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Professor in psychology in education @soebristol @bristoluni; research on toddlers' humour, creativity, pretending

Bristol, England
Joined September 2014
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Our new early deception paper received international news coverage, with 94 reports in 34 countries and 18 languages, including TV (e.g., This Morning), radio (e.g., Woman's hour), and print (e.g., Guardian, Daily Mail, Newsweek). Find all reports: babylovesscience.com/news-ar…
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We have a new paper out! We found that 25% of children are predicted to deceive by 10 months, and 50% by 17 months, doing things like playing with forbidden objects in secret, and pretending to to hear it's bed time @eloise_prouten sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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I'll be running free online training for early years educators on humour! Sign up here: beyth.co.uk/course/humour-de…
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New paper out: the Early Pretending Survey. We track pretending from 4-47 months! Thanks to the 900 parents who participated! Free to read. Please share! sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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This is literally how I play hide & seek most of the time 😆. I’m also a fan of eye spy and 20 questions.
Playing with the kids whilst trying not to move
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Parents of 1- 2- and 3-year-olds are invited to complete a survey on touchscreens and play. Parents of 0 and 1-year-olds are invited to complete a survey on their children's first actions. Tell your friends! babylovesscience.com
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Parents of 1- 2- and 3-year-olds are invited to complete a survey on touchscreens and play. Parents of 0 and 1-year-olds are invited to complete a survey on their children's first actions. Tell your friends! babylovesscience.com/
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We are looking for parents of children under 4 years to complete surveys on touchscreens and play; and on first actions. Tell your friends! babylovesscience.com/
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New paper! We developed a 10-item parent report survey for 12-47 month-olds that captures independent problem solving. @drsaraherose @ctennie sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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New paper: Humor and social cognition: Correlational and predictive relations in 3- to 47-month-olds (in press, Cognitive Development). Download article for free until Oct 18 authors.elsevier.com/a/1ffs2…
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I talked about the Early Humor Survey on TV show Ireland AM virginmediatelevision.ie/pla…
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I talk about the Early Humor Survey on Moncrieff (News Talk, Ireland) newstalk.com/podcasts/highli…
co-author Prof Gina Mireault was interviewed about the Early Humor Survey on The Times Radio! starts at 29:00 @c_l_fox thetimes.co.uk/radio/show/20…
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Today the Early Humor Survey is covered by the New York Post! nypost.com/2021/11/29/babies… @C_L_Fox
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Our study on the Early Humor Survey in The Times! (But there's a pay wall, so i don't know what it says) thetimes.co.uk/article/babie… @C_L_Fox
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Our study on the Early Humor Survey is in the Daily Mail! dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/… @C_L_Fox
New paper: The Early Humor Survey (EHS): A reliable parent-report measure of humor development for 1-to 47-month-olds. link.springer.com/content/pd… Go to Table 1 to find out when 20 different types of humour emerge! @C_L_Fox
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New paper: Language signaling high proportions and generics lead to generalizing, but not essentializing, for novel social kinds. (2021). Cognitive Science. Authors: Hoicka, Saul, Prouten, Whitehead & Sterken . onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… @JennySaul1
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