Dr Kirsten Blakey
@khblakey.bsky.social
Postdoc at University of Toronto • Studying cognitive development, belief revision, information seeking & social learning • she/her
🚨NEW PAPER 🚨
Nonverbal rationality? 2-year-old children, dogs, and pigs show unselective responses to unreliability but to different degrees
Open access here: doi.org/10.1111/cdev...
Nonverbal rationality? 2-year-old children, dogs, and pigs show unselective responses to unreliability but to different degrees
Open access here: doi.org/10.1111/cdev...
August 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
🚨NEW PAPER 🚨
Nonverbal rationality? 2-year-old children, dogs, and pigs show unselective responses to unreliability but to different degrees
Open access here: doi.org/10.1111/cdev...
Nonverbal rationality? 2-year-old children, dogs, and pigs show unselective responses to unreliability but to different degrees
Open access here: doi.org/10.1111/cdev...
Reposted by Dr Kirsten Blakey
Come talk to @feceozkan.bsky.social after her Reasoning talk session & @khblakey.bsky.social @normanjzeng.bsky.social & I during our posters today to hear about our epic journey to Ithaca!
June 19, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Come talk to @feceozkan.bsky.social after her Reasoning talk session & @khblakey.bsky.social @normanjzeng.bsky.social & I during our posters today to hear about our epic journey to Ithaca!
Reposted by Dr Kirsten Blakey
UofT psych gets to #SPP2025: Public transit down, first car rental broke down 700m after leaving, endured flash floods in upstate NY. We finally made it (11 hours later!)
June 19, 2025 at 12:18 PM
UofT psych gets to #SPP2025: Public transit down, first car rental broke down 700m after leaving, endured flash floods in upstate NY. We finally made it (11 hours later!)
New paper!
We develop a framework for understanding how reflective belief revision could emerge from unreflective responses to evidence, integrating epistemology and developmental psychology.
Epistemic Rationality Begins Unreflectively
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#DevPsych #Epistemology
We develop a framework for understanding how reflective belief revision could emerge from unreflective responses to evidence, integrating epistemology and developmental psychology.
Epistemic Rationality Begins Unreflectively
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#DevPsych #Epistemology
Epistemic Rationality Begins Unreflectively - Erkenntnis
Recent research in analytic epistemology suggests that one can form a rational belief without being in the position to identify and assess the evidence in its support. The reach of such unreflective r...
link.springer.com
June 16, 2025 at 2:39 PM
New paper!
We develop a framework for understanding how reflective belief revision could emerge from unreflective responses to evidence, integrating epistemology and developmental psychology.
Epistemic Rationality Begins Unreflectively
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#DevPsych #Epistemology
We develop a framework for understanding how reflective belief revision could emerge from unreflective responses to evidence, integrating epistemology and developmental psychology.
Epistemic Rationality Begins Unreflectively
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
#DevPsych #Epistemology
Reposted by Dr Kirsten Blakey
May 1, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Reposted by Dr Kirsten Blakey
Excited to be organizing this symposium with @samuelronfard.bsky.social's support! 😊 Check out our session #SRCD25, Friday, 11.30 am, and hear from Joshua Confer, @anahidmodrek.bsky.social, and @lucaspbutler.bsky.social! @janengelmann.bsky.social
April 28, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Excited to be organizing this symposium with @samuelronfard.bsky.social's support! 😊 Check out our session #SRCD25, Friday, 11.30 am, and hear from Joshua Confer, @anahidmodrek.bsky.social, and @lucaspbutler.bsky.social! @janengelmann.bsky.social
Reposted by Dr Kirsten Blakey
🚨RT!
The Social & Cognitive Origins group at @jhuartssciences.bsky.social (social-cognitive-origins.com), directed by Dr. Christopher Krupenye, is recruiting a full-time research assistant or lab manager to begin Summer 2025. The position has a one-year minimum, w/ the possibility of extension. 1/
The Social & Cognitive Origins group at @jhuartssciences.bsky.social (social-cognitive-origins.com), directed by Dr. Christopher Krupenye, is recruiting a full-time research assistant or lab manager to begin Summer 2025. The position has a one-year minimum, w/ the possibility of extension. 1/
March 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
🚨RT!
The Social & Cognitive Origins group at @jhuartssciences.bsky.social (social-cognitive-origins.com), directed by Dr. Christopher Krupenye, is recruiting a full-time research assistant or lab manager to begin Summer 2025. The position has a one-year minimum, w/ the possibility of extension. 1/
The Social & Cognitive Origins group at @jhuartssciences.bsky.social (social-cognitive-origins.com), directed by Dr. Christopher Krupenye, is recruiting a full-time research assistant or lab manager to begin Summer 2025. The position has a one-year minimum, w/ the possibility of extension. 1/
New paper!
Children’s sharing is influenced by factors like others' need and reputation, but research has typically examined these factors in isolation. This study explores how different combinations of need and reputation affect costly sharing decisions.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Children’s sharing is influenced by factors like others' need and reputation, but research has typically examined these factors in isolation. This study explores how different combinations of need and reputation affect costly sharing decisions.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Children consider others’ need and reputation in costly sharing decisions - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Children consider others’ need and reputation in costly sharing decisions
www.nature.com
March 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
New paper!
Children’s sharing is influenced by factors like others' need and reputation, but research has typically examined these factors in isolation. This study explores how different combinations of need and reputation affect costly sharing decisions.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Children’s sharing is influenced by factors like others' need and reputation, but research has typically examined these factors in isolation. This study explores how different combinations of need and reputation affect costly sharing decisions.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Dr Kirsten Blakey
How does the capacity to demonstrate intellectual humility - to recognize limits to one's beliefs or knowledge - develop and change? And are there things that can be done to foster greater intellectual humility?
Come join our SRCD pre-conference to discuss these questions and more!
Come join our SRCD pre-conference to discuss these questions and more!
We are excited to invite you to the pre-conference workshop, “Towards a developmental science of intellectual humility,” taking place before the 2025 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting. Wednesday, April 30th, 2025. Register at www.developingintellectualhumility.com/srcd-2025.
February 4, 2025 at 2:38 PM
How does the capacity to demonstrate intellectual humility - to recognize limits to one's beliefs or knowledge - develop and change? And are there things that can be done to foster greater intellectual humility?
Come join our SRCD pre-conference to discuss these questions and more!
Come join our SRCD pre-conference to discuss these questions and more!
Reposted by Dr Kirsten Blakey
We are excited to invite you to the pre-conference workshop, “Towards a developmental science of intellectual humility,” taking place before the 2025 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting. Wednesday, April 30th, 2025. Register at www.developingintellectualhumility.com/srcd-2025.
February 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
We are excited to invite you to the pre-conference workshop, “Towards a developmental science of intellectual humility,” taking place before the 2025 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting. Wednesday, April 30th, 2025. Register at www.developingintellectualhumility.com/srcd-2025.
Reposted by Dr Kirsten Blakey
Have you ever wondered what’s your optimal mood for staying focused? 🤔 Our new paper in @Developmental Psychology explores how children and adults think about this question (w/ Brandon Goulding and @samuelronfard.bsky.social )
doi.org/10.1037/dev0...
Here is what we found...👀
🧵1/6
doi.org/10.1037/dev0...
Here is what we found...👀
🧵1/6
APA PsycNet
doi.org
December 11, 2024 at 12:26 AM
Have you ever wondered what’s your optimal mood for staying focused? 🤔 Our new paper in @Developmental Psychology explores how children and adults think about this question (w/ Brandon Goulding and @samuelronfard.bsky.social )
doi.org/10.1037/dev0...
Here is what we found...👀
🧵1/6
doi.org/10.1037/dev0...
Here is what we found...👀
🧵1/6
