Reut Shachnai
@Reut_Shachnai
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PhD student @YalePsychology studying children's motivation and social cognition; she/her
Joined March 2020
RT @PeretzLange: Check out our symposium on *parents' lay theories of cognitive development* at #SRCD2025! . How do parents intuitively ass….
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RT @julia_a_leonard: Come check out the lab's research at SRCD this week!.@SRCDtweets @LeonardLearnLab
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RT @NeuroscienceNew: The Secret to Raising Independent Kids? Let Them Learn on Their Own. A new study reveals that parents intervene signif….
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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 .
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RT @LeonardLearnLab: Our lab is hiring a part-time Philadelphia-based research assistant to help with data collection at our partner museum….
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RT @flora_xy_zhang: Many objects we interact with are owned by someone, but ownership information is not always in plain sight. With @Paulb….
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These findings suggest that the next time caregivers are tempted to complete a challenging task for their child, they can take a moment to appreciate all that children can learn by trying to complete the task on their own. 5/5
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We found that merely framing the dressing task as a learning opportunity – whether big or small – reduced parents’ taking over actions by nearly half and led them to provide children with more positive feedback. 4/5
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In experimental Studies 2+3, we manipulated parents’ perceptions of a non-academic task (i.e., getting dressed) as a learning opportunity, and measured parents’ taking over actions while their child put on novel hockey clothes. 3/5
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In Study 1, we found that parents of 4-5-year-olds report taking over less on tasks they view as greater learning opportunities, which is most often the case on academic tasks (e.g., tracing letters) than non-academic tasks (e.g., getting dressed). 2/5
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Persistence is crucial for kids’ development, but parents often take over & solve problems for them. What can help parents step back?.New paper w/ @Mika_Asaba, Lynn Hu, @julia_a_leonard shows pointing out learning opportunities reduces over-parenting! 1/5
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RT @flora_xy_zhang: Imagine you are about to learn a new skill, like darts🎯. Do you think you could accurately predict your learning curve?….
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RT @LeonardLearnLab: Our lab is hiring a part-time Philadelphia-Based Research Assistant to help with data collection at our partner museum….
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RT @AndreiCimpian: 👇Unequal opportunities from the start: Low-SES preschoolers spoke substantially less than their high-SES peers during wh….
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RT @MarleneBerke: How do we infer other people's mental processing (e.g., if they are thinking through something for the first time, or rec….
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RT @YalePsychDEI: Applying to graduate programs in Psychology this fall? Consider applying to our 4th annual ✨Sneak Peek✨ program!.Applicat….
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RT @julia_a_leonard: We are hiring a recruitment coordinator to work with the developmental labs at Yale! . Info and application here: http….
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RT @nesibekiris: How can I help Turkey from Abroad?. 1)TPF - Turkish Philanthropy Funds @tphilanthropy.You can donate any kind of currency….
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RT @m_aragoneses: A year ago my partner Camila (31) died by suicide while doing a PhD @Yale. My @Harvard PhD advisor Emmanuel (41) died by….
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RT @dukeresearch: First grade girls are more likely to stick with a challenging science game after pretending to be Marie Curie. Could simi….
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