We study how children construct a commonsense understanding of the physical and social world. Current lab members are especially interested in how children generate new ideas and choose which problems are worth working on. Research in the lab often addresses 1) how children figure out cause-and-effect relations so that they can predict, explain, and themselves cause things to happen; 2) influences on curiosity and exploration; and 3) how these abilities interact with social cognition to help children understand themselves and other people.
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