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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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