Julia Marshall
Assistant Professor at Brown University, studying how children and adults reason about the social world. Director of the Mind & Morality Lab. Forever an Atlanta Falcons fan
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- Reposted by Julia Marshallpostdoc opportunity! would be a good fit for an intergroup person with NLP chops interested in the role of historical narratives bonus, Edinburgh is a phenomenal city to live in with wonderful, walkable quality of life elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
- Excited to share our new paper in Cognitive Development! We replicate that children punish for both retributive and consequentialist reasons — and, surprisingly, intergroup context doesn’t change these effects. tinyurl.com/ycyhcn5a Check in out! ✨
- Reposted by Julia MarshallTEN DAYS left to submit your work to the Origins of the Social Mind Preconference at #SPSP2026! 👶🐒🌍 This year, our morning timeslot is compatible with a variety of fantastic afternoon preconferences (e.g., Social Cognition, Gender, Economic Inequality). See you there! spsp.org/events/annua...
- Reposted by Julia MarshallBrown’s Department of Cognitive & Psychological Sciences is hiring a tenure-track Assistant Professor, working in the area of AI and the Mind (start July 1, 2026). Apply by Nov 8, 2025 👉 apply.interfolio.com/173939 #AI #CognitiveScience #AcademicJobs #BrownUniversity
- Reposted by Julia Marshall🚨Out in PNAS🚨 with @joshtenenbaum.bsky.social & @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social Punishment, even when intended to teach norms and change minds for the good, may backfire. Our computational cognitive model explains why! Paper: tinyurl.com/yc7fs4x7 News: tinyurl.com/3h3446wu 🧵
- Reposted by Julia Marshall🚨We're hiring! The Mind & Morality Lab is seeking a Lab Manager to start this September. Excited about research on social cognitive development? Apply here: forms.gle/4rKXD2x1vmkD.... Learn more about us: sites.brown.edu/mindmorality.... ⏳ We’re reviewing applications on a rolling basis—apply early!
- Reposted by Julia MarshallBig congrats to @rthompkins.bsky.social on this paper! Happy to finally see this out in the world. Our work builds on findings from @juliamarshall.bsky.social on the impact of social relationships on moral expectations, with a focus on how children think about lying and liars.
- New paper with past honors student Vanessa Chao and @zoeliberman.bsky.social in press at JECP: “Children can consider social relationships when evaluating liars” By the early elementary school years, people judge it as worse and meaner for a friend (vs. classmate) to lie. doi.org/10.1016/j.je...
- Reposted by Julia MarshallIt's just one month until the @phair-society.bsky.social Animal Advocacy Conference in Edinburgh! I caught up with @marikasbell.bsky.social and Luke McGuire to talk all things conference on the Deal with Animals Podcast! www.thedealwithanimals.com/post/what-sp... phair2025.co.uk
- 🥳🥳 New paper in @nathumbehav.nature.com: “When development constricts our moral circle." Contrary to popular belief, younger kids may start out with broader moral circles than older ones. Check it out here 👉 rdcu.be/eoaSe w/ @mattiwilks.bsky.social @karrineldner.bsky.social & Lucius Caviola
- Reposted by Julia Marshall🚨 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
- Reposted by Julia MarshallI am hiring a lab manager to start ~ July 1st. sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Sear...
- Reposted by Julia MarshallI'm hiring a lab manager to start this summer/fall, to work on transformative experience, identity change, and empathy in the digital age. Details here: www.crockettlab.org/research-spe... Please share!
- Reposted by Julia MarshallCheck out @katiemcauliffe.bsky.social, @juliamarshall.bsky.social, and Abby McLaughlin's new feature review in TICS! Beyond punishment: psychological foundations of restorative interventions: Trends in Cognitive Sciences www.cell.com/trends/cogni...
- Reposted by Julia MarshallThe @spspnews.bsky.social Origins of the Social Mind preconf is 19 days away! This year, our guiding theme is "Understanding the building blocks of social group dynamics." This topic is so important & we're learning from THE experts (look at the lineup!). I believe in this precon so much that...1/2
- Register to attend the VIRTUAL Origins fo the Social Mind Preconference at SPSP! We have a great line-up of folks and are excited to foster discussions on the building blocks of social group dynamics. Looking forward to see people there!
- Reposted by Julia Marshall🎉 I'm hiring a lab manager to start August 2025 and help build my lab at Lehigh. Submit a CV, cover letter, transcript, and 2 reference contacts by March 14th. The full job description is linked below. Please share with any students or mentees who might be interested! #devpsy tinyurl.com/33vtvy79
- 🎉Postdoc Alert! I am recruiting a postdoc to start Summer 2025 in the Mind & Morality Lab at Brown. If you're interested, please send a CV, cover letter, and names of at least two references to julia_marshall1@brown.edu by 2/28. If you have questions, don't hesitate to reach out!
- Reposted by Julia MarshallExcited to share that our BBS target article — "Children as agents of cultural adaptation" — is online & open for commentary! In it, @sheinalew.bsky.social & I argue that children's peer cultures might play an important & understudied role in cultural adaptation. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
- Reposted by Julia MarshallNew Paper is out with @romanfeiman.bsky.social and Athulya Aravind in @psychscience.bsky.social We argue that children are not biased to assume that words are mutually exclusive. We speculate that previous experiments find mutual exclusivity because they present (grammatically) biased words
- Reposted by Julia MarshallFor decades, developmental psychologists have noticed that optimism declines with age. Why does this presumably good thing decrease across development? In this Nature Reviews Psych article, @jessicas.bsky.social and I draw from prior hypotheses to offer an integrated account.
- New paper with the BRILLIANT and always amazing @julia-a-leonard.bsky.social! Developmental declines in optimism and their potential causes:
- Reposted by Julia MarshallVery excited to announce the launch of Cooperation Island, a new research platform for measuring social decision-making in children ages 5+. Shout out to co-pilots Julia Marshall and Shalini Gautam! Check it out at: cooperationisland.com
- Excited that the Origins of the Social Mind pre-conference will be back at the 2025 SPSP conference! We've assembled a stellar line-up of speakers and are accepting poster submissions to the pre-conference. See the line-up here: tinyurl.com/2uwcmafy. & submit posters by 10/17: tinyurl.com/2z63hv3p
- Reposted by Julia MarshallCooperation Colloquium this week: Julia Marshall @juliamarshall.bsky.social The role of intergroup dynamics in shaping cooperative behavior in development Friday, June 7 15:00 UTC+2 // 9 am ET Sign-up: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...
- I want to share this paper, out now in Open Mind: direct.mit.edu/opmi/article... Matti Wilks & I examined whether children's obligation judgments are sensitive to social & physical distance. For the most part, they were somewhat but much less so at younger ages. Check it out! 🎉
- Reposted by Julia MarshallOur mega-analysis of infant-directed speech preference is now out at Open Mind, integrating data from a multi-lab replication (@manybabies.org) and a meta-analysis. w/ @chrismmcox.bsky.social, @chbergma.bsky.social, Maya Mathur, @mcxfrank.bsky.social + a fab team direct.mit.edu/opmi/article... 1/
- Check out this new Registered Report (srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....)! In this work, we examined whether intergroup bias shapes the expression of third-party punishment in children. To our surprise, intergroup context didn't seem to matter. Read the paper for more info! 🎉
- Reposted by Julia MarshallWe are recruiting a full-time lab manager to start in July 2024. If you're interested, please consider applying here: brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-... Do not hesitate to reach out via email (to julia_marshall1@brown.edu) if you have questions about the position!!
- Excited to share this paper, onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/.... 🎉 Here, we examined whether parental political orientation relates to children's endorsement of preventative COVID behaviors. Hopefully, it contributes to growing work on how political ideology matters in childhood. Check it out!
- Reposted by Julia Marshall🚨Spring 2024 Cooperation Colloquia🚨 We are excited to announce this semester's Cooperation Colloquia, with @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @zhgarfield.com, @juliamarshall.bsky.social, & more. Sign up for regular updates: list.ku.dk/postorius/li...
