October 24, 2022: Lab's Carving Party!
Today, we celebrated Halloween with a pumpkin carving party and some baked goods. The pumpkins turned out spooktacular and everyone had...
November 1, 2022: Began Piloting a New Study!
Today, we began testing for a new study led by Ashley Ransom. In this research, we are interested to understand children's beliefs about...
October 20, 2022: Welcoming the Lab's New Post-doctoral fellow!
We're very excited to announce that we are being joined by our new post-doctoral fellow, Ashley Ransom. As a graduate from the Cornell...
October 20, 2022: New Graduate Student has joined the Lab!
We're excited to announce we have a new graduate student, F. Ece Özkan, joining the Child Lab! Ece is a first year PhD student at the...
October 16, 2022: Welcoming the Lab's New Marketing Team!
We're very excited to announce that our lab is growing! A warm welcome to Ana Beatriz Porto and Yufei (Silvan) Yang that are joining our...
October 6, 2022: Welcoming new Research Assistants and ROPs!
We're very excited to announce that seven new amazing U of T undergraduate students including Shefali Bhalla, Jawahir Mohamed, Christi...
September 28, 2022: Welcome to the team!
Today, the ChiLD Lab welcomed new members to the team with a Pizza party! So excited to have them this year!
September 7, 2022: Summer Lab Party!
Today we celebrated everyone's hard work this summer by having a pizza and paint party! It was a great way to end the summer and look...
August 4, 2022: "Intuitive Sociology: Children Recognize Decision-Making Structures..."
In this week's lab meeting, we discussed Thomas et al.'s (2022) article, "Intuitive sociology: Children recognize decision-making...
July 16, 2022: Began Piloting a New Study!
Today, we began testing for a new study led by Ece Özkan. We are curious about how children examine the reliability of the information...
July 9, 2022: Began Testing for a New Study!
Today, we began testing for a new study in collaboration with Daniil Serko, a researcher from Berlin, Germany. This study investigates...
Cottrell, S., Torres, E., Harris, P.L., & Ronfard, S. (2022).
Older children verify adult claims because they are skeptical of those claims. Child Development. Click here to read the article
June 16, 2022: Development 2022 - A Canadian Conference on Developmental Psychology
Today, Dr. Ronfard presented in Development 2022 at Pickering Centre for Human Development. He gave a talk on how "Explanations shape...
June 9, 2022: Finished testing for our study!
We finished data collection for our study led by Dr. Brandon Goulding, a post-doctoral fellow in our lab. In this study, we are looking...
June 9, 2022: "The influence of understanding and having choice on children’s prosocial behavior"
In this week's lab meeting, we discussed Chernyak & Kushnir's (2018) paper, "The influence of understanding and having choice on...