The Child Lab
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The Child Lab does science with parents and children via online video chat. It is run by Prof. Frank Keil's Cognition and Development Lab at Yale University.
New Haven, CT
Joined July 2017
1/2 "What's more like an owl? The blue answer (airplane) or the green answer (cow)?" In our studies, you and your child video chat with a Yale researcher. We get to learn how children think, and your child gets a prize! Find more information and sign up at
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RT @carebaer7: Hey child dev hivemind, I need some help finding studies where children track their own performance over time. Especially ca…
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if ubiquity in everyday congition is a good index of how important some feature of cognition is, the IOED is definitely one of Frank's most important findings. here's an explainer thread we wrote awhile ago!
ok fr this is called an ILLUSION OF EXPLANATORY DEPTH. when people know how to USE something they are prone to thinking they understand how it WORKS when they have no idea. zippers and the computer mouse are kind of paradigmatic examples
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RT @Reut_Shachnai: Our labmate @_BrandoCarrillo has recently lost his beloved grandmother, who contracted Covid after an earthquake evacuat…
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RT @hollyahuey: How do children’s drawings change across development? My new @cogsci_soc #CogSci2022 paper w/ @judyefan @brialong @justinth…
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RT @maureengill_aca: Out today in Cognition! W/ @jfkominsky, Thomas Icard, and @xphilosopher, a novel interaction effect of norm violations…
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RT @VelisarM: I’m happy to finally report the data from the main project of my phd. Over 8 conditions of 32 8mo-old infants, we tested the…
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RT @TessaRDavis: Poorly designed slides can destroy your presentation. Here are 9 must follow rules to create slides that pop and keep yo…
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RT @AthenaAkrami: The group of @nickyclayton22 has been the driving force in the comparative study of animal cognition (particularly crow f…
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RT @PeretzLange: dev psych twitter: looking for studies where young children provide confidence ratings for their judgments (e.g., particip…
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RT @tobigerstenberg: I've updated the course notes for the grad stats ( class I help teach here at Stanford. You…
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RT @SehrangJoo: Excited to be presenting this work at #CogSci2022! We look at cases where how intentionally someone acts changes how much p…
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RT @melissaekline: To round out #CDS2022, a gigantic plea for the citations that will help us keep online infrastructure available (and fre…
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RT @AboodyRosie: New paper out in JEP-G, only 4 years in the making: By age 6, kids endorse well-sourced claims over those that are merely…
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RT @billdthompson: Over the last five years @cocosci_lab we've been building the capacity to conduct larger and more structured simulations…
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RT @AdeyemiAdetula1: I have received none of the money I was promised to support my PhD for a year and a half. I have borrowed money, skipp…
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RT @rclarkie: Lovely twitter people - I don't know how many of you are also #instagram users but I'm looking for a wee favour. I've a 12yr…
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RT @CandiceMMills: We are looking for a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join our team! See below for an overview, and check out UTD's job p…
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