Tamar Kushnir, Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience and Associate Chair of Psychology and Neuroscience

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Office Location:	417 Chapel Drive, Box 90086, Durham, NC 27708
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Education:

Ph.D.	University of California, Berkeley	2005
M.A.	University of California, Berkeley	2004
B.A.	Barnard College	1996

Recent Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

1. Finiasz, Z; Shore, M; Xu, F; Kushnir, T (2025). Children's cost-benefit analysis about agents who act for the greater good.. Cognition, 256, 106051. [doi]  [abs]
2. Li, PH; Kushnir, T (2025). Seeing Gray in a World of Black and White: Children Appreciate Reasoners Who Approach Moral Dilemmas With Humility.. Developmental science, 28(1), e13565. [doi]  [abs]
3. Flanagan, T; Georgiou, NC; Scassellati, B; Kushnir, T (2024). School-age children are more skeptical of inaccurate robots than adults.. Cognition, 249, 105814. [doi]  [abs]
4. Flanagan, T; Zhao, XA; Xu, F; Kushnir, T (2024). Is it personal or is it social? The interaction of knowledge domain and statistical evidence in U.S. and Chinese preschoolers' social generalizations.. Journal of experimental psychology. General, 153(7), 1887-1903. [doi]  [abs]
5. Carpenter, E; Siegel, A; Urquiola, S; Liu, J; Kushnir, T (2024). Being me in times of change: Young children's reflections on their lives during the COVID-19 pandemic. Children and Society, 38(4), 1147-1165. [doi]  [abs]