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Mia Radovanovic

@radovanovic.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at Algoma University studying effort. she/her radovanovicm.github.io/website

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Mia Radovanovic @radovanovic.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Out now with @gracewujiameisun.bsky.social and @jessicas.bsky.social! We show that not only is exploring an intuitive and motivating response to failure in young children, but importantly, that encouraging toddlers to explore actually causes them to persist for longer! doi.org/10.1093/chid...
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Exploration supports toddlers’ persistence during problem-solving
Abstract. Toddlers must rapidly acquire new skills. However, these attempts frequently come with experiences of failure which can be frustrating and lead t
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Affective Cognition Lab @affcoglab.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Our lab members will be presenting their talks and posters at #cds2026 (Cognitive Development Society) in Montreal this week! Come check out their amazing work!
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Moral Minds Lab @moralmindslab.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Moral Minds Lab is at #CDS2026! Can't wait to see you all @cogdevsoc.bsky.social! 🍁
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Mia Radovanovic @radovanovic.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Come check out our symposium on Saturday at #CDS2026! I'm biased but I think we have a really cool set of talks thinking about power as something that is negotiated dynamically and bidirectionally, and I'll be presenting new work done with @samuelronfard.bsky.social 🙌
Flyer summarizing CDS Symposium: 
Title: Children’s developing understanding of the rights and responsibilities of collective decision-making
Time: Saturday, April 11th, 2:30-4:00PM (Symposium S3.2 in Montreal 4)
Talk 1: Children’s emerging understanding of emotional effort and its implications for representation in collective decision-making (Mia Radovanovic & Samuel Ronfard)
Talk 2: Who should be the leader? Children’s democratic preferences when selecting a leader (Isabel Alessandra Herrera Guevara, Lana Isabel Abad, & Nadia Chernyak)
Talk 3: Deciding together or alone?: Children’s expectations of leaders’ 
decision-making behaviors (Nicole H. Park & Isobel A. Heck)
Talk 4: Holding leaders accountable: Examining 3-8-year-old children’s evaluation of leadership failure (Jessica J. Lee & Andrew Scott Baron)
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Alexis Smith-Flores @asmithflores.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Can't wait for #CDS2026! My lab is excited to share some of our ongoing work featuring collaborations with Madison Pesowski's KIDS Lab at UFV! I hope you'll stop by and chat :)
Schedule of research presentations from the Lehigh Little Learners Lab at CDS 2026 in Montreal!
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Brandon Woo @brandonwoo.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Looking forward to #CDS2026! Come learn about the work that my students and I are doing @emmayu23.bsky.social @cogdevsoc.bsky.social
Information about the posters from the members of the lab

Poster Session 2on Friday, April 10
5:45 to 7:00 pm

Children’s understanding of common ground in relationships
Raissa Cheng | P2-111

Children expect emotional consolation to occur in close relationships
Emma Yu | P2-148

Infants track the social targets of their parents’ gaze
Brandon Woo | P2-155
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Mia Radovanovic @radovanovic.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Out in @cognitionjournal.bsky.social with @jaeminhwang.bsky.social, David Sobel (@candmlab.bsky.social), and @jessicas.bsky.social! Most studies of infants’ fairness expectations focus on resource distribution, but in everyday life, we engage in many different kinds of resource exchanges.
Figure shows the methods used in the paper's experiments. In the left column are the methods for Exp 1 (Collection) and in the right are the methods for Exp 2 (Distribution). In each video, three women sit at a table. One sits in the middle, serving as a collector/distributor, and two sit in the foreground with plates. During familiarization trials, resources were collected from or distributed to their plates with an occluder on the screen hiding the outcomes. During test trials, the same videos were played but with the outcomes shown such that infants either viewed an equal collection/distribution or an unequal collection/distribution.
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Marlene Berke @marleneberke.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
New paper announcement! journals.lww.com/greenjournal... The Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology is an unusual place for me to publish… Let me tell you the story of this paper.
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Mateja Perović @matejaperovic.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
New open access paper with @drmack.bsky.social! 🎉 The menstrual cycle has non-linear effects on pattern separation as measured by the mnemonic similarity task (MST). Perceived stress facilitates pattern separation performance independent of the menstrual cycle. t.ly/k6Pul
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Elizabeth Bonawitz @ebonawitz.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Apparently the scheduler has been tricky for people to work with. We had a date wrong below and now just got access to rooms. Please see updated schedule of CoCoDev presentations from/with our lab here!
Schedule of Bonawitz lab talks at SRCD
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Mia Radovanovic @radovanovic.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
#SRCD2025 come check out the Toronto Early Cognition Lab (@jessicas.bsky.social)! @elainewang.bsky.social will also be presenting work with @julia-a-leonard.bsky.social that we got to collaborate on :)
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Jamie Amemiya @jamieamemiya.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Come check out the EAST & DoT Labs at #SRCD. 🤩 I'm excited to share our work on children's causal reasoning about historical structural barriers, as well as their pragmatic inferences from what others seek--and do not seek--to explain!
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Mia Radovanovic @radovanovic.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Come to our symposium w/ @jamieamemiya.bsky.social, Kiana Gee, & Cameron Hall at #SRCD2025. We'll talk about how children may acquire, internalize, and perpetuate gender stereotypes. I'm really excited for this one, I think the talks build on each other well to unravel different mechanisms!
From input to action: Examining how subtle contextual cues sustain gender inequalities in childhood 
Friday, May 2nd, 11:30-1:00PM (Room 200A)

When seeking an explanation is an explanation: Children’s ability group stereotypes are influenced by explanation-seeking 
Jamie Amemiya, Serena Spada, Molly Tallberg, & Lin Bian

The role of family inequality on children’s normative understanding of household labor 
Kiana Gee, Allegra J. Midgette, & Nadia Chernyak

Gender inequities in expectations for invisible labor begin in childhood and persist into adulthood 
Mia Radovanovic, Tim Wei-Ting Chao, Nila Curtosi, Sofia Westerhoff, Emma Soler, & Jessica A. Sommerville

The role of gender stereotypes in shaping communality in children 
Cameron Hall, Katharina Block, Antonya M. Gonzalez, Andrei Cimpian, Toni Schmader, & Andrew Scott Baron
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Elise Mahaffey @elisemahaffey.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
The Early Child Cognition Research Group at ASU (PIs: Kelsey Lucca and Viridiana Benitez) will be presenting our work at #SRCD2025! Hope to see you there!
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
I’m not saying AI is evil — god forbid I be that moralistic and clear — I’m saying it is worse than that. It’s MID. Too mid to do much more than externalize some risk, produce some mid documents, and accelerate climate risk as a cute little benefit.
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University of Toronto Psychology @uoftpsychology.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Research led by Psychology PhD candidate @radovanovic.bsky.social & Prof. @jessicas.bsky.social is investigating how people-pleasing socialization influences how children solve problems. 💡 www.psych.utoronto.ca/news/people-...
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People-pleasing linked to gender differences in problem-solving: Study
A new study found that, on average, girls excel at replicating the teacher’s instructions in the classroom — even when those instructions are wrong.
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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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Julia Leonard @julia-a-leonard.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
For decades, developmental psychologists have noticed that optimism declines with age. Why does this presumably good thing decrease across development? In this Nature Reviews Psych article, @jessicas.bsky.social and I draw from prior hypotheses to offer an integrated account.
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Jessica Sommerville @jessicas.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
New paper from my lab led by the amazing @radovanovic.bsky.social !!! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Toddlers’ Helping Behavior Is Affected by the Effortful Costs Associated With Helping Others
Although the presence of early helping behavior has been firmly established, it is unclear to what extent children are willing to adopt costs to help others, as well as how this willingness changes a...
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Jessica Sommerville @jessicas.bsky.social · 03/07/2024
Looking for to seeing folks in Glasgow for ICIS!!! Here are our lab presentations!
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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 18/06/2024
we've launched our newest citizen-science game, Tone Guesser, led by postdoc and webdev whiz @courtneybhilton.bsky.social it's both fun and hard (!) and tests your intuitions about tones in music and colour. themusiclab.org/quizzes/toneguesser 🧪 can you beat my scores?
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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 20/03/2024
Going to CDS? Reading this message? Come check out work happening at (or with) the CoCoDev lab! #CDS2024
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Samuel Ronfard @samuelronfard.bsky.social · 19/03/2024
Come see us during #CDS's poster sessions!
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Mia Radovanovic @radovanovic.bsky.social · 15/03/2024
The Toronto Early Cognition Lab is headed to Pasadena for CDS next week! Come check out our work 😊 normanjzeng.bsky.social elainewang.bsky.social jessicas.bsky.social
Saturday, March 23rd - 1:15 - 2:30  (Poster Session 3)
P3-6 - Infants' moral trait inferences in protective third-party intervention (Norman Zeng, Inderpreet Gill, Jessica A. Sommerville)

Saturday, March 23rd - 4:15 - 5:45PM  (Symposium 4.3)
Practice what you preach: consistent messages about the value of effort boost children's persistence (Elaine Wang, Mia Radovanovic, Jessica A. Sommerville, & Julia Leonard)

Saturday, March 23rd - 5:45 - 7:00  (Poster Session 4)
P4-27 - Gender differences in children’s response to ineffective teaching across contexts (Mia Radovanovic, Aafiya Somani, Miguel Alzona, 
Annabelle Persaud, Jessica A. Sommerville)

Saturday, March 23rd - 5:45 - 7:00 (Poster Session 4)
P4-153 - Interaction with graphics improves learning causal associations in 5-8 years old children (Mishaal Kandapath, Sophia Lee, Arnav Verma, 
Fanny Chevalier, Jessica A. Sommerville)
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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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ManyBabies @manybabies.org · 12/03/2024
The recording of our Power Analysis workshop, led by @chrismmcox.bsky.social, is now available on our YouTube page! www.youtube.com/@manybabies Direct link: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWCe... Tutorial materials: 4ccoxau.github.io/PowerAnalysi... #psychsky #openscience #devpsych #manybabies
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Workshop: Power Analysis
ManyBabies Workshop: Power AnalysisPresenter Christopher M. M. Cox (Aarhus University) leads an interactive workshop on power analysis. The workshop includes...
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