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Publications of Tamar Kushnir    :chronological  alphabetical  combined  bibtex listing:

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Journal Articles

  1. Finiasz, Z; Gelman, SA; Kushnir, T (2024). Testimony and observation of statistical evidence interact in adults' and children's category-based induction.. Cognition, 244, 105707. [doi]  [abs]
  2. Katz, T; Kushnir, T; Tomasello, M (2024). Children are eager to take credit for prosocial acts, and cost affects this tendency.. Journal of experimental child psychology, 237, 105764. [doi]  [abs]
  3. Weisman, K; Ghossainy, ME; Williams, AJ; Payir, A; Lesage, KA; Reyes-Jaquez, B; Amin, TG; Anggoro, FK; Burdett, ERR; Chen, EE; Coetzee, L; Coley, JD; Dahl, A; Dautel, JB; Davis, HE; Davis, EL; Diesendruck, G; Evans, D; Feeney, A; Gurven, M; Jee, BD; Kramer, HJ; Kushnir, T; Kyriakopoulou, N; McAuliffe, K; McLaughlin, A; Nichols, S; Nicolopoulou, A; Rockers, PC; Shneidman, L; Skopeliti, I; Srinivasan, M; Tarullo, AR; Taylor, LK; Yu, Y; Yucel, M; Zhao, X; Corriveau, KH; Richert, RA; Developing Belief Network, (2024). The development and diversity of religious cognition and behavior: Protocol for Wave 1 data collection with children and parents by the Developing Belief Network.. PloS one, 19(3), e0292755. [doi]  [abs]
  4. Kushnir, T; Katz, T; Stegall, J (2023). A Review of “Becoming Human. Journal of Cognition and Development, 24(4), 620-622. [doi]
  5. Heck, IA; Kushnir, T; Kinzler, KD (2023). Building representations of the social world: Children extract patterns from social choices to reason about multi-group hierarchies.. Developmental science, 26(4), e13366. [doi]  [abs]
  6. Flanagan, T; Wong, G; Kushnir, T (2023). The minds of machines: Children's beliefs about the experiences, thoughts, and morals of familiar interactive technologies.. Developmental psychology, 59(6), 1017-1031. [doi]  [abs]
  7. Partington, S; Nichols, S; Kushnir, T (2023). Rational learners and parochial norms.. Cognition, 233, 105366. [doi]  [abs]
  8. Zhao, X; Kushnir, T (2023). When it's not easy to do the right thing: Developmental changes in understanding cost drive evaluations of moral praiseworthiness.. Developmental science, 26(1), e13257. [doi]  [abs]
  9. Carpenter, E; Siegel, A; Urquiola, S; Liu, J; Kushnir, T (2023). Being me in times of change: Young children's reflections on their lives during the COVID-19 pandemic. Children and Society. [doi]  [abs]
  10. Shachnai, R; Kushnir, T; Bian, L (2022). Walking in Her Shoes: Pretending to Be a Female Role Model Increases Young Girls' Persistence in Science.. Psychological science, 33(11), 1818-1827. [doi]  [abs]
  11. Kushnir, T (2022). Imagination and social cognition in childhood.. Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science, 13(4), e1603. [doi]  [abs]
  12. Ransom, A; LaGrant, B; Spiteri, A; Kushnir, T; Anderson, AK; De Rosa, E (2022). Face-to-face learning enhances the social transmission of information.. PloS one, 17(2), e0264250. [doi]  [abs]
  13. Flanagan, TM; Kushnir, T (2022). Children's Developing Beliefs About Agency and Free Will in an Increasingly Technological World. Humana Mente, 15(42), 179-204.  [abs]
  14. Zhao, X; Wente, A; Flecha, MF; Galvan, DS; Gopnik, A; Kushnir, T (2021). Culture moderates the relationship between self-control ability and free will beliefs in childhood. Cognition, 210, 104609-104609. [doi]
  15. Heck, IA; Kushnir, T; Kinzler, KD (2021). Social sampling: Children track social choices to reason about status hierarchies.. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. [doi]
  16. Partington, S; Nichols, S; Kushnir, T (2021). Is children’s norm learning rational? A meta-analysis. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Comparative Cognition: Animal Minds, CogSci 2021, 2752-2758.  [abs]
  17. Liu, J; Partington, S; Suh, Y; Finiasz, Z; Flanagan, T; Kocher, D; Kiely, R; Kortenaar, M; Kushnir, T (2021). The Community-Engaged Lab: A Case-Study Introduction for Developmental Science.. Frontiers in psychology, 12, 715914. [doi]  [abs]
  18. Zhao, X; Zhao, X; Gweon, H; Kushnir, T (2021). Leaving a Choice for Others: Children’s Evaluations of Considerate, Socially-Mindful Actions. Child Development, 92, 1238-1253. [doi]
  19. Kocher, D; Sarmiento, L; Heller, S; Yang, Y; Kushnir, T; Green, KE (2020). No, Your Other Left! Language Children Use To Direct Robots. 2020 Joint IEEE 10th International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob). [doi]
  20. Kocher, D; Kushnir, T; Green, KE (2020). Better together: Young children's tendencies to help a non-humanoid robot collaborator. Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children Conference, IDC 2020, 243-249. [doi]  [abs]
  21. Partington, S; Nichols, S; Kushnir, T (2020). When in Rome, do as Bayesians do: Statistical learning and parochial norms. Proceedings for the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Developing a Mind: Learning in Humans, Animals, and Machines, CogSci 2020, 2679-2684.  [abs]
  22. Wang, Q; Kushnir, T (2019). Cultural Pathways in Cognitive Development: Introduction to the Special Issue. Cognitive Development, 52, 100816-100816. [doi]
  23. Zhao, X; Kushnir, T (2019). How U.S. And Chinese children talk about personal, moral and conventional choices. Cognitive Development, 52, 100804-100804. [doi]
  24. Yu, Y; Kushnir, T (2019). The ontogeny of cumulative culture: Individual toddlers vary in faithful imitation and goal emulation. Developmental Science, 23. [doi]
  25. Chernyak, N; Kang, C; Kushnir, T (2019). The cultural roots of free will beliefs: How Singaporean and U.S. Children judge and explain possibilities for action in interpersonal contexts.. Developmental Psychology, 55, 866-876. [doi]
  26. Flanagan, T; Kushnir, T (2019). Individual differences in fluency with idea generation predict children's beliefs in their own free will. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Creativity + Cognition + Computation, CogSci 2019, 1738-1744.  [abs]
  27. Varhol, AR; Kushnir, T; Koenig, MA (2019). Preschoolers' Evaluations of Ignorant Agents are Situation-Specific. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Creativity + Cognition + Computation, CogSci 2019, 3022-3028.  [abs]
  28. Zhao, X; Kushnir, T (2019). She Helped Even Though She Wanted to Play: Children Consider Psychological Cost in Social Evaluations. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Creativity + Cognition + Computation, CogSci 2019, 3199-3205.  [abs]
  29. Kushnir, T (2018). The developmental and cultural psychology of free will. Philosophy Compass, 13, e12529-e12529. [doi]
  30. Eason, AE; Doctor, D; Chang, E; Kushnir, T; Sommerville, JA (2018). The choice is yours: Infants' expectations about an agent's future behavior based on taking and receiving actions.. Developmental psychology, 54(5), 829-841. [doi]  [abs]
  31. Chernyak, N; Kushnir, T (2018). The influence of understanding and having choice on children's prosocial behavior. Current Opinion in Psychology, 20, 107-110. [doi]
  32. Vondervoort, JWVD; Aknin, LB; Kushnir, T; Slevinsky, J; Hamlin, JK (2018). Selectivity in toddlers’ behavioral and emotional reactions to prosocial and antisocial others.. Developmental Psychology, 54, 1-14. [doi]
  33. Zhao, X; Kushnir, T (2018). Young children consider individual authority and collective agreement when deciding who can change rules. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 165, 101-116. [doi]
  34. Kushnir, T; Koenig, MA (2017). What I don’t know won’t hurt you: The relation between professed ignorance and later knowledge claims.. Developmental Psychology, 53, 826-835. [doi]
  35. Chernyak, N; Trieu, BY; Kushnir, T (2017). Preschoolers’ Selfish Sharing Is Reduced by Prior Experience With Proportional Generosity. Open Mind, 1, 42-52. [doi]
  36. Wellman, HM; Kushnir, T; Xu, F; Brink, KA (2016). Infants Use Statistical Sampling to Understand the Psychological World. Infancy, 21(5), 668-676. [doi]  [abs]
  37. Yu, Y; Kushnir, T (2016). When what’s inside counts: Sequence of demonstrated actions affects preschooler’s categorization by nonobvious properties.. Developmental Psychology, 52, 400-410. [doi]
  38. Kushnir, T; Gelman, SA (2016). Translating testimonial claims into evidence for category-based induction. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2016, 1307-1312.  [abs]
  39. Zhao, X; Kushnir, T (2016). Children's Awareness of Authority to Change Rules in Various Social Contexts. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2016, 1877-1882.  [abs]
  40. Wente, AO; Ting, T; Aboody, R; Kushnir, T; Gopnik, A (2016). The Relationship Between Inhibitory Control and Free Will Beliefs in 4-to 6-Year-Old-Children. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2016, 770-775.  [abs]
  41. Josephs, M; Kushnir, T; Gräfenhain, M; Rakoczy, H (2016). Children protest moral and conventional violations more when they believe actions are freely chosen. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 141, 247-255. [doi]
  42. Koenig, MA; Cole, CA; Meyer, M; Ridge, KE; Kushnir, T; Gelman, SA (2015). Reasoning about knowledge: Children’s evaluations of generality and verifiability. Cognitive Psychology, 83, 22-39. [doi]
  43. Kushnir, T; Gopnik, A; Chernyak, N; Seiver, E; Wellman, HM (2015). Developing intuitions about free will between ages four and six. Cognition, 138, 79-101. [doi]
  44. Vredenburgh, C; Kushnir, T (2015). Young Children\textquotesingles Help-Seeking as Active Information Gathering. Cognitive Science, 40, 697-722. [doi]
  45. Yu, Y; Kushnir, T (2015). Understanding young children's imitative behavior from an individual differences perspective. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2015, 2769-2774.  [abs]
  46. Vredenburgh, C; Kushnir, T; Casasola, M (2014). Pedagogical cues encourage toddlers\textquotesingle transmission of recently demonstrated functions to unfamiliar adults. Developmental Science, 18, 645-654. [doi]
  47. Chernyak, N; Kushnir, T (2014). The Self as a Moral Agent: Preschoolers Behave Morally but Believe in the Freedom to Do Otherwise. Journal of Cognition and Development, 15, 453-464. [doi]
  48. Fedyk, M; Kushnir, T (2014). Development links psychological causes to evolutionary explanations. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 37, 142-143. [doi]
  49. Lucas, CG; Griffiths, TL; Xu, F; Fawcett, C; Gopnik, A; Kushnir, T; Markson, L; Hu, J (2014). The Child as Econometrician: A Rational Model of Preference Understanding in Children. PLoS ONE, 9, e92160-e92160. [doi]
  50. Yu, Y; Kushnir, T (2014). Social context effects in 2- and 4-year-olds’ selective versus faithful imitation.. Developmental Psychology, 50, 922-933. [doi]
  51. Diesendruck, G; Salzer, S; Kushnir, T; Xu, F (2013). When Choices Are Not Personal: The Effect of Statistical and Social Cues on Children\textquotesingles Inferences About the Scope of Preferences. Journal of Cognition and Development, 16, 370-380. [doi]
  52. Sobel, DM; Kushnir, T (2013). Knowledge matters: how children evaluate the reliability of testimony as a process of rational inference.. Psychological review, 120(4), 779-797. [doi]  [abs]
  53. Chernyak, N; Kushnir, T; Sullivan, KM; Wang, Q (2013). A comparison of American and Nepalese children's concepts of freedom of choice and social constraint.. Cognitive science, 37(7), 1343-1355. [doi]  [abs]
  54. Chernyak, N; Kushnir, T (2013). Giving Preschoolers Choice Increases Sharing Behavior. Psychological Science, 24, 1971-1979. [doi]
  55. Xu, F; Kushnir, T (2013). Infants Are Rational Constructivist Learners. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 22, 28-32. [doi]
  56. Chernyak, N; Kushnir, T (2013). Inferring One's Own Prosociality Through Choice: Giving Preschoolers Costly Prosocial Choices Increases Subsequent Sharing Behavior. Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics - Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2013, 2040-2045.  [abs]
  57. Vredenburgh, C; Kushnir, T (2013). Help-Seeking As A Cause of Young Children's Collaboration. Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics - Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2013, 3705-3710.  [abs]
  58. Kushnir, T; Vredenburgh, C; Schneider, LA (2013). “Who can help me fix this toy?” The distinction between causal knowledge and word knowledge guides preschoolers\textquotesingle selective requests for information.. Developmental Psychology, 49, 446-453. [doi]
  59. Yu, Y; Kushnir, T (2011). It’s all about the game: Infants’ action strategies during imitation are influenced by their prior expectations. Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2011, 3570-3574.  [abs]
  60. Chernyak, N; Kushnir, T; Sullivan, KM; Wang, Q (2011). A Comparison of Nepalese and American Children’s Concepts of Free Will. Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2011, 144-149.  [abs]
  61. Kushnir, T; Chernyak, N (2010). Understanding the adult moralist requires first understanding the child scientist. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33, 343-344. [doi]
  62. Kushnir, T; Xu, F; Wellman, HM (2010). Young Children Use Statistical Sampling to Infer the Preferences of Other People. Psychological Science, 21, 1134-1140. [doi]
  63. Kushnir, T; Gopnik, A; Lucas, C; Schulz, L (2009). Inferring Hidden Causal Structure. Cognitive Science, 34, 148-160. [doi]
  64. Kushnir, T; Wellman, HM; Gelman, SA (2009). A self-agency bias in preschoolers\textquotesingle causal inferences.. Developmental Psychology, 45, 597-603. [doi]
  65. Kushnir, T; Wellman, HM; Gelman, SA (2008). The role of preschoolers’ social understanding in evaluating the informativeness of causal interventions. Cognition, 107, 1084-1092. [doi]
  66. Kushnir, T; Gopnik, A (2007). Conditional probability versus spatial contiguity in causal learning: Preschoolers use new contingency evidence to overcome prior spatial assumptions.. Developmental Psychology, 43, 186-196. [doi]
  67. Sobel, DM; Kushnir, T (2006). The importance of decision making in causal learning from interventions.. Memory & cognition, 34(2), 411-419. [doi]  [abs]
  68. Kushnir, T; Gopnik, A (2005). Young Children Infer Causal Strength From Probabilities and Interventions. Psychological Science, 16, 678-683. [doi]
  69. Gopnik, A; Glymour, C; Sobel, DM; Schulz, LE; Kushnir, T; Danks, D (2004). A Theory of Causal Learning in Children: Causal Maps and Bayes Nets.. Psychological Review, 111, 3-32. [doi]

Books

  1. Xu, F; Kushnir, T (2012). Preface. What is rational constructivism?. [doi]

Chapters in Books

  1. Vredenburgh, C; Yu, Y; Kushnir, T "Young children's flexible social cognition and sensitivity to context facilitates their learning." Social Cognition: Development Across the Life Span. September, 2016: 238-257. [doi]
  2. Kushnir, T "Developing a concept of choice.."  January, 2012: 193-218. [doi]  [abs]
  3. Schulz, L; Kushnir, T; Gopnik, A "Learning From Doing: Intervention and Causal Inference." Causal Learning: Psychology, Philosophy, and Computation. April, 2010 [doi]  [abs]

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