The Causality and Mind Lab (Principal Investigator: Dave Sobel) is a Developmental Psychology Research lab in the Department of Cognitive and Psychological Sciences Brown University. Our research examines children’s cognitive development. We study how children learn about the everyday world, and how that learning relates to their understanding and engagement with science, both in and outside the classroom. We also study children’s social cognition – how they understand others’ mental states and concepts like fairness and truth.

Our research examines how children represent and learn causal relations, make causal inferences, and how they understand their own and others’ mental states. We use both behavioral and computational approaches to study how children learn.