This project was so fun to work on with this stellar team!! It also has some cool age-related findings: older children think that people should make objects they don't like more accessible to others, but that liked objects should be protected from others by putting them in a hard-to-reach place!
Alexis Smith-Flores
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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Abstract. Adults infer social information from objects' locations by integrating multiple causal factors, which is often challenging for children. To test
