Congrats to my undergrad RA, Zihan Tang, for presenting work at the University of Toronto's Research Opportunities Program poster fair 🎉 Across two adult studies, we show that the end of history illusion transcends self-perception and extends across generational time⏰

We find that people think their values & personalities are distinct from their parents (accepting past generational change) yet similar to their children (resisting future generational change). Next, we hope to explore the mechanisms behind the asymmetrical perceptions of change!

Across 2 studies, we explored whether there is a "generational end of history illusion", in which adults would report more similarity to their children than to their parents. 👶 > 👩‍🦰 > 👵 2/3🧵

A few weeks ago, I presented a poster at the Society for Philosophy & Psychology at Cornell University on my work titled, "Unlike Father, Like Son: The End of History Illusion Across Generations." #SPP2025 1/3🧵

Do you think your values or personality are different from your parents? What about your kids? What do these perceptions say about how we view the future? Find out at my poster today in booth 50! And hear more from the @starlabuoft at the poster session tomorrow ⭐ #SPP2025

Talk to @FeceOzkan after her Reasoning talk session at 130pm, @k_h_blakey @normanjzeng & I during our posters today at 6pm to hear about our epic journey to Ithaca! (and learn about our research too!)

UofT psych gets to #SPP2025: Public transit down, first car rental broke down 700m after leaving, endured flash floods in upstate NY. We finally made it (11 hours later!)

Excited to be organizing this symposium with my supervisor Samuel Ronfard's support!😊Check out our session at #SRCD2025, Friday, 11:30 am, and hear from @joshuaconfer, @FeistyScientist, and @lucaspbutler! @JanEngelmann5

I will probably stick around here, but you can also find me over here! 🦋 Happy to connect!

For those at #ACT2024 join me today at 4:30PM in Salon 9 to hear more about the research I've done with @uoftpsycomm! "Building Endurance to SPRINT: A Longitudinal Assessment of High School Student Outcomes After Participating in a Summer Psychology Outreach Program." @TeachPsych

Are you a graduate student or early career researcher attending STP's Annual Conference on Teaching in Louisville, KY? If yes, be sure to check out some fun events! @TeachPsych @gsta_stp @STP_ECP #ACT2024

If you're interested in learning more about SPRINT, you can check out our website: https://t.co/cR6gOVxp5P Call for high school applications typically open in April/ May. And we are always looking for more volunteers!

I'm ecstatic that SPRINT has been awarded additional funding for the next 2 years to keep the program running 🙌 and in October, we will present longitudinal data gathered from the 2023 SPRINT cohort at ACT @TeachPsych! I'm continually grateful to see the program grow .🧵3/3

During the program, I mentored 5 amazing high school students (Ashmeet, Ayesha, Hemen, Leena, & Tazkia) who, in only 2 weeks, developed a novel research proposal investigating how children think about intent when there’s evidence or no evidence.🧵2/3

Last week, we wrapped up our 4th year running the Summer Psychology Research Initiative (SPRINT) at @UofT! This year 54 high school students from across Ontario participated in the program. We are so grateful for the help of the 47 undergrad, grad, & postdoc volunteers.🙏❤️ 🧵1/3

Excited that the latest work from my lab, led by @alexa_sacchi, with @jessicasah99 & Melissa Finlay, is out today! We found that children aged 4-11 show the "end of history illusion" for themselves, but a "beginning of history illusion" for others. 1/x https://t.co/DLDe4cMelA

Our findings suggest that children ages 4-11 show the end of history illusion for themselves, but not for others. As our title alludes, we've found that children believe they will be forever young. Many thanks to @socphilpsych, the @starlabuoft team, & my RA, Jessica Sah 3/3 🧵

When thinking about other same-age peers, children report others will change more in the future than they have changed in the past. This showed an opposite illusion, in which older children believe others have changed even *less* in the past than younger children do. 2/3 🧵

Very grateful to present this work with @chris_starmans at #SPP2024!⭐️Across 3 studies we find that kids show the end of history illusion, reporting their preferences have changed in the past but will remain the same in the future. BUT another illusion emerged for others 👀1/3 🧵

I'm excited to present our work with @SamuelRonfard on children's reasoning about evaluative information! Come and listen to my talk in Cognitive Development II, Sunday 2.30 pm, room Mandarin A 😊 #JeanPiagetSociety #JPS2024