Katherine McAuliffe
@kmcaulif1
Director of the BC Cooperation Lab (@cooperationlab) and co-director of the BC Virtue Project (@BCVirtueProject).
Beyond punishment: psychological foundations of restorative interventions Feature Review by Katherine McAuliffe (@kmcaulif1), Julia Marshall, & Abby McLaughlin Free access before Feb 15: tinyurl.com/k7sx6haz
Want to do a PhD with me at @DukeU? I'm considering applications this fall for a new graduate student! ⭐️ For more info, check out this FAQ for prospective students to learn what the lab is focusing on & what I'm looking for in a graduate student. mindandculturelab.com/faq
Very excited to announce the launch of Cooperation Island, a new research platform for measuring social decision-making in children ages 5+. Shout out to co-pilots Julia Marshall and @ShaliniRachel! Check it out at: cooperationisland.com
People avoid taking extra resources to signal cooperativeness, and others respond by cooperating with them. Conversely, people who take extra resources have difficulty finding partners, and those partners are likely to defect. From @aajbaker_, @DorsaAmir & @kmcaulif1 #SPP2024
Very cool new work from @DStibbardHawkes and colleagues. An important read for those of us doing cross-cultural work.
Excited to share a new paper led by Julia Marshall exploring TPP in an intergroup context. In this task, children could create a bespoke punishment concoction by removing positive resources and/or adding negative resources. srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cd…
Our new paper is out now in JECP: Among 6-8 year old American kids, recalling experiences of scarcity reduces generosity (as compared to recalling abundance). Even at a young age, subjective views of resource access have behavioral consequences. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Some thoughts on how sampling decisions shape inferences about age-related changes in developmental psychology:
Sampling decisions in developmental psychology Comment by Katherine McAuliffe (@kmcaulif1) go.nature.com/3TJHLQl
So exciting!!! Congratulations! 🎉 Cannot wait to follow all the cool work your lab will be doing.
Folks, I’ve got news. Good news. The best news. This summer, I’ll be joining the faculty of @DukeU as an Assistant Professor of Psychology! 🎉 Could not be more excited to be a part of the @DukePsychNeuro community and make Durham our new home.
I was so sad to learn that Frans de Waal has died. He put so many bold ideas out there and influenced the careers of countless scholars across biology, anthropology and psychology. Here's a lovely piece that Emory produced: news.emory.edu/features/2024/…
Friends going to CDS - hope you can check out presentations by all these great people!

So great to see this paper out. As ever, was a joy to collaborate with @LaurentPretot
🥳🤩Thrilled to announce the publication of our newest study on the impact of group membership on children's cooperative behavior in a f2f version of the prisoner's dilemma! Read/download for free here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1iXj551Y-Pu7f. With @kmcaulif1 @cooperationlab @bc_psychneuro 🌟🙌
Can anyone recommend a resource that could be a primer / tutorial for running DDMs in R?
Was really fun doing this interview. Thanks Annie Brookman-Byrne and @BOLD_insights!
“Across societies, children are equipped with some of the key ingredients for thriving cooperative societies.” @kmcaulif1 talks with Annie Brookman-Byrne about children’s striking responses to injustice, and cooperation in both her research and work life. bold.expert/the-developmen…
Did a PubMed word cloud and learned that I apparently love the word whether

Just 2 weeks to apply! Seeking a postdoctoral researcher @qubpsych and to join the greater @DevBelief network 📈Answer BIG questions in developmental science on religious and social cognition w longitudinal & cross-cultural data shorturl.at/agF04📷Please share📢
Check out our new paper @NatComms on the non-independence of nations in cross-national analyses...
“Across societies, children are equipped with some of the key ingredients for thriving cooperative societies.” @kmcaulif1 talks with Annie Brookman-Byrne about children’s striking responses to injustice, and cooperation in both her research and work life. bold.expert/the-developmen…
Have you been lying awake at night wondering whether cleaner fish consider their partners' outside options when punishing cheating? If so, have I got a paper for you. (Led by @DeutchmanPaul, link here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…)
I have flex in my funding to hire a postdoc and a full-time lab manager to start AY 2024-2025. I'm not sure if/when I'll make a formal job posting (it's complicated). If you or someone you know is potentially interested, please reach out via email for info!
are you an early career researcher (late PhD student or postdoc) studying consciousness? do you like to talk about consciousness science *while floating around a pool in Mexico*? and meeting brilliant new consciousness science friends from around the world? apply to this!
If you are a post-doc or senior graduate student interested in the neuroscience of consciousness, then this December Winter School in Cancun is unbeatable. We welcome participants from anywhere in the world and your expenses will be covered by @CIFAR_News and @TempletonWorld.