Yarrow Dunham is the director of the Social Cognitive Development Lab at Yale University. 
The lab investigates how young minds master the dizzying complexity of the social world. 

Latest SCDL Publications

Publications
Parent and Self-Socialization of Gender Intergroup Attitudes, Perceptions, and Behaviors Among Ethnically and Geographically Diverse Young Children

Halim, M. L. D., Atwood, S., Osornio, A. C., Pauker, K., Dunham, Y., Olson, K. R., & Gaither, S. E. (2023). Developmental Psychology.

Identifying social partners through indirect prosociality: A computational account.

Isaac Davis, Ryan W. Carlson, Julian Jara-Ettinger, and Yarrow Dunham (2023) Cognition

Beyond Our Tribe: Developing a Normative Sense of Group-Transcendent Fairness

Fan Yang, Xin Yang, and Yarrow Dunham (2023) Developmental Psychology

People take similarity of group markers to imply similarity of group members

Pinar Aldan and Yarrow Dunham (2023) Journal of Experimental Social Psychology

How Do Explicit and Implicit Evaluations Shift? A Preregistered Meta-Analysis of the Effects of Co-Occurrence and Relational Information

Benedek Kurdi, Kirsten N. Morehouse, and Yarrow Dunham (2022) Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition

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