RT this #ResearchOpportunity🔬🌟 A #postdoc opening in Dr. Rina Eiden's #research lab @ PSU! Dive into an RCT, learn about #substance use, and get the opportunity to collaborate and work with longitudinal datasets. 🤰#AcademicJobs #ScienceJobs #DevPsych
https://psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic/job/Penn-State-University-Park/Postdoctoral-Scholar---Development--Risk--and-Resilience-Lab_REQ_0000049015-1

#AcademicChatter #AcademicLife #PhD #PhDchat #WomenInAcademia
#PhDdone #DoctoralLife #PhDresearcher #PhDchatter #PostDoc #PosdoctoralScholar

Do you expect #kids to learn #math better alone, collaboratively, or competitively?

In a study of 274 1st and 2nd graders, it varied by gender (and not how I would have expected).

Boys performed better after working alone or collaboratively, but didn’t seem to benefit from competition.

On the harder tasks, girls benefitted *only* from competition.

https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13987

#edu #school #teaching #devPsych #numeracy #decisionScience

Autistic adults weren't more likely to report lying in everyday situations than non-autistic adults (p - 0.259).

Age and theory of mind predicted fewer lies from non-autistic adults, but not autistics adults.

Lie acceptability predicted more lies in both groups.

https://doi.org/10.1177/13623613231183911

#devPsych #ethics #autism #ASD #moralPsych #xPhi 

Do you expect higher-quality #dialogue in small group discussions or whole class discussions?

It might depend on the metric:
- small groups fostered more invitation for peers to weigh in (d = 0.78, p < 0.001)
- whole classes generated more justifications of one's viewpoint (d = 0.69, p < 0.001)

Loads more insight from Herculean corpus analyses involving over 4000 students from 5 countries: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.linged.2023.101223

#edu #teaching #argumentation #P4C #corpusLinguistics #textAsData #DevPsych 

Will high school students' reflection test performance predict the reasoning preferences and habits it does in adults?

Rizek and Toplak report "patterns of correlations are generally consistent with what has been reported in adult samples" in a sample of over 300 9th through 12 graders from North America:  

https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003009351-20

#DecisionScience #DevPsych #Psychology #Replicability

Cool little comment paper by Michael Frank on why LLMs and other Large Pre-Trained AI models can be fruitfully studied using methods and techniques coming from developmental psychology:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s44159-023-00211-x

I've been working on a similar approach to understanding such systems, so it's great to see such ideas get their chance in the Nature spotlight!

#understandingAI #ai #DevPsych #llm

(2/2) ...autistic people's “attention to detail” Autism Quotient subscores *strongly* predicted more reflection—significantly more than neurotypical participants' scores!

(z-scores mine)

These results of better matching help explain why scientists *sometimes* find a correlation between #autism and #reflection test performance: #attention to detail?

Find the free paper in Journal of #intelligence https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence11060124

#psychology #rationality #DecisionScience #devPsych #edu

Teresa McCormack closed the #SPP2023 #preconference on #memory with “The value of remembering and anticipating experiences: a developmental perspective”

It was—as Teresa put it—dangerously close to an #xPhi talk. It adapted a famous thought experiment (from Derek Parfit?) to test kids’ and adults’ intuitions about how much we care about past, present, or future versions of us.

Follow Dr. McCormack on gScholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=g9T7yn8AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

#personalIdentity #PhilMind #psychology #devPsych #P4C

Tamar Kushnir’s #SPP2023 presidential address tried to answer, “When do children become responsible for moral decisions?”

Evidence suggests people’s opinions vary by culture, as do laws, but there’s evidence that kids develop the ability to understand moral aspects of decisions (including that some decisions seem to be moral).

Find/follow Dr. Kushnir on gScholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=TMuSMXoAAAAJ&hl=en

#DevPsych #Ethics #PhilMind #cogSci #xPhi

“Norm Emergence from Cognitive Biases and Cultural Transmission” presented by Scott Partington


Three experiments suggest that people
- Infer impermissibility from imprudence
- that impermissibility can be retained

Why care? Cuz we see biased pedagogy that caused this deontic inference in many developmental contexts (like teaching and parenting).


Collaborators: Rachana Kamtekar, Shaun Nichols

Scott’s on gScholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jAq0UGIAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

#DevPsych #xPhi #ethics #teaching #cogSci #SPP2023

Andrew Shtulman's “Reflecting on Possibility: Cognitive Reflection Facilitates the Development of Modal Cognition" replicated and extended finding that kinds think wrong actions are improbable, are improbable events are wrong!

Kids’ reflection test performance predicted kids possibility and permissibility judgments (above and beyond age and executive function).

Follow on gScholar to learn when article is up: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Cz8bTrkAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

#cogSci #decisionScience #DevPsych #ethics #probability #xPhi

Melissa Kibbe shared “Function Arithmetic Computations Over Pre-Symbolic Representations of Quantity in Infants and Children” at #SPP2023:

Research with Cheng empirically distinguished nonsymbolic arithmetic (noticing one physical object is placed next to another) from symbolic arithmetic (1+1=2) are algorithmically distinct, which may limit transfer from nonsymbolic arithmetic formal math.

Find/follow Dr. Kibbe on gScholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=NN4GKo8AAAAJ&hl=en

#DevPsych #math #xPhi #CogSci #PhilMind

Caren Walker presented "Children Consider Future Learning Goals During Information Search" with/for Liz Lapidow (who was sick, absent).

Puzzle: evidence is mixed about whether kids are "intuitive scientists" or bad at scientific thinking (controlling for variables).

Modified task suggested kids *can be* intuitive scientists when the task dissociates different goals that kids might have during the task.

Paper on gScholar: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs&hl=en&cluster=18137361289857062215

#DevPsych #CogSci #PhilSci #PhilMind #Causation

Rebecca Peretz-Lange (and colleagues') shared results and theory about why #essentialism frames can sometimes promote and sometimes mitigate #prejudice.

Dr. Peretz-Lange appeals to studies that included both kids and adults to suggest that "causal discounting" can make the seemingly contradictory results coherent.

You can find/follow the publications from Rebecca's gScholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=list_works&hl=en&hl=en&user=C14WR0gAAAAJ&sortby=pubdate

#bias #devPsych #framingEffects #decisionScience #biology #behavior

Automated scoring of reflective thinking in accounting students' writing "positively related to data analytics assignment grades [but] #emotionalIntelligence (EI) was not found to moderate th[is] relationship" (N = 86).

Images of pages from the thesis are attached: https://udallas-ir.tdl.org/handle/20.500.14026/2064

#CriticalThinking #Emotion #EmotionalIntelligence #EQ #NaturalLanguageProcessing #NLP #TextAnalysis #DevelopmentalPsychology #DevPsych #Teaching #Education #DataAnalysis

Older people (over 55) were less prone to a certain type of #deliberation during #buying and #donation #decisions—even though they were more ambivalent (and #ambivalence correlated with more deliberation) and even when controlling for working #memory—than younger people (18-24). Total N = 120. 

Images of pages from the article are attached: https://ir.ua.edu/handle/123456789/9902

#age #CriticalThinking #DecisionScience #JudgmentAndDecisionMaking #JDM #DevelopmentalPsychology #DevPsych #Psychology #CogSci

"children [with] more #conservative" parents were more likely to "cho[o]se boys and girls with extreme stereotypical features (e.g., the girl in head-to-toe pink) as [more] representative and informative of their categories"

Video abstract (4 minutes):  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ps9BwuukyD0
Paper: https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13345

#Stereotypes #Gender #Politics #Children #Parenting #DevelopmentalPsychology #DevPsych #Learning

When you understand the object still exists, but get caught out looking in the wrong place for it #devpsych

@DataGeekB Here's a true story from the annals of #DevPsych

Grade five students were given barometers and sent on an excursion downtown to measure the height of the tallest building.

Only one student provided the correct answer, in fact, it was too correct. Upon investigation, the school learned the student had walked into the building, approached the reception desk, and offered to trade their barometer for a bit of information…

The student was subsequently suspended. 😔

GABA: γ-Aminobutyric acid — perhaps the most important acronym every educator should know.

In '94, we tested our 3D control devices on my 9 and 11 year olds. Typically, our adult test subjects would reach perfect score in 5-10 minutes, so we sampled every 30 seconds.

My kids reached perfect score, on all devices, by the first sample. Had we known, we could have sampled thirty times a second!

Why children learn more quickly than adults
#education #neuropsych #DevPsych
https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/gaba-children-learn-faster-adults/