[CogSci] Graduate Study in Developmental Psychology at UC Berkeley

[Emily Chau]

Dear colleagues,



The Ph.D. program in Developmental Psychology
<https://psychology.berkeley.edu/research/developmental> at UC
Berkeley’s Department
of Psychology <https://psychology.berkeley.edu/> is now accepting
applications for Fall of 2024. Graduate students receive comprehensive
training in developmental science and research, and participate in a
vibrant, interdisciplinary community. Our core faculty bring expertise in
areas and methods including developmental cognitive neuroscience, cognitive
development, language learning, social cognitive development, comparative
psychology, cultural psychology, computational modeling, and artificial
intelligence. Our area also maintains collaborations with all other areas
in the department and with the Institute for Human Development
<http://ihd.berkeley.edu/>, which advances an integrative developmental
science bridging psychology, education, public health, and more. Area
faculty and graduate students also interact with scholars across campus
through the Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences
<https://icbs.berkeley.edu/>, which supports research exploring the study
of the mind and the biological basis of behavior and mental function.



We are strongly committed to equity and inclusion within the Department of
Psychology and at UC Berkeley more broadly. Accordingly, we are
particularly interested in candidates who have overcome significant
hardships in their pursuit of higher education, who understand the barriers
faced by others, and who are committed to advancing diversity, equity and
inclusion in their service and research.



The following faculty are currently recruiting prospective graduate
students into their labs for Fall of 2024:



— Dr. Jan Engelmann (Social Origins Lab
<https://socialorigins.berkeley.edu/>), whose current research focuses on
cooperation, morality, and reasoning in human children from different
cultural backgrounds and one of our closest living relatives, chimpanzees.

— Dr. Celeste Kidd (Kidd Lab <https://www.kiddlab.com/>), who studies the
processes involved in learning and belief formation, starting in infancy,
using a combination of computational and behavioral methods. The lab is one
of few in the world that combine technologically sophisticated behavioral
experiments with computational models in order to broadly understand
knowledge acquisition. The Kidd Lab employs a range of methods, including
eye-tracking and touchscreen testing with human infants, in order to show
how learners sample information from their environment and build knowledge
gradually over time.



— Dr. Mahesh Srinivasan (Language and Cognitive Development Lab
<https://lcdlab.berkeley.edu/>), whose current research focuses on word
learning, semantic and pragmatic development, sociolinguistic development,
normative reasoning, moral and religious cognition, cross-cultural
comparisons, and effects of poverty and inequality on parenting and child
development.

— Dr. Fei Xu (Berkeley Early Learning Lab <http://babylab.berkeley.edu/>),
whose current research focuses on probabilistic reasoning in infants and
children; reasoning about possibility, probability and modal concepts;
compositionality in language and non-linguistic domains; social group
reasoning and belief revision; social contingency and early word learning;
play and learning, and computational models of hypothesis generation and
belief revision in the physical and social domains.

— Dr. Arianne Eason <https://psychology.berkeley.edu/people/arianne-eason> (UC
DREAMS Lab), whose current research investigates prejudice, bias,
intergroup relations, social cognitive development, culture, attitudes,
stereotyping, discrimination, omission, media representation, identity,
socialization, the experiences of marginalized groups, and how social and
cultural contexts shape attitudes and behavior as well as reinforce
inequality.



Students interested in working with one or more of these faculty are
encouraged to apply. For more information and recent papers, please visit
the respective lab web pages and feel free to contact the corresponding
faculty members. Interested applicants should apply through the Department
of Psychology
<https://psychology.berkeley.edu/students/graduate-program/admission>. The
deadline for receiving applications is December 4th by 8:59 PM PST.

-- 
*Emily Chau *
LCD Lab Manager
UC Berkeley
https://lcdlab.berkeley.edu/
*she/her/hers*
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