Amalia Ionescu

University of California, Los Angeles | UCLA · Department of Psychology

When people experience abrupt social change, from less education to more, from less technology use to more, from a homogeneous to a heterogeneous social environment, can their epistemic thinking adapt? When divergent opinions suddenly come to be valued, does epistemic thinking shift from absolute to more relativistic? We investigate whether and how...

Understanding abstract relations, and reasoning about various instantiations of the same relation, is an important marker in human cognition. Here we focus on development of understanding for the concept of antonymy. We examined whether four-and five-year-olds (N= 67) are able to complete an analogy task involving antonyms, whether language cues fa...