Reut Shachnai
@Reut_Shachnai
PhD student @YalePsychology studying children's motivation and social cognition; she/her
Check out our symposium on *parents' lay theories of cognitive development* at #SRCD2025! How do parents intuitively assume prejudice, ability, and number develop? Ft. work by @Reut_Shachnai and @julia_a_leonard, @domgibs, and yours truly, discussed by @andrewshtulman!
Come check out the lab's research at SRCD this week! @SRCDtweets @LeonardLearnLab
The Secret to Raising Independent Kids? Let Them Learn on Their Own A new study reveals that parents intervene significantly less in their children’s tasks when those activities are framed as learning opportunities. Researchers found that this reframing halved the number of…
It's finally out! With incredible co-authors @Mika_Asaba & Lynn Hu 🥳
Overparenting is on the rise and hurts children’s motivation starting in early childhood. How can we help parents step back? Our new paper in Child Dev shows that pointing out learning opportunities reduces overparenting. Led by amazing @Reut_Shachnai srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cd…
Our lab is hiring a part-time Philadelphia-based research assistant to help with data collection at our partner museum! This is a great opportunity for those interested in applying to jobs/programs in dev psych! For more info, see: learninglab.yale.edu/philly-app
Many objects we interact with are owned by someone, but ownership information is not always in plain sight. With @Paulbloomatyale and Julian Jara-Ettinger, we look at how people decide when ownership is transferred. Now available @PsychScience: shorturl.at/tABK4 1/7
Imagine you are about to learn a new skill, like darts🎯. Do you think you could accurately predict your learning curve? With @smickdougle and @julia_a_leonard, we find that you can! New preprint: osf.io/preprints/psya…
Our lab is hiring a part-time Philadelphia-Based Research Assistant to help with data collection at our partner museum! This is a great opportunity for those interested in applying to jobs/programs in dev psych! For more info, see: tinyurl.com/ll3raptm
👇Unequal opportunities from the start: Low-SES preschoolers spoke substantially less than their high-SES peers during whole-class discussions, and these differences were *not* accounted for by SES differences in language proficiency. 1/5
New paper out in JEP:G on inequality in preschool. We started video-recorded observations in 2017, 6 years later the paper is finally out! Thanks to my amazing co-authors @Kmil_San @AutinFred @NM_Stephens @HazelRoseMarkus JCCroizet @AndreiCimpian psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2023-…
How do we infer other people's mental processing (e.g., if they are thinking through something for the first time, or recalling an answer)? Excited to present my work at #SPP2023 in tonight's poster session. Please stop by!
Applying to graduate programs in Psychology this fall? Consider applying to our 4th annual ✨Sneak Peek✨ program! Application link: tinyurl.com/YalePsychSP23 Application deadline: June 30th, 2023 Additional details below: ⬇️ (1/4)
We are hiring a recruitment coordinator to work with the developmental labs at Yale! Info and application here: tinyurl.com/3m66kjrt
How can I help Turkey from Abroad? 1)TPF - Turkish Philanthropy Funds @tphilanthropy You can donate any kind of currency with Turkish Philanthropy Funds! PayPal payments are also possible. The $5 million pool opened has received $3.7 million and continues to receive donations.
A year ago my partner Camila (31) died by suicide while doing a PhD @Yale My @Harvard PhD advisor Emmanuel (41) died by suicide too Please share/help raise $ for @SamaritansHope to fight stigma, care for survivors & prevent suicide with phone hot-lines givengain.com/ap/martin-arag…
First grade girls are more likely to stick with a challenging science game after pretending to be Marie Curie. Could similar role-playing help us diversify STEM? bit.ly/3BX2Aic @Reut_Shachnai @YalePsychology @LinBian_ @UChicago @TamarKushnir @DukePsychNeuro @DukeBrain