Psych PhD candidate in overdrive at UCSD, interested in conceptual development & change š š ā¢ https://urvi-maheshwari.github.io
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Aside from testing the MR view, we offer a new theoretical take on why kids fail. Kids conceptualize the goal of object retrieval tasks exactly as adults do betting. When we bet on horses, we don't spread bets across all options, but try to pick a winner. When FORCED to spread bets, kids succeed.
New preprint w/ @drbarner.bsky.social, and probably the most fun project I've worked on!!
Past studies find kids fail to compute scalar implicatures. Do those tasks test spontaneous interpretation, or do they proffer worlds kids would never consider? š§µ osf.io/preprints/ps...
Can infants or other animals represent "mutually exclusive possibilities"? In a new paper in JEP:G, we argue for specifying: in thinking or seeing? We show that in object perception (shared with infants and many animals), the answer is yes. (w Peter Mazalik & Roman Feiman) osf.io/preprints/ps... /1
gonna try something different and start joy baiting people
Researchers learn about the world in part by randomly deciding to do things to their participants. Why is randomization ā the move at the heart of the experimental method ā even allowed? Ch 4 of Experimentology is about research ethics.
š§µ experimentology.io
