Welcome to the SPARK Lab!
The Social Perception and Reasoning about Knowledge (SPARK) Lab seeks to understand how children and adults learn from others, build trust, and evaluate morals. We are interested in the ways that learning circumstances or goals, identity, beliefs, and biases impact decisions about who is a good resource for information–whether that is in the context of academics or in pursuit of building knowledge about the social landscape. One goal is to understand how our perceptions of others and what we think they know develop across childhood and beyond. Therefore, we are curious about both formal and informal learning experiences as well as judgments of “everyday experts” that people encounter in daily life.
SPARK Lab is one partner in the Child Studies Group.