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,...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

A groundbreaking new study by neuroscientists and developmental psychologists at the University of Chicago has identified a direct link between neural responses from the motor system and overt social behavior in infants. The April 2016 study, “Motor System Activation...

An innovative collaboration between neuroscientists and developmental psychologists that investigated how infants’ brains process other people’s action provides the first evidence that directly links neural responses from the motor system to overt social behavior in...

Being bilingual has some obvious advantages. Learning more than one language enables new conversations and new experiences. But in recent years, psychology researchers have demonstrated some less obvious advantages of bilingualism, too. For instance, bilingual...

The Center for Early Childhood Research was busy in 2015! We have so many exciting new studies to share with you. Check out what we have been up to in our yearly newsletter: https://uchicago.box.com/s/my7zm3s18hdugx9sj5c2g1qiuizsw523 Newsletter 2015 Picture_Page_01Our...