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Leonard Learning Lab
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Leonard Learning Lab at Yale Psychology. We study children’s motivation and learning.
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Like a parent, AI can guide or smother. It's time to think about how we build this relationship.

Check out my new essay with Brett Smith www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/deve...
Will AI Become a Helicopter Parent?
Like a parent, AI can guide or smother. It's time to think about how we build this relationship.
www.psychologytoday.com
September 1, 2025 at 8:34 PM
The Learning Lab is heading to CogSci 2025 (@cogscisociety.bsky.social) to share our latest research! Come say hello!
July 28, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Wirecutter crowned Ben & Jerry’s the best vanilla ice cream. I scoffed.
Our lab managers Surya and Nat ran a blind taste test.
Guess what won?
Ben & Jerry’s.
Science is brutal.
June 30, 2025 at 9:16 PM
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Honored to win the 2025 APS Janet Taylor Spence Award! You can read more about my research and journey here www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
Member Spotlight: 2025 Spence Awardee Julia Leonard on Celebrating Children’s Progress
This Yale University researcher discusses her efforts to understand children’s approach to learning.
www.psychologicalscience.org
May 21, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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New preprint! Despite ongoing efforts to combat gender bias in education, our work reveals a striking and under-explored challenge: By the time children enter elementary school, children already expect adults to hold gender stereotypes and approve when adults act on them.

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May 14, 2025 at 7:31 PM
New work from the lab shows that, with scaffolding, little optimistic 4-to-6-year-olds can understand that mastery takes practice. Out now in Child Development. @srcdorg.bsky.social

srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
April 28, 2025 at 1:56 PM
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Congrats to my first PhD student Dr Flora Zhang!!!!! Make sure to check out her amazing work on intuitive theories of acquisition (and why they matter) @leonardlearnlab.bsky.social
April 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Come check out the lab's research at @srcdorg.bsky.social this week! @leonardlearnlab.bsky.social
April 28, 2025 at 1:49 PM
✨New work from the lab!✨
November 22, 2024 at 2:16 PM
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For decades, developmental psychologists have noticed that optimism declines with age. Why does this presumably good thing decrease across development? In this Nature Reviews Psych article, @jessicas.bsky.social and I draw from prior hypotheses to offer an integrated account.
November 19, 2024 at 1:46 PM