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I can practically hear the chorus of palms slapping foreheads at that lab meeting.

One of my RAs decided we need a lab logo, and I love what she came up with.

It's book release day!!! (Although you could have ordered & received a copy for a few weeks now). "Why Theatre Education Matters: Understanding its Cognitive, Social, and Emotional Benefits" is now officially out in the world. (TheatreEdMatters.com)🧵 (More trapeze below, too)

Wonderful new work by Jenny Nissel and colleagues.

Congratulations, Dr. Wang Rui, on an excellent PhD thesis and an excellent viva! I was delighted to participate as an external examiner, even from afar. Michelle Ellefson Sander van der Linden Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge Cambridge University

Another successful Occidental College Summer Research Program. Students like these make research so much fun!

Even more improbable.

Shame on you, @npr. At last night’s #debate2024 an angry, incoherent felon denied he lost the 2020 election, fawned over dictators, and claimed immigrants are eating pets. And your 30-second summary this morning was “they both made good points about the economy.”

The Dept. of Psychology at Occidental College College is searching for two Assistant Professors of Clinical Psychology. If you have a PhD in Psychology and do research in an area with clinical applications, please consider applying! apply.interfolio.com/150797 The deadline is October 1.

Cognitive reflection predicts children's science understanding but does it also predict domain-general scientific reasoning? Yes! Andrew Young & I find that cognitively reflective children are better at evaluating covariation data independent of age & EF frontiersin.org/journals/devel…

Princeton 17, MIT 4 | 7:24 Q4 FIRST CAREER GOAL FOR TEDDY🚨 💻tinyurl.com/yrpvn3w8

That’s my boy!

Is nature a peaceable kingdom or red in tooth & claw? In this new Science & Education paper we show that students who hold overly benevolent views of nature demonstrate lower levels of evolution understanding independent of other biological knowledge. link.springer.com/article/10.100…

I don't think that word means what you think it means.

Thank you, UCI Cognitive Sciences and @nadia_chernyak, for inviting me to speak about the development of cognitive reflection. I have lots of ideas for new studies after that stimulating Q&A!

"PhD student finds lost city in Mexico jungle by accident" So does that count as 1 of his 3 papers or all 3? bbc.com/news/articles/…

Do you think kids can tell the difference between what’s real and what’s not better than adults? In our latest episode, Occidental College’s Andrew Shtulman joined host Molly Thomas to talk about how kids can fall prey to misinformation.