December 20, 2019: Dr. Ronfard discusses holiday mythology.
Dr. Ronfard was interviewed for a UTM news article about holiday mythology. As a researcher who studies how children reason about...
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December 7, 2019: End of Semester Celebration!
Today we celebrated the team's hard work by having a potluck and board games party.
December 3rd, 2019: Erum wins the UTM Undergraduate Research Grant!
One of our valuable research assistants, Erum Syed, won the UTM Undergraduate Research Grant for her Biology Thesis Project. Her study...
November 22, 2019: "Children choose to reason with partners who submit to reason."
In our lab meeting this week we read Domberg, Koymen and Tomasello's (2019) study, which looked at whether 5- and 7-year-olds prefer to...
November 15, 2019: "Watching a video together creates social closeness between children and adults."
In our lab meeting this week we read Wolf and Tomasello's (2020) study, which looked at the influence of watching a film next to a new...
November 7, 2019: "How adults' actions, outcomes, and testimony affect preschoolers' persistence."
In our lab meeting this week we discussed Leonard, Garcia and Schulz's (2019) study, "How adults' actions, outcomes, and testimony affect...
November 1, 2019: "Caregiver-child interaction influences causal learning...."
In our lab meeting this week we discussed Medina and Sobel's (2018) study, "Caregiver-child interaction influences causal learning and...
October 30, 2019: Dr. Ronfard at Ebbinghaus Empire Meeting.
Dr. Ronfard attended University of Toronto's Ebbinghaus Empire Meeting this week. He presented findings from a few of his recent studies...
October 18, 2019: Dr. Ronfard Featured in #MeetTheNewProfs.
@UTMPsychology recently featured Dr. Ronfard in their #MeetTheNewProfs twitter campaign. See below for their interview with Dr. Ronfard....
October 26-28, 2019: Melanie in Brisbane, Australia.
One of our valuable research assistants, Melanie Asselin, will be attending the 5th International Conference on Youth Mental Health in...
October 17-19, 2019: Dr. Ronfard in Louisville, Kentucky.
Dr. Ronfard attended the Cognitive Development Society Meeting in Louisville, Kentucky this past weekend. As part of this symposium on...
October 5-6, 2019: The Baby Show!
Every year, the Infant and Child Studies Center gets a booth at The Baby Show. This is an important event for us, as it's where we...
September 21, 2019: Began Piloting Another Study.
Chelsea, an RA in our lab, is doing a thesis this semester with Dr. Ronfard. They are replicating a study done by Bonawitz, Schindel,...
September 21, 2019: Began Piloting for a New Study.
This is a follow-up to Ronfard, Chen and Harris's (2017) study, which looked at children's testing of counter-intuitive claims. The study...
September 21, 2019: Began testing for a new study!
Today we began testing for a new study that looks at whether confirmation bias exists in children, whether it develops with age, and...
September 6, 2019: First Lab Meeting of the Semester!
Today we had our first in-person lab meeting of the semester! We started our meeting by splitting the lab members into groups, to see...
September 5, 2019: Welcoming 8 New Lab Members!
We're very excited to announce that eight new wonderful UTM undergraduate students have joined our team for the Fall!
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