Mike Frank

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Cognitive scientist at Stanford. Open science advocate. Symbolic Systems Program director. Bluegrass picker, slow runner, dad.

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People are really good at creating conventions - new ways of talking - during dialogues. But what happens in larger groups? And what about when people can only respond using 😁?! New paper by Veronica Boyce, Robert Hawkins, Noah Goodman, and me, now out: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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I feel like social media has failed me. Somehow I didn't hear about this failure to replicate the induced compliance paradigm for cognitive dissonance: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.... - would love to hear what people closer to this research make of the finding.

A Multilab Replication of the Induced-Compliance Paradigm of Cognitive Dissonance - David C. Vaidis, Willem W. A. Sleegers, Florian van Leeuwen, Kenneth G. DeMarree, Bjørn Sætrevik, Robert M. Ross, Ka...journals.sagepub.com According to cognitive-dissonance theory, performing counterattitudinal behavior produces a state of dissonance that people are motivated to resolve, usually by...

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Some thoughts on how we can navigate questions of universality central to infant research with Dean D'Souza and @mcxfrank.bsky.social infantstudies.org/towards-a-sc...

Towards a science of both variability and consistency in infant development - The International Congress of Infant Studiesinfantstudies.org

Thinking about pros and cons of collecting data from kids online? Our meta-analysis is out today. Effects from online testing were slightly but not significantly smaller than matched in-lab effects: d = −.05 [−.17, .07]. By Aaron Chuey, Veronica Boyce, and Anjie Cao. direct.mit.edu/opmi/article...

Conducting Developmental Research Online vs. In-Person: A Meta-Analysisdirect.mit.edu Abstract. An increasing number of psychological experiments with children are being conducted using online platforms, in part due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Individual replications have compared the fi...

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If you study infant looking, check this out: "An Asynchronous, Hands-Off Workflow for Looking Time Experiments With Infants" psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202... First Author: Gal Raz. Co-Authors: Sabrina Piccolo, Janine Medrano, Shari Liu, Kirsten Lydic, Catherine Mei, Victoria Nguyen, and Shari Liu

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Introducing LEVANTE, a project for measuring children's developmental and learning variability around the world! LEVANTE provides a measurement platform with data flowing to an open repository. In August, the Jacobs Foundation will make a call for proposals to use these tools! levante-network.org

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When a replication fails, researchers have to decide whether to make another attempt or move on. How should we think about this decision? Here's a new paper trying to answer this question, led by Veronica Boyce and featuring student authors from my class! osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Our mega-analysis of infant-directed speech preference is now out at Open Mind, integrating data from a multi-lab replication (@manybabies.org) and a meta-analysis. w/ @chrismmcox.bsky.social, @chbergma.bsky.social, Maya Mathur, @mcxfrank.bsky.social + a fab team direct.mit.edu/opmi/article... 1/

Evidence for Infant-directed Speech Preference Is Consistent Across Large-scale, Multi-site Replication and Meta-analysisdirect.mit.edu Abstract. There is substantial evidence that infants prefer infant-directed speech (IDS) to adult-directed speech (ADS). The strongest evidence for this claim has come from two large-scale investigati...

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Most grateful for this warm welcome to my next academic home in the Fall! Very thankful for a fantastic 10 years at the Psychology Dept at the National University of Singapore and also incredibly excited about the next chapter at University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

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I live-tooted an excellent symposium on critical perspectives on open science yesterday, basically a bunch of smart humanists & social scientists banging on about the limits & consequences of OS]. I've found more open science folks on Mastodon, so posted there: assemblag.es/@timelfen/11...

Timothy Elfenbein (@[email protected])assemblag.es Just starting now, a symposium on critical perspectives on the metascience reform movement/ https://www.cos.io/critical-perspectives-on-the-metascience-reform-movement

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@manybabies.org is offering a lot of useful workshops. I hope others can use these that speak directly to those working with difficult-to-recruit populations and complex studies. Good for professional development and lab meeting topics.

The recording of our Project Management workshop is now available on our YouTube page (www.youtube.com/@manybabies) Thanks to @mcxfrank.bsky.social for leading a great event! Direct link to vid: youtu.be/BmGlx6acRyg?... #psychsky #openscience #devpsych #manybabies

Workshop: Project Managementyoutu.be ManyBabies Workshop: Project ManagementPresenter Michael C. Frank (Stanford University) shares tips on how to organize project materials in a way that reduce...

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Making sure everyone has read Kate Wagner’s absolutely terrific — like a genuinely all-time, Grantland, SBN-in-its-heyday, talk about it 10 years later-style joy to read — F1 article that was mysteriously removed from the Road & Track website shortly after publication web.archive.org/web/20240301...

Behind F1's Velvet Curtainweb.archive.org If you wanted to turn someone into a socialist you could do it in about an hour by taking them for a spin around the paddock of a Formula 1 race. The kind of money I saw will haunt me forever.

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This morning I was looking to catch up with the literature on mechanisms of curiosity, and it just so happened that @francescopoli.bsky.social and colleagues have a new review out in TICS. It's a lovely paper, highly recommend! www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

Curiosity and the dynamics of optimal explorationwww.cell.com What drives our curiosity remains an elusive and hotly debated issue, with multiple hypotheses proposed but a cohesive account yet to be established. This review discusses traditional and emergent the...

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Excited to share that our paper, “Parallel developmental changes in children’s production and recognition of line drawings of visual concepts” has been published in Nature Communications! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Parallel developmental changes in children’s production and recognition of line drawings of visual concepts - Nature Communicationswww.nature.com Children produce drawings prolifically throughout childhood. Here, the authors conducted a systematic study of how children create and recognize line drawings across development and suggest that chang...

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Our next workshop is coming up soon! Power Analysis March 12, 2024 | 14:00-15:30 UTC (3-4:30pm CET) on Zoom Presented by: @chrismmcox.bsky.social, Aarhus University Learn more and register now! manybabies.org/events/ #psychsky #devpsych #manybabies #academicsky

Eventsmanybabies.org >Upcoming Events #### March 12, 2024 - 14:00-15:30 UTC (3-4:30pm CET) on Zoom ### Power Analysis workshop #### Christopher Cox, *Aarhus University* In this workshop, Christopher Cox (with the support ...

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At a time when scientific misconduct is making headlines, the truth is that errors in science are largely brought to light by unpaid volunteers. I wrote about a new program that wants to shake up those incentives and pay sleuths cold, hard cash for finding mistakes. www.chronicle.com/article/want...

Wanted: Scientific Errors. Cash Reward.www.chronicle.com At a time when scientific misconduct is making headlines, a new program hopes to encourage the detection of mistakes with cold, hard cash.

Want to learn more about project management for psych experiments? Here's my take on it - resources from the webinar this morning! docs.google.com/presentation...

It's not too late to register for our virtual workshop on Project Management, which will be held tomorrow Feb. 21, 16:00-17:30 UTC! @mcxfrank.bsky.social will share tips and best practices for shepherding a project from start to finish. Details and registration link here: manybabies.org/events/

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We are pleased to launch ManyLanguages, a globally distributed network of laboratories that helps coordinating #BigTeamScience data collection for studies on human language many-languages.com 🧵1/3

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Loving this article. Learning how to employ this framework might actually improve the way I do science as much as I once naïvely hoped engaging in pre-registration and all that jazz would journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

What Is Your Estimand? Defining the Target Quantity Connects Statistical Evidence to Theory - Ian Lundberg, Rebecca Johnson, Brandon M. Stewart, 2021journals.sagepub.com We make only one point in this article. Every quantitative study must be able to answer the question: what is your estimand? The estimand is the target quantity...

Hey cognitive development folks - anyone tried having 5-8 year olds do online tasks with either mouse/trackpad responses or arrow key responses? Do you have an opinion on the issues with either? Trying to design tasks for kids on different platforms (inc. computer as well as tablet).

Stanford Symbolic Systems is looking for a lecturer for a 3-year position! We want someone who can teach undergrad courses, be part of our instructional team working on curriculum and student experience, and contribute to Stanford's COLLEGE program. App: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/27131

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Woohoo!!! So well deserved! Congrats @asifamajid.bsky.social !!

Huge congratulations to @asifamajid.bsky.social, recipient of the 2024 Jeffrey L. Elman Prize for Scientific Achievement and Community Building! This honor will be celebrated at #CogSci2024 with a prize and dedicated symposium. Visit cognitivesciencesociety.org/elman-prize/ for more.

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APS Fellow @simine.com is introducing new steps to ensure transparency, rigor, and diversity in the pages of Psychological Science.

Vazire Outlines Goals for Transparency, Diversity in <em>Psychological Science</em>www.psychologicalscience.org The new Editor-in-Chief of APS’s flagship journal plans new steps to promote continued rigor and transparency in the publication’s content.

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Another new year, another fantastic new article - this one from Elizabeth Swanson, @mcxfrank.bsky.social and Judith Degen: Syntactic adaptation and word learning in children and adults. Like every LDR article, it's free to read, free to publish! doi.org/10.34842/0ef...

Syntactic adaptation and word learning in children and adultsdoi.org Syntactic adaptation may be a key mechanism underlying children’s learning of novel words. Havron et al. (2019) exposed French-speaking children (ages 3 to 4) to a speaker biased toward using either...

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We're launching Devstart, a website to help anyone getting started with developmental science methods and programming. Here's the website with the first tutorials: tommasoghilardi.github.io/DevStart/ Please share widely! 1/4

100% my favorite article of 2024 so far: "My pet pig can't fly and I want a refund" by Michael Tarr: doi.org/10.1017/S014... Bonus: I agree with him completely!

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I am very saddened to learn of the passing of Peter Schiller. Peter was a great scientist. He took me under his wing when I started at MIT. I'll never forget him. Miss you, Peter. #neuroscience

Favorite moment of intro systems neuroscience (first course at BCS): Peter Schiller lying on a table imitating the neural firings from an anesthetized cat in the Hubel and Wiesel experiments.

I am very saddened to learn of the passing of Peter Schiller. Peter was a great scientist. He took me under his wing when I started at MIT. I'll never forget him. Miss you, Peter. #neuroscience

@posit.co hi! We have been the beneficiaries of your free shiny server pro licenses for wordbank.stanford.edu for many years. Thank you! but we haven’t heard back about a potential renewal for several weeks and now the site is down… Is there anybody we should reach out to?

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