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Lizette Pizza

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Postdoctoral fellow in the Thomas Lab at Harvard University studying children's environmental moral reasoning and intuitive biology

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Lizette Pizza @lizettepizza.bsky.social · Aug 15

Excited to share my last publication with Roberto Posada as part of this amazing special issue in JCD!
Our results contribute to understanding how children and adults in Bogotá reason about animal mistreatment and energy waste and how exceptionalist beliefs influence their moral judgments

The Cognitive Development Society (CDS) @cogdevsoc.bsky.social · Jul 22

📣📣 A recent article by Lizette Pizza & Roberto Posada in JCD:

How Human Exceptionalist Assumptions Impact Environmental Attitudes in Low Socioeconomic Urban Communities in Colombia

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The Cognitive Development Society (CDS) @cogdevsoc.bsky.social · Aug 11

📣📣 A recent paper by Meghan C. Orman et al. in JCD:

Enjoyment, Empathy, and Environmental Behavior: A Study of Young Children’s Nature Connection in Iceland

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Enjoyment, Empathy, and Environmental Behavior: A Study of Young Children’s Nature Connection in Iceland

Nature connection (NC) in early childhood is increasingly recognized as a potential pathway to the development of lifelong environmental values and behaviors – a pathway that may hold growing relev...

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Lizette Pizza @lizettepizza.bsky.social · Jul 30

Attending #CogSci2025 this week? Come and check out the work of the Thomas Lab!

Ashley Thomas @ashleyjthomas.bsky.social · Jul 19

Come see my lab at the Cognitive Science Society Conference #cogsci2025

Poster that feature talks from the Thomas Lab at the Cognitive Science Society. The Thomas Lab
at CogSci 2025

July 31st
Brandon woo
Social Engagement Leads Infants to Represent People as Individuals
Oral Talk Session: Development of Social Cognition 1
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Salon 6

Denise Lopez Flores
Preliminary Evidence that Infants and Children Use Accents to Inform
Relational Expectations
Poster Session 1: (PL1-L-118)
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM
Location: Salon 8

Friday August 1st
Emma Yu
Children Expect Emotional Consolation to Occur in Close Relationships
Oral Talk Session: Development of
Social Cognition 2
Time: 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM
Location: Nob Hill B

Min Feldman
Do children use action frequency to infer social closeness?
Poster Session 2: (P2-F-55)
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Salon 8

Christina Steele
Navigating Family Ties: Young Children's Cognitive Representations of the Family Network
Oral Talk Session: Learning and
Development 3
Time: 4:00PM - 5:30PM
Location: Nob Hill D

Hannah Hok Kim
Written in Stone: Lay intuitions about the emergence and impact of formal rules
Poster Session 2: (P2-H-77)
Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Location: Salon 8

Saturday August 2

Lizette Pizza
Do People Value Plants Over Non-Living Entities? Moral Considerations in Adults and Young Children
Poster Session 3: (P3-P-158)
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM
Location: Salon 8

Megan Richardson
Children's Expectations of Emotional Intimacy in Close Relationships
Poster Session 3: (P3-R-165)
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM
Location: Salon 8

Mack Briscoe
When to speak up: How children reason about group dynamics
Poster Session 3: (P3-B-18)
Time: 1:00 PM - 2:15 PM
Location: Salon 8

Lizette Pizza @lizettepizza.bsky.social · Jun 12

Mañana estaré participando en este conversatorio con @dianaloperaperez.bsky.social @jorgecuartas.bsky.social No se lo pierdan! Inscripciones aquí: uninorte.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Ashley Thomas @ashleyjthomas.bsky.social · Apr 24

Many people from my lab are presenting exciting work at SRCD!

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Lizette Pizza @lizettepizza.bsky.social · Apr 7

Does attributing mind or life to natural entities increase environmental concern? Our new paper with @debkelemen.bsky.social looks into this important question. Check out our findings now available at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @cogscisociety.bsky.social

“The Earth is Alive”: Attributing Agency to the Earth Causes Moral Concern for the Environment and Biocentric Attitudes

Do people need to attribute agency to nature to morally care for it? The answer to this question has significant implications for our understanding of social cognitive effects on moral judgment. Desp...

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Ashley Thomas @ashleyjthomas.bsky.social · Feb 13

New Daedalus issue on the science of caregiving. In our paper, we ask, how might infants experience caregiving? Writing this paper with Christina Steele,
@alisongopnik.bsky.social and @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social was incredibly fun. Our paper and the other awesome pieces here:

www.amacad.org/daedalus

Daedalus Home

Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences

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Lizette Pizza @lizettepizza.bsky.social · Nov 4

With all the excitement back then, I forgot to share that I defended my dissertation this summer! Huge thanks to my advisor @debkelemen.bsky.social , #Fulbright, friends, and my husband for their incredible support on this life-changing experience!

Lizette Pizza @lizettepizza.bsky.social · Mar 27

Congrats Adena!! Also best wishes for your birthday 🥳

Lizette Pizza @lizettepizza.bsky.social · Mar 22

Are you at #CDS2024 and interested in environmental conservation? Join me at Poster Session 2 to learn about my research on children's and adults' tendencies to attribute agency (life and mind) to natural elements when assessing harm to nature. See you there!

Lizette Pizza @lizettepizza.bsky.social · Mar 21

The day has arrived! Join us tomorrow for the 30th anniversary of Mapping the Mind preconference! BU Child Cognition Lab presents three posters at 11am. See you there! #CDS2024 @debkelemen.bsky.social @esranur.bsky.social

Lizette Pizza @lizettepizza.bsky.social · Mar 19

Many thanks to my collaborator and mentor! @debkelemen.bsky.social

Lizette Pizza @lizettepizza.bsky.social · Mar 19

Hi Bluesky, excited to join! I study how children and adults understand the natural world and build a moral relationship with it. My latest publication explores whether humans are conceptualized as part of nature and its implications for environmental concern. Find it here: doi.org/10.1111/tops...

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