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Projects
We are interested in how children learn about the world, about each other, and about themselves.
Can children accurately evaluate their own confidence?
Children are sensitive to subtle changes in their confidence, and this develops independently of related abilities.
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Is there a single confidence "muscle"?
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Children can compare confidence states across independent perceptual processes, suggesting a common 'muscle.'
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How does reasoning about confidence help us learn?
Having a fine-tuned sense of confidence isn't linked to math or certain social skills.
Baer, Malik & Odic (2021)
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How do children learn to work with others?
Children interpreted information presented in pretense as generally true in the real world.
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What function does pretense play in cihildhood?
How do children make group decisions?
What we're working on now:
How do children learn to compromise?
When we are facing a disagreement, it's tempting to think that one person must be right and the other is wrong. But what about those cases where there is a middle ground? How do we learn to identify compromises?
Is our intuitive sense of number cross-modal?
We're taking part in a multi-site replication study to find out whether auditory and visual representations of number are closely linked in our minds.