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Lizette Pizza

@lizettepizza.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral fellow in the Thomas Lab at Harvard University studying children's environmental moral reasoning and intuitive biology

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Aarti Bodas @aartibodas.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
How much does it matter whether children think science is about stereotypical tools like microscopes and beakers—or about seeking evidence and building explanations for how the world works? New paper w/ @debkelemen.bsky.social suggests these ideas shape how children learn science.🧵 bit.ly/4u5FsYi
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Lizette Pizza @lizettepizza.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Excited to share my last publication with Roberto Posada as part of this amazing special issue in JCD! Our results contribute to understanding how children and adults in Bogotá reason about animal mistreatment and energy waste and how exceptionalist beliefs influence their moral judgments
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The Cognitive Development Society (CDS) @cogdevsoc.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
📣📣 A recent paper by Meghan C. Orman et al. in JCD: Enjoyment, Empathy, and Environmental Behavior: A Study of Young Children’s Nature Connection in Iceland www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Enjoyment, Empathy, and Environmental Behavior: A Study of Young Children’s Nature Connection in Iceland
Nature connection (NC) in early childhood is increasingly recognized as a potential pathway to the development of lifelong environmental values and behaviors – a pathway that may hold growing relev...
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Lizette Pizza @lizettepizza.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Attending #CogSci2025 this week? Come and check out the work of the Thomas Lab!
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Lizette Pizza @lizettepizza.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Mañana estaré participando en este conversatorio con @dianaloperaperez.bsky.social @jorgecuartas.bsky.social No se lo pierdan! Inscripciones aquí: uninorte.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Ashley Thomas @ashleyjthomas.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Many people from my lab are presenting exciting work at SRCD!
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Lizette Pizza @lizettepizza.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Does attributing mind or life to natural entities increase environmental concern? Our new paper with @debkelemen.bsky.social looks into this important question. Check out our findings now available at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @cogscisociety.bsky.social
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“The Earth is Alive”: Attributing Agency to the Earth Causes Moral Concern for the Environment and Biocentric Attitudes
Do people need to attribute agency to nature to morally care for it? The answer to this question has significant implications for our understanding of social cognitive effects on moral judgment. Desp...
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Ashley Thomas @ashleyjthomas.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
New Daedalus issue on the science of caregiving. In our paper, we ask, how might infants experience caregiving? Writing this paper with Christina Steele, @alisongopnik.bsky.social and @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social was incredibly fun. Our paper and the other awesome pieces here: www.amacad.org/daedalus
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Daedalus Home
Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
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Lizette Pizza @lizettepizza.bsky.social · 04/11/2024
With all the excitement back then, I forgot to share that I defended my dissertation this summer! Huge thanks to my advisor @debkelemen.bsky.social , #Fulbright, friends, and my husband for their incredible support on this life-changing experience!
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Lizette Pizza @lizettepizza.bsky.social · 22/03/2024
Are you at #CDS2024 and interested in environmental conservation? Join me at Poster Session 2 to learn about my research on children's and adults' tendencies to attribute agency (life and mind) to natural elements when assessing harm to nature. See you there!
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Lizette Pizza @lizettepizza.bsky.social · 21/03/2024
The day has arrived! Join us tomorrow for the 30th anniversary of Mapping the Mind preconference! BU Child Cognition Lab presents three posters at 11am. See you there! #CDS2024 @debkelemen.bsky.social @esranur.bsky.social
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Lizette Pizza @lizettepizza.bsky.social · 19/03/2024
Hi Bluesky, excited to join! I study how children and adults understand the natural world and build a moral relationship with it. My latest publication explores whether humans are conceptualized as part of nature and its implications for environmental concern. Find it here: doi.org/10.1111/tops...
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