Recently gabe a lab talk with the kiddo next to me - thanks to @dkampis.bsky.social for having us & thanks to Bluey for making this happen 🙌

6/ This project spanned multiple years and continents, was launched right before the pandemic, and took many unexpected twists and turns along the way. (Also the kobos developed a loyal fan base among children...)

2/ We developed an iPad game in which participants (1) watch agents collect resources, (2) pick a partner, and (3) play the game together with this partner. Importantly, they are not prompted with trait labels or told that agents differ (in skill and/or prosociality).

Do kids prefer to play with helpers? Our paper on children's trait attribution and partner choice is out! doi.org/10.1111/cdev... We wanted to know if kids, after observing other agents' behaviors, spontaneously (!) interpret them in terms of traits and choose cooperation partners accordingly. 🧵...

New paper in Open Mind! What does it mean to help? What is the goal of a helping action? We wanted to probe infants' & preschoolers' helping concept - specifically, whether they think helpers reduce others' action costs. direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

so stoked to be back at #BCCCD25!

Some news: I recently defended my dissertation (accessible at tinyurl.com/y76muv6m) and joined Azzurra Ruggeri's group in Munich as a postdoc! Looking forward to new adventures ahead :)

First post here - sharing that our paper on infants' representation of third-party helping interactions is now published (OA) at the Annual Review of Developmental Psychology! www.annualreviews.org/doi/full/10....