Zoe Liberman
@zoeliberman
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Associate Professor at @UCSBpsych. Studying babies and taking baby steps towards tweeting. (she/her). https://t.co/n2IWMfIFUD
Santa Barbara, CA
Joined April 2009
Looking for a new PhD student this cycle to join the lab @UCSBpsych! Reach out if you are interested in social cognition in infancy and childhood, especially early expectations about social relationships. See our lab page https://t.co/zkZQYZM9RK for more details! 1/
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@AnnieWertz @LauraSimoneLew You are invited to our virtual open house, next Tuesday Oct 14th. I'll be there for the faculty meet and greet segment. #devpsych #phd
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My amazing colleagues @AnnieWertz @LauraSimoneLew and Brandon Woo are also recruiting! We have a fun group, do exciting research, and live in a beautiful place! App Deadline 12/1
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The Administration’s budget cuts child care, WIC and other programs for young children. Alongside the House’s “One Big Beautiful Bill,” which slashes Medicaid & SNAP, these proposals threaten support systems families rely on. Read our full statement: https://t.co/FIvUug7rlO
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Big congrats to Alex Shaw (@UChicago @UChicagoPsych) on the 2025 Faculty Award for Excellence in PhD Teaching and Mentoring! We are proud to have him as part of the @CDR_Booth community. 👏👏👏 Read more: https://t.co/6ARWWLuztJ
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🚨NEW: Science Committee Members Demand Answers from @NSF on Award Terminations and Reckless Policy Actions https://t.co/eyGf3dIxIc
democrats-science.house.gov
The House Committee on Science, Space and Technology
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Congrats to @chuyiayang on his first first-authored paper from the lab! In it, he investigates children's understanding of reputation management as a friendship cue. Check it out:
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🚨This article is finally out!
How do adopted and donor-conceicved kids reason about nature vs. nurture? They hold *reduced* genetic-essentialist beliefs relative to traditionally-conceived kids, according to our new paper (in press at Dev Psych)! I’m really proud of this one. A🧵… https://t.co/Fw1BnA7N7Y
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Help support grad students in PBS! The Development and Evolution Area is starting a fund for a graduate student award, and any small amount helps! Use the link below 🚨Check the "in honor of" box and add PBS DEVO Area to tag your donation as part of our fund🚨
Interested in making a difference in the PBS community and joining in on the #GiveDay celebrations? Click the link below to help our department continue their groundbreaking research on the mind and support the next generation of PBS scholars! https://t.co/sPZE8HAipy
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Clear & powerful piece by Princeton President Eisgruber. "the government is using grants that apply to Columbia science departments as a cudgel to force changes to a completely unrelated department that the government apparently regards as objectionable." https://t.co/XSTbwYX1BI
theatlantic.com
American universities have given the country prosperity and security. The Trump administration’s attack on academic freedom endangers all of that.
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Thanks to @TheOpEdProject and my coaches @NeilJYoung17 and @debofficially for helping this piece get out into the world
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My new piece in @thehill covers findings from collaborative work with the amazing @LizJensen18 about how racial identity claims impact trustworthiness and likability, key issues for Harris in the countdown to election day
thehill.com
Kamala Harris’s candidacy is historic: she should openly define herself as the first Indian American and Black woman to seek our nation’s highest office.
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It was so much fun getting to work with the @AC360 crew to put this project together!! @Cronkite_ASU @ASU @ASUResearch #KidsonPolitics
How are kids being affected by political polarization in America? Anderson Cooper reports.
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We are hiring!!
The Department of Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro invites applications for a tenure-track position in Developmental Psychology (Assistant Professor level), to begin August 1, 2025. https://t.co/cTi8JuaaUq.
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Check out our new paper, spearheaded by @LizJensen18
Should a biracial person identify with the race of one of their parents, or both? Children’s judgements of biracial identity claims vary based on their own race and age: https://t.co/t7XRpTJBtv
@Lizjensen18 @zoeliberman @WileyPsychology
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🚨New paper out in @SocDevJournal🚨 @zoeliberman and I ask how children and adults judge people (from both monoracial and biracial backgrounds) based on how they choose to identify: as a member of one race, or of two races. 1/6 https://t.co/tTFnbadtLQ
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Despite increasing racial diversity in the United States, and the particular growth of multiracial populations, questions about how children perceive others’ (bi)racial identities remain poorly...
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Great opportunity to be part of an awesome and growing community of cognitive development researchers @UCSBpsych
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Introducing UCLA's NEW 🧠Center for Friendship Research🧠 Science needs to pay more attention to FRIENDSHIP. So, we're doing that! The multi-faculty center will help lead the way in forwarding a science of friendship. Let's be friends!👇 https://t.co/BoREodxatQ
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Want to study how humans think about social relationships? I'm reading grad applications this cycle! More about me https://t.co/2NlWhSMH0X more about the Thomas Lab
harvardlds.org
Meet the Thomas Lab members!
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