Publications

In Press
Bass, I., Mahaffey, E., & Bonawitz, E. (In Press). Children use teachers' beliefs about their abilities to calibrate explore-exploit decisions. Topics in Cognitive Science. Preprint Version
Lapidow, E., & Bonawitz, E. (In Press). What’s in the box? Preschoolers consider ambiguity, expected value, and potential to inform future decision in explore-exploit tasks. Open Mind. Publisher's Version
Bonawitz, E., & Ullman, T. D. (In Press). Probabilistic Models of Development. . In T. Griffiths (Ed.), Probabilistic Models of Cognition.
2023
Colantonio, J., Bascandziev, I., Theobald, M., Brod, G., & Bonawitz, E. (2023). Seeing the error in my “Bayes”: A Quantified Degree of Belief Change Correlates with Children’s Pupillary Surprise Responses Following Explicit Predictions. Entropy.
Kominsky, J., Bascandziev, I., Shafto, P., & Bonawitz, E. (2023). Talk of the Town Mobile App Platform: New method engaging family in STEM learning and research in homes and communities. Frontiers in Psychology, Developmental Psychology.
LoBue, V., Bonawitz, E., Leotti, L., & Fefferman, N. (2023). How Children Develop Healthy Behavioral Choices to Promote Illness Prevention. Current Directions in Psychological Science. lobue_et_al._in_press.pdf
2022
Colantonio, J., Bascandziev, I., Theobald, M., Brod, G., & Bonawitz, E. (2022). Priors, Progression, and Predictions in Science Learning: Theory-Based Bayesian Models of Children’s Revising Beliefs of Water Displacement. IEEE Transaction on Cognitive and Developmental Systems.
Wang, J. J., & Bonawitz, E. (2022). Children integrate task difficulty and reward probability when deciding when to give up. Journal of Cognition and Development. , 1-13.
Bass, I., Smith, K., Bonawitz, E., & Ullman, T. D. (2022). Partial mental simulation explains fallacies in physical reasoning. J. Fischer (Ed.), Cognitive Neuropsychology. Special Issue: Intuitive Physics Within the Landscape of the Mind. , 38 (7-8), 413-424. Publisher's Version
Bass, I., Hawthorne-Madell, D., Goodman, N., Bonawitz, E., & Gweon, H. (2022). The effects of information quality and teachers’ knowledge on evaluations of under-informative pedagogy. J. Fischer (Ed.), Cognition , 222. Publisher's Version
Colantonio, J., Durkin, K., Shafto, P., & Bonawitz, E. (2022). The Intentional Selection Assumption. Frontiers , 4664.
Kominsky, J., Reardon, D., & Bonawitz, E. (2022). Intuitive judgements of ‘Overreation’ and their relationship to compliance with public health measures. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition , 10 (4), 542-553.
2021
Bass, I., Smith, K., Bonawitz, E., & Ullman, T. (2021). Efficient partial simulation quantitatively explains deviations from optimal physical predictions. In 35th Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems . Workshop: Physical Reasoning and Inductive Biases for the Real World.
Wang, J. J., Yang, Y., Macias, C., & Bonawitz, E. (2021). Children With More Uncertainty in Their Intuitive Theories Seek Domain-Relevant Information. Psychological Science , 32 (7), 1147–1156. Publisher's Version
Kominsky, J. F., Begus, K., Bass, I., Colantonio, J., Leonard, J. A., Mackey, A. P., & Bonawitz, E. (2021). Organizing the Methodological Toolbox: Lessons Learned From Implementing Developmental Methods Online. Frontiers in Psychology , 12, 702710. Publisher's Version
Bascandziev, I., Shafto, P., & Bonawitz, E. (2021). The Sound of Pedagogical Questions. T. Fitch, C. Lamm, H. Leder, & K. Tessmar-Raible (Ed.), Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society . Vienna, AT, Cognitive Science Society. Publisher's Version
Bass, I., Mahaffey, E., & Bonawitz, E. (2021). Do You Know What I Know? Children Use Informants’ Beliefs About Their Abilities to Calibrate Choices During Pedagogy. In T. Fitch, C. Lamm, H. Leder, & K. Tessmar-Raible (Ed.), Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society . Vienna, AT, Cognitive Science Society. Publisher's Version
Persaud, K., Macias, C., Hemmer, P., & Bonawitz, E. (2021). Evaluating recall error in preschoolers: Category expectations influence episodic memory for color. Cognitive Psychology , 124, 101357. Publisher's Version
Kominsky, J. F., Reardon, D., & Bonawitz, E. (2021). If it works we didn't need it: Intuitive judgments of 'overreaction'. In T. Fitch, C. Lamm, H. Leder, & K. Tessmar-Raible (Ed.), Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society . Cognitive Science Society. Publisher's Version
Kominsky, J. F., Shafto, P., & Bonawitz, E. (2021). “There’s something inside”: Children’s intuitions about animate agents. H. Marno (Ed.), PLOS ONE , 16 (5), e0251081. Publisher's Version

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