Tess Fulcher successfully defends dissertation
Tess Fulcher, a PhD student in the Infant Learning and Development Lab, has successfully defended her dissertation! Tess's work focused on how help seeking emerges across developmental time and asked questions such as "what skills support help seeking?" and "to what...
Research Assistant, Abigaël Thinakaran, accepted into Neuroscience Honors Program
Abigaël Thinakaran, a Research Assistant in the Infant Learning and Development Lab, has been accepted into the Neuroscience Honors Program! As an Honors student, Abigaël will complete an independent research project that she will then write up and present to an...
Congratulations, Doctors! Doctoral students Natalie Brezack and Haerin Chung both successfully defended their dissertations this Spring
Natalie Brezack and Haerin Chung, two doctoral students in the Infant Learning and Development Lab, both successfully defended their dissertations, only two weeks apart! During their defenses, they each gave an overview of the research they conducted throughout the...
Dr. Hyesung Grace Hwang to join faculty at University of California, Santa Cruz
Dr. Hyesung Grace Hwang, a current post-doc in the Infant Learning and Development Lab, will join the University of California, Santa Cruz as an Assistant Professor of Psychology in July 2022. Grace has been a post-doc in the lab since 2018 and we are excited for her...
APS recognizes Marc Berman and Amrisha Vaish with the 2018 Janet Taylor Spence Award
Six outstanding researchers have been selected as the recipients of the 2018 APS Janet Taylor Spence Award. The recipients are Elliot Berkman, University of Oregon; Marc Berman, The University of Chicago; Catherine Hartley, New York University; Kristin Laurin,...
Congratulations Zoe Liberman! Rising Star Award Recipient
Baby Lab Alumnus Zoe Liberman was named a 2017 Rising Star by the Association for Psychological Science. This award recognizes PhD psychologists for outstanding achievements early in their career.
Marianne Dolan, a research assistant in the Infant Learning and Development Lab, has been accepted into the University of Chicago’s College Research Fellows Program
Congratulations to Marianne Dolan for being accepted into the University of Chicago’s College Research Fellows Program! Marianne started working in the Infant Learning and Development lab in June 2016 as an undergraduate research assistant. For the 2016-2017 academic...
The New York Times features research done by Amanda Woodward and Zoe Liberman
You may not be surprised to learn that food preference is a social matter. What we choose to eat depends on more than just what tastes good or is healthful. People in different cultures eat different things, and within a culture, what you eat can signal something...
Research from the Infant Learning and Development Lab is featured in UChicagoNews
Infants develop expectations about what people prefer to eat, providing early evidence of the social nature through which humans understand food, according to a new study conducted at the University of Chicago. The study, published this month in the Proceedings of the...
Zoe Liberman’s research on infants’ reasoning about the social nature of food choices has been published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Food choice can serve as a social shibboleth, whereby information about what an individual eats affords insight into her cultural background and social relationships. We provide evidence for an early-emerging system linking food preferences to social identity. Infants...