Kiley Hamlin, University of British Columbia

Research

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Latest papers

Babies can be good at relationships and other things too: arguments for moral cognition in infancy.
The Behavioral and brain sciences · 2026 · senior author
Limited evidence of test-retest reliability in infant-directed speech preference in a large preregistered infant experiment.
Developmental science · 2024

All 2 publications

Latest funding

Developmental Psychology
SSHRC · 2015 · Principal investigator
$500,000
Canada Research Chair in The Origins of Socio-Cognitive Processing
SSHRC · 2011 · Principal investigator
$500,000
A developmental-cognitive approach to understanding other minds
NSERC · 2011 · Principal investigator
$145,000

All 3 grants and awards

2 publications.

01

Babies can be good at relationships and other things too: arguments for moral cognition in infancy.

Yuen F, Soleimani Z, Oğuz N, Hamlin K

The Behavioral and brain sciences2026Senior author

DOI: 10.1017/s0140525x25101209 PMID: 42203729

02

Limited evidence of test-retest reliability in infant-directed speech preference in a large preregistered infant experiment.

Schreiner MS, Zettersten M, Bergmann C, Frank MC, Fritzsche T, Gonzalez-Gomez N, Hamlin K, Kartushina N, Kellier DJ, Mani N, Mayor J, Saffran J, Shukla M, Silverstein P, Soderstrom M, Lippold M

Developmental science2024

DOI: 10.1111/desc.13551 PMID: 39036879

Developmental Psychology

Principal investigatorSSHRC2015Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Hamlin, Kiley JKH

Keywords: moral development, infancy, social evaluation, prosocial behaviour, developmental psychology

$500,000

Canada Research Chair in The Origins of Socio-Cognitive Processing

Principal investigatorSSHRC2011Canada Research Chairs

Principal investigators: Hamlin, Kiley JKH

Keywords: infancy, cognition, evaluation, social cognition, developmental origins

$500,000

A developmental-cognitive approach to understanding other minds

Principal investigatorNSERC2011Discovery Grants Program - Individual

Principal investigators: Hamlin, Kiley

$145,000

From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.

Frequent collaborators

Melanie Soderstrom

Child and Adolescent Psychology

1 shared papers, latest 2024

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Subject: Prospective PhD student Dear Professor Hamlin, My name is [your name], and I am a [your current degree or role] at [your institution]. I am applying for a PhD position starting in [term and year]. I read your paper "Babies can be good at relationships and other things too: arguments for moral cognition in infancy." (2026), and it connects closely to my own work on [your research topic]. [One or two sentences on what you did and what you learned.] Are you accepting new PhD students for [term and year]? I have attached my CV and transcripts, and I would be glad to talk at a time that suits you. Thank you for your time. Kind regards, [your name]