"The #development and predictors of a preference for strivers over naturals in the United States and China," by @XinYang_Kate and @yarrowdunham from @Yale, @XinZhao1 (@ECNUER), and @LinBian_ (@UChicago) in #ChildDevelopment Journal (2023):

Starting at age 7, children in both the US and China preferred strivers (those who work hard) over naturals (those who are smart). This preference was stronger in children who believed that strivers would be more successful in the future & that people could choose to work hard.

New paper alert 👉 After ~5 years, my fun side project with @XinZhao1 @yarrowdunham and @LinBian_ is finally accepted at Child Development! Interested in children's preference for naturals vs. strivers & what predicted this preference? Check out our work! https://t.co/hadc5d5GW2

Today I learned that @Columbia will not be promoting me or putting me up for tenure. I have multiple active grants (including an R01 and a CAREER award) plenty of publications, a teaching award, and a history of DEI advocacy. Open to all opportunities in and out of academia.

How much do we value treating ingroups and outgroups equally? We found young children prioritize families over strangers, but by age 8 they begin to endorse equal allocations, showing a sense of "group-transcendent fairness". @XinYang_Kate @yarrowdunham https://t.co/rpboVBOHa4

Lots of lab research this week at @SRCDtweets, come check us out! Work led by @XinYang_Kate, @emg3r, @pinar_aldan, and Sifana Sohail!

It has been a great honor to grow with Alice (Xin Zhao) over the years, chatting about fun ideas & sharing hotel/Airbnb rooms during conferences & much more. I'm so excited to see this new exciting paper out from her very young lab in China!! Can't wait to see many more!!!

Where do these beliefs come from? And how do they influence children's actual behaviors in the face of obstacles and setbacks? Many interesting questions we can continue to ask...

Children increasingly realize that individuals can work hard to overcome both internal (lack of talent) and external (lack of resources) constraints, and they evaluate them more positively than those that achieve the same level of success without having to overcome constraints.

First collaboration with Dr. Zhao @XinZhao1! In this paper (accepted at Developmental Psychology), we explored Chinese children's beliefs of and reasoning about constraints (concerning smartness or educational resources) in the context of academic success.

Planning to run a study where each lab runs ~100 local participants (not MTurk). To run the study online, we want an easy way to do the payments. Payments are shown on the last page (like $0.53, $1.78) but we do not know the amount beforehand (so we can't use gift cards?) 2/2

Hi #AcademicTwitter! Wondering if anyone has any info on how to pay online participants a customized amount of money (depending on their responses) in a convenient way (e.g., doesn't require researchers to contact each participant or participants signing up for any account)? 1/2

“People stay poor because they lack opportunity. It is not their intrinsic characteristics that trap people in poverty but rather their circumstances.” A large-scale study in Bangladesh shows passing a threshold of assets allows families to escape poverty. https://t.co/GjO5FAlqDt

UPDATE—DISSERTATION SENT TO COMMITTEE!!!

Apparently every piece of writing needs to be revised (I meant to write “more fun than”…

PhD milestone X: Today I finished the first full draft of my dissertation!!! Writing the overall intro and concluding chapters on how I see my own work turned out to be more fun that I expected :) #PhD #phdlife #phdjourney #AcademicTwitter

Is the randomly-assigned, unfamiliar, presumably meaningless identity really "minimal"? These data (along with other papers from us and others) speak to the possibility that our sense of groups is rather abstract (our central tendency to divide the world into us vs them). (3/3)

In 3 studies with 4- to 7-year-olds, we (@FanYangUChicago Cai Guo @yarrowdunham) pitted the minimal group directly against gender or race, and found that the minimal group either has a similar or stronger effect as compared to race and (sometimes even) gender. (2/3)

New paper alert! After 8+ years, this paper on minimal group vs. race & gender effects is finally out! Open-access paper here (special issue in Acta Psychologica): https://t.co/SWpo6xBRNy. Many thanks to the editor and reviewers--it was a great intellectual experience! (1/3)

The other three talks in our symposium (on power, social status, and inequality) are so cool!! Can't wait to hear from our chair @Megan_Norris343, from @tmandalaywala and from Andrea Yuly-Youngblood!