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Publications of Tamar Kushnir    :chronological  alphabetical  combined  bibtex listing:

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Books

  1. Xu, F; Kushnir, T, Preface. What is rational constructivism?, vol. 43 (January, 2012), pp. xi-xiv [doi].

Journal Articles

  1. Finiasz, Z; Gelman, SA; Kushnir, T, Testimony and observation of statistical evidence interact in adults' and children's category-based induction., Cognition, vol. 244 (March, 2024), pp. 105707 [doi] [abs].
  2. 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, vol. 237 (January, 2024), pp. 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, , 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, vol. 19 no. 3 (January, 2024), pp. e0292755 [doi] [abs].
  4. Kushnir, T; Katz, T; Stegall, J, A Review of “Becoming Human”, Journal of Cognition and Development, vol. 24 no. 4 (August, 2023), pp. 620-622, Informa UK Limited [doi].
  5. 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, vol. 26 no. 4 (July, 2023), pp. e13366 [doi] [abs].
  6. Flanagan, T; Wong, G; Kushnir, T, The minds of machines: Children's beliefs about the experiences, thoughts, and morals of familiar interactive technologies., Developmental psychology, vol. 59 no. 6 (June, 2023), pp. 1017-1031 [doi] [abs].
  7. Partington, S; Nichols, S; Kushnir, T, Rational learners and parochial norms., Cognition, vol. 233 (April, 2023), pp. 105366 [doi] [abs].
  8. Zhao, X; Kushnir, T, When it's not easy to do the right thing: Developmental changes in understanding cost drive evaluations of moral praiseworthiness., Developmental science, vol. 26 no. 1 (January, 2023), pp. e13257 [doi] [abs].
  9. Carpenter, E; Siegel, A; Urquiola, S; Liu, J; Kushnir, T, Being me in times of change: Young children's reflections on their lives during the COVID-19 pandemic, Children and Society (January, 2023) [doi] [abs].
  10. Shachnai, R; Kushnir, T; Bian, L, Walking in Her Shoes: Pretending to Be a Female Role Model Increases Young Girls' Persistence in Science., Psychological science, vol. 33 no. 11 (November, 2022), pp. 1818-1827 [doi] [abs].
  11. Kushnir, T, Imagination and social cognition in childhood., Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science, vol. 13 no. 4 (July, 2022), pp. e1603 [doi] [abs].
  12. Ransom, A; LaGrant, B; Spiteri, A; Kushnir, T; Anderson, AK; De Rosa, E, Face-to-face learning enhances the social transmission of information., PloS one, vol. 17 no. 2 (January, 2022), pp. e0264250 [doi] [abs].
  13. Flanagan, TM; Kushnir, T, Children's Developing Beliefs About Agency and Free Will in an Increasingly Technological World, Humana Mente, vol. 15 no. 42 (January, 2022), pp. 179-204 [abs].
  14. Zhao, X; Wente, A; Flecha, MF; Galvan, DS; Gopnik, A; Kushnir, T, Culture moderates the relationship between self-control ability and free will beliefs in childhood, Cognition, vol. 210 (May, 2021), pp. 104609-104609, Elsevier BV [doi].
  15. Heck, IA; Kushnir, T; Kinzler, KD, Social sampling: Children track social choices to reason about status hierarchies., Journal of Experimental Psychology: General (February, 2021), American Psychological Association (APA) [doi].
  16. Liu, J; Partington, S; Suh, Y; Finiasz, Z; Flanagan, T; Kocher, D; Kiely, R; Kortenaar, M; Kushnir, T, The Community-Engaged Lab: A Case-Study Introduction for Developmental Science., Frontiers in psychology, vol. 12 (January, 2021), pp. 715914 [doi] [abs].
  17. Zhao, X; Zhao, X; Gweon, H; Kushnir, T, Leaving a Choice for Others: Children’s Evaluations of Considerate, Socially-Mindful Actions, Child Development, vol. 92 (January, 2021), pp. 1238-1253, Wiley [doi].
  18. Wang, Q; Kushnir, T, Cultural Pathways in Cognitive Development: Introduction to the Special Issue, Cognitive Development, vol. 52 (October, 2019), pp. 100816-100816, Elsevier BV [doi].
  19. Zhao, X; Kushnir, T, How U.S. And Chinese children talk about personal, moral and conventional choices, Cognitive Development, vol. 52 (October, 2019), pp. 100804-100804, Elsevier BV [doi].
  20. Yu, Y; Kushnir, T, The ontogeny of cumulative culture: Individual toddlers vary in faithful imitation and goal emulation, Developmental Science, vol. 23 (June, 2019), Wiley [doi].
  21. Chernyak, N; Kang, C; Kushnir, T, The cultural roots of free will beliefs: How Singaporean and U.S. Children judge and explain possibilities for action in interpersonal contexts., Developmental Psychology, vol. 55 (April, 2019), pp. 866-876, American Psychological Association (APA) [doi].
  22. Kushnir, T, The developmental and cultural psychology of free will, Philosophy Compass, vol. 13 (July, 2018), pp. e12529-e12529, Wiley [doi].
  23. Eason, AE; Doctor, D; Chang, E; Kushnir, T; Sommerville, JA, The choice is yours: Infants' expectations about an agent's future behavior based on taking and receiving actions., Developmental psychology, vol. 54 no. 5 (May, 2018), pp. 829-841 [doi] [abs].
  24. Chernyak, N; Kushnir, T, The influence of understanding and having choice on children's prosocial behavior, Current Opinion in Psychology, vol. 20 (April, 2018), pp. 107-110, Elsevier BV [doi].
  25. Vondervoort, JWVD; Aknin, LB; Kushnir, T; Slevinsky, J; Hamlin, JK, Selectivity in toddlers’ behavioral and emotional reactions to prosocial and antisocial others., Developmental Psychology, vol. 54 (January, 2018), pp. 1-14, American Psychological Association (APA) [doi].
  26. Zhao, X; Kushnir, T, Young children consider individual authority and collective agreement when deciding who can change rules, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, vol. 165 (January, 2018), pp. 101-116, Elsevier BV [doi].
  27. Kushnir, T; Koenig, MA, What I don’t know won’t hurt you: The relation between professed ignorance and later knowledge claims., Developmental Psychology, vol. 53 (May, 2017), pp. 826-835, American Psychological Association (APA) [doi].
  28. Chernyak, N; Trieu, BY; Kushnir, T, Preschoolers’ Selfish Sharing Is Reduced by Prior Experience With Proportional Generosity, Open Mind, vol. 1 (February, 2017), pp. 42-52, MIT Press - Journals [doi].
  29. Wellman, HM; Kushnir, T; Xu, F; Brink, KA, Infants Use Statistical Sampling to Understand the Psychological World, Infancy, vol. 21 no. 5 (September, 2016), pp. 668-676 [doi] [abs].
  30. Yu, Y; Kushnir, T, When what’s inside counts: Sequence of demonstrated actions affects preschooler’s categorization by nonobvious properties., Developmental Psychology, vol. 52 (March, 2016), pp. 400-410, American Psychological Association (APA) [doi].
  31. Josephs, M; Kushnir, T; Gräfenhain, M; Rakoczy, H, Children protest moral and conventional violations more when they believe actions are freely chosen, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, vol. 141 (January, 2016), pp. 247-255, Elsevier BV [doi].
  32. Koenig, MA; Cole, CA; Meyer, M; Ridge, KE; Kushnir, T; Gelman, SA, Reasoning about knowledge: Children’s evaluations of generality and verifiability, Cognitive Psychology, vol. 83 (December, 2015), pp. 22-39, Elsevier BV [doi].
  33. Kushnir, T; Gopnik, A; Chernyak, N; Seiver, E; Wellman, HM, Developing intuitions about free will between ages four and six, Cognition, vol. 138 (May, 2015), pp. 79-101, Elsevier BV [doi].
  34. Vredenburgh, C; Kushnir, T, Young Children\textquotesingles Help-Seeking as Active Information Gathering, Cognitive Science, vol. 40 (April, 2015), pp. 697-722, Wiley [doi].
  35. Vredenburgh, C; Kushnir, T; Casasola, M, Pedagogical cues encourage toddlers\textquotesingle transmission of recently demonstrated functions to unfamiliar adults, Developmental Science, vol. 18 (October, 2014), pp. 645-654, Wiley [doi].
  36. Chernyak, N; Kushnir, T, The Self as a Moral Agent: Preschoolers Behave Morally but Believe in the Freedom to Do Otherwise, Journal of Cognition and Development, vol. 15 (May, 2014), pp. 453-464, Informa UK Limited [doi].
  37. Fedyk, M; Kushnir, T, Development links psychological causes to evolutionary explanations, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 37 (April, 2014), pp. 142-143, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [doi].
  38. Lucas, CG; Griffiths, TL; Xu, F; Fawcett, C; Gopnik, A; Kushnir, T; Markson, L; Hu, J, The Child as Econometrician: A Rational Model of Preference Understanding in Children, edited by Daunizeau, J, PLoS ONE, vol. 9 (March, 2014), pp. e92160-e92160, Public Library of Science (PLoS) [doi].
  39. Yu, Y; Kushnir, T, Social context effects in 2- and 4-year-olds’ selective versus faithful imitation., Developmental Psychology, vol. 50 (March, 2014), pp. 922-933, American Psychological Association (APA) [doi].
  40. Diesendruck, G; Salzer, S; Kushnir, T; Xu, F, 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, vol. 16 (October, 2013), pp. 370-380, Informa UK Limited [doi].
  41. Sobel, DM; Kushnir, T, Knowledge matters: how children evaluate the reliability of testimony as a process of rational inference., Psychological review, vol. 120 no. 4 (October, 2013), pp. 779-797 [doi] [abs].
  42. Chernyak, N; Kushnir, T; Sullivan, KM; Wang, Q, A comparison of American and Nepalese children's concepts of freedom of choice and social constraint., Cognitive science, vol. 37 no. 7 (September, 2013), pp. 1343-1355 [doi] [abs].
  43. Chernyak, N; Kushnir, T, Giving Preschoolers Choice Increases Sharing Behavior, Psychological Science, vol. 24 (August, 2013), pp. 1971-1979, SAGE Publications [doi].
  44. Xu, F; Kushnir, T, Infants Are Rational Constructivist Learners, Current Directions in Psychological Science, vol. 22 (February, 2013), pp. 28-32, SAGE Publications [doi].
  45. Kushnir, T; Vredenburgh, C; Schneider, LA, “Who can help me fix this toy?” The distinction between causal knowledge and word knowledge guides preschoolers\textquotesingle selective requests for information., Developmental Psychology, vol. 49 (2013), pp. 446-453, American Psychological Association (APA) [doi].
  46. Kushnir, T; Chernyak, N, Understanding the adult moralist requires first understanding the child scientist, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 33 (August, 2010), pp. 343-344, Cambridge University Press (CUP) [doi].
  47. Kushnir, T; Xu, F; Wellman, HM, Young Children Use Statistical Sampling to Infer the Preferences of Other People, Psychological Science, vol. 21 (July, 2010), pp. 1134-1140, SAGE Publications [doi].
  48. Kushnir, T; Gopnik, A; Lucas, C; Schulz, L, Inferring Hidden Causal Structure, Cognitive Science, vol. 34 (October, 2009), pp. 148-160, Wiley [doi].
  49. Kushnir, T; Wellman, HM; Gelman, SA, A self-agency bias in preschoolers\textquotesingle causal inferences., Developmental Psychology, vol. 45 (2009), pp. 597-603, American Psychological Association (APA) [doi].
  50. Kushnir, T; Wellman, HM; Gelman, SA, The role of preschoolers’ social understanding in evaluating the informativeness of causal interventions, Cognition, vol. 107 (June, 2008), pp. 1084-1092, Elsevier BV [doi].
  51. Kushnir, T; Gopnik, A, Conditional probability versus spatial contiguity in causal learning: Preschoolers use new contingency evidence to overcome prior spatial assumptions., Developmental Psychology, vol. 43 (2007), pp. 186-196, American Psychological Association (APA) [doi].
  52. Sobel, DM; Kushnir, T, The importance of decision making in causal learning from interventions., Memory & cognition, vol. 34 no. 2 (March, 2006), pp. 411-419 [doi] [abs].
  53. Kushnir, T; Gopnik, A, Young Children Infer Causal Strength From Probabilities and Interventions, Psychological Science, vol. 16 (September, 2005), pp. 678-683, SAGE Publications [doi].
  54. Gopnik, A; Glymour, C; Sobel, DM; Schulz, LE; Kushnir, T; Danks, D, A Theory of Causal Learning in Children: Causal Maps and Bayes Nets., Psychological Review, vol. 111 (2004), pp. 3-32, American Psychological Association (APA) [doi].

Papers Accepted

  1. Partington, S; Nichols, S; Kushnir, T, 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 (January, 2021), pp. 2752-2758 [abs].
  2. Kocher, D; Sarmiento, L; Heller, S; Yang, Y; Kushnir, T; Green, KE, 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) (October, 2020), IEEE [doi].
  3. Kocher, D; Kushnir, T; Green, KE, Better together: Young children's tendencies to help a non-humanoid robot collaborator, Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children Conference, IDC 2020 (June, 2020), pp. 243-249 [doi] [abs].
  4. Partington, S; Nichols, S; Kushnir, T, 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 (January, 2020), pp. 2679-2684 [abs].
  5. Flanagan, T; Kushnir, T, 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 (January, 2019), pp. 1738-1744 [abs].
  6. Varhol, AR; Kushnir, T; Koenig, MA, Preschoolers' Evaluations of Ignorant Agents are Situation-Specific, Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society: Creativity + Cognition + Computation, CogSci 2019 (January, 2019), pp. 3022-3028 [abs].
  7. Zhao, X; Kushnir, T, 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 (January, 2019), pp. 3199-3205 [abs].
  8. Kushnir, T; Gelman, SA, Translating testimonial claims into evidence for category-based induction, Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2016 (January, 2016), pp. 1307-1312 [abs].
  9. Zhao, X; Kushnir, T, 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 (January, 2016), pp. 1877-1882 [abs].
  10. Wente, AO; Ting, T; Aboody, R; Kushnir, T; Gopnik, A, 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 (January, 2016), pp. 770-775 [abs].
  11. Yu, Y; Kushnir, T, Understanding young children's imitative behavior from an individual differences perspective, Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2015 (January, 2015), pp. 2769-2774 [abs].
  12. Chernyak, N; Kushnir, T, 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 (January, 2013), pp. 2040-2045 [abs].
  13. Vredenburgh, C; Kushnir, T, 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 (January, 2013), pp. 3705-3710 [abs].
  14. Yu, Y; Kushnir, T, 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 (January, 2011), pp. 3570-3574 [abs].
  15. Chernyak, N; Kushnir, T; Sullivan, KM; Wang, Q, 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 (January, 2011), pp. 144-149 [abs].

Chapters in Books

  1. Vredenburgh, C; Yu, Y; Kushnir, T, Young children's flexible social cognition and sensitivity to context facilitates their learning, in Social Cognition: Development Across the Life Span (September, 2016), pp. 238-257 [doi].
  2. Kushnir, T, Developing a concept of choice., vol. 43 (January, 2012), pp. 193-218 [doi] [abs].
  3. Schulz, L; Kushnir, T; Gopnik, A, Learning From Doing: Intervention and Causal Inference, in Causal Learning: Psychology, Philosophy, and Computation (April, 2010) [doi] [abs].

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