News | CHILD LAB @ U of T

October 20, 2022: New Graduate Student has joined the Lab!

We're excited to announce we have a new graduate student, F. Ece Özkan, joining the Child Lab! Ece is a first year PhD student at the...

October 16, 2022: Welcoming the Lab's New Marketing Team!

We're very excited to announce that our lab is growing! A warm welcome to Ana Beatriz Porto and Yufei (Silvan) Yang that are joining our...

October 6, 2022: Welcoming new Research Assistants and ROPs!

We're very excited to announce that seven new amazing U of T undergraduate students including Shefali Bhalla, Jawahir Mohamed, Christi...

September 28, 2022: Welcome to the team!

Today, the ChiLD Lab welcomed new members to the team with a Pizza party! So excited to have them this year!

September 22, 2022: SRCD Press Release!

Studies Show Children Don’t Believe Everything They Are Told. Click here to read the press release

September 7, 2022: Summer Lab Party!

Today we celebrated everyone's hard work this summer by having a pizza and paint party! It was a great way to end the summer and look...

August 4, 2022: "Intuitive Sociology: Children Recognize Decision-Making Structures..."

In this week's lab meeting, we discussed Thomas et al.'s (2022) article, "Intuitive sociology: Children recognize decision-making...

July 16, 2022: Began Piloting a New Study!

Today, we began testing for a new study led by Ece Özkan. We are curious about how children examine the reliability of the information...

July 9, 2022: Began Testing for a New Study!

Today, we began testing for a new study in collaboration with Daniil Serko, a researcher from Berlin, Germany. This study investigates...

Cottrell, S., Torres, E., Harris, P.L., & Ronfard, S. (2022).

Older children verify adult claims because they are skeptical of those claims. Child Development. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13847 Click here to...

June 16, 2022: Development 2022 - A Canadian Conference on Developmental Psychology

Today, Dr. Ronfard presented in Development 2022 at Pickering Centre for Human Development. He gave a talk on how "Explanations shape...

June 9, 2022: Finished testing for our study!

We finished data collection for our study led by Dr. Brandon Goulding, a post-doctoral fellow in our lab. In this study, we are looking...

June 9, 2022: "The influence of understanding and having choice on children’s prosocial behavior"

In this week's lab meeting, we discussed Chernyak & Kushnir's (2018) paper, "The influence of understanding and having choice on...

May 26, 2022: "Learning about others to learn about the self..."

During this week's lab meeting, we discussed Asaba & Gweon's (2020) book chapter, "Learning about others to learn about the self: Early...

May 14-15, 2022: The Spring Baby Show!

Every year, the Infant and Child Studies Centre gets a booth at The Baby Show to recruit participants for our studies. This year we had...