Leonard Learning Lab
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Leonard Learning Lab at Yale Psychology. We study children’s motivation and learning.
We are looking to hire a research assistant to help with data collection at our partner museum in Philadelphia! Share with your undergraduates or post-baccs who are looking for more experience in cog dev research! Please see the attached ad for more information:
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Yale Leonard Learning Lab - Philadelphia RA Ad
Title: Philadelphia-Area-Based Research Assistant Position in the Yale Learning Lab The Leonard Learning Lab (PI: Dr. Julia Leonard) at Yale University has an opening for a research assistant to help...
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Like a parent, AI can guide or smother. It's time to think about how we build this relationship. Check out my new essay with Brett Smith
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/deve...
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Will AI Become a Helicopter Parent?
Like a parent, AI can guide or smother. It's time to think about how we build this relationship.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/developmental-diaries/202508/will-ai-become-a-helicopter-parent
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The Learning Lab is heading to CogSci 2025 (
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Wirecutter crowned Ben & Jerry’s the best vanilla ice cream. I scoffed. Our lab managers Surya and Nat ran a blind taste test. Guess what won? Ben & Jerry’s. Science is brutal.
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8 months ago
Honored to win the 2025 APS Janet Taylor Spence Award! You can read more about my research and journey here
www.psychologicalscience.org/publications...
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Member Spotlight: 2025 Spence Awardee Julia Leonard on Celebrating Children’s Progress
This Yale University researcher discusses her efforts to understand children’s approach to learning.
https://www.psychologicalscience.org/publications/observer/member-spotlight-julia-leonard.html
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New preprint! Despite ongoing efforts to combat gender bias in education, our work reveals a striking and under-explored challenge: By the time children enter elementary school, children already expect adults to hold gender stereotypes and approve when adults act on them.
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New work from the lab shows that, with scaffolding, little optimistic 4-to-6-year-olds can understand that mastery takes practice. Out now in Child Development.
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Congrats to my first PhD student Dr Flora Zhang!!!!! Make sure to check out her amazing work on intuitive theories of acquisition (and why they matter)
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Come check out the lab's research at
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✨New work from the lab!✨
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For decades, developmental psychologists have noticed that optimism declines with age. Why does this presumably good thing decrease across development? In this Nature Reviews Psych article,
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and I draw from prior hypotheses to offer an integrated account.
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