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Publications of Tamar Kushnir    :chronological  alphabetical  combined  bibtex listing:

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Journal Articles

  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. 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]
  4. 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]
  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]
  6. 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]
  7. 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]
  8. 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]
  9. Kocher, D; Kushnir, T; Green, KE (2024). MAPLE: A Multi-Agent, Prosocial Learning Environment, Engaging and Motivating Children. 2024 7th Iberian Robotics Conference, ROBOT 2024. [doi]  [abs]
  10. 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]
  11. 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]
  12. Kushnir, T; Katz, T; Stegall, J (2023). A Review of “Becoming Human”. Journal of Cognition and Development, 24(4), 620-622. [doi]
  13. 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]
  14. 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]
  15. Partington, S; Nichols, S; Kushnir, T (2023). Rational learners and parochial norms.. Cognition, 233, 105366. [doi]  [abs]
  16. 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]
  17. 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]
  18. Kushnir, T (2022). Imagination and social cognition in childhood.. Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science, 13(4), e1603. [doi]  [abs]
  19. 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]
  20. 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]
  21. 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]
  22. Heck, IA; Kushnir, T; Kinzler, KD (2021). Social sampling: Children track social choices to reason about status hierarchies.. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. [doi]
  23. 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]
  24. 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]
  25. 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]
  26. 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]
  27. 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]
  28. 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]
  29. Wang, Q; Kushnir, T (2019). Cultural Pathways in Cognitive Development: Introduction to the Special Issue. Cognitive Development, 52, 100816-100816. [doi]
  30. Zhao, X; Kushnir, T (2019). How U.S. And Chinese children talk about personal, moral and conventional choices. Cognitive Development, 52, 100804-100804. [doi]
  31. Yu, Y; Kushnir, T (2019). The ontogeny of cumulative culture: Individual toddlers vary in faithful imitation and goal emulation. Developmental Science, 23. [doi]
  32. 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]
  33. 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]
  34. 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]
  35. 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]
  36. Kushnir, T (2018). The developmental and cultural psychology of free will. Philosophy Compass, 13, e12529-e12529. [doi]
  37. 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]
  38. 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]
  39. 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]
  40. 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]
  41. 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]
  42. Chernyak, N; Trieu, BY; Kushnir, T (2017). Preschoolers’ Selfish Sharing Is Reduced by Prior Experience With Proportional Generosity. Open Mind, 1, 42-52. [doi]
  43. 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]
  44. 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]
  45. 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]
  46. 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]
  47. 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]
  48. 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]
  49. 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]
  50. 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]
  51. Vredenburgh, C; Kushnir, T (2015). Young Children\textquotesingles Help-Seeking as Active Information Gathering. Cognitive Science, 40, 697-722. [doi]
  52. 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]
  53. 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]
  54. 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]
  55. Fedyk, M; Kushnir, T (2014). Development links psychological causes to evolutionary explanations. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 37, 142-143. [doi]
  56. 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]
  57. Yu, Y; Kushnir, T (2014). Social context effects in 2- and 4-year-olds’ selective versus faithful imitation.. Developmental Psychology, 50, 922-933. [doi]
  58. 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]
  59. 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]
  60. 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]
  61. Chernyak, N; Kushnir, T (2013). Giving Preschoolers Choice Increases Sharing Behavior. Psychological Science, 24, 1971-1979. [doi]
  62. Xu, F; Kushnir, T (2013). Infants Are Rational Constructivist Learners. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 22, 28-32. [doi]
  63. 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]
  64. 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]
  65. 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]
  66. 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]
  67. 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]
  68. Kushnir, T; Chernyak, N (2010). Understanding the adult moralist requires first understanding the child scientist. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33, 343-344. [doi]
  69. 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]
  70. Kushnir, T; Gopnik, A; Lucas, C; Schulz, L (2009). Inferring Hidden Causal Structure. Cognitive Science, 34, 148-160. [doi]
  71. Kushnir, T; Wellman, HM; Gelman, SA (2009). A self-agency bias in preschoolers\textquotesingle causal inferences.. Developmental Psychology, 45, 597-603. [doi]
  72. 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]
  73. 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]
  74. Sobel, DM; Kushnir, T (2006). The importance of decision making in causal learning from interventions.. Memory & cognition, 34(2), 411-419. [doi]  [abs]
  75. Kushnir, T; Gopnik, A (2005). Young Children Infer Causal Strength From Probabilities and Interventions. Psychological Science, 16, 678-683. [doi]
  76. 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. Fedyk, M; Kushnir, T; Xu, F "Intuitive Epistemology: Children’s Theory of Evidence." Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Science. January, 2019: 122-144.
  2. 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]
  3. Kushnir, T "Developing a concept of choice.."  January, 2012: 193-218. [doi]  [abs]
  4. 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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