fences, gates, walls) - P3-155, 1:15 Sat!
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