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Yarrow Dunham
@yarrowdunham.bsky.social

Studies social cognition in children and grown-ups. Teaches in the psychology and cognitive science programs at Yale.

Lab: socialcogdev.com

Psychology 39%
Sociology 17%
🎉 Excited to share our new paper “Children infer social group attitudes from evaluative behavioral information but do not extend them to unfamiliar group members.” in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology:
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2025.106401
Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird.

(he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...
I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird
YouTube video by Benn Jordan
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Happy to announce that my lab @ Yale Psychology (actcompthink.org) will be accepting PhD applications this year (for start in Fall '26)!

Come for the fun experiments on human learning, memory, & skilled behavior, stay for the best 🍕 in the US.

Please reach out if you have any questions!
Homepage of the Action, Computation, & Thinking (ACT) Lab, Yale department of psychology
actcompthink.org
💙 SRCD is pleased to announce the latest Monograph on gender identities and sexual orientation across childhood and adolescence. Read the full issue here: srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Updated preprint with Zephyr Weinreich, @yarrowdunham.bsky.social, and @ericman.bsky.social showing that implicit attitudes are not only sensitive to negation; they even reflect the distinction between easy-to-negate bipolar and difficult-to-negate unipolar adjectives: osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Trans rights are human rights. Trans people of all ages deserve the right and access to healthcare. Protect trans youth.
Since 1954, "The Handbook of Social Psychology" has been the field’s most authoritative reference work, and today is the launch of the 6th edition with 50 new chapters by 100 leading scholars. Best news? The HSP is now an open-access public resource—free to read, download, and share. the-hsp.com
🚨 I’m hiring a full-time lab manager to help me build my lab start in July or August 2025! 🚨

If you know any stellar candidates who might be interested, please send this their way.

🗓 Application review begins April 15
⏰ Final deadline is April 25
📎 Apply here ➡️ lnkd.in/evhfqzTP
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Excited to share a new paper on children's third-party punishment across societies. This was a big collaborative effort and I'm so grateful to my wonderful co-authors for their contributions to this project.
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Blog: communities.springernature.com/posts/childr...
Across six societies children engage in costly third-party punishment of unfair sharing - Communications Psychology
Third-party punishment of unfair sharing is a hallmark of a normative concern for fairness in adults. Here, children in Canada, India, Peru, Uganda, USA, and Vanuatu show this same normative concern b...
www.nature.com

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🚨🚨🚨 Preprint with Zephyr Weinreich, @yarrowdunham.bsky.social, and @ericman.bsky.social in which we show that implicit attitudes are not only sensitive to negation; they even reflect the distinction between easy-to-negate bipolar and difficult-to-negate unipolar adjectives: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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"
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...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Overparenting is on the rise and hurts children’s motivation starting in early childhood. How can we help parents step back? Our new paper in Child Dev shows that pointing out learning opportunities reduces overparenting.

srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
<em>Child Development</em> | SRCD Journal | Wiley Online Library
Overparenting—taking over and completing developmentally appropriate tasks for children—is pervasive and hurts children's motivation. Can overparenting in early childhood be reduced by simply framing...
srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Come see members of the Social Cognitive Development Lab at Yale present their work at #CDS2024! Go Team!