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Educating future leaders to engage the challenges of a changing world: A blended-learning approach to character and leadership education at the University of Hong Kong (2024)
Journal Article
Brooks, E., Tse, S., Wright, J. Y., & Burdett, E. (2024). Educating future leaders to engage the challenges of a changing world: A blended-learning approach to character and leadership education at the University of Hong Kong. Tertiary Education and Management, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11233-024-09138-1

How can a new generation of students be equipped to take up positions of responsibility in a dynamic global environment, serving as leaders and citizens who will further the good of societies around the world? As the institutions responsible for educ... Read More about Educating future leaders to engage the challenges of a changing world: A blended-learning approach to character and leadership education at the University of Hong Kong.

The cultural construction of “executive function” (2024)
Preprint / Working Paper
Kroupin, I., Davis, H. E., Burdett, E., Cuata, A. B., Hartley, V., & Henrich, J. The cultural construction of “executive function”

In theory, the term "executive function" (EF) refers to universal features of the mind. Yet, almost all results described as measuring "EF" may actually reflect culturally-specific cognitive capacities. After all, typical EF measures require forms of... Read More about The cultural construction of “executive function”.

The development and diversity of religious cognition and behavior: Protocol for Wave 1 data collection with children and parents by the Developing Belief Network (2024)
Journal Article
Weisman, K., Ghossainy, M. E., Williams, A. J., Payir, A., Lesage, K. A., Reyes-Jaquez, B., Amin, T. G., Anggoro, F. K., Burdett, E. R. R., Chen, E. E., Coetzee, L., Coley, J. D., Dahl, A., Dautel, J. B., Davis, H. E., Davis, E. L., Diesendruck, G., Evans, D., Feeney, A., Gurven, M., … Developing Belief Network, . D. B. N. (2024). The development and diversity of religious cognition and behavior: Protocol for Wave 1 data collection with children and parents by the Developing Belief Network. PLoS ONE, 19(3), Article e0292755. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/wkjgs

The Developing Belief Network is a consortium of researchers studying human development in diverse social-cultural settings, with a focus on the interplay between general cognitive development and culturally specific processes of socialization and cu... Read More about The development and diversity of religious cognition and behavior: Protocol for Wave 1 data collection with children and parents by the Developing Belief Network.

Tinkering to Innovation: How Children Refine Tools Over Multiple Attempts (2023)
Journal Article
Burdett, E. R., & Ronfard, S. (2023). Tinkering to Innovation: How Children Refine Tools Over Multiple Attempts. Developmental Psychology, 59(6), Article 1006–1016. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001512

The human capacity for technological innovation and creative problem-solving far surpasses that of any species but develops quite late. Prior work has typically presented children with problems requiring a single solution, a limited number of resourc... Read More about Tinkering to Innovation: How Children Refine Tools Over Multiple Attempts.

Riding the elephant in the room: Towards a revival of the optimal level of stimulation model (2022)
Journal Article
Ibáñez de Aldecoa, P., Burdett, E., & Gustafsson, E. (2022). Riding the elephant in the room: Towards a revival of the optimal level of stimulation model. Developmental Review, 66, Article 101051. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dr.2022.101051

Phenomena such as engagement, attention and curiosity rely heavily on the “optimal-level of stimulation (or arousal)” model, which suggests they are driven by stimuli being neither too simple nor too complex. Two points often overlooked in psychology... Read More about Riding the elephant in the room: Towards a revival of the optimal level of stimulation model.

Economy of Grace and the Infinite Circle: A Theological Reception of the Social Evolutionary Origins of Gratitude (2022)
Journal Article
Burdett, M., & Burdett, E. (2122). Economy of Grace and the Infinite Circle: A Theological Reception of the Social Evolutionary Origins of Gratitude. Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences, 9(1), 119-135. https://doi.org/10.1628/ptsc-2022-0009

This article considers the social evolutionary research on gratitude and reciprocity and focuses on two mechanisms, upstream reciprocity and increased gratitude to strangers, that have strong consonance with various theological accounts of gift-givin... Read More about Economy of Grace and the Infinite Circle: A Theological Reception of the Social Evolutionary Origins of Gratitude.

British Children’s and Adults’ Perceptions of Robots (2022)
Journal Article
Burdett, E. R. R., Ikari, S., & Nakawake, Y. (2022). British Children’s and Adults’ Perceptions of Robots. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, 2022, Article 3813820. https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/3813820

Robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) systems are quickly becoming a familiar part of different aspects of everyday life. We know very little about how children and adults perceive the abilities of different robots and whether these ascriptions a... Read More about British Children’s and Adults’ Perceptions of Robots.

The ontogeny of selective social learning: Young children flexibly adopt majority- or payoff-based biases depending on task uncertainty (2021)
Journal Article
Burdett, E. R. R., Whiten, A., & McGuigan, N. (2022). The ontogeny of selective social learning: Young children flexibly adopt majority- or payoff-based biases depending on task uncertainty. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 214, Article 105307. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105307

Humans have adapted well to diverse environments in part because of their ability to efficiently acquire information from their social environment. However, we still know very little as to how young children acquire cultural knowledge and in particul... Read More about The ontogeny of selective social learning: Young children flexibly adopt majority- or payoff-based biases depending on task uncertainty.

When does it pay to follow the crowd? Children optimize imitation of causally- irrelevant actions performed by a majority (2021)
Journal Article
Evans, C. L., Burdett, E. R. R., Murray, K., & Carpenter, M. (2021). When does it pay to follow the crowd? Children optimize imitation of causally- irrelevant actions performed by a majority. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 212, Article 105229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105229

Cultural evolutionary theory posits that human cultural complexity rests on a set of adaptive learning biases that help to guide functionality and optimality in social learning, but this sits in contrast with the commonly held view that children are... Read More about When does it pay to follow the crowd? Children optimize imitation of causally- irrelevant actions performed by a majority.