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Does staring at a large object make medium-sized objects look smaller? Does staring at a small object make medium-sized objects look larger? In a new paper (w/ Sam Clarke), we discuss the evidence for and against *size adaptation*: tinyurl.com/4vm4a9dr

My first first-author paper with Joey Heffner Gloria Feng Jutta Joormann & Robb Rutledge is now published in PNASNews! 🎉 Human- and ChatGPT-rated language sentiment of brief text responses predicted changes in depression. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2… Yale Psychology Yale University 🧵(1/n)

Sami has been an incredibly supportive and fun mentor for me since the day I met him. He is so thoughtful about mentorship, full of cool ideas, and really open about new questions in new fields. Consider reaching out and applying to work with Sami at UNC!

I'm recruiting PhD students to join my new lab at Brown! Please apply if you're interested in judgment and decision-making, social+cognitive psych, or using games/experiments/computational models to understand human behavior. Apps due Dec 1! More info: davidlevari.com

New preprint with Jessa Stegall @jessastegall.bsky.social, Emily Hembacher, Michael C. Frank, and Hyowon (Hyo) Gweon: Young children infer the informativeness of others' praise. osf.io/preprints/psya… Adults give children a lot of praise, but do children always trust it?

Tutor, dean, writer, mentor, and friend: Eva Brann, who passed away on October 28, 2024, at age 95, was all these things—and more—at St. John’s College. Learn about Brann’s extraordinary life and read reflections on her legacy: bit.ly/4e9fPxx

Overparenting is on the rise and hurts children’s motivation starting in early childhood. How can we help parents step back? Our new paper in Child Dev shows that pointing out learning opportunities reduces overparenting. Led by amazing Reut Shachnai srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cd…

Moral psychology postdoc opportunity at the University of Toronto! Please re-post, and pass on to anyone you think might be interested.

A groundbreaking new report from the The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine National Academies calls for the creation of a new NIH institute dedicated to women's health. The report included my testimony on vulvodynia (chronic vulvar pain)!

New lab paper out now in JEP:G! From Juliana Trach, Megan deBettencourt, Angela Radulescu, and myself. "Rewards Transiently and Automatically Enhance Sustained Attention." 👇

Michael C. Frank and I are coordinating searches for our lab manager positions. Please repost & share with anyone who might be interested!!

How do we think about our future learning curves for a new skill? 💭 Check out our new paper on people's intuitions about skill acquisition julia_a_leonard Sam McDougle

Our new incredibly short (5 page) paper on intuitions about consent Key finding: In some cases, people say that (a) there’s a sense in a which a person clearly consents but also that (b) in deeper sense, she does not consent at all

Congrats to my first PhD student Dr Xiuyuan Flora Zhang 张修远!!!!! Make sure to follow her amazing work on intuitive theories of acquisition!