Social Learning Lab at Stanford University. We study children's cognitive development and how they learn from the social world.
PI: Dr. Hyowon Gweon @hyogweon.bsky.social
Social Learning Lab
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Congratulations to all of our awesome lab members who presented this year at #CDS2026! And thank you to everyone who came to our talks and preconference workshops 😊
The preconferences were a huge success! Looking forward to Day 1 at #CDS2026. Of course all our talks are in the same Friday PM slot but you can catch most of them if you hop strategically between rooms ;-)
The SLL will be at #CDS2026 this week! Catch some of our talks and posters below!
Last week, the SLL and friends headed up to the Presidio of San Francisco for our annual lab hike to celebrate another amazing year!
Last Friday, Junyi and Kaelin headed over to Synapse School in Menlo Park for their Interactive Lab Day to meet with families and talk about our research! At Synapse, we will be working with the team at the Brainwave Learning Center to run some new studies on children's inferences about game design!
Hello bsky! Excited to share this paper as my very first post / repost :-) We show that children are sensitive to whether an adult offered promised help, and strategically consider this to decide what task to pursue (easy or hard?) and whether to explore vs. seek help!
Last week, we wrapped up the end of Winter Quarter with a social on the Oval with our friends in the Causality in Cognition Lab! Lots of cookies from Antoine's were consumed 🍪. We'll be back in the Spring! 🌸💐
Out today in PNAS: Young children are surprised when a stranger has “insider knowledge” about them—and even make on-the-fly inferences about how that person could have learned it. So much fun working on this with Aaron Chuey and @julianje.bsky.social!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2525150123
Officially out TODAY in Child Development! It's good to try challenging tasks and explore on your own, but not when it might be too hard and help isn't available. Children get that. w/ Kat Shannon, Aneesa Conine-Nakano, Willem Frankenhuis, @mcxfrank.bsky.social
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Social Learning Lab
Hyowon (Hyo) Gweon
Social Learning Lab
WS14: unified-motivation.github.io/cds
join us for a set of diverse & complementary approaches to understanding motivation!
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
The SLL will be at #CDS2026 this week! Catch some of our talks and posters below!
Abstract. The effectiveness of social learning depends on whether learners receive help when they need it. In four preregistered studies, U.S. 4–6-year-old
Hello bsky! Excited to share this paper as my very first post / repost :-) We show that children are sensitive to whether an adult offered promised help, and strategically consider this to decide what task to pursue (easy or hard?) and whether to explore vs. seek help!
What do kids choose to do when they think that someone will help them? What about when no one will help?
New paper: "Young children strategically adapt to unreliable social partners" - led by Kat Shannon, with @hyogweon.bsky.social and Willem Frankenhuis.
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Social Learning Lab
Junyi Chu
Hyowon (Hyo) Gweon
What do kids choose to do when they think that someone will help them? What about when no one will help?
New paper: "Young children strategically adapt to unreliable social partners" - led by Kat Shannon, with @hyogweon.bsky.social and Willem Frankenhuis.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Mike Frank
Mike Frank
Are you attending @cogdevsoc.bsky.social 2026? Come join us for an afternoon pre-conference workshop on motivation in development! We'll bring together developmental, educational, and computational perspectives to ask: Can we build a unified account of motivation across the lifespan? ✨
