Developmental Area Guest Lecture: Daniel Bernstein

The Developmental area invites you to join them for a guest lecture with Daniel Bernstein from Kwantlen Polytechnic University.
Title: Lifespan social cognition
Abstract:  Social cognition permits us to communicate and empathize through our assessment of what others know and feel. Yet, our own knowledge and feelings often limit our ability to take another’s perspective, or know how another feels. Our own knowledge can also limit our ability to recognize our own prior ignorance. These errors occur frequently in children, but also in adults. A challenge for social scientists is to develop tools and methods to study social cognition in children and adults. I will present work exploring social cognition from preschool to old age. Fusing developmental, cognitive, and learning sciences, this research can benefit researchers, teachers, students, policy makers and parents.
His talk will be followed by a joint Birch/Bernstein lab meeting (from 3-5pm) to further discuss his work as well as some related work going on in the Birch Lab.  Anyone is welcome to join in for this follow-up meeting as well.