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Tim (Wei-Ting) Chao

@timchao.bsky.social

Ph.D. Student @ University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign with Dr. Michael Rizzo | Developmental Psychology & Origins of Social Development | @UofT’22

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Tim (Wei-Ting) Chao @timchao.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

🚨 New paper alert! Our paper is now out in Developmental Psychology! We introduce “Theory of Prejudiced Mind”—children's understanding of mental states about social group—and find that it predicts how children recognize, explain, and evaluate discrimination by authorities. doi.org/10.1037/dev0...

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Tim (Wei-Ting) Chao @timchao.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

yes! For each subgroup, we tried to manually select a diverse body sizes and hair styles!

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Tim (Wei-Ting) Chao @timchao.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Each image has norming data by adult participants on their perceived (1) realness, (2) wealth, (3) niceness, (4) age, (5) emotion (happy, angry, sad), (6) gender (feminine, masculine), and (7) race. Allowing researchers to carefully match images based on relevant criteria/need. osf.io/vurm5/

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Tim (Wei-Ting) Chao @timchao.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

"AI-Faces by Illinois" include 1,152 AI-generated images of children by age (3-15), gender, eight racial background, and emotion (smile, angry, sad). Images (osf.io/vurm5/) and Preprint available(doi.org/10.31234/osf...) with @brendacstraka.bsky.social and @Dr. Michael Rizzo!

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