Excited to share my last publication with Roberto Posada as part of this amazing special issue in JCD! Our results contribute to understanding how children and adults in Bogotá reason about animal mistreatment and energy waste and how exceptionalist beliefs influence their moral judgments

📣📣 A recent paper by Meghan C. Orman et al. in JCD: Enjoyment, Empathy, and Environmental Behavior: A Study of Young Children’s Nature Connection in Iceland www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Attending #CogSci2025 this week? Come and check out the work of the Thomas Lab!

Mañana estaré participando en este conversatorio con @dianaloperaperez.bsky.social @jorgecuartas.bsky.social No se lo pierdan! Inscripciones aquí: uninorte.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Many people from my lab are presenting exciting work at SRCD!

Does attributing mind or life to natural entities increase environmental concern? Our new paper with @debkelemen.bsky.social looks into this important question. Check out our findings now available at onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... @cogscisociety.bsky.social

New Daedalus issue on the science of caregiving. In our paper, we ask, how might infants experience caregiving? Writing this paper with Christina Steele, @alisongopnik.bsky.social and @rebeccasaxe.bsky.social was incredibly fun. Our paper and the other awesome pieces here: www.amacad.org/daedalus

With all the excitement back then, I forgot to share that I defended my dissertation this summer! Huge thanks to my advisor @debkelemen.bsky.social , #Fulbright, friends, and my husband for their incredible support on this life-changing experience!

Are you at #CDS2024 and interested in environmental conservation? Join me at Poster Session 2 to learn about my research on children's and adults' tendencies to attribute agency (life and mind) to natural elements when assessing harm to nature. See you there!

The day has arrived! Join us tomorrow for the 30th anniversary of Mapping the Mind preconference! BU Child Cognition Lab presents three posters at 11am. See you there! #CDS2024 @debkelemen.bsky.social @esranur.bsky.social

Hi Bluesky, excited to join! I study how children and adults understand the natural world and build a moral relationship with it. My latest publication explores whether humans are conceptualized as part of nature and its implications for environmental concern. Find it here: doi.org/10.1111/tops...