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Zoe Liberman @zoeliberman.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Just posted an ad for a position with me + Brandon Woo. Feel free to share if they might be interested Full ad here: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF03106

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Junior Specialist, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences

University of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!

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Zoe Liberman @zoeliberman.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Job alert! @brandonwoo.bsky.social and I are searching for a new lab manager. We are excited to add a new member to our awesome community of soc cog dev researchers! Spread the word :) Full ad here: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF03106

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Junior Specialist, Department of Psychological & Brain Sciences

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Zoe Liberman @zoeliberman.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

This is the first paper out from a grant with Alex Shaw from @templetonfdn.bsky.social to look at developmental roots of intellectual humility. Keep a look out for our next studies... on question asking! #devpsych #devsci 3/3

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Zoe Liberman @zoeliberman.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Interestingly, although children think it is good to capitulate to a knowledgable teaching, they do not always rate deference positively. When someone's initial claim was stronger than their social partner's, children instead judged standing one's ground positively. 2/3

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Zoe Liberman @zoeliberman.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Please also feel free to register for our virtual open house if you are looking for a #phd in #devpsych #devscience #PsychSciSky I'll be there for the faculty meet and greet part

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Zoe Liberman @zoeliberman.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Work and learn with amazing colleagues in Development & Evolution! These labs are also searching for new students, so check them out! @anniewertz.bsky.social @brandonwoo.bsky.social @laurasimonelewis.bsky.social 2/3

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Zoe Liberman @zoeliberman.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Spread the word: I'm looking to recruit a PhD student for Fall 2026 to @ucsb.bsky.social! Reach out if you are applying this cycle and hoping to study infant and child social cognition, specifically expectations about friendship and/or groups. Bonus: live in paradise! And.. 1/3

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Zoe Liberman @zoeliberman.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Check out @lizquinnjensen.bsky.social's paper on the Comparative Status Hypothesis: we find that the social identity of a person's competitor shifts whether that person is seen as a likely victim of discrimination. We hope our work broadens focus beyond the victim-perpetrator dyad

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Zoe Liberman @zoeliberman.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Big congrats to @rthompkins.bsky.social on this paper! Happy to finally see this out in the world. Our work builds on findings from @juliamarshall.bsky.social on the impact of social relationships on moral expectations, with a focus on how children think about lying and liars.

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

🧪 Ranking member Lofgren and 11 other House dems sent a fiery 7-page letter to acting NSF director today "The cancelation of these awards suggests instead that NSF is willing to apply political censorship of awards under direction from President Trump and the DOGE teenagers" Share widely #SaveNSF

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Zoe Liberman @zoeliberman.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Its Give Day @ucsb.bsky.social! Support the Development + Evolution area in establishing a graduate student award! Our students work so hard, and we want to recognize them -- any amount helps: ucsb.scalefunder.com/gday/giving-.... 🚨Please check “in honor of” and write: PBS DEVO Area🚨 #devpsych

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Zoe Liberman @zoeliberman.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Interested in children's developing understanding of linguistic register? Check out a new paper-- led by past undergraduate lab member, Ishaan Ambrish (currently working with Ariel Starr at UW) and grad student @shreyasodhi.bsky.social

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Rebecca Fielding-Miller @rebeccafieldingmiller.com · 22/03/2025

Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women. More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications. I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.

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Kate Humphreys (she/her) @klhumphreys.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Happy New Year!! So thrilled to share this preprint (Kara Weisman, Lucy King, and I worked on this for 8+ yrs): "Beliefs about the development of mental life" Read to find an interesting story on how people perceive different domains of capacities changing from birth to age 5 yrs. osf.io/kq4j7

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Tomer Ullman @tomerullman.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

trying out some physics on Sora, OpenAI's video-creation-from-text-tool. Here is "a blue block falling on a green sphere"

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Zoe Liberman @zoeliberman.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Stay tuned for future projects that look at both expectations about dual identity *and* the development of social preferences based on immigration and acculturation behaviors

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Zoe Liberman @zoeliberman.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

In an elegant set of experiments, @shreyasodhi.bsky.social compared children's inferences about immigrants to their inferences about non-immigrants and travelers (people who *visited* a second country). Children did not essentialize immigrants' national identity, and instead expected flexibility!

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Zoe Liberman @zoeliberman.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Interested in how children think about immigrants? 🚨 New work led by @shreyasodhi.bsky.social 🚨 We find that children expect immigrants to have a dual identity--to be similar to both people from their host and heritage cultures #devpsych srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Children in the United States (N = 488, 4–11 years, 239 females, 248 males, one other, 53% White; data collected 2021–2022) participated in three studies investigating their expectations about immigr...

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Zoe Liberman @zoeliberman.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Congrats to @lizquinnjensen.bsky.social on both a new paper on judgements based on (racial) identity claims, and on a beautiful write up of her work for the @spspnews.bsky.social Character & Context Blog

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Nicole Campione-Barr @campionebarr.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Applications are now open (through Feb. 16th) for our NSF REU Site on the Scientific Study of Interpersonal Relationships across the Lifespan. If you know of an undergraduate scholar interested in relationships research broadly, send them our way! undergradresearch.missouri.edu/interpersona...

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NSF REU Site: Scientific Study of Interpersonal Relationships Across the Lifespan

The scientific study of interpersonal relationships over the lifespan is important to our broader understanding of the human experience. These relationships begin with our earliest interactions and…

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Zoe Liberman @zoeliberman.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Not sure of such a study with younger babies, but that may be because babies have to be able to physically move (crawl) for the visual cliff paradigm. Many babies are not crawling until 9-10 mon. Younger infants do interesting stuff re:emotion. Check out Eric Walle or Ashley Ruba for examples

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Laura Schlingloff-Nemecz @laurasn.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

The Manybabies4 paper is out! Infants' Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large-Scale, Multi-Lab, Coordinated Replication Study onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... 1000 babies tested in 37 labs; "Overall, 49.34% of infants preferred Helpers over Hinderers in the social condition"

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Infants’ Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large‐Scale, Multi‐Lab, Coordinated Replication Study

Evaluating whether someone's behavior is praiseworthy or blameworthy is a fundamental human trait. A seminal study by Hamlin and colleagues in 2007 suggested that the ability to form social evaluatio...

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Amy Boddy @amyboddy.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

🎉IAS is recruiting🎉 UCSB Integrative Anth Sciences is hiring a tenure-track evo anthropologist (assist/assoc prof): Apply by 1/06/25 To apply: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02866 Please retweet! Estimate: Assist:$95,000-$135,000 & Assoc:$120,000-$180,000. UCSB is an AA/EOE, including disability/vets.

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Assistant/Associate Professor in Evolutionary Anthropology/Anthropology of Health

University of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!

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Bria Long @brialong.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

The Visual Learning Lab at UC San Diego is looking for a postdoctoral research fellow to join our lab! Read more about our lab at www.vislearnlab.org

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Home | The Visual Learning Lab at UCSD

Lab webpage for the Visual Learning Lab at UCSD, lead by Dr. Bria Long, Ph.D. Launching in July 2024!

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Zoe Liberman @zoeliberman.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Great list! Can you add me too? Thanks :)

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Annie Wertz @anniewertz.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

Hi everyone! I am looking for PhD students to join my (new) Lab for Infant Learning and Cognition (LILAC) at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Learn more about us here: sites.google.com/ucsb.edu/lilac Application info here: psych.ucsb.edu/prospective-.... Deadline is December 1st 👶🪴

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Natalie Brito @nataliebrito.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Developmental Psychology Starter Pack go.bsky.app/9kHQS7i

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samuel mehr @mehr.nz · 14/11/2024

a moving example of haka (arguably a form of music) used in political protest, in NZ parliament also, since I like the science of this, also shows why "music bonds the group together" fundamentally misconstrues the behavior in question. it's not warm & fuzzy, haka is sending a clear message here !

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Nils Reimer @reimtime.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I am hoping to recruit a Ph.D. student to join our Social Injustice and Social Change research group at UC Santa Barbara in Fall 2025! You can more information about the position, about our team, and about our research on our website. sisc.psych.ucsb.edu/posts/recrui...

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Social Injustice and Social Change (UCSB) - Recruiting Ph.D. Students

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Regina Lapate @lapate.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

📢 New job alert: The Dept. of Psychological & Brain Sciences at UCSB is hiring a new Director for our Brain Imaging Center! Join us in sunny Santa Barbara and please help spread the word! (Full Professor position—due by Dec 2) 🧠 🌊 recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02858

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Brain Imaging Center Director, Psychological & Brain Sciences

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Zoe Liberman @zoeliberman.bsky.social · 11/04/2024

Hiring a postdoc to study exciting questions about humans' early understanding of the social world :) Required text: The Liberman Lab is hiring a Postdoc. Apply at recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02748 by May 22. A reasonable estimate for this position is $64,480- $77,327. UCSB is an AA/EOE, including vets

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Kyle Ratner @kyleratner.bsky.social · 16/11/2023

📣 Seeking PhD applicants passionate about fMRI, EEG, & data science to study race/ethnicity & religion effects on how we see ourselves & world around us. We’re a supportive & hard-working lab committed to open science. Applications due 12/1. Still time to apply — spread the word! spl.psych.ucsb.edu

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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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Zoe Liberman @zoeliberman.bsky.social · 24/10/2023

Yes! It would be great to get your input. I am about to be on maternity leave again (early Dec), but if you have virtual speakers in your lab meeting ever, Oya would be a great guest! Feel free to email me and I can connect you :)

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Zoe Liberman @zoeliberman.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

Great :) In some to be published work, Oya Serbest (2nd year at UCSB) finds similar effects for religious based groups, so could work for non-language manipulations as well

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Zoe Liberman @zoeliberman.bsky.social · 23/10/2023

For behavioral expectations we did one paper on conventional and moral expectations based on language that might be relevant. It was forced choice ("Who did X?") so maybe you're looking for something else www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Dr. Sarah Gaither @sarahegaither.bsky.social · 28/09/2023

Hello! 👋🏽 Come be my colleague at Duke! We are hiring a TT developmental psychologist at the early or late assistant professor stage with a preference for basic processes of cognitive and/or social development. Review starts 12/1! #PsychSciSky #PsychJob academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25972

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Duke University, Psychology and Neuroscience

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Dan Hyde @dchyde.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

We are hiring in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience at UIUC Psychology . Posting here too in case you missed it.

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Assistant/Associate Professor- Department of Psychology- Cognitive Neuroscience

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Lindsey Powell @lindseypowell.bsky.social · 27/09/2023

🚨Job Alert x2! UCSD Psych has two assistant professor openings this year: 1. Computational approaches to understanding behavior and/or its neural mechanisms. apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03684 2. Social psych, broadly defined. apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03683 Apply for either (or both?) by November 7th!

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