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December 28, 2020: End of Semester Celebration!
Today we celebrated the team's hard work by having a virtual Secret Santa and played Pictionary!
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December 22, 2020: Began Testing for a New Study!
Today we began testing our second online study! This study is conducted over zoom and involves showing children videos and pictures, then...
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November 25, 2020: Grant Proposal Workshop
Today during our lab meeting we talked about grant proposals. We discussed the process of writing a grant proposal and learned how...
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November 18, 2020: CV Workshop
Today's lab meeting was a workshop on writing a CV.
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November 4, 2020: "Morality Constrains the Default Representation of What is Possible"
In our lab meeting this week, we discussed "Morality Constrains the Default Representation of What is Possible". The authors investigated...
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November 1, 2020: Newsletter
The Infant and Child Studies Centre sent out a newsletter summarizing their labs' recent findings. https://pub.lucidpress.com/82d7d4d0-05...
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October 28, 2020: "The Plausible Impossible: Graded Notions of Impossibility Across Cultures."
In our lab meeting this week, we discussed Gong & Shtulman's (2020) paper, "The Plausible Impossible: Graded Notions of Impossibility...
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September 30, 2020: Graduate School
Today we talked about graduate schools. We discussed topics like "How do I know if graduate school is right for me?" and "What questions...
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September 23, 2020: "The Explanatory Structure of Unexplainable Events: Causal Constraints on..."
In our lab meeting this week, we discussed Shtulman and Morgan's (2017) paper, "The Explanatory Structure of Unexplainable Events: Causal...
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September 18, 2020: Samantha wins the V-Oscar Award!
Our lab coordinator, Samantha Cottrell, was recently awarded the V-Oscar Award (Helping Hands Mississauga). This award recognizes a...
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September 16, 2020: "Children's Beliefs about Possibility Differ Across Dreams, Stories, and..."
In our lab meeting this week, we discussed Goulding and Friedman's (2020) paper, "Children's Beliefs about Possibility Differ Across...
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September 9, 2020: New Experimenters
We're excited to announce our amazing research assistants, Saakshi, Nabila and Dhanesha have been hired as primary experimenters.
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September 6, 2020: Welcoming 8 New Lab Members!
We're very excited to announce that eight new amazing UTM undergraduate students have joined our team!
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September 4, 2020: Began Piloting for a New Study!
Today we began testing for our first online study! This study is conducted over Zoom and involves showing children pictures and asking...
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August 26, 2020: "Improbable or Impossible? How Children Reason..."
In our lab meeting this week, we discussed Shtulman and Carey's (2007) paper, "Improbable or Impossible? How Children Reason About the...
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August 20, 2020: New Recruitment Coordinators!
We're excited to announce that we have hired two Recruitment Coordinators, Fatima Tasabehji and Faris Khan! They will be leading all...
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August 12, 2020: COVID Update
Due to the pandemic and taking safety precautions, we have closed our lab. Although we are sad we cannot meet in person, we are adjusting...
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