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Aarthi Popat @aarthipopat.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This took until last week to finish, but the results are in. In a tense final (commentated by @yarrowdunham.bsky.social), @jinke.bsky.social took home the grand prize, followed by @julia-a-leonard.bsky.social in second and Stefan Lunis in third place. These three are really good at Connect 4.

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Shari Hamm @sharinahamm.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Had an amazing time at the 2026 Computational Psychiatry Conference presenting my ongoing work on formalizing impulsivity as a mathematical model! ✨ Honored and excited to share that I received the Best Poster Award! 🏆 Big thank you to my co-authors and my PI, @shirleybwang.bsky.social!!

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Dorsa Amir @dorsaamir.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

When we consider children in cultural evolution, we tend to cast them as recipients of adult culture. In our BBS target article, @sheinalew.bsky.social & I argued there's more: through 'peer cultures', children actively drive cultural adaptation. Our final paper + a rich set of responses is out now!

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Children as agents of cultural adaptation | Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Cambridge Core

Children as agents of cultural adaptation - Volume 49

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Elizabeth Li @elizabeth-li.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Had so much fun at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology last week! First talk of my life and it was an amazing experience! @socphilpsych.bsky.social #SPP2026

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Rasha Kardosh @rasharasha.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Out in PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Inequality is not only hard to solve. Sometimes, it is hard to *see*. We ask a simple question: Do people notice when members of minority groups are absent? Across field studies and experiments, the answer was often no.

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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...

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Aarthi Popat @aarthipopat.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

So cool - can't wait to read 🤩

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Sophie Arnold @sophieharnold.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

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...

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Leonard Learning Lab @leonardlearnlab.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Come check out the lab's work at CDS!

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Leonard Learning Lab @leonardlearnlab.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

5th year PhD student Brandon Carrillo got second place in the Yale 3 minute thesis competition! Congrats Brandon!!!

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Julia Leonard @julia-a-leonard.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

💥New paper alert! Dyadic Decisions About Effort: How Caregivers Shape Young Children’s Persistence (with @reutshachnai.bsky.social) One of my favorites! If you’re curious about what we’ve been up to in @leonardlearnlab.bsky.social, take a look! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Aarthi Popat @aarthipopat.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Here's the paper: doi.org/10.1037/xge0.... It was so so fun to think and write with this group! Stay tuned for more 🥳

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Aarthi Popat @aarthipopat.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Our findings support the account that people flexibly evaluate disparate impact policies in response to context, and we identify strong justifications as a lever that promotes moral acceptance of these policies across development. (6/7)

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Aarthi Popat @aarthipopat.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Finally, politically conservative adults were more accepting of the disparate impact policy when it impacted girls, but not when it impacted boys (a school club only admitted children with long hair). (5/7)

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Aarthi Popat @aarthipopat.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

But, when provided with strong justification for the policy ("the short-hair rule prevents harm"), acceptance of the policy increased. A circular justification ("because I make the rules") did not increase acceptance. (4/7)

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Aarthi Popat @aarthipopat.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

We presented a disparate impact policy that indirectly discriminated against girls (a school club only admitted kids with short hair). Participants (5-10-yos and adults) negatively evaluated the disparate impact policy starting at 7 years old, strengthening into adulthood. (3/7)

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Aarthi Popat @aarthipopat.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Some examples of disparate impact policies are voter ID laws and height/strength requirements in the workplace. We propose that these policies are often morally ambiguous, so people judge them flexibly depending on evidence of intentional discrimination. (2/7)

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Aarthi Popat @aarthipopat.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

So excited to share this new paper, out in JEP:G with the incredible @jamieamemiya.bsky.social, Gail Heyman, and @carenwalker.bsky.social! We tested how children and adults reason about disparate impact policies: formally neutral laws or rules that are indirectly discriminatory. (1/7)

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Martin Meyer @m-meyer.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

@xphilosopher.bsky.social and I tried to study what beliefs do (or at least, what people think they do). Across hundreds of participant generated beliefs and first/third party ratings, we found they express identity and/or represent facts, in the pattern described in this post. 1/

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Reut Shachnai @reutshachnai.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

Overparenting can hold kids back—but our research shows that framing tasks as learning opportunities helps parents step back and foster kids' independence! ✨ Read more in our latest Psychology Today piece: www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/deve... @julia-a-leonard.bsky.social @mika-asaba.bsky.social

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Overparenting Is Holding Kids Back—Here’s What to Do Instead

Overparenting can hinder kids' independence. Research shows that reframing everyday tasks as learning opportunities helps parents step back and let kids grow.

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