I see what you did there 😉

The archive also includes the thousands of mollusks he gathered, described, and classified when he was just a teenager.

“Some effects emerged that have the happiness of being significant”—that translation seems sound. Effects are happiest when they are significant.

Is there a tradeoff between the breadth and depth of moral concern? Not at the level of individual perception. @joshrottman.bsky.social finds that people who are concerned about strangers as much as friends also show deeper concern for both. #SPP2025

(I never miss a Josh Rottman talk!)

Infants have been shown to individuate objects before people in a visual occlusion task. Why? @brandonwoo.bsky.social, @ashleyjthomas.bsky.social, et al. find that engagement matters. Infants *do* individuate people who actively engage with them.

Is learning always good? Zoe Jenkin argues that it’s not; learners are often worse off when they misapply newfound knowledge and need to recognize the superficiality of their understanding to make progress toward genuine expertise. #SPP2025

The highlight of Day 2 was @tamarkushnir.bsky.social singing “Pure Imagination” at a restaurant in Ithaca—a song by she dedicated to me. 😊

@shannonspaulding.bsky.social delivers the 2025 Stanton Prize address, explicating the tools we use to understand other minds and how they lead to systematic types of mistakes. #SPP2025

Do children use counterevidence to change their mind if changing their mind means disagreeing with their ingroup? No! Zoe Finiasz, @tamarkushnir.bsky.social, et al. find that children will refrain from revising their beliefs if their ingroup is defined by that belief. #SPP2025

Josep Sommer and Tania Lombrozo uncover inconsistencies in belief with a clever question-asking paradigm with items like:

1. Do whales have hair? (No!)

2. Are whales mammals? (Yes!)

3. Do all mammals have hair? (Yes! Wait a minute…)

#SPP2025

Kristin Andrew’s makes the case for using conceptual analysis to decide questions about shared mental traits in comparative psychology. #SPP2025