Dr Kirsten Blakey
Postdoc at University of Toronto • Studying cognitive development, belief revision, information seeking & social learning • she/her
- 🚨NEW PAPER 🚨 Nonverbal rationality? 2-year-old children, dogs, and pigs show unselective responses to unreliability but to different degrees Open access here: doi.org/10.1111/cdev...
- Reposted by Dr Kirsten BlakeyCome talk to @feceozkan.bsky.social after her Reasoning talk session & @khblakey.bsky.social @normanjzeng.bsky.social & I during our posters today to hear about our epic journey to Ithaca!
- Reposted by Dr Kirsten BlakeyUofT psych gets to #SPP2025: Public transit down, first car rental broke down 700m after leaving, endured flash floods in upstate NY. We finally made it (11 hours later!)
- New paper! We develop a framework for understanding how reflective belief revision could emerge from unreflective responses to evidence, integrating epistemology and developmental psychology. Epistemic Rationality Begins Unreflectively link.springer.com/article/10.1... #DevPsych #Epistemology
- Reposted by Dr Kirsten Blakey
- Reposted by Dr Kirsten BlakeyExcited to be organizing this symposium with @samuelronfard.bsky.social's support! 😊 Check out our session #SRCD25, Friday, 11.30 am, and hear from Joshua Confer, @anahidmodrek.bsky.social, and @lucaspbutler.bsky.social! @janengelmann.bsky.social
- Reposted by Dr Kirsten Blakey🚨RT! The Social & Cognitive Origins group at @jhuartssciences.bsky.social (social-cognitive-origins.com), directed by Dr. Christopher Krupenye, is recruiting a full-time research assistant or lab manager to begin Summer 2025. The position has a one-year minimum, w/ the possibility of extension. 1/
- New paper! Children’s sharing is influenced by factors like others' need and reputation, but research has typically examined these factors in isolation. This study explores how different combinations of need and reputation affect costly sharing decisions. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Children (3–9 years) shared stickers with recipients who varied in need (needy vs. not needy) and reputation (sharing vs. not sharing). As expected, they shared more with needy recipients. But they shared more generously when the recipient also had a positive reputation for sharing.
