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Graduate Student Teaching Association (GSTA) in Psychology @gstateachpsych.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

📢 Calling All Graduate Student Teachers! 🎓🍎 Are you passionate about teaching, professional development, and connecting with fellow graduate student educators? The Graduate Student Teaching Association (GSTA) is looking for enthusiastic graduate students to join our Steering Committee! 🌟

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MPI-EVA Leipzig @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

No matter where in the world: #Children help one another. The way they do it is shaped by their #upbringing. 🌏💛 New study @pnas.org by an intl. research team led by Henriette Zeidler, Michael Tomasello & @dbmhaun.bsky.social. See: tinyurl.com/dx593a2k & www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

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Children from six cultures reliably help their peers – but in different ways

New study shows that helping others is a universal part of childhood, shaped by local upbringing

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Katie Vasquez @ktvasq.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I think I have it! I'll send over what I found.

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Sam Nastase @samnastase.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

We’re recruiting a full-time lab manager to join the Shared Minds Lab at USC! This will be a great opportunity for someone who wants to get hands-on experience with research before starting a PhD program in psychology or neuroscience. More below:

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Center for Open Science @cos.io · 11/08/2026

COS is announcing important changes to the Open Science Framework (OSF). OSF Projects—used for project collaboration, file mgmt, & storage—is being phased out as an active workspace over the next 6 months. This change does not affect persistence & accessibility of existing public projects. (🧵1/2)

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Katie Vasquez @ktvasq.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

We added more data! Are "popular kids" just liked? No! Thank you to my reviewers, whoever you are, for the super insightful comments. In addition to the new data, they encouraged me to clarify my own theory of popularity, so check out the GD! osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

The NYU department of psychology is also reinstating the GRE as a requirement for PHD admissions. I heard Yale and Harvard are as well. Now Penn too. If you are applying to psych PHD programs this year be sure to take the exam.

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Katie Vasquez @ktvasq.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

What do Regina George and Jean Piaget have in common? Come to my talk on Friday to find out! I will discuss what popularity means to children, and how children can learn from their popular peers. 2nd talk in the "Social Understanding" session at 2:30, Salon Bonaventure. See you there!

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Katie Vasquez @ktvasq.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

#CDS2026 is quickly approaching! The UChicago Social Kids Lab (PIs: Katie Kinzler and Alex Shaw) has lots of work to share with you, so please come check it out! @cogdevsoc.bsky.social @amackiel.bsky.social @erindkim.bsky.social

An infographic detailing CDS presentation information for UChicago Social Kids Lab Members: Katie Vasquez, Radhika Santhanagopalan, Aneesa Conine-Nakano, Isabella Ramkissoon, Tania Dhaliwal, Erin Kim, Alex Mackiel, & Rachel King. For presentation information, please see: https://cogdevsoc.org/program/.

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Hilary Barth @hilarybarth.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Unofficial for now, but we hope to recruit a developmental science postdoc soon to work at Wesleyan U with me (cognition + development) and Dr Royette Dubar (sleep & psychosocial adjustment, science of parenting). Particular focus on undergrad research mentoring. Keep an eye out for the official ad!

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Katie Vasquez @ktvasq.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Thank you for participating! Such a fun group thinking about this broad topic in really interesting ways!

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Katie Vasquez @ktvasq.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

I will be chairing a symposium looking at how social hierarchy impacts people across a variety of social environments. There, you can see me talk about popularity as a form of social status and how this may impact children's peer groups. @merrickosborne.bsky.social

A flyer advertising a symposium at SPSP. Speakers include Katie Vasquez, Merrick Osborne, Nina Rodriguez, and Jacinth Tan. Find more information on Whova: https://whova.com/portal/webapp/WMg9c84cPufsiZYYC3hP/Agenda/5067471

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Katie Vasquez @ktvasq.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Excited for #SPSP2026 in my home city! The UChicago DIBS Lab (PI: Alex Shaw) has lots of presentations and we would love to see you there! Come learn more about friendship, morality, leadership, intellectual property, and "coolness". @spspnews.bsky.social @amackiel.bsky.social

A flyer advertising presentations from members of the UChicago DIBS Lab at SPSP. Speakers include Alex Mackiel, Katie Vasquez, Alex Shaw, Erin Kim, Isabella Ramkissoon, and Yutong (Iris) Chen. Find more information on Whova: https://whova.com/portal/webapp/WMg9c84cPufsiZYYC3hP/Agenda

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Katie Vasquez @ktvasq.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

I always love talking about popularity with other researchers, so if you have any thoughts or questions, please feel free to reach out!

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Katie Vasquez @ktvasq.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Our General Discussion argues that popularity is meaningfully distinct from other status categories (e.g., dominance). The upshot: Why we copy popular people seems different than why we conform to intimidating people (more data on that coming soon).

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Katie Vasquez @ktvasq.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

4. Relatedly, the copying of popular kids is specific to endeavors like "style" but not their homework (S4). 5. Popularity and wealth are both desirable. When asked which they would rather be, children across all ages tested were split (S2).

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Katie Vasquez @ktvasq.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

In 4 preregistered studies, children said: 1. Popular kids are rich (S1). 2. But popularity and wealth are distinct. Popular kids are more copied by their peers, while rich kids have easier lives (S2-4, see figure). 3. Popular kids are not better at everything (e.g., they aren't super smart; S1-4).

Bar graph showing the proportion of children who select the popular character across three age groups (5-6, 7-8, 9-10 years) for four questions: Who is copied, who is smart,who is nice, and who has an easy life. As age increases, more children select the popular character as the one who is copied, and fewer children select the popular character as having an easy life (i.e., more selected the rich kid).

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Katie Vasquez @ktvasq.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

🧵 New preprint with my advisor, Alex Shaw! We asked: What does “popularity” actually mean? Is it a distinct status category with specific features? We turned to elementary-schoolers, who have just begun to experience their own "popularity hierarchies," for some answers. osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Katie Vasquez @ktvasq.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

My symposium will explore children's understanding of social hierarchy. How do children think status is earned? What does it mean to be high status? When should power be transferred? Speakers include @aashnap.bsky.social, @katiemcauliffe.bsky.social, and Mack Briscoe! Come Saturday afternoon!

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Katie Vasquez @ktvasq.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Come check out the UChicago Social Kids Lab (PIs Katherine Kinzler and Alex Shaw) at #SRCD2025. My labmates have lots of exciting projects I can't wait to watch them present.

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Katie Vasquez @ktvasq.bsky.social · 24/09/2024

Funny, I was looking for something just like this to cite today!

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Hilary Barth @hilarybarth.bsky.social · 28/05/2024

Our full time lab coordinator job search is newly reopened! : 1-yr joint collaborative position, basic psych science research. Child/adult cognition & development (my research group) + adult reasoning & decision making (Dr. Andrea Patalano's group). Please share! careers.wesleyan.edu/postings/10300

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The Cognitive Development Lab and the Reasoning and Decision Making Lab at Wesleyan University (Dr. Hilary Barth and Dr. Andrea Patalano) announce a full-time joint Lab Coordinator position starting s...

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Katie Vasquez @ktvasq.bsky.social · 12/03/2024

The UChicago Social Kids Lab will be at CDS! Come stop by our posters and see what we've been thinking about lately!

A blurb with the author, title, and session number for each of our posters. Rachel Ann King will present her poster in Session 1; Katie Vasquez, Alex Mackiel, and Tania Dhaliwal will present in Session 2; Isabella Ramkissoon, Jessica Waltmon, and Ben Morris will present in Session 4.

Principal investigators: Alex Shaw and Katherine D. Kinzler.

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Katie Vasquez @ktvasq.bsky.social · 31/01/2024

So, please vote for me, CDS people! I have concrete ideas for this position and I can only hope that seeing someone like me doing what she loves can only encourage more diversity in all fields of developmental science. Look out for that email from Survey Monkey!

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Katie Vasquez @ktvasq.bsky.social · 31/01/2024

I think about my basic research while walking my dog, at the gym, and even write down ideas in my Notes before bed. I want to encourage ECRs to follow their passions and show them they belong in any field, and increased diversity in those fields will improve the quality of all developmental science.

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Katie Vasquez @ktvasq.bsky.social · 31/01/2024

I am running for this position because people like me (queer, Latina, women). often gravitate toward applied research, sometimes out of feeling like they only belong in those environments. I want to take this barrier down.

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Katie Vasquez @ktvasq.bsky.social · 31/01/2024

I also hope to work with my co-student board member to design a workshop for the meeting.There are many topics we could choose from, like navigating the Hidden Curriculum, CVs, or organizing a symposium. We will recruit faculty from many areas to provide their expertise for this event.

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Katie Vasquez @ktvasq.bsky.social · 31/01/2024

I have lots of actionable goals for my time in this position. One idea I am really excited about is to host a poster webinar. What software is available? What do I include? How much text? We would also prepare for the session itself by going over elevator pitches and common, but tough, questions.

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Katie Vasquez @ktvasq.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

This is my first paper with my graduate advisor, Alex Shaw! I would like to thank my co-authors, lab alumni, Hannah Hok and Anam Barakzai for including me on this paper.

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Katie Vasquez @ktvasq.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

In our paper, we explore both social and physical conflicts. In (very) short, we find that older children specifically and reliably generalized dominance, not submissiveness. We discuss many reasons why this might be the case in the paper!

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Katie Vasquez @ktvasq.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

Children use many cues to determine who is dominant. But from these studies, which mostly rely on one dyad or two groups, it is hard to say if children think that dominants are dominant, subordinates are subordinate, or if they only have their rank in relation to each other.

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Katie Vasquez @ktvasq.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

Now in press at Developmental Psychology, we probe the depth of children’s inferences about dominance and submissiveness. Children were asked to rank a previously dominant and subordinate agent compared to a previously uninvolved agent.

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Katie Vasquez @ktvasq.bsky.social · 13/12/2023

Reposting information about our postprint here: If Gretchen Wieners tells Regina George, “You can’t sit with us,” children know Gretchen is now dominant and Regina is now subordinate. But how do Gretchen and Regina rank relative to Cady Heron, who was uninvolved in this conflict?

From the movie Mean Girls, Gretchen telling Regina, "You can't sit with us!"

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Lindsey Powell @lindseypowell.bsky.social · 08/11/2023

@asmithflores.bsky.social's paper on children's reasoning about social relationships & empathy is now published in Open Mind! direct.mit.edu/opmi/article... For folks who missed the preprint on Twitter, here's a quick summary (1/4)

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