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
From foe to friend and back again: The temporal dynamics of intra-party bias in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election

Dunham, Y. Arechar, A., Rand, D. (2019). Judgement and Decision Making.

Minimal but meaningful: Probing the limits of randomly assigned social identities

Yang, X., Dunham, Y. (2019). Journal of Experimental Child Psychology..

Race Attitudes in Cultural Context: The View From Two Brazilian States

Sacco, A.M., Pinheiro de Paula Couto, M.C., Dunham, Y., Santana, J.P., Nunes, L.N., Koller, S.H. (2019). Developmental Psychology.

Paying back those who harmed us but not those who helped us: Direct negative reciprocity precedes direct positive reciprocity in early development

Chernyak, N., Leimgruber, K., Dunham, Y., Hu, J., Blake, P. (in press). Psychological Science.

Young children seek out biased information about social groups

Over, H., Eggleston, A., Bell, J., Dunham, Y. (2017). Developmental Science.

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