Frankie T. K. Fong
@frankiefong.bsky.social
Cultural Developmental Psychology | Lecturer in Dev Psych @ Victoria Uni Wellington NZ 🇳🇿| conduct social learning research with children in Germany, Malaysia, Australia, NZ
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If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind.
Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!
Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!
May 30, 2025 at 12:18 AM
If you haven't been looking recently at the Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science (oecs.mit.edu), here's your reminder that we are a free, open access resource for learning about the science of mind.
Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!
Today we are launching our new Thematic Collections to organize our growing set of articles!
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🚨Paper alert 🚨
Need a social cognition task for measuring individual- and community-level variation? We are excited to share the TANGO-CC with you! 👀
Paper: doi.org/10.1177/2515...
w/ @mcxfrank.bsky.social @patkanngiesser.bsky.social @kirstensutherland.bsky.social
@elmanubohn.bsky.social...
Need a social cognition task for measuring individual- and community-level variation? We are excited to share the TANGO-CC with you! 👀
Paper: doi.org/10.1177/2515...
w/ @mcxfrank.bsky.social @patkanngiesser.bsky.social @kirstensutherland.bsky.social
@elmanubohn.bsky.social...
February 13, 2025 at 9:45 AM
🚨Paper alert 🚨
Need a social cognition task for measuring individual- and community-level variation? We are excited to share the TANGO-CC with you! 👀
Paper: doi.org/10.1177/2515...
w/ @mcxfrank.bsky.social @patkanngiesser.bsky.social @kirstensutherland.bsky.social
@elmanubohn.bsky.social...
Need a social cognition task for measuring individual- and community-level variation? We are excited to share the TANGO-CC with you! 👀
Paper: doi.org/10.1177/2515...
w/ @mcxfrank.bsky.social @patkanngiesser.bsky.social @kirstensutherland.bsky.social
@elmanubohn.bsky.social...
New paper with Daniel Haun in Child Development Perspectives 📝🤓 “Two Gaps in Studying High-Fidelity Imitation”
All feedback welcome srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
All feedback welcome srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Child Development Perspectives | SRCD Developmental Science Journal | Wiley Online Library
Recent empirical investigations have concentrated primarily on studying imitation as a social tool that satisfies social motivations, while other potential reasons for and forms of imitation have att...
srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 13, 2025 at 9:17 AM
New paper with Daniel Haun in Child Development Perspectives 📝🤓 “Two Gaps in Studying High-Fidelity Imitation”
All feedback welcome srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
All feedback welcome srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Understanding cultural variation in cognition one child at a time
"... individual-level analyses are needed to discern how specific cultural and ecological factors influence cognitive development."
w/ @frankiefong.bsky.social, Sarah Caldwell, Roman Stengelin & Daniel Haun
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"... individual-level analyses are needed to discern how specific cultural and ecological factors influence cognitive development."
w/ @frankiefong.bsky.social, Sarah Caldwell, Roman Stengelin & Daniel Haun
rdcu.be/dQXrn
Understanding cultural variation in cognition one child at a time
Nature Reviews Psychology - Cross-cultural developmental research is crucial for understanding the roots of human cognition. Although group-level analyses can reveal how culture co-varies with...
rdcu.be
August 14, 2024 at 7:19 PM
Understanding cultural variation in cognition one child at a time
"... individual-level analyses are needed to discern how specific cultural and ecological factors influence cognitive development."
w/ @frankiefong.bsky.social, Sarah Caldwell, Roman Stengelin & Daniel Haun
rdcu.be/dQXrn
"... individual-level analyses are needed to discern how specific cultural and ecological factors influence cognitive development."
w/ @frankiefong.bsky.social, Sarah Caldwell, Roman Stengelin & Daniel Haun
rdcu.be/dQXrn
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I am very delighted for this one! here is our latest work with Dustin Eirdosh and Daniel Haun. I hope all the children around you enjoy it!!
kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
Studying Great Apes and Cultural Diversity To Understand the Human Mind
Psychologists want to understand how the human mind is extraordinary among animal minds and where the unique aspects of human minds and behaviors come from. To build scientific understanding of human ...
kids.frontiersin.org
June 10, 2024 at 7:30 AM
I am very delighted for this one! here is our latest work with Dustin Eirdosh and Daniel Haun. I hope all the children around you enjoy it!!
kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....
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"A universal of human social cognition: Children from 17 communities process gaze in similar ways"
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Preprint for our large-scale cross-cultural study (N = 1377) on gaze-following. We found the same key processing signatures in all communities we studied.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Preprint for our large-scale cross-cultural study (N = 1377) on gaze-following. We found the same key processing signatures in all communities we studied.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
April 4, 2024 at 8:50 AM
"A universal of human social cognition: Children from 17 communities process gaze in similar ways"
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Preprint for our large-scale cross-cultural study (N = 1377) on gaze-following. We found the same key processing signatures in all communities we studied.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Preprint for our large-scale cross-cultural study (N = 1377) on gaze-following. We found the same key processing signatures in all communities we studied.
osf.io/preprints/ps...
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📣 Exciting news! We're accepting applications for our Broadening Participation Grant. Apply for grants up to $5,000 to increase accessibility and inclusion of under-represented communities in #CogSci
Learn more at cognitivesciencesociety.org/broadening-p... and submit you application by May 24! 🗓️
Learn more at cognitivesciencesociety.org/broadening-p... and submit you application by May 24! 🗓️
April 2, 2024 at 7:35 PM
📣 Exciting news! We're accepting applications for our Broadening Participation Grant. Apply for grants up to $5,000 to increase accessibility and inclusion of under-represented communities in #CogSci
Learn more at cognitivesciencesociety.org/broadening-p... and submit you application by May 24! 🗓️
Learn more at cognitivesciencesociety.org/broadening-p... and submit you application by May 24! 🗓️
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New paper 📃 out now in Cognition
Preschoolers and, to a lesser extent, chimpanzees but possibly not capuchin monkeys consider abstract patterns in sampled evidence to guide efficient foraging
sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Preschoolers and, to a lesser extent, chimpanzees but possibly not capuchin monkeys consider abstract patterns in sampled evidence to guide efficient foraging
sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
How can I find what I want? Can children, chimpanzees and capuchin monkeys form abstract representat...
Abstract concepts are a powerful tool for making wide-ranging predictions in new situations based on little experience. Whereas looking-time studies s…
https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010027724000076…
January 23, 2024 at 9:22 PM
New paper 📃 out now in Cognition
Preschoolers and, to a lesser extent, chimpanzees but possibly not capuchin monkeys consider abstract patterns in sampled evidence to guide efficient foraging
sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Preschoolers and, to a lesser extent, chimpanzees but possibly not capuchin monkeys consider abstract patterns in sampled evidence to guide efficient foraging
sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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We're launching Devstart, a website to help anyone getting started with developmental science methods and programming. Here's the website with the first tutorials: tommasoghilardi.github.io/DevStart/
Please share widely! 1/4
Please share widely! 1/4
January 8, 2024 at 5:00 PM
We're launching Devstart, a website to help anyone getting started with developmental science methods and programming. Here's the website with the first tutorials: tommasoghilardi.github.io/DevStart/
Please share widely! 1/4
Please share widely! 1/4
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We are opening two tenure-track positions
(please repost!)
Human Evolutionary Social Science
Computational Social Science
Come join a truly interdisciplinary department, within a world-class school of economics, in beautiful southern France!
Deadline Jan 31st
www.tse-fr.eu/groups/depar...
(please repost!)
Human Evolutionary Social Science
Computational Social Science
Come join a truly interdisciplinary department, within a world-class school of economics, in beautiful southern France!
Deadline Jan 31st
www.tse-fr.eu/groups/depar...
Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences
www.tse-fr.eu
January 7, 2024 at 8:37 AM
We are opening two tenure-track positions
(please repost!)
Human Evolutionary Social Science
Computational Social Science
Come join a truly interdisciplinary department, within a world-class school of economics, in beautiful southern France!
Deadline Jan 31st
www.tse-fr.eu/groups/depar...
(please repost!)
Human Evolutionary Social Science
Computational Social Science
Come join a truly interdisciplinary department, within a world-class school of economics, in beautiful southern France!
Deadline Jan 31st
www.tse-fr.eu/groups/depar...
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Group leader position in comp-psych / cross-cult-psych at MPI EVA in Leipzig (Haun group). 6 years (+2). Deadline January 31st. Details here:
www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
December 22, 2023 at 1:39 PM
Group leader position in comp-psych / cross-cult-psych at MPI EVA in Leipzig (Haun group). 6 years (+2). Deadline January 31st. Details here:
www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
www.eva.mpg.de/career/posit...
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👁️Variation in gaze understanding across the life span: A process-level perspective👁️
Lead: Julia Prein
We study basic social-cognitive skills across the lifespan
✅ reliable task suitable from 3 to 80
✅ computational model to explain individual differences
✅ tests of model implications
Lead: Julia Prein
We study basic social-cognitive skills across the lifespan
✅ reliable task suitable from 3 to 80
✅ computational model to explain individual differences
✅ tests of model implications
osf.io
November 10, 2023 at 11:18 AM
👁️Variation in gaze understanding across the life span: A process-level perspective👁️
Lead: Julia Prein
We study basic social-cognitive skills across the lifespan
✅ reliable task suitable from 3 to 80
✅ computational model to explain individual differences
✅ tests of model implications
Lead: Julia Prein
We study basic social-cognitive skills across the lifespan
✅ reliable task suitable from 3 to 80
✅ computational model to explain individual differences
✅ tests of model implications
Reposted by Frankie T. K. Fong
Excited to announce a free conference/workshop on 'The Psychology of Santa'.
Five great speakers on five great topics. Breakout rooms afterwards to discuss the state of the field and future directions.
All levels welcome. Registration necessary.
durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Five great speakers on five great topics. Breakout rooms afterwards to discuss the state of the field and future directions.
All levels welcome. Registration necessary.
durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
November 6, 2023 at 10:59 AM
Excited to announce a free conference/workshop on 'The Psychology of Santa'.
Five great speakers on five great topics. Breakout rooms afterwards to discuss the state of the field and future directions.
All levels welcome. Registration necessary.
durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
Five great speakers on five great topics. Breakout rooms afterwards to discuss the state of the field and future directions.
All levels welcome. Registration necessary.
durhamuniversity.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Join us! New, fully funded PhD positions available in the Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology at MPI-EVA in Leipzig.
www.eva.mpg.de/comparative-...
www.eva.mpg.de/comparative-...
Career - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
www.eva.mpg.de
November 3, 2023 at 9:40 AM
Join us! New, fully funded PhD positions available in the Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology at MPI-EVA in Leipzig.
www.eva.mpg.de/comparative-...
www.eva.mpg.de/comparative-...
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Join our lovely team at York St John Psychology!
Three positions open for applications: jobs.yorksj.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
jobs.yorksj.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Three positions open for applications: jobs.yorksj.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
jobs.yorksj.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at York St John University: 2 x Lecturers in Psychology
jobs.yorksj.ac.uk
November 1, 2023 at 3:43 PM
Join our lovely team at York St John Psychology!
Three positions open for applications: jobs.yorksj.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
jobs.yorksj.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Three positions open for applications: jobs.yorksj.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
jobs.yorksj.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
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🚨New preprint!🚨
PREVIC: An adaptive parent report measure of expressive vocabulary in children between 3 and 8 years of age
We used IRT to build an *adaptive* parent report measure for children beyond the CDI (in German)
Task, materials, data ... everything open access
osf.io/preprints/ps...
PREVIC: An adaptive parent report measure of expressive vocabulary in children between 3 and 8 years of age
We used IRT to build an *adaptive* parent report measure for children beyond the CDI (in German)
Task, materials, data ... everything open access
osf.io/preprints/ps...
October 19, 2023 at 9:49 AM
🚨New preprint!🚨
PREVIC: An adaptive parent report measure of expressive vocabulary in children between 3 and 8 years of age
We used IRT to build an *adaptive* parent report measure for children beyond the CDI (in German)
Task, materials, data ... everything open access
osf.io/preprints/ps...
PREVIC: An adaptive parent report measure of expressive vocabulary in children between 3 and 8 years of age
We used IRT to build an *adaptive* parent report measure for children beyond the CDI (in German)
Task, materials, data ... everything open access
osf.io/preprints/ps...
Reposted by Frankie T. K. Fong
"The Dissenter" Show (Ricardo Lopes) has interviewed me about ape culture. Its always a pleasure to work with him. I checked but he is not (yet) on bsky and so instead of him doing tbis I'll link to the interview here myself:
youtu.be/FB31IrHUQds
🕸️ cultevo
youtu.be/FB31IrHUQds
🕸️ cultevo
#849 Claudio Tennie: The Differences Between Ape Culture and Human Culture
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October 19, 2023 at 7:39 PM
"The Dissenter" Show (Ricardo Lopes) has interviewed me about ape culture. Its always a pleasure to work with him. I checked but he is not (yet) on bsky and so instead of him doing tbis I'll link to the interview here myself:
youtu.be/FB31IrHUQds
🕸️ cultevo
youtu.be/FB31IrHUQds
🕸️ cultevo
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Child Development the journal of SRCD has now made Registered Reports a permanent submission option. Moin Syed has a thread on the former bird app regarding it but info can also be found here #devpsych srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Registered Reports in Child Development: Introduction to the Special Section
Registered Reports (RRs) are an emerging format for publishing empirical journal articles in which the decision to publish an article is based on sound conceptualization, methods, and planned analyse....
srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 7, 2023 at 12:39 PM
Child Development the journal of SRCD has now made Registered Reports a permanent submission option. Moin Syed has a thread on the former bird app regarding it but info can also be found here #devpsych srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Call for Editorial Fellows at Developmental Psychology.
*Early Career (w/i 10yrs PhD)
*Members of underrepresented communities (e.g., minoritized, LGBTQ+, w/ disabilities, Global South, etc) or record of advocacy.
*1-year term; $1,000 USD stipend
*Early Career (w/i 10yrs PhD)
*Members of underrepresented communities (e.g., minoritized, LGBTQ+, w/ disabilities, Global South, etc) or record of advocacy.
*1-year term; $1,000 USD stipend
September 25, 2023 at 3:38 PM
Call for Editorial Fellows at Developmental Psychology.
*Early Career (w/i 10yrs PhD)
*Members of underrepresented communities (e.g., minoritized, LGBTQ+, w/ disabilities, Global South, etc) or record of advocacy.
*1-year term; $1,000 USD stipend
*Early Career (w/i 10yrs PhD)
*Members of underrepresented communities (e.g., minoritized, LGBTQ+, w/ disabilities, Global South, etc) or record of advocacy.
*1-year term; $1,000 USD stipend
As my first post here, I would like to share a recently published paper I wrote with Mark Nielsen & Kathleen Corriveau, “I copy you as I believe you know about our culture: Combining imitation and selective trust literatures” Any feedback is welcome
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
September 26, 2023 at 8:02 PM
As my first post here, I would like to share a recently published paper I wrote with Mark Nielsen & Kathleen Corriveau, “I copy you as I believe you know about our culture: Combining imitation and selective trust literatures” Any feedback is welcome
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....