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Can Young Children Understand Complex Science?
Deborah Kelemen and fellow researchers discovered that children are able to grasp complex scientific concepts like adaptation by natural selection at a younger age than previously thought. Recent...
View ArticleHow the Piloses Evolved Skinny Noses gets its BBC Radio 4 debut!
On Start the Week Andrew Marr asks whether scientists have failed in their task to communicate their work to the wider public. The 'passionate rationalist' Richard Dawkins has spent his career trying...
View ArticleHow the Piloses Evolved Skinny Noses on BBC World Service
BBC World Service Newshour ran a segment on our storybooks this week. Listen here on the BBC's site starting at 46:25, or to the clip below! /cdl/files/2017/07/BBC-WS-piloses.wav
View ArticleChild Cognition Lab Featured on BU Today!
The Child Cognition Lab's Evolving Minds Project was featured on BU Today! Read the article here.
View ArticleChild Cognition Lab Raised OVER 17K in Crowdfunding Campaign!
The Child Cognition Lab (PI: Dr. Deborah Kelemen) and Evolving Minds Project has raised $17,725 in a crowdfunding campaign to get their storybook on adaptation by natural selection into schools across...
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Samuel Ronfard in NPR!
Click here to read about the CCL's very own Dr. Samuel Ronfard's work in NPR! Kids Start To Test Surprising Claims By Early Elementary School by Tania Lombrozo "... In short, children don't just soak...
View ArticleWhy Kids Deserve Accurate COVID Information
"“Kids are often undersold, given less [information] than they deserve in terms of explanation,” says Deborah Kelemen, a Boston University College of Arts & Sciences professor of psychological and...
View ArticleRegistro de Participantes
Por favor, llene este formulario si está interesado en participar en BASS, PATH o uno de nuestros otros estudios de desarrollo infantil. child development studies, now or in the future. Nos pondremos...
View ArticleKelemen and Emmons Investigate Children’s Pre-Life Beliefs
"'There is so much secular as well as religious testimony about what it is to be a ghost,” Kelemen said. “You see it in Harry Potter films, in Disney films. Even if children aren’t being raised in...
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