Rethinking the study of newborn sociality: Challenges and opportunities. #devpsy Free link until Nov 7th: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

New paper! Here (in Nature Communications) we (Ale Geraci, Luca Surian, Lucia Gabriella Tina, & I; work led/run by Ale) show that 5-day-old newborns selectively attend to two distinct forms of prosocial over antisocial action: approaching versus avoiding and helping versus hindering. rdcu.be/evorW

Can adults be trained to better recognize and avoid sick faces? New research findings from our lab, led by PhD student Tiffany Leung (@Tiffany6390.bsky.social)! @UMiamiPsych.bsky.social @UnivMiami.bsky.social #SickSelfie news.miami.edu/as/stories/2...

scl.psy.miami.edu/for-parents/... #MiamiBaby #MiamiKid #UMiami #BabyCane #FutureCane #ScienceMatters

INTERESTED IN APPLYING TO OUR DOCTORAL PROGRAMS? Applications for Fall 2026 admission will be accepted from September 01, 2025 - December 01, 2025. ALL application materials must be received no later than DECEMBER 01, 2025. psy.miami.edu/graduate/how...

Delighted to share our latest paper in Communications Psychology on face pareidolia. doi.org/10.1038/s442...

An exciting finding about the foundations of our prosocial preference. Human newborns spontaneously attend to prosocial interactions. Geraci, A., Surian, L., Tina, L.G. et al. Nat Commun 16, 6304 (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Kids & Family Festival is tomorrow — Learn about our paid research studies for kids & spin our fun wheel to win a prize! ✨ Miami Dade College - Hialeah Campus #MiamiKid #UMiami #ScienceMatters

Maternal Immune Activation Alters Infant Attentional Processing in a Nonhuman Primate Model #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1016/j.bb...

Seeing is believing, especially for your immune system. A new study shows that watching visibly sick people approach you in VR can trigger immune responses the same way a vaccine does @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

What contagious crying and comforting in infants tell us about the roots of emotional connection We wrote a piece in @psyche.co magazine about our research on #empathy in infants @durhampsych.bsky.social psyche.co/ideas/were-l...

Appointments available - Reserve one for your child & #SupportScience at #UMiami! #ScienceMatters umiami.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Join us! The Developmental Psychology Doctoral Program at the University of Miami (dev.psy.miami.edu) invites applications for fall 2026. Students are fully funded & receive excellent research training for careers... #DevSci #DevPsy #PsycSciSky #AcademicSky #PhDLife #GradSchool #UMiami (thread 1/10)

Behavioral and Brain Sciences Call for Commentaries on Bard, Keller, and Leavens (2025)! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

A novel approach to exploring infant gaze patterns with AI-manipulated videos #OpenAccess #devpsyc doi.org/10.1038/s415...

New paper by PhD student, Arushi Malik! Stability of individual differences in social and nonsocial visual attention from newborn to 14 months #OpenAccess w/ wonderful team @tiffany6390.bsky.social, @shuoz.bsky.social, @semaylott.bsky.social, @dmessinger.bsky.social, et al. doi.org/10.1002/dev....

Check out our new work in JSLHR where we consider ethical issues in collection of daylong audio recordings in children with language delays and disabilities. This work was part of a bioethics supplement from NIDCD. @dmessinger.bsky.social

Gaze behavior in face-to-face interaction: A cross-cultural investigation between Japan and The Netherlands #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

I can’t recommend this enough. UNBREAKING, a new project from @lizneeley.bsky.social & co, documents & explains our many concurrent institutional collapses. It’s beautifully executed work, full of intellectual & moral clarity. 3 pages are live, more will come. It’s SO GOOD, & I learned so much.

Mutual gaze and facial mimicry as drivers of shared engagement in macaque play fighting @lucapedruzzi.bsky.social et al. #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

This is happening right now. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

Happy graduation, Arushi! 🎓 #CaneGrad #WomenInSTEM

Approach avoidance responses to facial expressions in young children: A study using a dance pad - by Ikeda doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

Mother–Infant Face-to-Face Interactions Serve a Similar Function in Humans and Other Apes #OpenAccess by Amici et al. doi.org/10.1111/desc...

Early empathy development: Concern and comforting in 9- and 18-month-old infants from Uganda and the UK doi.org/10.1371/jour... Vreden, Buryn-Weitzel, @zannaclay.bsky.social et al. #OpenAccess

Excited to share a new paper! The development of emotion contagion- out in #DevSci We used the cool method of infra-red thermal imaging to examine #EmotionContagion in #infants using a #crosscultural sample from Uganda and UK @durhampsych.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Early Emergence of Metacognition in Rhesus Monkeys - by @yiyunh.bsky.social & @alexrosati.bsky.social #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1111/desc...

Training improves avoidance of natural sick faces: Changes in visual attention and approach decisions #OpenAccess led by @tiffany6390.bsky.social in collab with @semaylott.bsky.social @shuoz.bsky.social et al. doi.org/10.3390/visi...

The question we ask: when do face responses arise in human infant cortex? Neuroscientists and developmental psychologists (my two disciplines) have different intuitions.

Full article: The Future of Cognitive Development in Challenging Times www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... This article is important! Please read!

New paper alert! Bonobos are often cited as the 'most empathic ape' yet a comparison to their chimp cousins has never been done. So we directly compared their consolation tendencies We found big overlaps between the two species plus considerable within-species variation open-access link below!

UM grad students and faculty, please consider signing: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

To say it once more today: I think you'll be moved if you take 2 minutes to look through 269 institutions signed on here. Yes, still a few notable absences. (Where is Stanford?) But such an array of *presence.* Big and small. Public and private. World famous and barely known. Check them out.

New on the Baby Blog - At First Sight: the prenatal origins of face recognition by Karol Poles, Irene Ronga and Francesca Garbarini infantstudies.org/at-first-sig... #infantstudies

The enduring legacy of newborns’ face preference #DevPsyc psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...

🙏 We need your help 🙏 The government continues to cancel grants at both NIH and NSF to censor science it doesn't like. We're tracking terminations to organize and advocate. Please report your terminated grants: NIH: forms.gle/J2znQ7y7YpeP... NSF: airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... w/ @noamross.net

The mental representation of ingroup and outgroup faces doi.org/10.1037/pspa...

Belteki et al. (2024) found that infants' face preference show strong development from 4 to 6mos when looking at proportion of first looks, total dwell time and frequency of fixations that 4-7mo infants direct to faces vs. distractor items #infancypapers doi.org/10.1111/infa...

New paper published in Human Nature: Core Moral Concepts and the Sense of Fairness ⚖️ in Human Infants ! With Luca Surian and Alessandra Geraci 😊 rdcu.be/egamh

Ostracism affects children’s behavioral reactivity and gaze cueing of attention #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1371/jour...

If you are a faculty member at a US university, please consider signing this excellent petition asking our presidents, chancellors, etc to work together to defend our institutions from the direct attacks by Trump administration: sites.google.com/view/we-must...

New Paper out in @Cognition with @peelen.bsky.social !🚨📣 In a large-scale (N = 13539!) inattentional blindness experiment ran on naive museum visitors we demonstrate visual sensitivity to the 🚶‍♀️ upright human form 🚶‍♂️ @dondersinst.bsky.social Open access link www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our latest study in JEPHPP explores how we detect #facepareidolia under different task demands. Results like these keep providing clues that we are equipped to build multiple representations in parallel to flexibly support a diverse range of behavioural goals. psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/...

Maternal care predicts facial expression processing in macaques #OpenAccess by O’Callaghan, Whitehouse, Paukner, Witham, & @bridgetwaller.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.is...

The platform I run, Children Helping Science, is supported almost entirely by US government science funding, both directly and in collaboration with CHS researchers. Here's the note we sent to users today - we need help gathering your stories and citations! Submit here: forms.gle/zFnzrVURntdZ...

#PsychSciSky #DevSci #DevPsych #Science #Infant #Emotions #OnlineStudy

WHERE WILL YOU BE TOMORROW?

AI is revolutionising animal welfare, so cool. Scientists like my good old friend Anna Zamansky from Haifa are using facial recognition to detect emotions in animals. Could AI give animals a voice in the future? Fascinating research from dogs to livestock. www.science.org/content/arti...

New on the Baby Blog - Investigating individual differences in social and emotional development by @santimoralesphd.bsky.social infantstudies.org/investigatin... #DevPsySky #PsychSciSky #EarlyYears #infantstudies

So exciting to see MacaqueNet out into the world! 🤩 Learn about our global community & database centralizing standardized affiliative & agonistic data from 61 populations across 14 macaque species: doi/10.1111/1365... Explore >600 networks & request data: macaquenet.github.io/database/