Stanford Psychology Podcast

137 - Kelsey Lucca: Unpacking the Development of Exploration and Exploitation

Stanford Psychology

Anjie chats with Dr. Kelsey Lucca. Kelsey is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University. She directs the Emerging Minds Lab, where she leads her team to investigate cognitive development during infancy and early childhood, with a focus on the development of curiosity, social cognition, communication, and problem solving. In this episode, Kelsey chats about one of her recent papers “Developmental differences in children and adults’ enforcement of explore versus exploit search strategies in the United States and Turkey”. She also shares her personal journey into developmental science. 

 

Kelsey’s lab website: https://www.emergingmindslab.org/

Kelsey’s Lab twitter: @EmergingMindsAZ

Kelsey’s paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/desc.13520

 

Anjie’s: website: anjiecao.github.io

Anjie’s Twitter @anjie_cao

 

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