app02 Sun, 21 Jun 2026 06:41:00 +0000 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) The It's Innate! Podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Social Cognition” https://itsinnate.fireside.fm/tags/social%20cognition Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:00:00 -0400 Two opinionated developmental cognitive scientists wax theoretical about how infants and children acquire knowledge! en-us episodic A podcast by two developmental cognitive scientists Deon Benton & Jenny Wang Two opinionated developmental cognitive scientists wax theoretical about how infants and children acquire knowledge! no cognitive development, developmental psychology, cognitive science, nature vs. nurture, psychology, social science, science Deon Benton & Jenny Wang theitsinnatepodcast@gmail.com Episode 41: "Friends / ones (our social cognition) can depend on" (with Ryan Lei) https://itsinnate.fireside.fm/41 a590e030-e83d-45b3-8c5e-2b11bb57b36a Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:00:00 -0400 Deon Benton & Jenny Wang full Deon Benton & Jenny Wang 1:54:23 no <p>In the first half of this episode, Deon chats with Dr. Ryan Lei -- associate professor of psychology at Haverford College -- about his unique (and somewhat fortuitous) academic journey, what life is like as a professor at a Small Liberal Arts College (SLAC), and how SLACs differ from R1s. In the second segment, we talk about his 2020 Psychological Science paper, "The development of intersectional social prototypes", which explored whether children's ability to categorize faces by gender is impacted by the race of those faces.</p> <p>Plus, we spend quite a bit of time talking about the broader topic of "intersectionality" and "intersectional invisibility" and the implications each has for our everyday lives. And of course, there's lots of talk about mechanism! What a fun, jam-packed episode!</p> <p><strong>Links</strong></p> <p>Lei, R. F., Leshin, R. A., &amp; Rhodes, M. (2020). The development of intersectional social prototypes.&nbsp;<em>Psychological Science</em>,&nbsp;<em>31</em>(8), 911-926. <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s44159-025-00514-1" rel="nofollow noopener">Link</a> Special Guest: Ryan Lei.</p> social cognition, intersectionality, social cognitive development, SLACs, small liberal arts colleges In the first half of this episode, Deon chats with Dr. Ryan Lei -- associate professor of psychology at Haverford College -- about his unique (and somewhat fortuitous) academic journey, what life is like as a professor at a Small Liberal Arts College (SLAC), and how SLACs differ from R1s. In the second segment, we talk about his 2020 Psychological Science paper, "The development of intersectional social prototypes", which explored whether children's ability to categorize faces by gender is impacted by the race of those faces.

Plus, we spend quite a bit of time talking about the broader topic of "intersectionality" and "intersectional invisibility" and the implications each has for our everyday lives. And of course, there's lots of talk about mechanism! What a fun, jam-packed episode!

Links

Lei, R. F., Leshin, R. A., & Rhodes, M. (2020). The development of intersectional social prototypes. Psychological Science, 31(8), 911-926. Link

Special Guest: Ryan Lei.

]]> In the first half of this episode, Deon chats with Dr. Ryan Lei -- associate professor of psychology at Haverford College -- about his unique (and somewhat fortuitous) academic journey, what life is like as a professor at a Small Liberal Arts College (SLAC), and how SLACs differ from R1s. In the second segment, we talk about his 2020 Psychological Science paper, "The development of intersectional social prototypes", which explored whether children's ability to categorize faces by gender is impacted by the race of those faces.

Plus, we spend quite a bit of time talking about the broader topic of "intersectionality" and "intersectional invisibility" and the implications each has for our everyday lives. And of course, there's lots of talk about mechanism! What a fun, jam-packed episode!

Links

Lei, R. F., Leshin, R. A., & Rhodes, M. (2020). The development of intersectional social prototypes. Psychological Science, 31(8), 911-926. Link

Special Guest: Ryan Lei.

]]> Episode 28: Seeing (can help you infer what someone else) is believing (with Sholei Croom) https://itsinnate.fireside.fm/28 2da03cb9-578a-4ad0-94d0-7007ee6d4794 Thu, 26 Jun 2025 09:00:00 -0400 Deon Benton & Jenny Wang full Deon Benton & Jenny Wang 1:26:56 no <p>We were delighted to be joined by Sholei Croom, a PhD student at Johns Hopkins working with Chaz Firestone. We open this episode, as always, by chatting about Sholei's journey in science. We then turn to their PNAS paper, "Seeing and Understanding Epistemic Actions" by Croom, Zhou, and Firestone (2023). This paper explores whether third-party observers can infer what other people are trying to learn simply by observing their actions. As we talk about in the episode, this project highlights an underexplored aspect of social perception: human learners can intuit what others are trying to learn simply from their actions.</p> <p><strong>Links</strong></p> <p>Croom, S., Zhou, H., &amp; Firestone, C. (2023). Seeing and understanding epistemic actions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(49), e2303162120. <a href="https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2303162120" rel="nofollow noopener">Link</a> Special Guest: Sholei Croom.</p> action perception, social cognition, social psychology We were delighted to be joined by Sholei Croom, a PhD student at Johns Hopkins working with Chaz Firestone. We open this episode, as always, by chatting about Sholei's journey in science. We then turn to their PNAS paper, "Seeing and Understanding Epistemic Actions" by Croom, Zhou, and Firestone (2023). This paper explores whether third-party observers can infer what other people are trying to learn simply by observing their actions. As we talk about in the episode, this project highlights an underexplored aspect of social perception: human learners can intuit what others are trying to learn simply from their actions.

Links

Croom, S., Zhou, H., & Firestone, C. (2023). Seeing and understanding epistemic actions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(49), e2303162120. Link

Special Guest: Sholei Croom.

]]> We were delighted to be joined by Sholei Croom, a PhD student at Johns Hopkins working with Chaz Firestone. We open this episode, as always, by chatting about Sholei's journey in science. We then turn to their PNAS paper, "Seeing and Understanding Epistemic Actions" by Croom, Zhou, and Firestone (2023). This paper explores whether third-party observers can infer what other people are trying to learn simply by observing their actions. As we talk about in the episode, this project highlights an underexplored aspect of social perception: human learners can intuit what others are trying to learn simply from their actions.

Links

Croom, S., Zhou, H., & Firestone, C. (2023). Seeing and understanding epistemic actions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(49), e2303162120. Link

Special Guest: Sholei Croom.

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