Last month at Undergraduate Research Day, students presented their Knowledge Translation projects, creatively translating research into engaging and accessible content! Ikhlas Abdulahi --> Welcome to the Emotions Academy Eiliyah Naveed --> When Are Humans Most Prone to Myside Bias? Amazing work sharing research in meaningful and impactful ways!

We are so proud to celebrate our lab members for their outstanding achievements at the UTM Undergraduate Thesis Day award presentation! From left to right:
 Gabriella Di Maio received — Mississauga Erin Mills Rotary Club Scholarship in Psychology and also presented a thesis titled Koddy or Kitty? The Developmental Trajectory of Infant Word Recognition
 Vedika Awtani received — University of Toronto Research Excellence Award in Social Science and Humanities (UTEA SSH)
 Sabrina

Last week, our lab members met families at Science Rendezvous 2026 and shared our research with them! It was a great time connecting with families! Stay tuned for more events!

Last month, our lab celebrated its annual Summer Lab party 2026! It was great to see all the hard work and contributions of the lab members!

The ChiLD Lab is growing! We're thrilled to welcome Sumehra Mamum and Gabriella Christo, our two newest Outreach Assistants. We're so glad to have you both on board! Can't wait for everyone to see what you bring to the team!

We're so excited to announce that two incredible U of T undergraduate students, Sharleen Bains and Aseyah Safi, have joined our lab as Research Assistants! We couldn't be happier to have you both on the team! Stay tuned to see all the amazing work they'll be doing!

Özkan, F. E., & Ronfard, S. (2026). The boundaries and ontogeny of myside bias. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Advance online publication. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0001932 Click here to read the article.

We’re excited to share that Claudia, Alin and Cyrenius have joined the ChiLD Lab as our new Research Assistants! We’re happy to have them on the team and know they'll be a great addition. Stay tuned for all the amazing work they'll be contributing in the months ahead!

ChiLD Lab had the opportunity to share research at the Cognitive Development Society (CDS) Conference! Dr. Ronfard presented a talk, F. Ece Ozkan shared her poster, Alexa presented a pre-conference talk on EDI, Mia Radovanovic organized a symposium, and Dr. Kirsten Blakey gave a talk

Özkan, F. E., & Ronfard, S. (2026). Children’s developing ability to make sense of evaluative judgments based on a speaker’s evaluative history. Developmental Psychology. Advance online publication. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dev0002190 Click here to read the article

We’re excited to share that Maira has joined the ChiLD Lab as our new ROP student! We’re happy to have her on the team and know she’ll be a great addition. Stay tuned for all the amazing work she’ll be contributing in the months ahead!

We're very excited to announce two new amazing students have recently joined the ChiLD Lab: Zhenyu Wang as a Research Assistant and Anna John as an Outreach Assistant. Welcome to the team, Zhenyu and Anna! You are going to be a great addition to our team. Stay tuned to see all the amazing work they will be doing!

Last month, the ChiLD lab had the opportunity to attend the Philippine Festival in Mississauga. It was a great way to learn about...

We're very excited to announce two new amazing U of T undergraduate students, Misa Tran and Erum Uppel, have joined our lab as Research...

We're very excited to announce that we are being joined by our new postdoctoral fellow, Mia Radovanovic. Radovanoic research explores how...