Social Cognitive Development Lab at Yale

Social Cognitive Development Lab at Yale

Yarrow Dunham is the director of the Social Cognitive Development Lab at Yale University.
The lab investigates how young minds master the dizzying complexity of the social world.

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Publications

Testing the generalizability of minimal group attitudes in minority and majority race children

Brenda Straka, Ashley Jordan, Alisha Osornio, May Ling Halim, Kristin Pauker, Kristina Olson, Yarrow Dunham, Sarah Gaither (2024) Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Gender attitudes and gender discrimination among ethnically and geographically diverse young children

May Ling Halim, Jessica Glazier, M. Anais Martinez, Adam Stanaland, Sarah Gaither, Yarrow Dunham, Kristin Pauker, and Kristina Olson (2024) Infant and Child Development

Children think differently from adults when reasoning about resources acquired from parents

Pinar Aldan & Yarrow Dunham (2024) Developmental Psychology

Parent and Self-Socialization of Gender Intergroup Attitudes, Perceptions, and Behaviors Among Ethnically and Geographically Diverse Young Children

Isaac Davis, Ryan W. Carlson, Julian Jara-Ettinger, and Yarrow Dunham (2023) Developmental Psychology

Identifying social partners through indirect prosociality: A computational account.

Isaac Davis, Ryan W. Carlson, Julian Jara-Ettinger, and Yarrow Dunham (2023) Cognition

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Yarrow Dunham

Congrats, Eric! Much deserved! https://t.co/0uapAVxekl
Apr 5, 2023, 4:44 PM
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Apr 4, 2023, 3:05 PM

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