Zoe Liberman
@zoeliberman.bsky.social
Associate Professor at UCSB. Interested in the origins and development of humans' understanding of social relationships. liberman.psych.ucsb.edu
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
October 2, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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
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
We hope our work broadens focus beyond the victim-perpetrator dyad
Excited that this paper is finally out (in collaboration with @zoeliberman.bsky.social @saraburke.bsky.social & Brenda Major) in PSPB!
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The Comparative Status Hypothesis: Inferences About Discrimination Vary Based on Identity Salience - Elizabeth A. Quinn-Jensen, Anh L. K. Tran, Sara E. Burke, Brenda Major, Zoe Liberman, 2025
Past research examining when people label an outcome as discrimination has largely ignored contextual factors beyond the victim–perpetrator dyad. We contend tha...
journals.sagepub.com
July 1, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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
We hope our work broadens focus beyond the victim-perpetrator dyad
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.
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.
New paper with past honors student Vanessa Chao and @zoeliberman.bsky.social in press at JECP:
“Children can consider social relationships when evaluating liars”
By the early elementary school years, people judge it as worse and meaner for a friend (vs. classmate) to lie.
doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
“Children can consider social relationships when evaluating liars”
By the early elementary school years, people judge it as worse and meaner for a friend (vs. classmate) to lie.
doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
Redirecting
doi.org
June 23, 2025 at 4:48 PM
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.
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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🧪 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
"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
democrats-science.house.gov
May 9, 2025 at 1:00 AM
🧪 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
"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
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
🚨Please check “in honor of” and write: PBS DEVO Area🚨
#devpsych
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April 10, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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
🚨Please check “in honor of” and write: PBS DEVO Area🚨
#devpsych
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
@shreyasodhi.bsky.social
Just out in Social Development! Ambrish et al show that children use features of speech to determine who a speaker is addressing. Both mono- and bilingual children like people who they believed spoke “correctly”.
@zoeliberman.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
@zoeliberman.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Does Children's Developing Understanding of Linguistic Register Impact Their Social Preferences?
People use different communication patterns based on the context and who they are addressing. These differences, known as linguistic register, are common across human speech and recognized early in d...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 4, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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
@shreyasodhi.bsky.social
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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.
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.
March 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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.
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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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
Read to find an interesting story on how people perceive different domains of capacities changing from birth to age 5 yrs.
osf.io/kq4j7
OSF
osf.io
December 31, 2024 at 5:00 PM
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
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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trying out some physics on Sora, OpenAI's video-creation-from-text-tool.
Here is "a blue block falling on a green sphere"
Here is "a blue block falling on a green sphere"
December 17, 2024 at 1:27 PM
trying out some physics on Sora, OpenAI's video-creation-from-text-tool.
Here is "a blue block falling on a green sphere"
Here is "a blue block falling on a green sphere"
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/...
🚨 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/...
<em>Child Development</em> | SRCD Journal | Wiley Online Library
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...
srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 11, 2024 at 5:32 PM
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/...
🚨 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/...
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
Check out this blog post I wrote about my most recent publication with @zoeliberman.bsky.social
spsp.org/news/charact...
spsp.org/news/charact...
Should a Biracial Person Identify with the Race of One of Their Parents, or Both? | SPSP
Perceivers’ own racial identity affects judgements of biracial people’s identity claims.
spsp.org
December 9, 2024 at 8:17 PM
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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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...
undergradresearch.missouri.edu/interpersona...
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…
undergradresearch.missouri.edu
December 5, 2024 at 6:31 PM
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...
undergradresearch.missouri.edu/interpersona...
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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
November 27, 2024 at 11:48 AM
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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🎉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.
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.
Assistant/Associate Professor in Evolutionary Anthropology/Anthropology of Health
University of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ap.ucsb.edu
November 22, 2024 at 7:17 PM
🎉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.
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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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
Read more about our lab at www.vislearnlab.org
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!
www.vislearnlab.org
November 18, 2024 at 6:46 PM
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
Read more about our lab at www.vislearnlab.org
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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 👶🪴
Prospective Students | Psychological & Brain Sciences | UCSB
psych.ucsb.edu
October 29, 2024 at 1:32 PM
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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November 15, 2024 at 5:50 AM
Reposted by Zoe Liberman
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 !
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 !
November 14, 2024 at 3:48 PM
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 !
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 !
Reposted by Zoe Liberman
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...
Social Injustice and Social Change (UCSB) - Recruiting Ph.D. Students
sisc.psych.ucsb.edu
November 13, 2024 at 11:53 PM
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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📢 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
Brain Imaging Center Director, Psychological & Brain Sciences
University of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ap.ucsb.edu
November 11, 2024 at 1:06 PM
📢 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
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
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
April 11, 2024 at 5:50 PM
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
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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📣 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
November 16, 2023 at 8:08 PM
📣 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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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-...
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-...
November 13, 2023 at 9:11 PM
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-...
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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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
Duke University, Psychology and Neuroscience
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September 28, 2023 at 6:06 PM
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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We are hiring in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience at UIUC Psychology . Posting here too in case you missed it.
Assistant/Associate Professor- Department of Psychology- Cognitive Neuroscience
Duties & Responsibilities
illinois.csod.com
September 27, 2023 at 3:14 PM
We are hiring in Computational Cognitive Neuroscience at UIUC Psychology . Posting here too in case you missed it.