Deon Benton is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology and Human Development and Vanderbilt University. Deon studies how infants' learn about causality in the world as well as how they learn to distinguish between "good" guys and "bad" guys. In his spare time, Deon enjoys other intellectual pursuits like watching The Bachelor and Bachelorette, The Circle, and Married at First Sight.
Deon T. Benton has hosted 25 Episodes.
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Episode 8: Don't judge a wagden by its category label (with Lisa Scott)
February 13th, 2023 | 1 hr 45 mins
cognitive development, face perception
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Episode 7: Is poking the cat causal? (with Jonathan Kominsky)
February 13th, 2023 | 1 hr 55 mins
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Episode 6: Do children theorize about academic performance? (with Melis Muradoğlu)
February 13th, 2023 | 1 hr 27 mins
cognitive development
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Episode 5: A positive take on the "positivity bias" (with Janet Boseovski)
February 13th, 2023 | 1 hr 29 mins
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Episode 3: An Innate Fear of the Term Innate? (with David Rakison)
February 13th, 2023 | 1 hr 32 mins
cognitive development, mechanism
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Episode 4: What's morals got to do with it?
February 13th, 2023 | 1 hr 44 mins
cognitive development, sociomoral evaluation
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Episode 10: That's just a bunch of nonsense you jive turkey
February 13th, 2023 | 1 hr 15 mins
cognitive development, mechanism, statistical learning
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Episode 2: When 1+1 equals more, not 2
February 13th, 2023 | 1 hr 27 mins
cognitive development, infant math, methods
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Episode 1: Mechanisms all the way down
February 13th, 2023 | 1 hr 39 mins