Ronfard, S., Brown, S. A., Pitt, E. & Kelemen, D. (2023).
Is book reading always best? Children learn and transfer complex scientific explanations from books or animations. Evolution: Education...
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June 3-4, 2023: Bread and Honey Festival!
Our research assistants ran a booth at the Bread and Honey Festival in Mississauga over the weekend and recruited 125 children! They...
May 15, 2023: Welcoming the new Research Assistants!
We're very excited to announce that three new amazing U of T undergraduate students, Hannah Ang, Maira Salman, and Zoha Yousuf, have...
Pizza, L., Ronfard, S., Coley, J. D. & Kelemen, D. (2023).
Why we should care about moral foundations when preparing for the next pandemic: Insights from Canada, the UK, and the US. PLoS ONE,...
Schubert, T. (2023).
Tinkering with tools leads to more success. Nature Reviews Psychology. doi: 10.1038/s44159-023-00195-8 Click here to read the article
April 27, 2023: ChiLD Lab at the Undergraduate Research Poster Day 2023!
Congratulations to all our lab members who presented their research today at the 2023 UTM Undergraduate Research Poster Day. Our...
April 15-16, 2023: The Baby Show!
It has become a tradition for the UTM Infant and Child Studies Center to have a booth at the Baby Show each spring and fall. The event...
Burdett, E.R.R. & Ronfard, S. (2023).
Tinkering to Innovation: How Children Refine Tools Over Multiple Attempts. Developmental Psychology. doi: 10.1037/dev0001512 Click here...
March 25, 2023: Child Lab at SRCD Conference 2023!
We're so proud of the fantastic work that our senior lab members shared at the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD) 2023...
March 2, 2023: Finished testing for our study!
We finished data collection for our study, Moral Explanations, led by Alexa Sacchi, a graduate student in our lab. In this study, we are...
February 15, 2023: New video on our YouTube channel!
We're excited to announce the release of our latest video, featuring Dr. Anna Kosovicheva and Dr. Ben Wolfe, the directors of the APPLY...
January 22, 2023: Lab Party!
Today, we wanted to start the new semester by playing Laser Tag. We also celebrated the holidays by doing a Secret Santa. Thank you to...
November 1, 2022: Began Piloting a New Study!
Today, we began testing for a new study led by Ashley Ransom. In this research, we are interested to understand children's beliefs about...
October 24, 2022: Lab's Carving Party!
Today, we celebrated Halloween with a pumpkin carving party and some baked goods. The pumpkins turned out spooktacular and everyone had...
October 20, 2022: Welcoming the Lab's New Post-doctoral fellow!
We're very excited to announce that we are being joined by our new post-doctoral fellow, Ashley Ransom. As a graduate from the Cornell...
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