⭐️From Elizabeth Lapidow, Amberley Stein, Giovanni Thomas & Caren Walker:
Young Children Use Causal Knowledge to Guide Question Asking
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Was chatting with a colleague recently about how academics navigate different stages of careers, and it reminded me of this great post from Elliot Berkman that I found helpful when I was getting started (and that I revisit periodically):
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Cancel culture has taken over social media... or has it?
In a new paper, Randy T. Lee, Jabin Binnendyk, @gordpennycook.bsky.social, Ovul Sezer, and I found that people overestimate support for "cancellation": doi.org/10.31234/osf...
We've known that socioeconomics (SES) matters for the 🧠. New & 🤯 is that SES drowns out all other brain associations, incl. IQ. If you train an algorithm to predict IQ from brain data, it's still way better at predicting SES. Science Mag: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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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!
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New paper with @mohitmukherji.bsky.social, Mona Lebrun, and @marjorierhodes.bsky.social @JEP:G! Did you ever wonder whether saying things like “boys can wear dresses too” is effective at reducing stereotypical inferences? We find that they’re probably not—check out more here: doi.org/10.1037/xge0...
Abstract. Question asking is essential for learning in childhood. But options for possible questions are nearly infinite. We investigate whether causal kno
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Our interests in human memory and cognition encompass the cognitive and neural basis of working memory, attention, control, and consciousness.News Madison Symposium on Memory & Control. On 30 May 202...
Sharing a recent blog post on how PhD students can make a difference in the fight to defend American science.
Hosted on PsychPress, a blog from Northeastern Psych PhD students created by me and @zoekross.bsky.social.
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Starting a graduate program? Here is some advice about succeeding that you might not have heard.
We're recruiting postdocs to study how people build structured knowledge from experience & use it to act flexibly. Behavioral work, fMRI, computational & AI models, with a lifespan focus. You don't need experience with every method; fit & curiosity matter most.
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Human cooperation is strong among individuals but fragile between groups
Perspective by Paul A. M. Van Lange & Paul K. Bergmann
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RelaScale is a searchable database of psychological measures and constructs for relationship researchers.
There is ample empirical evidence that humans are cooperative, but there is also evidence that humans can be distrustful, hostile and aggressive. In this Review, Van Lange and Bergmann reconcile this ...
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/...
