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May 9, 2022: Welcoming our Summer SSHRC Student Researcher!
We're very excited to announce that Anood Ali, recipient of the SSHRC Undergraduate Student Research Award, has joined our team this...


May 4, 2022: My Research Journey - Dr. Brandon Goulding
Today, we interviewed Dr. Goulding about his academic and research journey!


May 4, 2022: Children's Thinking of Weird and Unlikely Things
Today, Dr. Brandon Goulding told us a little bit about the research he does in the lab!


April 28, 2022: Undergraduate Research Day
Today, two members of our lab, Faris Khan and Sarah Todd, presented their posters at UTM's Annual Undergraduate Research Day. Faris...


April 21, 2022: CDS 2022 Preconference Workshop
Today, Dr. Samuel Ronfard and Brandon Goulding spoke at the CDS Workshop, "Developing Judgments of Possibility: What have we learnt and...


April 11, 2022: Began Testing for a New Study!
Today, we began testing for a new study led by Luis de la Viña. Previous research shows that both emotional valence (e.g. feeling happy...


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...
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