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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 fundin...

November 18, 2020: CV Workshop.

Today's lab meeting was a workshop on writing a CV.

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...

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 Acr...

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 ...

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...

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 Drea...

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 Po...

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...

February 12, 2020: "Epistemic Similarities Between Students' Scientific and Supernatural Beliefs."

In our lab meeting this week we discussed Shtulman's (2013) paper, which compared undergraduate students' scientific and supernatural bel...

January 23, 2020: "Preschoolers' Difficult Questions and Their Teachers' Responses."

In our lab meeting this week we read about Sak's (2020) study, which looked at the themes underlying students' most difficult questions a...

January 15, 2020: "I Want to Know More!": Children Are Sensitive to Explanation Quality...

In our lab meeting this week we read Mills, Sands, Rowles and Campbell's (2019) paper, which examined the extent to which children respon...

December 7, 2019: End of Semester Celebration!

Today we celebrated the team's hard work by having a potluck and board games party.

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 p...

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 ad...

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 en...

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 whi...

August 25, 2019: End of Semester Lab Party!

Today we celebrated our team members and all of their hard work. We went out for dinner and to an escape room in Mississauga. We worked t...

August 22, 2019: "'I Need Help!' Social Class and Children's Help-Seeking in Elementary School."

In our lab meeting this week we discussed Calarco's (2011) longitudinal, ethnographic study of a socioeconomically diverse elementary sch...

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