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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
July 17, 2019: "Shared Scientific Thinking in Everyday Parent-Child Activity."
In our lab meeting this week we discussed Crowley and colleagues' (2001) study, which investigated whether parents shape and support...
July 3, 2019: "Preschoolers' Search for Explanatory Information Within Adult-Child Conversation."
In our lab meeting this week we discussed Frazier, Gelman and Wellman's (2009) studies on children's questions and the reactions to the...
June 26, 2019: "How basic-level objects facilitate question-asking in a categorization task."
In our lab meeting this week we discussed Rugerri and Fuefel's (2015) experiments, which investigated the effect of level of...
June 19, 2019: "Finding New Facts; Thinking New Thoughts."
Today we had our first weekly lab meeting. We discussed Schulz's (2012) article, in which she discusses the ways "contemporary...
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