Lifelong learner. Studying developmental psychology, Associate Professor of Psychology. Opinions are my own and do not represent my employer.
Cam Hostinar, Ph.D.
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What matters most for childhood brain organization?
We analyzed 649 variables.
The answer: Socioeconomics (SES); with brain patterns pointing at sleep & stress as drivers.
Even brain-IQ associations were better explained by SES.
In Science today: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Misinformation can take lives.
I just read about this the other day. It's a malware scam. If you get a captcha like this, just don't!
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Open Mind is MIT Press’s Diamond Open Access Cognitive Science journal.
We now have our first Impact Factor: 2.9 as of June 2026
Submit your papers to Open Mind
direct.mit.edu/opmi
Interested in cytokine-brain associations? Take a look at our new review paper revealing differential associations of specific cytokines with brain outcomes.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Congratulations 2026 Bethany Reeb-Sutherland Mid-Career Award Winner-Natalie Brito @nataliebrito.bsky.social, whose work reflects the intellectual independence, methodological innovation, and translational reach that this newly inaugurated award is designed to recognize. isdp.org/2026/06/15/c...
Really cool (and somewhat freighting) work on Gen AI use and highschool performance in China. Homework Scores rocket up, time spend doing homework collapses, then predictably exam scores are way down. Results show bimodal response ~75% see scores drop, the other 20-25% keep doing the work.
Meriah will be recruiting students at DU next year! Please apply or refer your best prospective PhD students to her!
We made an open repository of close relationships measures. Our goal is to catalogue all of the published self-report measures in relationship science.
You can help us expand the database by suggesting measures you tend to use in your research, or by uploading your own measures!
relascale.com
I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇
