Reposted by Melissa KibbeTibor Tauzin @tibortauzin.bsky.social · 12hThe current non-replication of Marcus et al. (1999) may reflect this confound. DOI:10.1111/desc.70259 We have empirical data on infants' ability to differentiate between repetition of the same sound sequence vs variable sequences. It induces different oculomotor and brain responses in them. 133
Reposted by Melissa KibbeJorge Morales @jorgemorales.me · 29/09/2026Massive congratulations to my colleague @felipedebrigard.bsky.social for being awarded a MacArthur Fellowship! today.duke.edu/2026/09/duke...today.duke.eduDuke Scientist Awarded MacArthur ‘Genius Grant’ | Duke Today 1010015
Reposted by Melissa KibbeJustin Weinberg @dailynous.com · 29/09/2026For the first time in a while, a philosophy professor has been awarded one of the MacArthur genius grants...dailynous.comA Philosopher Among the MacArthur Fellows - Daily NousFelipe De Brigard, professor of philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience at Duke University, principal investigator at the Imagination and Modal Cognition Lab, and core faculty of […] 45613
Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 25/09/2026static.klipy.comLick Lips Tongue OutAlt: A klingon licking lips 000
Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This has nothing to do with this awesome paper, but one time I (a 5'2" person) found myself standing in a group of 8 other women who were all SHORTER than me, and it was one of the strangest feelings of my life. I felt like a giant. Never happened before or since. 070
Reposted by Melissa KibbeMichelle Greene @mgreenephd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Critically, height predicted observers' performance in a rapid categorization task: shorter observers performed better for faces in the upper visual field, while taller observers were better in the lower, consistent with their lived experience of faces. 5/ 2164
Reposted by Melissa KibbeRebecca Peretz-Lange @rebeccaperetzlange.bsky.social · 24/09/2026💥New paper! Not “Born that Way”: Homophobic Social Preferences and Non‐Essentialism of Sexual Orientation in Childhood dx.doi.org/10.1111/sode... 0123
Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I genuinely can't tell if this thread is sincere or if it's going for the same absurdist vibe as the CPSC account... 020
Reposted by Melissa Kibbenoam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026sometimes i give people feedback on job market materials, and thought it might be useful to do a thread of some common feedback i find myself giving. just one guy's opinion (and one thing that can be frustrating about producing and getting feedback on these documents is that informed people *will* 16913
Reposted by Melissa Kibbenoam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 19/09/2026i think it's better to write from the perspective of someone who wrote a good dissertation, and is now poised to write many interesting journal articles (even if you are in fact in the midst of writing a dissertation). 1131
Reposted by Melissa KibbeJenny Wang 👶 🧮 @jinjingjenny1.bsky.social · 14/07/2026Why won't nature-nurture go away? Maybe it's part of how we think! Xianwei Meng at Nagoya University used a bottom-up approach to study intuitive beliefs about how mental capacities develop, and saw a 2D structure resembling nature-nurture emerge consistently across cultures! Now in Psych Sci: 1183
Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Slowly realizing that many people believe "pumpkin spice" is supposed to contain actual pumpkin 360
Reposted by Melissa KibbeExperimental Philosophy @xphilosopher.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Anderson's idea is: Maybe philosophers' positions on these issues are unrelated to their personality traits because *they aren't really beliefs* Taking a position isn't really believing that something is true – it's more like a making a certain kind of move in the practice of being a philosopher 7224
Reposted by Melissa Kibbemahwishkittur.bsky.social @mahwishkittur.bsky.social · 10/09/2026After years of analyzing thousands of drawings from hundreds of adults and children, I am excited to share my first ever paper (w/ @samiyousif.bsky.social )! Using a simple drawing task, we show how topological structure is represented in the mind and its importance in spatial memory.elifesciences.orgTopological structure in human spatial representation revealed through drawing 16024
Reposted by Melissa KibbeJenny Wang 👶 🧮 @jinjingjenny1.bsky.social · 10/09/2026seeking help 🆘 a senior colleague advised that i need to give more invited talks to strengthen my tenure case... how do i find such opportunities?static.klipy.comWirt from Over The Garden Wall Looks AwkwardALT: Wirt from Over The Garden Wall Looks Awkward 396
Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 09/09/2026My alma mater is hiring! Such an amazing department. 052
Reposted by Melissa KibbeEsra Nur Turan-Küçük @esranur.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Why 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-... 0143
Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Now 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...psycnet.apa.orgAPA PsycNet 22811
Reposted by Melissa KibbeAshley Thomas @ashleyjthomas.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Excited to finally have these data out! And, @deontbenton.bsky.social and Hoch’s paper inspired us to combine data to look at age effects from 4.5—19 months; w/ replication data from Ciftci, @jfkominsky.bsky.social & Csibra). Across 4 measures we find age effects in 1 (despite 4+x experience) 0131
Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 28/08/2026And here's the official journal version! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.com 1121
Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 21/08/2026New 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...osf.ioOSF 24114
Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 17/08/2026going to start printing my pre-reg documents and data files and mailing them to myself to be postmarked, like we used to do back in the day if we wanted docs to have an official time stamp 040
Reposted by Melissa KibbeBrett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Not to brag, but I can write a paper that makes a marginal and flat-footed contribution to a literature, does so in a needlessly technical way, and is a slog to read while spending $0 in Claude tokens 3694
Reposted by Melissa Kibbebergelsonlab @bergelsonlab.bsky.social · 11/08/2026Pretty confused ab the coming @cos.io changes to OSF. looks like they’re phasing out “projects” (ie where u share/store code, stimuli, etc) which has been a keystone for our replicable pipelines: the info recreates our manuscript, figs, analyses, etc & lets u do ur own. Open science at its best! 1/4 1369
Reposted by Melissa KibbeBrett Karlan @oldjerryfodor.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Good morning, scholars! It's time to put the noise of the world away and (say it with me!) Hit! The! Mother! Fucking! Tomes! Let's rise and cite!! 😤😤😤 To the scholarship! 4311
Reposted by Melissa KibbeMelissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Now 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...direct.mit.eduChildren’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... 05212
Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Now 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...direct.mit.eduChildren’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... 05212
Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 20/07/2026New from me and Alan Leslie! We got the band back together to lay out our view on object representations in the infant mind: non-discursive indexes that operate within a language of thought, & which get development of a more complex object concept off the ground www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...sciencedirect.com 24717
Reposted by Melissa Kibbepbkalra.bsky.social @pbkalra.bsky.social · 20/07/2026I’m excited to announce that I will be giving a talk at #CogSci2026 this week! Friday, July 24 Concepts II Session “Similarity Ratings Reveal Expert-Novice Differences in Knowledge Organization “ Brazil East: 15:45 EDT: 14:45 PDT: 11:45am Where: Ipanema room and online 162
Reposted by Melissa KibbeMSU Psychology @msupsychology.bsky.social · 16/07/2026Congratulations to Dr. Meltem Yucel on being elected as a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology! psychology.msu.edu/news-events/... @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social @moralmindslab.bsky.social 0234
Reposted by Melissa KibbeLaurel Joy Gabard-Durnam @laurelgd.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Honored and thrilled to receive the Early Career Award from @infantstudies.bsky.social! Thanks to my mentees and collaborators for making my research possible and to @nataliebrito.bsky.social for the very kind nomination and @drkoraly.bsky.social and Chuck Nelson for their letters of support! 2294
Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 07/07/2026How 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! 082
Reposted by Melissa KibbeChaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social · 01/07/2026You press ‘send’ on a high-stakes email but hesitate when lifting your finger. You make a chess move but linger on the piece before letting go. Familiar? In @pnas.org, Hanbei Zhou @ruizhegoh.bsky.social @ianbphillips.bsky.social & I show that response *duration* tracks confidence! shorturl.at/A9NVe 28721
Reposted by Melissa KibbeElizabeth Bonawitz @ebonawitz.bsky.social · 01/07/2026As of today, I am officially a Full Professor. I would not wish pursuing the tenure-race twice on even my greatest enemies (you know who you are), but I am profoundly grateful to the mentors, colleagues, trainees, & incredible friends that have helped me along the way. share.google/QcorDYWiI5OI... 81012
Reposted by Melissa KibbeRebecca Peretz-Lange @rebeccaperetzlange.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Shoutout to my former undergrad Jane Singman (now @pearlhanli.bsky.social's lab manager), who helped me launch this project when I first started my own lab in 2021. She will soon be applying to PhD programs! 👀 0132
Reposted by Melissa KibbeRebecca Peretz-Lange @rebeccaperetzlange.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Now out in Child Dev: "If moms do it, it can't be that important: Children's reasoning about gender disparities in domestic work" academic.oup.com/chidev/advan... Kids' awareness that moms do most housework + their intrinsic explanations for this jointly predict their devaluing domestic work 🧵 16935
Reposted by Melissa KibbeTania Lombrozo @tanialombrozo.bsky.social · 24/06/2026I wrote a book! It's called WHY WE ASK WHY, and it's about the human drive to explain, combining psychology, philosophy, and stories. It will be released on October 6, but it's currently available for pre-order from Barnes & Noble at 25% off with code PREORDER25. 18436
Reposted by Melissa KibbeThe HOPOS Journal @hoposjournal.bsky.social · 23/06/2026The 2026 #HOPOS conference is underway! Hosted by The Ohio State University. A full roster of talks begins today with sessions on logical empiricism, Aristotle, the life sciences, sociology, and neo-Kantianism. Download the full program here: hopos2026.dryfta.com/81-programhopos2026.dryfta.comProgram Booklet81 program 12410
Reposted by Melissa Kibbenoam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Adding this sticker to the slides describing my thought experiments 3282
Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 21/06/2026looking forward to reading the hell out of this paper! 093
Reposted by Melissa Kibbenoam @noamchompers.bsky.social · 20/06/2026‘Abstract contents? Hell yeah’— @levelsof.bsky.social, Stanton prize lecture 0121
Reposted by Melissa KibbeChaz Firestone @chazfirestone.bsky.social · 15/06/2026It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s…another creative & impactful project from the rocket-fueled @talboger.bsky.social, applying the wickedly cool “visual anagrams” method to animacy! Read the paper in @elife.bsky.social today, then attend his presentation at @socphilpsych.bsky.social later this week. 🦆✈️ 1329
Reposted by Melissa Kibbetal boger @talboger.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Come find me at SPP (at my poster on June 18) to hear more, or even just to grab a coaster! Demo page here: www.perceptionresearch.org/anagrams_ani... 062
Reposted by Melissa Kibbetal boger @talboger.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Do we perceive animacy itself, beyond its lower-level visual correlates? In @elife.bsky.social, @chazfirestone.bsky.social and I leverage “visual anagrams” — images whose interpretations change with orientation — to suggest the answer is: yes! elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre... 47622
Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Yessssss such a great paper, I'm so happy this is officially out! 071
Melissa Kibbe @levelsof.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Huh, apparently there was never an S at the end of Caldor, Lechmere, or JC Penney... 220