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

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

Ph.D.University of California, Berkeley2005
M.A.University of California, Berkeley2004
B.A.Barnard College1996
Recent Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

  1. Flanagan, T; Vesga, A; Kushnir, T; Nichols, S (2025). But Why?: Children's belief in the necessity of explanations.. Journal of experimental child psychology, 260, 106317. [doi]  [abs]
  2. 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]
  3. 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]
  4. Georgiou, NC; Flanagan, T; Scassellati, B; Kushnir, T (2025). Perceived Morality of Robot and Human Transgressors Varies By Perceived Ability to Feel. ACM IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction, 919-928. [doi]  [abs]
  5. 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]