Lindsey Powell
@lindseypowell.bsky.social
Developmental psych & cog neuro, studying how babies and kids make sense of and learn from their social world. Asst Prof @ UCSD. she/her
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International Congress on Infant Studies (ICIS) abstract deadline has now been extended to Friday December 12th!
Don’t miss this opportunity to share your research, connect with leading scholars, and experience the unique setting of Panama City. ☀️ 🇵🇦 @infantstudies.bsky.social
Don’t miss this opportunity to share your research, connect with leading scholars, and experience the unique setting of Panama City. ☀️ 🇵🇦 @infantstudies.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 4:36 AM
International Congress on Infant Studies (ICIS) abstract deadline has now been extended to Friday December 12th!
Don’t miss this opportunity to share your research, connect with leading scholars, and experience the unique setting of Panama City. ☀️ 🇵🇦 @infantstudies.bsky.social
Don’t miss this opportunity to share your research, connect with leading scholars, and experience the unique setting of Panama City. ☀️ 🇵🇦 @infantstudies.bsky.social
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Excited to share that my lab will be accepting applications for our very first PhD student to start in Fall 2026!
Interested applicants can learn more about the lab here: wordpress.lehigh.edu/littlelearne...
And Lehigh’s graduate program here: psychology.cas.lehigh.edu/graduate
Interested applicants can learn more about the lab here: wordpress.lehigh.edu/littlelearne...
And Lehigh’s graduate program here: psychology.cas.lehigh.edu/graduate
September 26, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Excited to share that my lab will be accepting applications for our very first PhD student to start in Fall 2026!
Interested applicants can learn more about the lab here: wordpress.lehigh.edu/littlelearne...
And Lehigh’s graduate program here: psychology.cas.lehigh.edu/graduate
Interested applicants can learn more about the lab here: wordpress.lehigh.edu/littlelearne...
And Lehigh’s graduate program here: psychology.cas.lehigh.edu/graduate
Move over frogs, we’ve got our own spirit animal #NoKingsSanDiego
October 18, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Move over frogs, we’ve got our own spirit animal #NoKingsSanDiego
Seems like a particularly cruel change to make without warning given the stress that reviewers often put on applicants' publication record. Presumably many strong students waited based on this apparent criterion, not because they didn't already have great ideas to propose.
Extremely disappointing decision from the NSF today to exclude second-year graduate students from eligibility for the GRFP. I and many other second-year grads purposely held off from applying in our first year to be able to do so now...
September 26, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Seems like a particularly cruel change to make without warning given the stress that reviewers often put on applicants' publication record. Presumably many strong students waited based on this apparent criterion, not because they didn't already have great ideas to propose.
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Extremely disappointing decision from the NSF today to exclude second-year graduate students from eligibility for the GRFP. I and many other second-year grads purposely held off from applying in our first year to be able to do so now...
September 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Extremely disappointing decision from the NSF today to exclude second-year graduate students from eligibility for the GRFP. I and many other second-year grads purposely held off from applying in our first year to be able to do so now...
Big news: FIT'NG 2026 will be held in Panama City next year, right after #ICIS2026!! Can't wait for this awesome week of infant science coming next July 👶🧠
Join us next July in Panama!! #FITNG2025 --> 2026 🌴🤓
September 8, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Big news: FIT'NG 2026 will be held in Panama City next year, right after #ICIS2026!! Can't wait for this awesome week of infant science coming next July 👶🧠
The SoCal Lab is headed to #cogsci2025 this week! Here's where you can find us:
July 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The SoCal Lab is headed to #cogsci2025 this week! Here's where you can find us:
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New episode!! 🎙️📣
A chat w/ @sheinalew.bsky.social & @dorsaamir.bsky.social about childhood across cultures.
Humans everywhere go through childhood—a time of learning, growth, and play. But this universal stage of life can look very different in different places.
Listen: disi.org/varieties-of...
A chat w/ @sheinalew.bsky.social & @dorsaamir.bsky.social about childhood across cultures.
Humans everywhere go through childhood—a time of learning, growth, and play. But this universal stage of life can look very different in different places.
Listen: disi.org/varieties-of...
July 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
New episode!! 🎙️📣
A chat w/ @sheinalew.bsky.social & @dorsaamir.bsky.social about childhood across cultures.
Humans everywhere go through childhood—a time of learning, growth, and play. But this universal stage of life can look very different in different places.
Listen: disi.org/varieties-of...
A chat w/ @sheinalew.bsky.social & @dorsaamir.bsky.social about childhood across cultures.
Humans everywhere go through childhood—a time of learning, growth, and play. But this universal stage of life can look very different in different places.
Listen: disi.org/varieties-of...
New preprint! Led by Bill Pepe, with @brandonwoo.bsky.social and @ashleyjthomas.bsky.social. We asked if infants think helping and hindering stem from actors' dispositions (i.e. good/nice v bad/mean) or their social relationships, by testing expectations for future behavior: osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
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July 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
New preprint! Led by Bill Pepe, with @brandonwoo.bsky.social and @ashleyjthomas.bsky.social. We asked if infants think helping and hindering stem from actors' dispositions (i.e. good/nice v bad/mean) or their social relationships, by testing expectations for future behavior: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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New paper from Qi, Vul and Powell introduces a clever way to measure a participant's Welfare-Tradeoff Ratio in a single trial: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
July 9, 2025 at 4:08 PM
New paper from Qi, Vul and Powell introduces a clever way to measure a participant's Welfare-Tradeoff Ratio in a single trial: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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New CogSci paper!
In "Taking others for granted: Balancing presentational and personal goals in action selection" we propose a computational model explaining why people favour self interested behaviour when they believe others to trust them.
📃 osf.io/preprints/ps...
📎 github.com/Vbtesh/takin...
In "Taking others for granted: Balancing presentational and personal goals in action selection" we propose a computational model explaining why people favour self interested behaviour when they believe others to trust them.
📃 osf.io/preprints/ps...
📎 github.com/Vbtesh/takin...
OSF
osf.io
May 21, 2025 at 1:38 PM
New CogSci paper!
In "Taking others for granted: Balancing presentational and personal goals in action selection" we propose a computational model explaining why people favour self interested behaviour when they believe others to trust them.
📃 osf.io/preprints/ps...
📎 github.com/Vbtesh/takin...
In "Taking others for granted: Balancing presentational and personal goals in action selection" we propose a computational model explaining why people favour self interested behaviour when they believe others to trust them.
📃 osf.io/preprints/ps...
📎 github.com/Vbtesh/takin...
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Preprint of data from my first project as a postdoc with With @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social and Liz Spelke. Data and writing from 2019, figures are new :) osf.io/preprints/ps...
First, we replicate @lindseypowell.bsky.social 's finding that infants reach for imitators using a very different setup.
First, we replicate @lindseypowell.bsky.social 's finding that infants reach for imitators using a very different setup.
OSF
osf.io
May 23, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Preprint of data from my first project as a postdoc with With @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social and Liz Spelke. Data and writing from 2019, figures are new :) osf.io/preprints/ps...
First, we replicate @lindseypowell.bsky.social 's finding that infants reach for imitators using a very different setup.
First, we replicate @lindseypowell.bsky.social 's finding that infants reach for imitators using a very different setup.
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If you are attending #CogSci2025 I hope you will consider attending our pre-conference workshop on July 29 - "Putting it Together: Interactions Between Domains of Cognition"
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Domain Interactions | CogSci 2025
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May 20, 2025 at 9:18 PM
If you are attending #CogSci2025 I hope you will consider attending our pre-conference workshop on July 29 - "Putting it Together: Interactions Between Domains of Cognition"
sites.google.com/view/cogsci2...
sites.google.com/view/cogsci2...
This was so fun! Thanks for organizing @rtompkins.bsky.social!!
UC San Diego Psychology hosted the first Southern California Meeting for Investigations in Developmental Science (SoCal MInDS) this Saturday. We were joined by wonderful folks from the southernmost UC campuses, SDSU, CSULA, Occidental College, and USC.
May 21, 2025 at 3:28 AM
This was so fun! Thanks for organizing @rtompkins.bsky.social!!
Yesterday @asmithflores.bsky.social successfully defended her PhD and became Dr. Smith-Flores! Then she celebrated with her fantastic committee and lab members :) Congratulations, Alexis!!
May 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Yesterday @asmithflores.bsky.social successfully defended her PhD and became Dr. Smith-Flores! Then she celebrated with her fantastic committee and lab members :) Congratulations, Alexis!!
I'm sad to miss #SRCD2025 but @rtompkins.bsky.social is there and one of his presentations is on work we've been doing together: osf.io/preprints/ps.... Ever wonder what children think about caregivers who stop kids from doing dangerous things? Go to his talk (Thurs 11:50 am session) to find out!
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May 1, 2025 at 1:40 AM
I'm sad to miss #SRCD2025 but @rtompkins.bsky.social is there and one of his presentations is on work we've been doing together: osf.io/preprints/ps.... Ever wonder what children think about caregivers who stop kids from doing dangerous things? Go to his talk (Thurs 11:50 am session) to find out!
FIT'NG 2025 is happening in Dublin this September, and submissions are due in one week -- come tell us your recent findings about the fetal, infant, or toddler brain! Also, for the first time this year we are accepting symposium submissions. Find all the details at the link :)
⏰ 7 days left! Abstract deadline: April 22
💡 Do you know?
1. Unpublished results already shown at another conference (within the last year) are absolutely welcome.
2. "Work in progress" submissions are acceptable if results are expected before the conference.
Submit here: fitng.org/poster-oral-...
💡 Do you know?
1. Unpublished results already shown at another conference (within the last year) are absolutely welcome.
2. "Work in progress" submissions are acceptable if results are expected before the conference.
Submit here: fitng.org/poster-oral-...
April 15, 2025 at 4:25 PM
FIT'NG 2025 is happening in Dublin this September, and submissions are due in one week -- come tell us your recent findings about the fetal, infant, or toddler brain! Also, for the first time this year we are accepting symposium submissions. Find all the details at the link :)
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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. 🧵...
April 12, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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. 🧵...
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The last chapter of my dissertation is out now in Child Development! 🎉 OA: srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/KEAHK8...
April 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The last chapter of my dissertation is out now in Child Development! 🎉 OA: srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/KEAHK8...
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🚨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/
Searching my name in this database of Meta's stolen training library reminded me that the most popular works by Lindsey Powell are actually a bunch of steamy romance novels written by an author in the UK
March 21, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Searching my name in this database of Meta's stolen training library reminded me that the most popular works by Lindsey Powell are actually a bunch of steamy romance novels written by an author in the UK
This is Bill's first first-author paper! Keep an eye out, though, more coming soon on how both infants and kids use an actor's past helping to predict future helping & what that says about early representations of social relationships vs. dispositions
Pepe & Powell (2025): 8- & 9-month-old infants expect imitators to help the social partner they imitated but not a novel partner. This shows infants use social imitation to infer relationships more readily than broad prosocial dispositions #DevPsySky #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...
Infants' Expectations for Helping in Imitators
Human infants seem to make positive social inferences about individuals who imitate others. In three preregistered experiments we test if these inferences include an expectation that imitators will b...
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March 14, 2025 at 2:19 PM
This is Bill's first first-author paper! Keep an eye out, though, more coming soon on how both infants and kids use an actor's past helping to predict future helping & what that says about early representations of social relationships vs. dispositions
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Now hiring for two lab manager positions at Stanford! Hyo Gweon and I are coordinating joint searches since our labs collaborate frequently. Please join us!
careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/researc...
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February 10, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Now hiring for two lab manager positions at Stanford! Hyo Gweon and I are coordinating joint searches since our labs collaborate frequently. Please join us!
careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/researc...
and
careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/lab-coo...
careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/researc...
and
careersearch.stanford.edu/jobs/lab-coo...
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colleagues and friends, don't go home for the weekend without remembering that this is still happening
I am one of the impacted NSF postdoc research fellows. My funds remain frozen. I rely on these funds as my salary and payment to aid in my research efforts. I am currently without the funds I use to pay my bills, health insurance, etc. and to move my research forward. #NSF #postdoc
Exclusive: NSF this week began to search through billions of dollars of grants the agency has already awarded for anything touching on topics that President Donald Trump has criticized. And NSF has blocked grantees and trainees from accessing funds while the review is underway. scim.ag/3El0NZh
January 31, 2025 at 4:55 PM
colleagues and friends, don't go home for the weekend without remembering that this is still happening
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🎉 I'm hiring a lab manager to start August 2025 and help build my lab at Lehigh. Submit a CV, cover letter, transcript, and 2 reference contacts by March 14th. The full job description is linked below. Please share with any students or mentees who might be interested! #devpsy
tinyurl.com/33vtvy79
tinyurl.com/33vtvy79
January 30, 2025 at 6:07 PM
🎉 I'm hiring a lab manager to start August 2025 and help build my lab at Lehigh. Submit a CV, cover letter, transcript, and 2 reference contacts by March 14th. The full job description is linked below. Please share with any students or mentees who might be interested! #devpsy
tinyurl.com/33vtvy79
tinyurl.com/33vtvy79