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Carolyn Baer @carebaer7.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I'm recruiting a graduate student for Fall 2027! Full funding, beautiful campus, and a great community to work in. International applicants welcome - Canada is a great place to be. More info about what I look for and the app process: www.trentdevminds.ca/join-the-lab www.trentu.ca/graduatestud...

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Mia Radovanovic @radovanovic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Out now with @gracewujiameisun.bsky.social and @jessicas.bsky.social! We show that not only is exploring an intuitive and motivating response to failure in young children, but importantly, that encouraging toddlers to explore actually causes them to persist for longer! doi.org/10.1093/chid...

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Exploration supports toddlers’ persistence during problem-solving

Abstract. Toddlers must rapidly acquire new skills. However, these attempts frequently come with experiences of failure which can be frustrating and lead t

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Yarrow Dunham @yarrowdunham.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Yale is hiring in developmental psychology (open rank )! We're especially interested in complementing and broadening our area, including via somewhat less traditionally central such as cross-cultural and comparative approaches. Feel free to reach out with questions!

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Elaine Wang @elainewang.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Come say hello at #CogSci2026! Excited to be part of this incredible symposium!

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duncanlabuoft.bsky.social @duncanlabuoft.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

The Duncan Memory Lab and the Finn LAND Lab at the University of Toronto, Department of Psychology, are hiring a Full-Time Joint Lab Manager. Commitment: 1–2 years (Ideal for pre-grad school experience). Start Date: Early June Deadline: May 20th, 11:59 PM. Please help circulate the linked ad! TY!

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Lab Manager Job Posting (2026 Summer) Public

The Duncan Memory Lab and the Finn Learning and Neural Development (LAND) Lab at the University of Toronto are seeking a full-time joint Lab Manager (20 hours a week in each lab) The preferred start d...

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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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Bella Fascendini @bellafascendini.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

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? ✨

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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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Mia Radovanovic @radovanovic.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Out in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social with @jaeminhwang.bsky.social, David Sobel (@candmlab.bsky.social), and @jessicas.bsky.social! Most studies of infants’ fairness expectations focus on resource distribution, but in everyday life, we engage in many different kinds of resource exchanges.

Figure shows the methods used in the paper's experiments. In the left column are the methods for Exp 1 (Collection) and in the right are the methods for Exp 2 (Distribution). In each video, three women sit at a table. One sits in the middle, serving as a collector/distributor, and two sit in the foreground with plates. During familiarization trials, resources were collected from or distributed to their plates with an occluder on the screen hiding the outcomes. During test trials, the same videos were played but with the outcomes shown such that infants either viewed an equal collection/distribution or an unequal collection/distribution.

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Emily Liquin @emilyliquin.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

A few days left to apply to join my lab as a PhD student! We study how people explore, how new ideas form, and how thinking develops. Learn more at liquinlab.github.io. Application review begins 1/15. #PsychSciSky #CogPsyc #CogSci #DevPsyc

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Julian Jara-Ettinger @julianje.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Our paper in annual review of dev psych is out! It's a big-picture look at the development of social cognition from a computational perspective: compdevlab.yale.edu/docs/2025/an...

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Jessica Sommerville @jessicas.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

📣📣📣 Hi Everyone! I'm accepting PhD students for the Fall 2026 cycle! Our lab topics include the developmental origins and elaboration of moral cognition/prosocial behavior, persistence, and optimism. More info below!!

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Bella Fascendini @bellafascendini.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Excited to present at @CogSci2025 tomorrow at 1pm in Salon 6! Looking forward to presenting alongside incredible cognitive scientists @cvales.bsky.social, @elainewang.bsky.social, and @junyi.bsky.social ✨

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Leonard Learning Lab @leonardlearnlab.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

The Learning Lab is heading to CogSci 2025 (@cogscisociety.bsky.social) to share our latest research! Come say hello!

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Julia Leonard @julia-a-leonard.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Wirecutter crowned Ben & Jerry’s the best vanilla ice cream. I scoffed. Our lab managers Surya and Nat ran a blind taste test. Guess what won? Ben & Jerry’s. Science is brutal.

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Jessica Sommerville @jessicas.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

🚨 Postdoc Opportunity!!! The Toronto Early Cognition Lab (@UofT) is hiring a postdoc to study early optimism in infants & young children. Work w/ multi-method approach, amazing undergrads & grads. Start: Fall 2025 or later. Details: jessica.sommerville@utoronto.ca RTs appreciated 💫

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Mia Radovanovic @radovanovic.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

#SRCD2025 come check out the Toronto Early Cognition Lab (@jessicas.bsky.social)! @elainewang.bsky.social will also be presenting work with @julia-a-leonard.bsky.social that we got to collaborate on :)

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Elise Mahaffey @elisemahaffey.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

The Early Child Cognition Research Group at ASU (PIs: Kelsey Lucca and Viridiana Benitez) will be presenting our work at #SRCD2025! Hope to see you there!

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Julia Leonard @julia-a-leonard.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

Come check out the lab's research at @srcdorg.bsky.social this week! @leonardlearnlab.bsky.social

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Julia Leonard @julia-a-leonard.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Congrats to my first PhD student Dr Flora Zhang!!!!! Make sure to check out her amazing work on intuitive theories of acquisition (and why they matter) @leonardlearnlab.bsky.social

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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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Mia Radovanovic @radovanovic.bsky.social · 15/03/2024

The Toronto Early Cognition Lab is headed to Pasadena for CDS next week! Come check out our work 😊 normanjzeng.bsky.social elainewang.bsky.social jessicas.bsky.social

Saturday, March 23rd - 1:15 - 2:30 (Poster Session 3)
P3-6 - Infants' moral trait inferences in protective third-party intervention (Norman Zeng, Inderpreet Gill, Jessica A. Sommerville)

Saturday, March 23rd - 4:15 - 5:45PM (Symposium 4.3)
Practice what you preach: consistent messages about the value of effort boost children's persistence (Elaine Wang, Mia Radovanovic, Jessica A. Sommerville, & Julia Leonard)

Saturday, March 23rd - 5:45 - 7:00 (Poster Session 4)
P4-27 - Gender differences in children’s response to ineffective teaching across contexts (Mia Radovanovic, Aafiya Somani, Miguel Alzona,
Annabelle Persaud, Jessica A. Sommerville)

Saturday, March 23rd - 5:45 - 7:00 (Poster Session 4)
P4-153 - Interaction with graphics improves learning causal associations in 5-8 years old children (Mishaal Kandapath, Sophia Lee, Arnav Verma,
Fanny Chevalier, Jessica A. Sommerville)

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