I'm a 6th-year PhD candidate in Developmental Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, where I'm advised by Celeste Kidd.
I am also an incoming Assistant Professor of Psychology at Colorado College, starting in Fall 2026.
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research
I study how we learn and form beliefs effectively, even when evidence is incomplete, indirect, or unobservable. My research investigates how children and adults figure out what to believe, what to doubt, and what to seek more information about–particularly in digital contexts like social media.
papers
Orticio, E., Gao, S., & Kidd, C. (2025). Children learn the meaning of ambiguous evidence from third-party belief revision. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]
Orticio, E., Meyer, M., & Kidd, C. (2024). Exposure to detectable inaccuracies makes children more diligent fact-checkers of novel claims. In Nature Human Behaviour. [pdf] [journal link] [berkeley news] [scientific american]
Orticio, E. & Kidd, C. (2024). Shifting your opinion makes you change your factual beliefs without evidence. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]
Orticio, E., Meyer, M., & Kidd, C. (2023). Children adapt their evidentiary standards to their informational environment. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]
Orticio, E., Martí, L., & Kidd, C. (2022). Social prevalence is rationally integrated in belief updating. In Open Mind. [pdf] [open access link] [berkeley news]
Orticio, E., Martí, L., & Kidd, C. (2021). Beliefs are most swayed by social prevalence under uncertainty. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]
Orticio, E., & Christie, S. (2020). Object bias disrupts rule-based generalization in adults across domains. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]