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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

or just read co-lead author @esranur.bsky.social's lovely summary :) bsky.app/profile/esra...

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Now out online! Why do kids sometimes bomb possibility reasoning tasks and other times totally nail it? We review the lit and show how differences in a set of common ancillary cognitive demands in these tasks "push around" the age at which children succeed - psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d...

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

New from me and Jessica Applin! We find that infants' behavior in a cracker choice task is impacted by an agent’s partial knowledge of object quantity: infants choose based on the agent's (inaccurate) representation rather than their own 🤯 Now in press at JECP, preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Esra Nur Turan-Küçük @esranur.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Why do estimates of when kids can reason about multiple possibilities vary so widely? We argue it’s partly because common possibility reasoning tasks pile on ancillary demands that mask true possibility reasoning ability. psycnet.apa.org/record/2028-...

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Now out in an issue! Children find it easier to represent uncertainty about *what* an object is than *where* an object is, with interesting implications for both early possibility reasoning and object representations ~~ Check it out 👉 direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

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Children’s Representations of Possibility: Uncertainty About “What” Is Easier Than Uncertainty About “Where”

Abstract. Young children struggle in situations involving mere possibility, such as when a target object could be in one of two possible locations. This difficulty is often interpreted as a general li...

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

How do ancillary cognitive demands systematically shape young children's behaviors in a range of possibility reasoning tasks? Find out in our new paper, now in press at Developmental Psychology!

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Esra Nur Turan-Küçük @esranur.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

1/ New paper with Stephanie Alderete, Fei Xu and Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social!! osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Gabor Brody @gaborbrody.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Can infants or other animals represent "mutually exclusive possibilities"? In a new paper in JEP:G, we argue for specifying: in thinking or seeing? We show that in object perception (shared with infants and many animals), the answer is yes. (w Peter Mazalik & Roman Feiman) osf.io/preprints/ps... /1

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Esra Nur Turan-Küçük @esranur.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

New paper in Open Mind! 2-to-4-year-olds find it easier to reason about an object's possible identity than its possible location, and we argue this asymmetry traces back to the architecture of early object representations. 🧵

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Society for Philosophy and Psychology @socphilpsych.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

🥁Now announcing the winner of the 2026 Stanton Prize: Congratulations, Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social! ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ This honor will be celebrated at the upcoming meeting of the SPP

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

This is going to be an incredible event celebrating Alan Leslie's amazing career. Speakers include Susan Carey, Lisa Feigenson, Randy Gallistel, Ori Friedman, Zsuzsa Káldy, Ágnes Kovács, Sydney Levine, Sandeep Prasada, Brian Scholl, Luca Surian (and me!) Join in person at Rutgers or livestream

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Society for Philosophy and Psychology @socphilpsych.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Children’s reasoning about possible outcomes of events in the present and the future 📣 Work by Esra N. Turan-Küçük & Melissa M. Kibbe

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

You can access the paper from our website as well www.bu.edu/cdl/files/20...

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

New from me and @esranur.bsky.social! In two exps with 3-4-year-olds, we find no differences in kids' reasoning about possible outcomes of an event in different temporal contexts; kids perform the same under physical and epistemic uncertainty psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-... #devpsy #psychscisky

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Come check out work from my lab at @socphilpsych.bsky.social SPP 2025!

List of presentation sessions for talk (June 18) and posters (June 19 and June 20) from folks in the BU Developing Minds Lab.

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Esra Nur Turan-Küçük @esranur.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Hey, people who have kids, can you please share some info about staying in academia (job search mode) + being a mom? Thanks!

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Esra Nur Turan-Küçük @esranur.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Check out my personal website: www.esraturankucuk.com/about

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Gabor Brody @gaborbrody.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Paper w/ Gergely Csibra now out in Psych Review! Work in CogDev often assumes that infant object representations are perceptual/spatial in origin. There is a ton of beautiful work showing that this is not always the case — e.g. they represent objects that they are only told about (1/4) (links below)

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Jin X. Goh | 吴晋勋 @jinxungoh.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

If you/ your students are interviewing for PhD psych programs in US (especially social psych), check out the resource page on my website. There are guides prepped by grad students + questions to ask faculty etc. Good luck! www.pbandjlab.com/resources

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David Barner @drbarner.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

You might think that having just one word for "yesterday" and "tomorrow" would make learning harder, but we find the opposite - that children learning the Hindi word "kal" understand its use to refer to past & future events earlier than English-speaking kids understand "yesterday" and "tomorrow".

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Society for Philosophy and Psychology @socphilpsych.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

SPP 2025 will be at Cornell, June 18-21!

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Alisa Bokulich @alisabokulich.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

Boston University Philosophy Dept welcomes applications for Findlay Visiting Professorship (Assoc or Full) for a semester or year beginning Fall 2025 or Spring 2026. AOS Open. Applicant will be expected to offer 1 course & give 1 public lecture. Deadline April 7, 2025 #philsci #philsky

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Findlay Visiting Professorship, Boston University - PhilJobs:JFP Findlay Visiting Professorship, Boston University

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

New work from my lab, lead by superstar @esranur.bsky.social!! 🌟

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Larisa Heiphetz Solomon @drlarisa.bsky.social · 17/09/2024

Example #23,498 of developmental work being adorable & touching: When kids weren't sure who was going to eat snack, they prepped the favorite foods of both possible agents, b/c kids are amazing. Lovely work by @esranur.bsky.social & @levelsof.bsky.social: osf.io/preprints/ps... #DevPsyc

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Esra Nur Turan-Küçük @esranur.bsky.social · 04/09/2024

🎉Our paper "Three- and Four-Year-Old Children Represent Mutually Exclusive Possible Identities" has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology! You can read the preprint here: osf.io/rx4h9 (1/5)

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Jonathan F. Kominsky @jfkominsky.bsky.social · 09/06/2024

Do infants represent collision events that violate Newtonian constraints on elastic collisions as causal? I tested this in my new paper with Susan Carey, "Infants' representation of Michottean triggering events", out today. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #CogSciSky #PsychSciSky #CogSci

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The classic Michottean ‘launching’ event is consistent with a real-world Newtonian elastic collision. Previous research has shown that adult humans di…

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Esra Nur Turan-Küçük @esranur.bsky.social · 20/06/2024

Hey everyone! I'm excited to share that I'll be giving a talk on young children's ability to reason about multiple, mutually exclusive object identities at #SPP2024! Come check out our new work with @levelsof.bsky.social! 🗓️ Saturday, June 22 🕒 3:30 PM 📍 North Ballroom, Session 6A

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Nora Newcombe @noranewcombe.bsky.social · 24/03/2024

We have filled two positions but one is still open. Please apply to the position ending in 305– it’s a silly HR thing. Feel free to email me directly for more info.

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Esra Nur Turan-Küçük @esranur.bsky.social · 22/03/2024

Interested in young children’s understanding of possibility and how they represent the actions (minds) of others’ in tasks involving mutually exclusive possibilities? Meet me at Poster P1-137, end of the room, during Poster Session 1 at 1:15. See you there! #CDS2024

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Brandon Woo @brandonwoo.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

Looking forward to #CDS2024! Come check out our symposium: “Reasoning about social distance and affiliation across human development”. Presenters include Caroline Cha and @hghwang.bsky.social, @lindseypowell.bsky.social, Aaron Chuey, and me. Friday at 4:15 pm.

This is a visual of the symposium name ("Reasoning about social distance and affiliation across human development"), with pictures of the speakers (Aaron Chuey, Caroline Cha, Brandon Woo, Lindsey Powell) and the names of their talks.

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

Please come see @esranur.bsky.social 's poster at CDS! She is presenting on some very cool work examining children's understanding of others' actions on multiple possibilities. [Very annoyed that her name got left off of the program!]

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Esra Nur Turan-Küçük @esranur.bsky.social · 20/03/2024

Excited to share that I'm presenting at #CDS2024! 🌟 Though there's been an oversight with my name in the program, my enthusiasm is undiminished. Eager to share our work with @levelsof.bsky.social titled “Young children’s understanding of others’ actions on mutually exclusive possibilities.”

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 17/03/2024

Come check out the Boston University Developing Minds Lab at the 2024 Cognitive Development Society Meeting!

THURSDAY MARCH 21
30th Anniversary of Mapping the Mind: Domain Specificity in Cognition and Culture
9 AM - 4:15 PM, Ballroom C
POSTERS (11 AM - 12 PM)
Do children adopt a moral hierarchy when reasoning about living and non-living entities?
Turan-Küçük & Kelemen
Do children track beliefs about imaginary objects in pretend contexts?
Mbarki & Kibbe
FRIDAY MARCH 22
4:15 PM - 5:15 PM
Symposium 2.1, Ballroom AB
Pre-number-knowers fast-map verbal labels onto sets of objects
Cheng, Feigenson (JHU), & Kibbe
POSTER SESSION 1
1:15 to 2:30pm (Exhibit Hall A)
Young children’s understanding of others’ actions on mutually exclusive possibilities.
Esra Nur Turan-Küçük & Melissa M. Kibbe
POSTER SESSION 2
5:45 to 7:00 PM (Exhibit Hall A)
Infants remember “objectness” best: examining 18-20-month-olds’ representations of objects’ featural and categorical identities
Stahl (TCNJ) & Kibbe
Children’s quantity perception is biased by high caloric foods
Mbarki, atu-Aminu (Rutgers), Dindial (Rutgers), & Wang

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Brandon Woo @brandonwoo.bsky.social · 08/03/2024

New paper out in Cognition! Here, Liz Spelke, Gabe Chisholm, and I tackle debates concerning infants' and toddlers' understanding of others' minds. We find evidence for a limit to early mental state reasoning. authors.elsevier.com/a/1iif32Hx2x...

This is a screenshot of the paper title ("Do toddlers reason about other people's experiences of objects? A limit to early mental state reasoning") and of the abstract.

A conceptual schematic of the design of our key experiments. The arrows indicate the target of the actor’s observed action. The toddler first observed the actor selectively reach for pictures of faces that were either upright or inverted from his perspective. The actor’s perspective was opposite to the perspective of the toddler throughout the familiarization sequence. The toddlers could either represent the actor's action from his perspective or from their own perspective as observers.

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Ashley Thomas @ashleyjthomas.bsky.social · 11/03/2024

Very excited to be at CDS with my lab! Come check out our work!! @brandonmwoo.bsky.social @ashleycleung.bsky.social and blueskyless others!

Info graphic listing times of talks at an upcoming conference: Come say hi to the Thomas Lab at CDS 2024!
You can find us at the following events:
Thu 3/21, 9AM-4PM: Pre-Conference Workshop
"From Dyads to Collectives: Current Directions in Our Understanding of Intuitive Sociology"
Christina Steele, Mack Briscoe, Ashley Thomas
Fri 3/22, 1:15-2:30PM: Poster Session 1
"The role of social engagement in infants' preference for infant-directed speech"
Ashley Leung, Emma Yu, Ashley Thomas
"Early threads of connection: probing infants’ early understandings of caregiving relationships"
Christina Steele, Megan Richardson, Azwayla Taylor, Denisse Lopez, Ashley Thomas
Fri 3/22, 4:15-5:45PM: Symposium 2.3: Room 3
"Children’s understanding of mental state attributions within close relationships"
Brandon Woo, Emma Yu, Ashley Thomas
Fri 3/22, 5:45-7:00PM: Poster Session 2
"Ten- and 11-month-old infants use others' emotions to individuate agents"
Andrea Ventura, Brandon Woo, Ashley Thoma

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Jenny Wang 👶 🧮 @jinjingjenny1.bsky.social · 29/02/2024

Working on this together with @levelsof.bsky.social has been an absolutely fun adventure! Hope you have as much fun reading this as we had writing it!

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Esra Nur Turan-Küçük @esranur.bsky.social · 06/01/2024

Today I am presenting our work on young children’s ability to plan for mutually exclusive possible events in the present and future at #BCCCD24! Come and check our new work with @levelsof.bsky.social! Time: 14:30 - 16:30 CET, Poster Number: 02.

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

Incredibly proud of the rigorous work and thought that @esranur.bsky.social put into this project. Check out the PDF directly here www.bu.edu/cdl/files/20...

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

We suggest that a primary limiting factor on children's planning for possibilities may not be their ability to represent the space of possibilities for the outcome of a future event, but instead their ability to represent the space of possible future ACTIONS that could be taken on those outcomes.

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

We know younger children struggle with action planning, yet many tasks designed to assess conceptual competence with possibility make demands on planning. We find that showing children the set of possible actions that can be taken to prepare for uncertain outcomes helps them take optimal actions

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

New pub now out in Cognition! @esranur.bsky.social and I find that younger children's competence with reasoning about multiple, mutually exclusive possibilities is masked by limitations on their ability to make and deploy plans to cover those possibilities. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Esra Nur Turan-Küçük @esranur.bsky.social · 04/01/2024

📣 Thrilled to share my first first-author publication in Cognition: “Three-year-olds' ability to plan for mutually exclusive future possibilities is limited primarily by their representations of possible plans, not possible events” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 15/12/2023

2024 will be the 30th anniversary of Mapping the Mind, a collection of groundbreaking theoretical essays that have shaped cog dev science. @debkelemen.bsky.social and I are SO excited that this STAR STUDDED pre-conf is a go! Come hear where they all stand on their theories now, + lively discussion.

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debkelemen @debkelemen.bsky.social · 14/12/2023

Still stunned that @levelsof.bsky.social and I got this "band" back together for a CDS preconf. CDS registration opens soon so register quick while seats last! 🙏🙏to Susan Gelman, Larry Hirschfeld, Scott Atran, Susan Carey, Alison Gopnik, Paul Harris, Frank Keil, Alan Leslie, Liz Spelke Henry Wellman

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Top 10 reasons you should apply to the PhD program in Developmental Science at Boston University, in no particular order: #psychscisky #devsci #cogdev #philsky

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Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

This cycle, Deb Kelemen and I have openings for new PhD students! I am particularly recruiting students who are interested in early object and numerical representations, topics related to language of thought in infancy and early childhood, and the early cognitive bases of anti-fat bias.

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