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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...


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 24, 2019: New RA, Grace, joins our team!
Grace has previously worked in the Child Language and Speech Studies Lab on campus, and is also currently working in Dr. Impett's lab...


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...


June 13, 2019: New RA, Saphia, joins our team!
Saphia will be graduating from UTM this November.

June 11, 2019: New RA, Chelsea, joins our lab!
Chelsea will be doing her undergraduate thesis under the supervision of Dr. Ronfard. She is interested in studying children's beliefs.

June 1-8, 2019: Dr. Ronfard in Oslo, Norway.
Dr. Ronfard visited Norway to give talks at the University of Oslo and at The Norwegian Center for Child Behavioral Development.


June 3, 2019: New RA, Maryan, joins our team!
Maryan will be graduating from UTM in November 2019. She also works in Dr. Holmes's Social Neuroscience Lab studying a uniquely social...


June 2, 2019: YMCA Healthy Kids Day
Samantha, along with research assistants from the C.L.A.S.S. Lab on campus, ran a booth at the YMCA Healthy Kids Day event. They did face...

May 6, 2019: New Lab Coordinator, Samantha, joins our team!
Samantha previously worked in Dr. Trehub's Music Lab on campus studying the effect of music on infants. She is very excited to recruit...
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