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Rodney Tompkins

@rtompkins.bsky.social

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Psychology PhD candidate at UC San Diego, studying how humans develop to understand the social and physical worlds. sites.google.com/view/rtompkins

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Rodney Tompkins @rtompkins.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Attending CDS 2026? Consider joining us at the morning pre-conference workshop on intuitive theories of care and protection in development @cogdevsoc.bsky.social

Schedule of speakers for a morning pre-conference workshop at the 2026 meeting of the Cognitive Development Society in Montréal, Québec, Canada.

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Rodney Tompkins @rtompkins.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

With age, people likewise judged the lying friend (vs. classmate) as meaner. This pattern was similar to that for failure to help scenarios (replicating original findings from Marshall, Wynn, and Bloom, 2020, Child Dev).

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Rodney Tompkins @rtompkins.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

In comparative contexts directly contrasting the relationships (ridding of alternatives like private interaction and/or extending an olive branch), with age people evaluated it as worse for a friend to lie. Thanks to a helpful reviewer, we also show that this divergence may emerge as early as age 4.

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Rodney Tompkins @rtompkins.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

We were lucky to receive so much support from members of our Departments of Psychology and Cognitive Science, including @asmithflores.bsky.social who coined SoCal MInDS, Salih Özdemir who created our logo, and Tori Hennessy and @kostaboskovic.bsky.social who affirmed that our science is COOL! 😎

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Rodney Tompkins @rtompkins.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

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Rodney Tompkins @rtompkins.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

UC San Diego Psychology hosted the first Southern California Meeting for Investigations in Developmental Science (SoCal MInDS) this Saturday. We were joined by wonderful folks from the southernmost UC campuses, SDSU, CSULA, Occidental College, and USC.

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Rodney Tompkins @rtompkins.bsky.social · 03/02/2024

Have you ever shared a secret about or slapped someone before and wondered, "What would other people think?" If the person was your sibling, don't fret! But if the person was your friend, maybe fret a little... Come to my poster at SPSP to find out more about adults' reconciliation judgments!

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Rodney Tompkins @rtompkins.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

Strikingly, participants of all ages predicted that people would feel bad about outgroup fortunes. However, only by later childhood (9–12-years, "Older" in image) and when groups explicitly disliked one another did people predict that others would feel good about outgroup misfortunes. 4/4

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Rodney Tompkins @rtompkins.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

Reposting here! New paper with @ktvasq.bsky.social, Emily Gerdin, @yarrowdunham.bsky.social, and @zoeliberman.bsky.social in JEP: General: "Expectations of intergroup empathy bias emerge by early childhood" psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-...

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