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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

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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Mia Radovanovic @radovanovic.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

However, we also found evidence of age-related changes! Fairness expectations emerged later for resource collection events than for resource distribution events.

A two-panel scatterplot showing infants’ looking times (in seconds) as a function of age (14–18 months) for two experiments. Experiment 1: Collection (left panel) and Experiment 2: Distribution (right panel). Each panel contains green dots representing fair trials and purple dots representing unfair trials. Trend lines with shaded confidence bands are plotted for each trial type.

Critically, the Collection panel shows an Age x Trial Type interaction such that infants looked longer to the Unfair Collection relative to the Fair Collection as they got older. On the other hand, there is no evidence of an interaction in the Distribution panel, instead, infants look longer on average to Unfair Distribution relative to Fair Distribution across the ages tested.

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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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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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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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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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