Large language models show remarkable capacities, but it is unclear what abstractions
support their behaviour. Methods from developmental psychology can help researchers to …

For over 35 years, the violation-of-expectation paradigm has been used to study the
development of expectations in the first 3 years of life. A wide range of expectations has …

Infant research is often underpowered, undermining the robustness and replicability of our
findings. Improving the reliability of infant studies offers a solution for increasing statistical …

Online data collection methods are expanding the ease and access of developmental
research for researchers and participants alike. While its popularity among developmental …

Human infants are fascinated by other people. They bring to this fascination a constellation
of rich and flexible expectations about the intentions motivating people's actions. Here we …

The violation‐of‐expectation method has been used in thousands of studies examining the
breadth and depth of preverbal infants' knowledge and cognitive capacities. In this …

Interactions with peers are fundamental to socio‐cognitive development, but assessing peer
interactions in standardized experiments is challenging. Therefore, researchers commonly …

A friend telling you good news earns them a smile while witnessing a rival win an award
may make you wrinkle your nose. Emotions arise not just from people's own circumstances …

This study investigates the structure of social hierarchies. We hypothesized that if social
dominance relations serve to regulate conflicts over resources, then hierarchies should …

Meta-analytic evidence indicates that the quality of the attachment relationship that infants
establish with their primary caregiver has enduring significance for socioemotional and …