Poster submissions for CDS2026 are now open! Submit your work for consideration at CDS 2026 in Montreal, Canada. Submissions are due by January 8, 2026. For more information, please view our website: cogdevsoc.org/submissions/

📣📣 A recent paper by Léa Tân Combette et al. in JCD: "Cats, Bats, and People: Cultivating Children’s Understanding of Genes and Trait Inheritance" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣📣 A recent paper by Aryn M. Vaughan & Sammy Perone in JCD: "Higher Fearfulness in 4- to 6-Year-Old Children Related to Better Performance on an Emotional Than Neutral Stroop Task" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A recent paper by Jessica A. Stern et al. in JCD: "Environmental Moral Cognition in Children and Adults: Journal of Cognition and Development" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @drmeltemyucel.bsky.social

📣📣 A recent paper by Katharina Kaletsch & Ulf Liszkowski: A Training Targeting Caregivers’ Responsiveness Promotes Index-Finger Pointing in 12-Month-Old Infants www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣📣 A recent paper by Marc Yangüez et al. in JCD: "Development and Differentiation of Executive Function Structure" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣📣 Check out the paper by Serena Lecce et al. in JCD: "Do Conversations and Mental States Independently Influence Theory of Mind Development in Primary School Children?" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣📣 Check out a recent work by Emily E. Stonehouse et al. in JCD: "Familiar Magic Helps Children See That Fantastical Events Can Happen in Stories" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... orifriedman.bsky.social

📣📣A recent work by Sydney Rossiter et al. in JCD: Does Pretending Optimize Young Children’s Future-Oriented Decision-Making? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣📣 A recent paper by Lesenia R. Fish & Arber Tasimi at JCD: Planting the Seeds of Sustainability: The Promise of Dynamic Norms www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣📣 A recent paper by Hawes et al. at JCD: How Language Influences Thought: The Case of Multiplying Fractions ‪@zackhawes.bsky.social‬ ‪@hannahwhitehead.bsky.social‬ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣📣 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....

📣📣 A recent paper by Hande Ilgaz et al. in JCD: "More Than Words: Maternal Mental State Talk as a Form of Dynamic Scaffolding Supporting Theory of Mind" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣📣 A recent article by Lizette Pizza & Roberto Posada in JCD: How Human Exceptionalist Assumptions Impact Environmental Attitudes in Low Socioeconomic Urban Communities in Colombia @lizettepizza.bsky.social‬ www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣📣 A recent article by Tal Waltzer et al.: “What is Climate Change and What Can I Do About It?” A Survey and Educational Intervention with 10- to 13-Year-Olds www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣📣 Check out a recent article published in JCD by Shaocong Ma & Paul L. Harris “Has the Climate Changed?”: How Education Shapes Beliefs in Emerging Scientific Phenomena www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣📣 A recent paper by Haley Weaver & Jenny Saffran: Object Functions and Words Reexamined: Toddlers’ Recognition of Function Depends on Object Type www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @jennysaffran.bsky.social

📣📣 In a recent paper in JCD, Narae Ju et al. found that feedback improves 5-year-olds’ communicative perspective-taking. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣📣 A recent paper by Mary C. Wagner et al. in JCD: Associations Between Young Children’s Flexible Attention to Numerical and Spatial Magnitudes and Early Math Skills www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣📣 A recent paper by Nicholas A. Vest and colleagues: Does Focusing on the Unit of Change Help Children Learn Growing Pattern Skills? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @nicholasvest.bsky.social @marthaalibali.bsky.social

📣📣 A recent paper by Nicole J. Stucke & Sabine Doebel in JCD: Will it Sink or Float? No Gender Differences in Five- to Seven-Year-Old Children’s Persistence on a Science Task www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣📣 A recent paper in JCD: "Longitudinal Mediated Relations Between Screen Time and School Adjustment Through Executive Function Difficulties" by Juyoung Kim & Monica Tsethlikai www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣📣 A recent paper by Scott A. Adler & Thomas J. Baker in JCD: Spatial Uncertainty and Information Processing Speed in Infants and Adults: Age Differences in Saccadic Reaction Time Sensitivity www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣📣 A recent paper by Dilay Karadöller, Ece Demir-Lira, & Tilbe Göksun: Full-Term Children with Lower Vocabulary Scores Receive More Multimodal Math Input Than Preterm Children www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @dilaykaradoller.bsky.social @ecedemirlira.bsky.social @tilbegoksun.bsky.social

📣📣 A recent paper by Jorge Cuartas et al. in JCD: "Climate Change, Families, and Human Development: Review of the Evidence" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @jorgecuartas.bsky.social

📣📣 A recent paper by Maria M. Arredondo and colleagues in JCD: The Role of Dialect, Gender, and Race in Children’s Friendship Choices: Evidence from Mexican Monolinguals and Mexican-American Bilinguals www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣📣 A recent paper in JCD on "Understanding Language Beliefs and Practices Among Caregivers in the Deep South to Inform Culturally Responsive Interventions" by Julie M. Schneider & Maria Maldonado www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣📣 Check out this commentary by Vikram Jaswal et al.: "The Future of Cognitive Development in Challenging Times" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣📣 A recent paper by Ebru Ger, Paul Ibbotson & Tilbe Göksun on "The Relationship Between Cognitive and Morphological Skills: Evidence from Turkish Kindergarten Children." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @tilbegoksun.bsky.social

📣📣 Check out the special issue on "Delay of gratification: What have we learned after more than 50 years?" co-edited by Ulrich Mueller & Caitlin Mahy: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu... Interested researchers can submit a 1000-word abstract by May 31, 2025.

📣📣 A recent article in JCD by Annette Sundqvist et al.: "Beyond Words and Time: Investigating the Association Between Screen Use, Vocabulary and Grammar Development in Five-Year-Olds" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣📣 A recent paper in JCD by Sangmi Park & Alena G. Esposito: Knowledge Organization of Discretized Non-Symbolic Fraction and Mathematics Achievement www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣📣 A registered report by Pearce & Miller showed the significance of considering motor and cognitive factors in early childhood EF development. "Weighing Down Thought: The Effect of Motor Disruption in Executive Function Tasks among Three-Year-Old Children" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣📣 A recent paper by Cahoon et al. in JCD: The Cognitive and Numerical Predictors of Early Mathematical Achievement: A Latent Growth Curve Analysis www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... @profvicsimms.bsky.social

📣📣 In a recent paper Hongyang Zhao and colleagues examined individual differences in attention to analogical relations in children from the US and showed that relational attention is a key mechanism for learning. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣📣 A recent paper in JDC by Steven Stelz & Mareike Altgassen: Prospective and Retrospective Metacognitive Judgments of Prospective Memory Performance Across the Lifespan www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Are you a lab manager/RA, undergraduate or graduate student, post doc or junior faculty involved in Cognitive Development? You can apply to the CDS Mentorship Program. Make sure you apply by March 31. cogdevsoc.org/cds-me...

📣📣 A recent paper in JCD: Yanwen Wu showed an association between counterfactual reasoning and working memory in Chinese preschool children www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣📣 A recent paper by Jonet Artis and colleagues at JCD: "Personal Pronoun Comprehension in Addressed and Non-Addressed Situations in Autistic and Nonautistic Preschoolers" www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣📣 A recent paper in JCD "Children Infer Intentions by Assessing Epistemic Attitudes in Interpersonal Interactions." Nina Ni Ye & Xiao Pan Ding showed that children pay attention to interpersonal interactions when making trustworthiness judgments www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The CDS Mentorship Program is open to all regardless of whether or not they are a member of CDS. There are no restrictions on where mentees are geographically located or the institution where they are based. Apply by March 31. cogdevsoc.org/cds-me...

📣📣 A recently published registered report in JCD by Samuel Essler, Johannes Bullinger, & Markus Paulus: "The Development of Redistributive Justice in Response to Individually and Structurally Based Inequalities" @johannesbullinger.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

CDS Mentorship Program now accepting mentee applications. The program pairs mentees (e.g., RAs, students, postdocs, early career faculty) with CDS members to provide mentees with insights, guidance & advice on topics of interest to those mentees. Application: March 31 cogdevsoc.org/cds-me...

📣📣 A recent study published in JCD by Naoko Nakamichi found that 4-5-year-old children remember foods disliked by others better than foods liked by others! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Participate in the CDS Mentorship Program as a mentee, mentor or both! Mentees at the graduate student, postdoc, and faculty level are also encouraged to serve as mentors for more junior mentees. Application deadline: March 31 cogdevsoc.org/cds-me...

📣📣 A recent article in JCD by Weijia Li et al.: Spatial Perspective Taking in Non-Autistic Children and Autistic Children: Do Social Processes Benefit or Obstruct?https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15248372.2024.2421220

📣📣 Check out a recent article on "Theory of Mind Development in Middle Childhood and Adolescence" by Qiuyi Kong and colleagues in JCD! Both ToM accuracy and preference for mental state reasoning continue to develop from middle childhood to adulthood. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣📣 A recent article in the Journal of Cognition Development! How Often Do Verbs Co-occur with Relevant Events? Examining Parent and Toddler Speech in Latin America and the US by Priscilla Tovar-Perez et al. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣📣 A recent article in the Journal of Cognition Development! Emily Foster Hanson, Katherine M. Ziska & Marjorie Rhodes found that common conceptual biases from cultural input may shape U.S. children’s idealized biological prototypes @marjorierhodes.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

📣📣 Check out a recent article published in the Journal of Cognition Development by Jessica N. Steil & Claudia K. Friedrich! 2-year-olds link nouns to typical space (e.g., moon to an upward space), showing early language-space associations! #language #space www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....