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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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!
Ronfard, S., & Lane, J. D. (2019).
Children's and adults’ epistemic trust in and impressions of inaccurate informants. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. Advance...
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 10, 2019: New RA, Erum, joins our team!
Erum also works in Dr. Gerlai's Behaviour Genetics Lab studying fetal alcohol syndrome in zebrafish.
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 28, 2019: Began testing for a new study!
This summer we are testing children ages five to seven in collaboration with UTM's Child Language and Speech Studies Lab. This study...
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