NEWS FROM THE LAB

The CDSC Lab is headed to Pasadena, CA to attend the bi-ennial meeting of the Cognitive Development Society from March 21-23, 2024.

Marjorie Rhodes will be giving a talk at a conference about the cognitive science of belief and misinformation held at the Africa Institute for Research in Economics and Social Science in Rabat, Morocco from February 12-14, 2024.

Alexander Noyes will be presenting at The Society for Personality and Social Psychology annual conference in San Diego, CA from February 8-10, 2024.

Rachel Leshin successfully defended her dissertation. She will be a postdoctoral fellow at Princeton University, working with Kristina Olson. Congrats Dr. Leshin! We are so proud of you!

We’re sending the best of luck to our amazing Lab Manager Alison De Leon, who will start graduate school at Fordham University in the Fall. Congrats Alison!

We’re sending our best wishes to our Research Coordinator Tobi Britton, who will start graduate school at the University of California - Santa Cruz in the Fall. Congrats Tobi!

Check out the amazing work our undergraduate students have been working on all year, presented at the 49th Annual NYU Undergraduate Research Conference.

Congratulations to our amazing Honors Students, pictured here at the 2023 Honors Ceremony alongside some of our Graduate Student mentors!

Pictured (from L to R): Michelle Wang, Yunlai Silvia Gui, Sophia Cordeiro, Aislyn Gordon, Lisa Zhu, Sophie Arnold

Congratulations to our graduate student Michelle Wang for being named recipient of the 2023 Martin Braine Fellowship Award!

Congratulations to our Masters Student Sydney Klein for winning 3rd place in the 2020 NYU Masters Research Conference!

Sydney’s poster presentation at the 2020 MA research conference

Sydney’s poster presentation at the 2020 MA research conference

A new study released by researchers from NYU and Princeton University shows that asking young girls to “do science” rather than “be scientists” increases their likelihood to be engaged with the subject.

A new study released by researchers from NYU and Princeton University shows that asking young girls to “do science” rather than “be scientists” increases their likelihood to be engaged with the subject.

A change in language could help address the gender disparity in Stem subjects.

A change in language could help address the gender disparity in STEM subjects.

When we speak of identity groups in essentialist and deterministic ways, we are doing more damage than we think.

When we speak of identity groups in essentialist and deterministic ways, we are doing more damage than we think.

Asking children "to help" (action vs identity) makes them more likely to do so.

Asking children "to help" (action vs identity) makes them more likely to do so.

If you want young children to stick to a tough task, framing it as a positive part of their identity may motivate them at first, but may backfire when they run into challenges.

If you want young children to stick to a tough task, framing it as a positive part of their identity may motivate them at first, but may backfire when they run into challenges.

All politics is identity politics. American politics, it has become plain, is driven less by ideological commitments than by partisan identities — less by what we think than by what we are.

All politics is identity politics. American politics, it has become plain, is driven less by ideological commitments than by partisan identities — less by what we think than by what we are.

New research suggests we aren't born bigots. Racial prejudice is something we learn.

New research suggests we aren't born bigots. Racial prejudice is something we learn.

The CDSC Lab is honored to represent the National Science Foundation at the USA Science and Engineering Festival in Washington D.C. on April 6-8th

We're hosting a booth called "Animal Discovery," where we'll share our research on children's diversity-based reasoning. We have fun activities and prizes planned for families and hope to see you there!

Former graduate student, Dr. Lisa Chalik, will be joining Stern College for Women at Yeshiva University as an Assistant Professor of Psychology starting in Fall 2018!

The CDSC Lab is headed to Portland, OR to attend the Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society from Oct 12-14.

Dr. Tara Mandalaywala will be joining the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences as an Assistant Professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in Fall 2018!

The Conceptual Development and Social Cognition Lab will be presenting at the 2017 Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting in Austin, TX from April 6-8.

Kathryn Yee will present work investigating the effect of language on children's beliefs and motivation in science at the 2017 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development in Austin, TX from April 6-8.

Tara Mandalaywala will present work (done with honors student Christine Tai) showing that children use social group membership to attribute social status to others at the 2017 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development in Austin, TX from April 6-8.

Tara Mandalaywala and Marjorie Rhodes will co-chair the symposium "The development and consequences of status representations" at the 2017 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development in Austin, TX featuring talks from developmental psychologists from the University of Washington, the University of Maryland, and the University of California, Berkeley. 

Tara Mandalaywala will be giving a talk on how cognitive bias can modify the effects of early life adversity on stress physiology in rhesus macaques at the Joint meeting of the International Primatological Society and the American Society of Primatologists in Chicago, IL from Aug 21-27.

Tara Mandalaywala will be presenting her work showing that White children's essentialist beliefs about race are related to racial prejudice at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society in Philadelphia, PA from Aug 10-13.

Honors student, Christine Tai, will be giving a presentation on what we know about children's understanding of social status at NYU's 3rd annual Diversity Summer Student Conference from July 22.

Emily Foster-Hanson will be giving a talk explaining how generic language elicits essentialist beliefs at the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society from Aug 10-13.

Emily Foster-Hanson will be giving a talk on preschoolers' dual character concepts at the International Conference on Thinking at Brown University from Aug 4-6.

Marjorie Rhodes will present the lab’s research on the development of category-based induction at the upcoming conference of the International Conference on Thinking at Brown University from Aug 4-6.

Recent graduate, Lisa Chalik, will be a post-doctoral fellow in Yarrow Dunham's Social Cognitive Development Lab at Yale starting in September.

Rachel Leshin will be joining our lab and Andrei Cimpian’s new Cognitive Development Lab at NYU this Fall.

Honors student, Elysia Choi, has accepted a position as lab coordinator in Deena Weisburg's Cognition & Development Lab at University of Pennsylvania.

Marjorie Rhodes and Todd Gureckis presented their work on informal science learning at the capstone conference of the Templeton Foundation Varieties of Understanding Project.

Honors student, Gabrielle Ranger-Murdock, won an Eastern Regional Research Award from Psi Chi for her work exploring the relations between essentialism and prejudice at the Eastern Psychological Association meeting in New York City.

Marjorie argued that, “We're not born racist,” at the 2016 Misconceptions of the Mind Conference at the University of California Berkeley.

Marjorie Rhodes and Sarah-Jane Leslie received a 5 year R01 ($1.59 million) grant from NIH to study the linguistic transmission of maladaptive beliefs.

The lab received $12,000 from the NYU University Research Challenge fund for Tara Mandalaywala’s research on the physiological consequences of racial essentialism.

The lab received $120,000 from the NYU Research Challenge Fund for Women in Science for a new project on the development of group-based economic behavior.

Marjorie Rhodes will receive the 2017 Boyd McCandless Award for distinguished theoretical contributions to developmental psychology by an early career scientist from Division 7 (Developmental Psychology) of the American Psychological Association.