Sabine

I teach an undergrad cognitive psychology class. I've been thinking about assembling useful teaching resources (demos, videos, etc.) from other cogpsy instructors & sharing them in a single place. If there's enough interest here, I'll make a separate post & ask you to share your favorite materials.

2025 - CHS (ICIS Webinar) Conducting developmental studies online with Children Helping Science Melissa Kline Struhl ICIS Webinar 05/29/2025 1 1 Children Helping Science

Just had the chance to present on an @infantstudies.bsky.social panel about inexpensive methods for data collection with children - if you're curious about how Children Helping Science works/the kinds of studies you can run, this slide deck is a good place to start!

docs.google.com/presentation...

Will it Sink or Float? No Gender Differences in Five- to Seven-Year-Old Children’s Persistence on a Science Task Recent studies suggest that girls as young as 4 years of age in the US are affected by negative gender-science stereotypes and persist less than boys on science tasks. However to date, no studies h...

Looking for something to read other than the news? New from my lab, led by the inimitable @nicolestucke, no gender differences on a 'sink or float' science persistence task, but accuracy and enjoyment predicted persistence. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Teaching of Psychological Science The APS Teaching Institute program offers informative talks and practical advice from experts on the teaching of psychology.

Session 1 at 10am, May 22:
"Beyond the Lab: Rethinking How We Teach Developmental Science"

Session 2 at 2:45pm:
"Show Don’t Tell: Using Video to Diversify Teaching About Child Development"

Full schedule here: www.psychologicalscience.org/conventions/...

Application for small $ award to attend developmental science sessions at APS Teaching Institute Please fill in this form by April 4th if you are interested in attending the sessions on teaching developmental science and in being considered for a small financial award of $100 to $500 that would g...

Thinking of attending the APS Teaching Institute
@psychscience.bsky.social's annual convention
this May in DC?

We're holding two sessions on teaching developmental science! w/ @databrary.

Apply for a $$ award to offset registration fees!: forms.gle/RekBicCLw85Q...

Special Issue at Developmental Psychology!

New Approaches to Understanding How Early Experience Shapes Executive Function and Self-Regulation Skills

Guest Editors: Sabine Doebel, Dana Miller-Cotto, and Jennifer McDermott
@sabinedoebel.bsky.social @damcotto.bsky.social

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Occupational Prestige: The Status Component of Socioeconomic Status The relationship between life outcomes and an individual’s standing in the social and economic hierarchy of society is an important topic across the social sciences. Foundational to this work is asses...

Occupational prestige is a core component of SES. But it is often overlooked in research because it is hard to measure. We wanted to fix that. This new pub presents an easy to use index, validity evidence, and analyses of what makes a job get seen as prestigious online.ucpress.edu/collabra/art...

Thanks, Lou! We are using RVE but when the random effects structure is too complex, we lose a lot of degrees of freedom. So we're contemplating a simpler working model implemented via robumeta and perhaps reporting both.

[2/2] Thinking of also modeling using robumeta's robu() & reporting both. If anyone knows of any papers that explore these issues (tradeoffs in explicitly modeling such hierarchy) please send.

[1/2] Meta-analysis methods q! Have ESs nested w/in samples w/in studies. Specifying model as 3-level using metafor's rma.mv. But worried about trade off in dfs and whether it's worth it. It's not totally obvious that there is variance due to study & some studies contribute >1 samples but not many.

Great paper; I hope it helps the field adopt--and adhere to--better standards!

Going forward I plan to be very deliberate about this, keeping in mind every abstract could be used in meta-science or meta-analytic projects.

Hot take: sharing your data should not be optional in 2023. Collect and store your data assuming you at some point be asked to share it (e.g., for a meta-analysis).

Working on a meta-analysis on a topic in dev psych and stunned at how many abstracts include no demographic information. Not even any indication of age of the sample, beyond "children"...

Hi Pam! Not sure what part you are commenting on, but we aren't suggesting dev sci should stick to the status quo (or that we should inappropriately generalize). Happy to chat re: your thoughts on the paper (offline bc this forum isn't conducive to nuanced discussion, hence me not writing a thread).

Many thanks to @lehersingh.bsky.social
for including our perspective in her upcoming special issue in the Journal of Cognition and Development! Formatted version is here (seems to be free for the moment): www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New paper! Convenience samples have a bad rap. What role, if any, should they have in developmental research?
@mcxfrank.bsky.social & I argue they can--under some conditions--help achieve key goals of the field: advancing theory & reducing bias. How? Read the paper!: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Thanks for this!

Even if it's only 1/10 of the sample or less that shows this dependence?

Any suggestions re: how to model dependence in data (siblings)? Want to avoid throwing data out & would be great to test siblings. I learned to not test siblings because doing so violated assumption of independence but...it's 2023, is there no way to just model that dependence or is it not worth it?