“Unsolicited help could lead children to denigrate their ability and lose motivation.” Despite good intentions, help isn’t always beneficial for children, says Meeri Kim. #ChildDevelopment boldscience.org/when-helping...

"Mama, ik kan het zelf!" Interview 👇met NEMO-kennislink over ons onderzoek (met Eddie Brummelman @kidlab.bsky.social )waarin we zagen dat hulp er toe kan leiden dat kinderen zich minder competent voelen en minder gemotiveerd raken. www.nemokennislink.nl/publicaties/...

"Mama, ik kan het zelf!" Interview 👇met NEMO-kennislink over ons onderzoek (met Eddie Brummelman @kidlab.bsky.social )waarin we zagen dat hulp er toe kan leiden dat kinderen zich minder competent voelen en minder gemotiveerd raken. www.nemokennislink.nl/publicaties/...

😍KiDLAB at #ECDP2025 (eadp.bsky.social)! Hannah presented her work on entitlement. Eddie presented an overview of the lab’s ongoing work on how inequality becomes ingrained in children’s self-views. We met with many friends (on bsky: @lauraktaylorphd.bsky.social & @jelliesierksma.bsky.social).

New pub! Peer-to-peer helping is a common learning strategy but might not always be beneficial. We studied how children helped peers, finding they often provide "easy" help—like giving answers—when tasks were difficult or recipients belonged to ethnic groups they liked. dx.doi.org/10.1111/desc...

New pub! Peer-to-peer helping is a common learning strategy but might not always be beneficial. We studied how children helped peers, finding they often provide "easy" help—like giving answers—when tasks were difficult or recipients belonged to ethnic groups they liked. dx.doi.org/10.1111/desc...

Eddie Brummelman delivers exciting new research on #inequality in #childhood at #ECDP2025 @eadp.bsky.social @eadperu.bsky.social

There's a lawsuit about AI stealing your work. It's the same lawyers taking on Elsevier et al in a separate case. Academics: 1. Check if your work is in LibGen at www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... 2. If so, let the lawyers know at www.lieffcabraser.com/anthropic-au...

🚨 Postdoc Opportunity!!! The Toronto Early Cognition Lab (@UofT) is hiring a postdoc to study early optimism in infants & young children. Work w/ multi-method approach, amazing undergrads & grads. Start: Fall 2025 or later. Details: [email protected] RTs appreciated 💫

New publication! Children get help all the time – but how it affects them is unclear. Eddie Brummelman @kidlab.bsky.social and I show that help can lead to negative self-views and reduced motivation in children (even the type of help that we often assume leads to mastery) 👇 doi.org/10.1111/cdev...

New publication! Children get help all the time – but how it affects them is unclear. Eddie Brummelman @kidlab.bsky.social and I show that help can lead to negative self-views and reduced motivation in children (even the type of help that we often assume leads to mastery) 👇 doi.org/10.1111/cdev...

“It is crucial to understand when help leads to negative consequences and how we might prevent them.” Jellie Sierksma tells Annie Brookman-Byrne about her research uncovering the potential negative consequences of children’s prosocial behaviour. #EdChat boldscience.org/helping-chil...

“Classrooms are a microcosm of society, reflecting the rising inequality seen around the world.” Eddie Brummelman, Nienke van Atteveldt, Sharon Wolf, and Jellie Sierksma share tips for creating school environments that help pupils fulfill their potential. boldscience.org/how-can-educ...

New pub! Young children generally do not like people who do not share with them or help them. But what about more subtle prosocial behaviors? Are those equally important for children's social relationships? psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

New pub! Young children generally do not like people who do not share with them or help them. But what about more subtle prosocial behaviors? Are those equally important for children's social relationships? psycnet.apa.org/record/2026-...

🥳Our BOLD interview series is complete! In the final piece, we share tips to address inequality in the classroom: recognize structural barriers, give empowering feedback, and foster a growth mindset. boldscience.org/tag/inequali... (with @jelliesierksma.bsky.social) @jacobsfoundation.bsky.social

In this article we highlight some of the key insights for teachers from our special issue on educational inequality (special issue = www.nature.com/collections/...)! 👇 boldscience.org/how-can-educ...

In this article we highlight some of the key insights for teachers from our special issue on educational inequality (special issue = www.nature.com/collections/...)! 👇 boldscience.org/how-can-educ...

If you're at SRCD please consider checking out these talks and posters featuring members of the CoCoDev lab and our awesome collaborators. #SRCD2025

Excited to see everyone at #SRCD2025! Come check out our symposium on children's books as a tool for parent-child ethnic-racial socialization on Friday at 11:30AM (Room 101E).

Come check out the EAST & DoT Labs at #SRCD. 🤩 I'm excited to share our work on children's causal reasoning about historical structural barriers, as well as their pragmatic inferences from what others seek--and do not seek--to explain!

Come check out the lab's research at @srcdorg.bsky.social this week! @leonardlearnlab.bsky.social

New work! Kristin Shutts and I review how help can in some cases backfire and lead to detriments in children’s self-views, views of others, and motivation, especially when help is distributed unequally. Check it out here (open access!): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🟣 This is the twelfth interview in the BOLD series on our special collection. Sébastien Goudeau (@sebastiengoudeau.bsky.social) discuss his work on how preschoolers see inequality in the classroom: boldscience.org/how-preschoo...

🟣 This is the thirteenth interview in the BOLD series on our special collection. Lisa Bardach (University of Giessen) asks: Might students in lower-ranked tracks hold negative stereotypes about their track, with detrimental long-term effects on their success? boldscience.org/childrens-aw...

☯️ Who’s drawn to narcissistic leaders? KiDLAB research in American Psychologist shows that narcissistic leaders’ dominance and confidence mesh well with the submissiveness and insecurity of low self-esteem followers. Over time, this could create a toxic symbiosis. 🔗 psycnet.apa.org/record/2025-...

🟣 This is the fourteenth interview in the BOLD series on our special collection. Marjolein Muskens emphasizes that education should promote empowerment and equality. Yet too often, the talents of students from disadvantaged backgrounds are overlooked: boldscience.org/hidden-bias-....

New work! Kristin Shutts and I review how help can in some cases backfire and lead to detriments in children’s self-views, views of others, and motivation, especially when help is distributed unequally. Check it out here (open access!): journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Still time to apply! 💻 #Postdoc @ucddublin.bsky.social due this Friday 11 April, noon Irish time. Would be great to have #child #development scholars with #longitudinal and #crossnational expertise 🇪🇺📈🏡🧑‍🧑‍🧒

Calling all #DevPsych folks! 📣 Myself and @lauraktaylorphd.bsky.social are looking for a good #Child and #Adolescent developmental textbook for use in our undergraduate #PSY20020 Child and Adolescent Development course. Ideally #OpenAccess or low-cost. Can anyone recommend one they've used/liked?

Come work with us! Eddie Brummelman @kidlab.bsky.social and I are looking for two PhD-students. Both projects are about the psychological impact of unequal treatment in the classroom.

🟣 This is the eleventh interview in the BOLD series on our special collection. Allison Zengilowski and Irum Maqbool discuss their work showing that efforts to improve educational equality may inadvertently frame students as deficient rather than changing structures: boldscience.org/do-education....

Two interdisciplinary PhD positions at the University of Amsterdam researching "the psychological consequences of unequal treatment in the classroom." With BSky supervisors: @jelliesierksma.bsky.social & @kidlab.bsky.social #AcademicSky #PhdSky #PsychJobs #SocialPsyc #DevPsyc

Come work with us! Eddie Brummelman @kidlab.bsky.social and I are looking for two PhD-students. Both projects are about the psychological impact of unequal treatment in the classroom.

🟣 This is the seventh interview in the BOLD series on our special collection. Madeline Harms discusses her research—combining insights from neuroscience and psychology—to better understand and reduce socioeconomic inequality in academic achievement. boldscience.org/reducing-chi....

🟣 This is the tenth interview in the BOLD series on our special collection. Eddie Brummelman discusses KiDLAB research on why children from disadvantaged backgrounds often receive seemingly well-intentioned but disabling messages from teachers, like inflated praise: boldscience.org/inflated-pra....

🟣 This is the ninth interview in the BOLD series on our special collection. Hanna Dumont explains when and why personalized learning—adapting instruction to students’ individual needs—may reduce or ironically exacerbate achievement inequality. boldscience.org/can-personal....

In other news: this is an interactive map of the strikes in higher education in the Netherlands the next weeks. The strikes are against draconian, shortsighted research and higher ed cuts 🟥 📅 University of Amsterdam @uva.nl: March 17. @woinactie.bsky.social woinactie.blogspot.com/p/stakingen-...

💥Two 💥 post-doc positions open in my @erc.europa.eu ERC-funded group. In an interdisciplinary, collaborative setting, we use different types of modeling (e.g., reinforcement learning) and human experiments to understand social learning and cultural evolution. Get in touch if you have any questions!

🟣 This is the eighth interview in the BOLD series on our special collection. Catrin Finkenauer explains why schools and educators need to earn students’ trust—especially in those from financially insecure backgrounds—to prevent school dropout. boldscience.org/why-schools-...

🟣 This is the sixth interview in the BOLD series on our special collection. Jellie Sierksma (@jelliesierksma.bsky.social) discusses her work showing that children perpetuate inequality in the classroom by offering disempowering help to those who are less competent. boldscience.org/helping-chil....

🟣 This is the fifth interview in the BOLD series on our special collection. Cameron Hecht discusses his research showing that growth mindset classroom cultures can improve achievement, particularly for students from structurally disadvantaged backgrounds. boldscience.org/creating-a-c....

🟣 This is the fourth interview in the BOLD series on our special collection. Sarah Hofer discusses our research on why children from disadvantaged backgrounds may believe they are less smart than others—and how these self-views undermine achievement in school. boldscience.org/self-views-i....

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Duistere tijden. Word lid van een vakbond. Als je in het onderwijs werkt bijvoorbeeld van de AOb. www.aob.nl/actueel/arti...

🟣 This is the third interview in the BOLD series on our special collection. Eryn Adams shares her perspective on how to make child development research—including studies using electroencephalography (EEG) and other neuroscience methods—more inclusive. boldscience.org/making-child...

🟣 This is the second interview in the BOLD series on our special collection. Sharon Wolf discusses how nudges to parents can boost children’s learning and reduce educational inequalities, even in low-income rural settings in Côte d’Ivoire – but not for everyone. boldscience.org/helping-pare...

Social cognition ppl: Is there a review/chapter on automatic social cognition that summarizes the current state of knowledge, correcting for findings that don’t replicate?

🟣BOLD has launched an interview series about our special collection on inequality in education for @natureportfolio.bsky.social. The first interview features Melody Wilson, who delves into her research on Black students' racial and mathematical identities: boldscience.org/culture-in-t...

💫Join KiDLAB as a postdoc to study parental emotions and inequality. Supervised by Eddie Brummelman and Gerben van Kleef, this role is open to those who’ve completed their PhD or are in the final stages of doing so. Please share and reach out with questions! werkenbij.uva.nl/vacatures/po...