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February 15, 2022: New Graduate Student Has Joined the Lab!
We're excited to announce we have a new graduate student, Alexa Sacchi, joining the Child Lab! Alexa is a PhD student at the University...


February 3, 2022: Welcoming a New Team Member!
We are very excited to announce that we have a new undergraduate research assistant joining our team, Jessica Hira. Jessica is currently...


January 17, 2022: Welcoming the New Lab Artist!
The ChiLD Lab is excited to share that our team is growing, with the addition of a new lab artist, Corrin Doucette! Welcome to the team,...

Hermansen, T. K., Ronfard, S., Harris, P. L., Pons, F., & Zambrana, I. M. (2021).
Young children update their trust in an informant’s claim when experience tells them otherwise. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology,...


November 24, 2021: "The Contributions of Explanation and Exploration ..."
In this week's lab meeting, we discussed Legare's (2014) paper, "The Contributions of Explanation and Exploration to Children’s...


November 23, 2021: Testing Complete for "Possible and Impossible Events" Study
We are thrilled to share that after several months of hard work, we have officially completed the testing phase of our study, "Possible...

Ronfard, S., Brown, S., Doncaster, E., & Kelemen, D. (2021).
Inhibiting intuition: Scaffolding children’s theory construction about species evolution in the face of competing explanations....

Ronfard, S., *Wei, R., & Rowe, M. (2021).
Exploring the Linguistic, Cognitive, and Social Skills Underlying Lexical Processing Efficiency as Measured by the...


November 5, 2021: Fall Celebration
Today we celebrated all of the hard work the team has put in this semester! We spent the afternoon playing lazer tag. A well deserved...

October 27, 2021: Discussion About Grad School #2
Today's lab meeting was a follow-up to our last meeting about attending grad school. During the meeting, we discussed how to choose a...

October 20, 2021: Discussion About Grad School #1
Over the next few months, individuals across all over the country will be submitting applications to graduate schools. So, in today's lab...

September 29, 2021: First Meeting of the New School Year!
Today was our first meeting of the Fall/Winter 2021 school year! We gave introductions, met some new faces in the lab, and discussed...


September 7, 2021: Welcoming the Lab's First Doctoral Fellow!
We're very excited to announce that we are being joined by our first doctoral fellow, Luis de la Viña. Luis is joining us as the lab’s...


September 7, 2021: Welcoming the Lab's First Post-Doctoral Fellow
We're very excited to announce that we are being joined by our first post-doctoral fellow, Brandon Goulding. As a recent graduate from...

September 7, 2021: Welcoming FOUR New Lab Members!
We're very excited to announce that four new amazing U of T undergraduate students including Julia Hu, Ayesha Dayala, Taha Bosch, and...
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