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Alexis Smith-Flores

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Incoming Asst. Professor @ Lehigh | cog dev, emotion reasoning, and social cog | she/her asmithflores.com | wordpress.lehigh.edu/littlelearners…
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🎉 Out now in Open Mind!! direct.mit.edu/opmi/article/d…

A big thanks to @_lindseypowell and Gabe Bonamy for being so awesome to do science with! This is Gabe’s first publication 🎉🎉
direct.mit.edu Children’s Reasoning About Empathy and Social Relationships Abstract. Across the lifespan, empathic and counter-empathic emotions are shaped by social relationships. Here we test the hypothesis that this connection is encoded in children’s intuitive theory of...
🚨New preprint! psyarxiv.com/bpm3j

Think about a time you felt empathy and a time you felt schadenfreude. Chances are your relationships to the targets of those emotions were different. We asked if children understand the link between relationships and (counter)empathy. 1/8
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Alexis Smith-Flores @asmithflores
Have a student considering applying to Lehigh for graduate school? The CAS application fee is waived (!!!) if they submit their application from Nov 3rd to Nov 8th or Dec 1st to Dec 6th! If they have questions, please direct them to incasgrd@lehigh.edu! #psychologyphd #gradschool
Excited to share that my lab will be accepting applications for our very first PhD student to start in Fall 2026!

Interested applicants can learn more about the lab here: wordpress.lehigh.edu/littlelearners…

And Lehigh’s graduate program here: psychology.cas.lehigh.edu/graduate
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The last chapter of my dissertation is out now in Child Development! 🎉 OA: srcd.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/KEAHK8JK…
🚨New preprint! osf.io/preprints/osf/…

Adults evaluate consider empathizers to be warm, likable, & respected, but not when the target of their empathy is morally reprehensible. We asked whether 4-7 year olds held similar beliefs. [1/4]
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