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🎉 Many of you already know, but I'm thrilled to be joining New York University Psychology as an Assistant Professor this fall. I'll be looking for at least one postdoc, a lab manager, and I will be recruiting PhD students. Please retweet and stay tuned for details! (1/2)

The Department of Psychology and Center for Neural Science at NYU invite applications for a joint, tenure-track position at the assistant professor level to study the neural basis of cognition. The appointment is expected to begin September 1, 2024 apply.interfolio.com/130190

A study of 206 children under 10 using invented social groups—“Toogits” and “Flurps”—showed that when unfair hierarchies were described as being caused by the high-status group, children had lower levels of bias against the low-status group. In PNAS: ow.ly/cm9I50PCSnG

Lovely interview with the amazing @rach_lesh time.com/6308910/kids-b… about our recent work on how kids think about structural inequality. Thank you Janell Ross!

my lab in New York City is accepting graduate students interested in computational cognitive science! i have lots of info on the website about how to apply but the deadline is Dec 1! we maximize fun while maximizing science! gureckislab.org/getinvolved.ht…

I’m recruiting PhD students to help launch the Exploration, Learning, and Mind Lab at University of New Hampshire Psych in Fall 2024! Check out our lab website at liquinlab.github.io for more info, and feel free to get in touch if you’re interested in applying!

✨new paper with Dr. Nicole Burke, @rach_lesh, & marjorie: having people from different racial-ethnic backgrounds in their social network reduces infants’ visual bias to own-race vs. other-race faces 1/5 psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2024-…

Brenden Lake & Marco Baroni's paper in Nature, “Human-like systematic generalization through a meta-learning neural network,” narrows the gap to human-like understanding in machines. Read more: nyudatascience.medium.com/meta-learning-… #datascience

New paper alert! With Zoe Finiasz and Susan Gelman

New preprint! Super excited to share this work with marjorie and todd gureckis. We ask: how do people efficiently generate questions to resolve uncertainty, especially when the space of possible questions is large? Thread below, preprint here: osf.io/preprints/psya…

Our paper (co-led with perri, phd) on developmental changes in the valuation of agentic choice is now out in Association for Psychological Science! journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117… Lots more details in the preprint thread + the published version now includes a full replication sample ✅

New paper out now in Cognition! Cognition When rules are over-ruled: Virtual bargaining as a contractualist method of moral judgment. authors.elsevier.com/a/1jIeB2Hx2xKtx With Max Kleiman-Weiner, Nick Chater, @fierycushman, Josh Tenenbaum

I wrote a review of Ned Block's seminal book on the perception/cognition border for Mind. Tl;dr: you should read the book. But also consider reading the review. Hard to imagine I'll ever have a harder or more meaningful review to write philpapers.org/rec/MANTBB

NYU Social Psychology is hiring! This is an OPEN RANK search for 2 positions. We seek candidates from all areas of social psychology and are particularly interested in folks who take unique methodological approaches in their work. Ad here: apply.interfolio.com/154805 Share widely!

Are you interested in interdisciplinary work on explanation and understanding in natural and artificial minds? Check out this new postdoc opportunity through Princeton's NAM initiative: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply…

If you’re a senior candidate for our position, please note the following: You must click SUBMIT in Interfolio for us to see your materials. If you see a status of “Incomplete, not yet submitted,” we are not able to see your application!

How generic language shapes the development of social thought Opinion by Marjorie Rhodes (marjorie), Susan A. Gelman, & Sarah-Jane Leslie Free access until December 10: authors.elsevier.com/a/1jzP84sIRvTB…