The ChiLD Lab is growing! We’re thrilled to welcome Reet Arora, Kimberly Archer, and Viktoriia Bilokhvost, our newest Outreach Assistants! We’re also excited to welcome Daia as our ROP student. We’re so glad to have you all on board and can’t wait to see what you bring to the team! Here’s to an amazing year ahead!

How to increase children's and adults' interest in learning from disagreement. Developmental Science, 29(4), e70237. Click here to read the article.

Interpretive theory of mind predicts greater willingness to seek out disagreement for learning. Child Development. Click here to read the article.

Goulding, B. W., Shtulman, A., Ronfard, S., & Friedman, O. (2026). Denying the possible: Why children judge the improbable impossible. Advances in Child Development and Behavior. Click here to read the article

Brandon W Goulding, Samuel Ronfard, Ori Friedman, Agents of possibility: Specifying which person an event involved helps children gauge what is possible, Child Development Click here to read the article

De la Viña, L., Hu, J. C., Harris, P. L., & Ronford, S. (2026). Young Children Use the Discourse Marker "But" to Provide Clarification in Everyday Conversations. Journal of Child Language, 1-13. doi.org/10.1017/S0305000926100920 Click here to read the article

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!

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.

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