Research Interests

Cognitive development, causal learning, social cognition, moral cognition, theory of mind, cultural psychology, free will, counterfactual thinking, imagination, self-control, rational constructivist approaches to learning and development

Office Location: 417 Chapel Drive, Box 90086, Durham, NC 27708
Office Phone: +1 919 660 5640
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Education:
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, 2005
M.A., University of California, Berkeley, 2004
B.A., Barnard College, 1996

Teaching (Spring 2024):

• PSY 482S.01, Psychology of imagination Synopsis

  Social Sciences 109, W 01:25 PM-03:55 PM

• PSY 782S.01, Psychology of imagination Synopsis

  Social Sciences 109, W 01:25 PM-03:55 PM

Recent Publications   (More Publications)

• Finiasz, Z; Gelman, SA; Kushnir, T. "Testimony and observation of statistical evidence interact in adults' and children's category-based induction.." Cognition 244 (March, 2024): 105707. [doi]  [abs]
• Katz, T; Kushnir, T; Tomasello, M. "Children are eager to take credit for prosocial acts, and cost affects this tendency.." Journal of experimental child psychology 237 (January, 2024): 105764. [doi]  [abs]
• 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, . "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 (January, 2024): e0292755. [doi]  [abs]
• Kushnir, T; Katz, T; Stegall, J. "A Review of “Becoming Human”." Journal of Cognition and Development 24.4 (August, 2023): 620-622. [doi]
• Heck, IA; Kushnir, T; Kinzler, KD. "Building representations of the social world: Children extract patterns from social choices to reason about multi-group hierarchies.." Developmental science 26.4 (July, 2023): e13366. [doi]  [abs]