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Dr Kirsten Blakey

@khblakey.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Developmental Psychology at Liverpool John Moores University • Studying cognitive development, belief revision, information seeking & social learning • she/her

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Dr Kirsten Blakey @khblakey.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New paper in Child Development with @samuelronfard.bsky.social! academic.oup.com/chidev/advan...
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Interpretive theory of mind predicts greater willingness to seek out disagreement for learning
Abstract. Though disagreement provides valuable chances to learn, people typically avoid it. This study tested whether understanding that people can hold d
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Dr Kirsten Blakey @khblakey.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
New paper with @samuelronfard.bsky.social on learning from disagreement! Children and adults prefer learning from people who agree with them, despite recommending that others seek disagreement. We also explore how to increase interest in disagreement. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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How to Increase Children's and Adults’ Interest in Learning From Disagreement
We often avoid talking to people who disagree with us, missing potentially valuable learning opportunities. Across four preregistered studies, we examined children's (6–11 years) and adults’ interes...
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Nick Byrd, Ph.D. @byrdnick.com · 16/06/2026
Can 3-6 year-olds distinguish between reliable vs. unreliable informants? A study of 93 #kids found the children were sensitive to source reliability, with limited abilities to generalize across contexts. doi.org/10.1016/j.je... #devPsych #cogSci #epistemology #xPhi #parenting
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Dr Kirsten Blakey @khblakey.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Nonverbal rationality? 2-year-old children, dogs, and pigs show unselective responses to unreliability but to different degrees Open access here: doi.org/10.1111/cdev...
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Alexa "Lex" Sacchi @alexasacchi.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Come talk to @feceozkan.bsky.social after her Reasoning talk session & @khblakey.bsky.social @normanjzeng.bsky.social & I during our posters today to hear about our epic journey to Ithaca!
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Alexa "Lex" Sacchi @alexasacchi.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
UofT psych gets to #SPP2025: Public transit down, first car rental broke down 700m after leaving, endured flash floods in upstate NY. We finally made it (11 hours later!)
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Dr Kirsten Blakey @khblakey.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
New paper! We develop a framework for understanding how reflective belief revision could emerge from unreflective responses to evidence, integrating epistemology and developmental psychology. Epistemic Rationality Begins Unreflectively link.springer.com/article/10.1... #DevPsych #Epistemology
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Epistemic Rationality Begins Unreflectively - Erkenntnis
Recent research in analytic epistemology suggests that one can form a rational belief without being in the position to identify and assess the evidence in its support. The reach of such unreflective r...
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Samuel Ronfard @samuelronfard.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Check us out at #SRCD tomorrow! Great work led by @feceozkan.bsky.social and @khblakey.bsky.social
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F. Ece Ozkan @feceozkan.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Excited to be organizing this symposium with @samuelronfard.bsky.social's support! 😊 Check out our session #SRCD25, Friday, 11.30 am, and hear from Joshua Confer, @anahidmodrek.bsky.social, and @lucaspbutler.bsky.social! @janengelmann.bsky.social
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Chris Krupenye @chriskrupenye.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
🚨RT! The Social & Cognitive Origins group at @jhuartssciences.bsky.social (social-cognitive-origins.com), directed by Dr. Christopher Krupenye, is recruiting a full-time research assistant or lab manager to begin Summer 2025. The position has a one-year minimum, w/ the possibility of extension. 1/
The Social & Cognitive Origins Group at Johns Hopkins University studies how humans and other animals think.The Homewood campus of Johns Hopkins University in full spring bloom.
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Dr Kirsten Blakey @khblakey.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
New paper! Children’s sharing is influenced by factors like others' need and reputation, but research has typically examined these factors in isolation. This study explores how different combinations of need and reputation affect costly sharing decisions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Children consider others’ need and reputation in costly sharing decisions - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Children consider others’ need and reputation in costly sharing decisions
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Dr. Candice Mills @candicemmills.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
How does the capacity to demonstrate intellectual humility - to recognize limits to one's beliefs or knowledge - develop and change? And are there things that can be done to foster greater intellectual humility? Come join our SRCD pre-conference to discuss these questions and more!
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Samuel Ronfard @samuelronfard.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
We are excited to invite you to the pre-conference workshop, “Towards a developmental science of intellectual humility,” taking place before the 2025 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting. Wednesday, April 30th, 2025. Register at www.developingintellectualhumility.com/srcd-2025.
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Luis de la Viña @ldelavina.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Have you ever wondered what’s your optimal mood for staying focused? 🤔 Our new paper in @Developmental Psychology explores how children and adults think about this question (w/ Brandon Goulding and @samuelronfard.bsky.social ) doi.org/10.1037/dev0... Here is what we found...👀 🧵1/6
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Dr Sophia Daoudi-Simison @sophiadaoudi.bsky.social · 14/12/2023
Past and current Stirling Uni folk #ASAB2023
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