Welcome to the Social Cognitive Development Lab

Welcome to the Social Cognitive Development Lab!

Our lab, led by Dr. Gail Heyman, asks questions such as: 

How do children learn from others? 

What affects children’s social behavior? 

How does the ability to reason about others' social behaviors develop?

How can we navigate the use of AI in education?

To answer these questions, we work with children and adolescents (ages 4 to 18). We also collaborate with students and instructors in universities across California to understand how they reason about and use AI tools, as well as to evaluate those tools in classroom settings.

Interested in participating in our research? Please click here to learn more!

Interested in working with us as undergraduate research assistants? Please click here to learn more!