Featured on UVA Today: By First Grade, Children Begin To Perceive Collective Punishment as Unfair November 25, 2024 Recent research from our lab, led by undergraduate Sarah Thomas, was featured on UVA Today! You can find the story here. Read More Featured on UVA Today: By First Grade, Children Begin To Perceive Collective Punishment as Unfair
Recent ESDL graduate Dr. Meltem Yucel (now at Duke University) has received the SPSP/SAGE Emerging Scholar Award! October 19, 2023
Former ESDL graduates' work is recognized in the UVA today! June 23, 2023 Dr. Vaish is interviewed for the UVA today: Children as Young as 5 are Quite Discerning When it Comes to Cheaters!!
Professor Vaish received a 2021 Max Planck Institute Sabbatical Award. The award supports scientists by offering a research stay at one of the Max Planck Institutes as well as flexible research funding over a 2-year period. September 06, 2022
Dr. Stern's study on emotionally perceptive mothers being more sensitive parents was covered in UVA today! July 25, 2022
Former Graduate Student Dr. Meltem Yucel (now a postdoc at Duke) received the Society for Affective Science’s 2022 Best Dissertation in Affective Science Award! April 12, 2022
Graduate student Johanna Chajes and undergraduate Hailey Costello were awarded a Double Hoo award for their project "The effect of time pressure on children's fairness behavior and executive function". March 14, 2022
Graduate Student Johanna Chajes was chosen as one of the eight winners of this year's APS Student Grant Competition and will get $500 for her research on intuitive cooperation and executive function. March 22, 2021
Graduate student Meltem Yucel was elected as a Student and Early Career Council Representative to the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD). March 15, 2021