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Cognitive representations of social relationships and their developmental origins - Volume 49

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Nature Human Behaviour - Adults show a shared bias in confidence across memory and perception, but sensitivity and efficiency differ by domain. Children under six struggle to compare confidence...

This study shows that, by age 4, children understand lexical causatives to refer to direct causes and periphrastic causatives to indirect causes in causal chains. Understanding causation by absence develops later in older children.

Reasoning about minds and reasoning about physical objects are governed by two distinct systems. In this Perspective, Liu et al. review research from developmental psychology and cognitive neuroscienc...

The Finance Committee hearing was in the works before Wednesday’s CDC shakeup.

Humans are adept at navigating the social world in part because we flexibly map the locations and identities of agents around us. While field studies suggest primates can track individual conspecifics...

The purpose of this call for proposals is to meet the current moment by supporting timely, actionable health equity research that has been interrupted by shifts in federal funding.