We conduct research on how infants, toddlers, and young children (up to about 6 years) think about and participate in their social world.
Hi there- we are the Lab for Early Social Cognition! We are part of the Department of Psychology at the University of Maryland, College Park and members of the Infant and Child Studies Consortium at UMD.
11/03/2016
Interested in learning about how preschoolers and adults pay attention to social agents? Check out our graduate student Brandon Terrizzi's recently accepted paper! Read it for free on our lab web page: https://go.umd.edu/gazecueing
"Automatic cueing of covert spatial attention by a novel agent in preschoolers and adults" at
Happy Fall everyone- we are excited to bring back our page after quite a long hiatus! We can't wait to share information about some of the really cool studies we are running and we hope everyone has a safe and fun Halloween!
10/31/2016
Fun research opportunity for 26-30 month olds: Come in and help us learn how children understand social status. Your child will play games with researchers and will receive a prize! If interested, please email the lab for early social cognition at [email protected] or call at 301-405-6789 for more information!
10/31/2016
Exciting opportunity for children ages 4-6 months and 11-13 months! Come watch videos and help us learn about social objects. Please contact [email protected] or (301) 405-6789 for more information!
10/31/2016
How do children form impressions on other people through their social experiences? Help us find out with this great study opportunity for 48-60 month-olds! If interested, please email [email protected] or call 301-405-6789!
12/02/2014
We hope everyone had a fantastic Thanksgiving! We would like to announce that our new RA of the Fortnight is Sara Schankerman! Her positive attitude has really been shining through this semester. Also, happy belated birthday to our RA Mayumi Rezwan!
11/20/2014
We are ready to announce our next recipients of RA of the Fortnight: Casey Trimpin and Jody Herron. These two ladies have been on a roll with running our Social Helping study. They also have shown a strong initiative in coding data. We can't thank them enough for all of their research contributions!
11/12/2014
Happy belated birthday to our RA Ladeja!
11/03/2014
We're back from a short hiatus and ready to make some announcements.
First, is our outgoing RA of the Fortnight, Jenna! She gave a very thorough and impressive presentation on one of our dominance studies to senior members of the lab. Way to go Jenna!
Next, we are ready to announce our newest RA (or in this case, RAs) of the Fortnight: Clare and Hannah! Both have been in crucial to running our adult eye tracking studies. We can't thank them enough!
10/10/2014
The semester has been off to a great start! We've had so many amazing kids come into the lab to participate in studies. We can't thank them (and their parents) enough!
10/09/2014
We have two announcements today!
First, Chris is our new RA of the Fortnight. Chris has spent months working on photoshop stimuli and has shown consistent motivation to complete this job. Congrats to Chris!
Additionally, today is our RA Hannah's 20th birthday! A very happy birthday to her!
09/24/2014
Congratulations are in order for our newest RA of the Fortnight...Olivia Meadowcroft! She has shown positivity and engagement in all aspects of our lab activities.
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