🚨 Preprint alert! 👶🧠🌊 "The Emergence of a Distinction between Things and Stuff" osf.io/preprints/ps... So excited to share my first infant study, with the wonderful Sanghee Song and Liz Spelke.🎉 Do babies expect sand to behave differently from solid objects? 🧵1/5

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Thus, cohesion expectations seem to develop along different trajectories for Things and Stuff. 5/5 Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... Stimuli, data and code are publicly available: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

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Both age groups looked longer when a solid object split, showing robust cohesion expectations. For sand, there was no difference: infants didn't extend object expectations to stuff, but showed no stuff-specific expectations either. 4/5

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Yesterday, I submitted the final manuscript for Respectability Politics to the University of Chicago Press. Excited for this next phase and proud of the hard work that’s gone into this book. Endlessly grateful for all the support and assistance I’ve had throughout this process. Happy Pride! 🌈

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I loved this. It reminded me of @shariliu.bsky.social's research on how people think about minds and bodies.

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