Yarrow Dunham
@yarrowdunham.bsky.social
Studies social cognition in children and grown-ups. Teaches in the psychology and cognitive science programs at Yale.
Lab: socialcogdev.com
Lab: socialcogdev.com
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Are you a US-based PhD student WITHOUT summer funding who is interested in adolescent development, trans youth, and/or gender? Reach out to me about applying to join my lab in Summer 2026 for the VIPS program! psych.princeton.edu/diversity/vi...
Visiting Internship for Ph.D. Students (VIPS) Program
The VIPS program is an initiative of the DEI committee of the Department of Psychology at Princeton University. VIPS will support up to 4 Ph.D. students who are full-time students at other universitie...
psych.princeton.edu
October 31, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Are you a US-based PhD student WITHOUT summer funding who is interested in adolescent development, trans youth, and/or gender? Reach out to me about applying to join my lab in Summer 2026 for the VIPS program! psych.princeton.edu/diversity/vi...
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🎉 Excited to share our new paper “Children infer social group attitudes from evaluative behavioral information but do not extend them to unfamiliar group members.” in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology:
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2025.106401
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2025.106401
October 28, 2025 at 12:44 PM
🎉 Excited to share our new paper “Children infer social group attitudes from evaluative behavioral information but do not extend them to unfamiliar group members.” in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology:
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2025.106401
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2025.106401
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Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird.
(he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...
(he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...
I Saved a PNG Image To A Bird
YouTube video by Benn Jordan
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July 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird.
(he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...
(he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...
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Happy to announce that my lab @ Yale Psychology (actcompthink.org) will be accepting PhD applications this year (for start in Fall '26)!
Come for the fun experiments on human learning, memory, & skilled behavior, stay for the best 🍕 in the US.
Please reach out if you have any questions!
Come for the fun experiments on human learning, memory, & skilled behavior, stay for the best 🍕 in the US.
Please reach out if you have any questions!
Homepage of the Action, Computation, & Thinking (ACT) Lab, Yale department of psychology
actcompthink.org
July 24, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Happy to announce that my lab @ Yale Psychology (actcompthink.org) will be accepting PhD applications this year (for start in Fall '26)!
Come for the fun experiments on human learning, memory, & skilled behavior, stay for the best 🍕 in the US.
Please reach out if you have any questions!
Come for the fun experiments on human learning, memory, & skilled behavior, stay for the best 🍕 in the US.
Please reach out if you have any questions!
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A new piece - well, almost a whole book! - by our team, reflecting more than a decade of work.
💙 SRCD is pleased to announce the latest Monograph on gender identities and sexual orientation across childhood and adolescence. Read the full issue here: srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
July 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
A new piece - well, almost a whole book! - by our team, reflecting more than a decade of work.
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Updated preprint with Zephyr Weinreich, @yarrowdunham.bsky.social, and @ericman.bsky.social showing that implicit attitudes are not only sensitive to negation; they even reflect the distinction between easy-to-negate bipolar and difficult-to-negate unipolar adjectives: osf.io/preprints/ps...
July 1, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Updated preprint with Zephyr Weinreich, @yarrowdunham.bsky.social, and @ericman.bsky.social showing that implicit attitudes are not only sensitive to negation; they even reflect the distinction between easy-to-negate bipolar and difficult-to-negate unipolar adjectives: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Trans rights are human rights. Trans people of all ages deserve the right and access to healthcare. Protect trans youth.
June 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Trans rights are human rights. Trans people of all ages deserve the right and access to healthcare. Protect trans youth.
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Since 1954, "The Handbook of Social Psychology" has been the field’s most authoritative reference work, and today is the launch of the 6th edition with 50 new chapters by 100 leading scholars. Best news? The HSP is now an open-access public resource—free to read, download, and share. the-hsp.com
May 19, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Since 1954, "The Handbook of Social Psychology" has been the field’s most authoritative reference work, and today is the launch of the 6th edition with 50 new chapters by 100 leading scholars. Best news? The HSP is now an open-access public resource—free to read, download, and share. the-hsp.com
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🚨 I’m hiring a full-time lab manager to help me build my lab start in July or August 2025! 🚨
If you know any stellar candidates who might be interested, please send this their way.
🗓 Application review begins April 15
⏰ Final deadline is April 25
📎 Apply here ➡️ lnkd.in/evhfqzTP
If you know any stellar candidates who might be interested, please send this their way.
🗓 Application review begins April 15
⏰ Final deadline is April 25
📎 Apply here ➡️ lnkd.in/evhfqzTP
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April 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🚨 I’m hiring a full-time lab manager to help me build my lab start in July or August 2025! 🚨
If you know any stellar candidates who might be interested, please send this their way.
🗓 Application review begins April 15
⏰ Final deadline is April 25
📎 Apply here ➡️ lnkd.in/evhfqzTP
If you know any stellar candidates who might be interested, please send this their way.
🗓 Application review begins April 15
⏰ Final deadline is April 25
📎 Apply here ➡️ lnkd.in/evhfqzTP
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Excited to share a new paper on children's third-party punishment across societies. This was a big collaborative effort and I'm so grateful to my wonderful co-authors for their contributions to this project.
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Blog: communities.springernature.com/posts/childr...
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Blog: communities.springernature.com/posts/childr...
Across six societies children engage in costly third-party punishment of unfair sharing - Communications Psychology
Third-party punishment of unfair sharing is a hallmark of a normative concern for fairness in adults. Here, children in Canada, India, Peru, Uganda, USA, and Vanuatu show this same normative concern b...
www.nature.com
March 19, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Excited to share a new paper on children's third-party punishment across societies. This was a big collaborative effort and I'm so grateful to my wonderful co-authors for their contributions to this project.
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Blog: communities.springernature.com/posts/childr...
Paper: www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Blog: communities.springernature.com/posts/childr...
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🚨🚨🚨 Preprint with Zephyr Weinreich, @yarrowdunham.bsky.social, and @ericman.bsky.social in which we show that implicit attitudes are not only sensitive to negation; they even reflect the distinction between easy-to-negate bipolar and difficult-to-negate unipolar adjectives: osf.io/preprints/ps...
February 21, 2025 at 5:56 PM
🚨🚨🚨 Preprint with Zephyr Weinreich, @yarrowdunham.bsky.social, and @ericman.bsky.social in which we show that implicit attitudes are not only sensitive to negation; they even reflect the distinction between easy-to-negate bipolar and difficult-to-negate unipolar adjectives: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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The Manybabies4 paper is out! Infants' Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large-Scale, Multi-Lab, Coordinated Replication Study onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... 1000 babies tested in 37 labs; "Overall, 49.34% of infants preferred Helpers over Hinderers in the social condition"
Infants’ Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large‐Scale, Multi‐Lab, Coordinated Replication Study
Evaluating whether someone's behavior is praiseworthy or blameworthy is a fundamental human trait. A seminal study by Hamlin and colleagues in 2007 suggested that the ability to form social evaluatio...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 27, 2024 at 11:48 AM
The Manybabies4 paper is out! Infants' Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large-Scale, Multi-Lab, Coordinated Replication Study onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1... 1000 babies tested in 37 labs; "Overall, 49.34% of infants preferred Helpers over Hinderers in the social condition"
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Overparenting is on the rise and hurts children’s motivation starting in early childhood. How can we help parents step back? Our new paper in Child Dev shows that pointing out learning opportunities reduces overparenting.
srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
<em>Child Development</em> | SRCD Journal | Wiley Online Library
Overparenting—taking over and completing developmentally appropriate tasks for children—is pervasive and hurts children's motivation. Can overparenting in early childhood be reduced by simply framing...
srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 22, 2024 at 2:15 PM
Overparenting is on the rise and hurts children’s motivation starting in early childhood. How can we help parents step back? Our new paper in Child Dev shows that pointing out learning opportunities reduces overparenting.
srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
My lab is recruiting undergraduates for a *funded* summer internship for June & July to assist with projects in social cognitive development! Details at www.socialcogdev.com/join-us
February 21, 2024 at 4:14 PM
My lab is recruiting undergraduates for a *funded* summer internship for June & July to assist with projects in social cognitive development! Details at www.socialcogdev.com/join-us
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I'm recruiting a full-time lab programmer/lab manager. Please share the ad widely. Questions can be sent to [lastname][at]illinois[dot]edu. illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
January 17, 2024 at 4:24 PM
I'm recruiting a full-time lab programmer/lab manager. Please share the ad widely. Questions can be sent to [lastname][at]illinois[dot]edu. illinois.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
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hi #psychscisky #neuroskyence I will be hiring a postdoc in 2024, to work on auditory perception here in Auckland NZ 🇳🇿
info about the lab at themusiclab.org
apply at tinyurl.com/musiclab-pos...
info about the lab at themusiclab.org
apply at tinyurl.com/musiclab-pos...
January 7, 2024 at 11:24 PM
hi #psychscisky #neuroskyence I will be hiring a postdoc in 2024, to work on auditory perception here in Auckland NZ 🇳🇿
info about the lab at themusiclab.org
apply at tinyurl.com/musiclab-pos...
info about the lab at themusiclab.org
apply at tinyurl.com/musiclab-pos...
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Yale has a unique program in which students can get a Combined PhD in Psychology and Philosophy
The admissions process for this program is pretty counterintuitive in certain respects, so I wrote up an informal explainer about how to apply
Application deadline: December 1
The admissions process for this program is pretty counterintuitive in certain respects, so I wrote up an informal explainer about how to apply
Application deadline: December 1
Notes on Applying to the Combined Program
How to Apply to Yale's Combined Program in Philosophy and Psychology The application process for Yale's philosophy/psychology combined program is a bit counterintuitive, so I thought it might be help...
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November 28, 2023 at 5:15 PM
Yale has a unique program in which students can get a Combined PhD in Psychology and Philosophy
The admissions process for this program is pretty counterintuitive in certain respects, so I wrote up an informal explainer about how to apply
Application deadline: December 1
The admissions process for this program is pretty counterintuitive in certain respects, so I wrote up an informal explainer about how to apply
Application deadline: December 1
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Reposting here!
New paper with @ktvasq.bsky.social, Emily Gerdin, @yarrowdunham.bsky.social, and @zoeliberman.bsky.social in JEP: General:
"Expectations of intergroup empathy bias emerge by early childhood"
psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-...
New paper with @ktvasq.bsky.social, Emily Gerdin, @yarrowdunham.bsky.social, and @zoeliberman.bsky.social in JEP: General:
"Expectations of intergroup empathy bias emerge by early childhood"
psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-...
November 13, 2023 at 9:11 PM
Reposting here!
New paper with @ktvasq.bsky.social, Emily Gerdin, @yarrowdunham.bsky.social, and @zoeliberman.bsky.social in JEP: General:
"Expectations of intergroup empathy bias emerge by early childhood"
psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-...
New paper with @ktvasq.bsky.social, Emily Gerdin, @yarrowdunham.bsky.social, and @zoeliberman.bsky.social in JEP: General:
"Expectations of intergroup empathy bias emerge by early childhood"
psycnet.apa.org/record/2024-...
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Meltem Yucel (@drmeltemyucel.bsky.social) just won SPSPs Emerging Scholar award!
Recently, she found that young children (between ~4 & ~8) do not perceive distributional fairness as a moral norm. Nor is it obviously conventional.
psycnet.apa.org/record/2022-...
#socialpsyc #PsychSciSky
Recently, she found that young children (between ~4 & ~8) do not perceive distributional fairness as a moral norm. Nor is it obviously conventional.
psycnet.apa.org/record/2022-...
#socialpsyc #PsychSciSky
November 7, 2023 at 6:20 PM
Meltem Yucel (@drmeltemyucel.bsky.social) just won SPSPs Emerging Scholar award!
Recently, she found that young children (between ~4 & ~8) do not perceive distributional fairness as a moral norm. Nor is it obviously conventional.
psycnet.apa.org/record/2022-...
#socialpsyc #PsychSciSky
Recently, she found that young children (between ~4 & ~8) do not perceive distributional fairness as a moral norm. Nor is it obviously conventional.
psycnet.apa.org/record/2022-...
#socialpsyc #PsychSciSky
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Need more convincing that ASFP is worth YOUR time? Dr @yarrowdunham.bsky.social thinks it is - read what he has to share below!
Editing with ASFP is fun and easy, and the impact is BIG. Join faculty editors like Dr. Yarrow Dunham!
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October 6, 2023 at 6:00 PM
Need more convincing that ASFP is worth YOUR time? Dr @yarrowdunham.bsky.social thinks it is - read what he has to share below!
Americans overwhelmingly believe that people should inherit near 100% of their parents' assets but near 0% of their parents' debts (including when parents have both assets and debts!). Are there coherent arguments justifying these beliefs? (data with Pinar Aldan)
September 29, 2023 at 3:20 PM
Americans overwhelmingly believe that people should inherit near 100% of their parents' assets but near 0% of their parents' debts (including when parents have both assets and debts!). Are there coherent arguments justifying these beliefs? (data with Pinar Aldan)
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🚨Job Alert x2! UCSD Psych has two assistant professor openings this year:
1. Computational approaches to understanding behavior and/or its neural mechanisms. apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03684
2. Social psych, broadly defined. apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03683
Apply for either (or both?) by November 7th!
1. Computational approaches to understanding behavior and/or its neural mechanisms. apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03684
2. Social psych, broadly defined. apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03683
Apply for either (or both?) by November 7th!
September 27, 2023 at 4:20 AM
🚨Job Alert x2! UCSD Psych has two assistant professor openings this year:
1. Computational approaches to understanding behavior and/or its neural mechanisms. apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03684
2. Social psych, broadly defined. apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03683
Apply for either (or both?) by November 7th!
1. Computational approaches to understanding behavior and/or its neural mechanisms. apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03684
2. Social psych, broadly defined. apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF03683
Apply for either (or both?) by November 7th!