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Liz Lapidow

Liz Lapidow

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests

I investigate how learners seek to figure out the world around them by taking actions and considering possibilities. My research examines how children (and adults) learn and reason about causal systems and how learners make decisions during exploration. By integrating cognitive development with ideas from philosophy and computational modeling, I aim to better understand the spontaneous (and sometimes puzzling) behavior of human learners."

Joshua Quinlan

Joshua Quinlan

Postdoctoral Fellow

Research Interests

I have a variety of research interests, many of which relate to media and individual differences in some way. My dissertation research, for example, examined the role of videogames in need satisfaction and how different genres of games might satisfy these needs differently for different people. I am passionate about research methods, quantitative methods, and open science, and am eager to work towards a more robust and replicable science. My postdoctoral research at the University of Waterloo will investigate individual differences in susceptibility to misinformation. Specifically, I’m interested in how need dissatisfaction and uncertainty might make us more susceptible to misinformation, across a variety of contexts.