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Andrew Shtulman
@andrewshtulman.bsky.social
Professor, cognitive developmental psychologist, and author of SCIENCEBLIND (Basic) and LEARNING TO IMAGINE (Harvard). I love academic bureaucracy and sarcasm.
October 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I see what you did there 😉
October 6, 2025 at 8:27 PM
The archive also includes the thousands of mollusks he gathered, described, and classified when he was just a teenager.
June 26, 2025 at 2:44 PM
“Some effects emerged that have the happiness of being significant”—that translation seems sound. Effects are happiest when they are significant.
June 26, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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!)
June 21, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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.
June 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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
June 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
The highlight of Day 2 was @tamarkushnir.bsky.social singing “Pure Imagination” at a restaurant in Ithaca—a song by she dedicated to me. 😊
June 21, 2025 at 1:50 AM
@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
June 20, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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
June 20, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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
June 20, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Kristin Andrew’s makes the case for using conceptual analysis to decide questions about shared mental traits in comparative psychology. #SPP2025
June 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM