Publications

2018
Bonawitz, E., Bass, I., & Lapidow, E. (2018). Choosing to Learn: Evidence Evaluation for Active Learning and Teaching in Early Childhood. In Active Learning from Infancy to Childhood (pp. 213-231) . Springer.
Colantonio, J., & Bonawitz, E. (2018). Awesome play: Awe increases preschooler’s exploration and discovery. In C. Kalish, M. Rau, J. Zhu, & T. T. Rogers (Ed.), Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. . Madison, WI, Cognitive Science Society. Publisher's Version
Bonawitz, E., Bass, I., & Lapidow, E. (2018). Choosing to Learn: Evidence Evaluation for Active Learning and Teaching in Early Childhood. In M. M. Saylor & P. A. Ganea (Ed.), Active Learning from Infancy to Childhood: Social Motivation, Cognition, and Linguistic Mechanisms (pp. 213–231) . Cham, Springer International Publishing. Publisher's VersionAbstract
Choi, K., Lapidow, E., Austin, J., Shafto, P., & Bonawitz, E. (2018). Preschoolers are more likely to direct questions to adults than to other children (or selves) during spontaneous conversational acts. In C. Kalish, M. Rau, J. Zhu, & T. T. Rogers (Ed.), Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Madison . Madison, WI, Cognitive Science Society.
Bass, I., Shafto, P., & Bonawitz, E. (2018). That'll Teach 'em: How Expectations about Teaching Styles may Constrain Inferences. In C. Kalish, M. Rau, J. Zhu, & T. T. Rogers (Ed.), Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society . Madison, WI, Cognitive Science Society.
Yu, Y., Shafto, P., Bonawitz, E., Yang, S. C. - H., Golinkoff, R. M., Corriveau, K. H., Hirsh-Pasek, K., et al. (2018). The theoretical and methodological opportunities afforded by guided play with young children. Frontiers in psychology , 9 1152 . Frontiers.
Lombrozo, T., Bonawitz, E. B., & Scalise, N. R. (2018). Young children’s learning and generalization of teleological and mechanistic explanations. Journal of Cognition and Development , 19 (2), 220–232 . Taylor & Francis.
Yu, Y., Landrum, A. R., Bonawitz, E., & Shafto, P. (2018). Questioning supports effective transmission of knowledge and increased exploratory learning in pre-kindergarten children. Developmental science , 21 (6), e12696 . Wiley Online Library.
2017
Muentner, P., & Bonawitz, E. (2017). The development of causal reasoning. In M. Waldman (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Causal Reasoning . Elsevier Limited. Publisher's Version
Bassa, L., Bonawitz, E., & Gweon, H. (2017). Didn’t know, or didn’t show? Preschoolers consider epistemic state and degree of omission when evaluating teachers. In G. Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink, & E. Davelaar (Ed.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 105-110) . London, UK, Cognitive Science Society.
Bassa, L., Bonawitz, E., Shafto, P., Ramarajana, D., Gopnik, A., & Wellman, H. (2017). I know what you need to know: Children’s developing theory of mind and pedagogical evidence selection. In G. Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink, & E. Davelaar (Ed.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 99-104) . London, UK, Cognitive Science Society.
Walker, C. M., Bonawitz, E., & Lombrozo, T. (2017). Effects of explaining on children's preference for simpler hypotheses. Psychonomic bulletin & review , 24 (5), 1538–1547 . Springer.
Yu, Y., Shafto, P., & Bonawitz, E. (2017). Inconvenient Samples: Modeling Biases Related to Parental Consent by Coupling Observational and Experimental Results. In G. Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink, & E. Davelaar (Ed.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1406-1411) . London, UK, Cognitive Science Society.
2016
Yu, Y., Bonawitz, E., & Shafto, P. (2016). Questions in informal teaching: A study of mother-child conversations. In A. Papafragou, D. Grodner, D. Mirman, & J. C. Trueswell (Ed.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Recogbizing and Representing Events, CogSci 2016, Philadelphia, PA, USA, August 10-13, 2016 . cognitivesciencesociety.org. Publisher's Version
Bonawitz, E., & Shafto, P. (2016). Computational models of development, social influences. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences , 7 95–100 . Elsevier.
2015
Durkin, K., Çağlar, L., Bonawitz, E., & Shafto, P. (2015). Explaining Choice Behavior: The Intentional Selection Assumption. CogSci.
Shafto, P., & Bonawitz, E. (2015). Choice from among intentionally selected options. In Psychology of learning and motivation (Vol. 63, pp. 115–139) . Elsevier.
Rhodes, M., Bonawitz, E., Shafto, P., Chen, A., & Caglar, L. (2015). Controlling the message: Preschoolers’ use of information to teach and deceive others. Frontiers in psychology , 6 867 . Frontiers.
Gopnik, A., & Bonawitz, E. (2015). Bayesian models of child development. Wiley interdisciplinary reviews: cognitive science , 6 (2), 75–86 . Wiley Online Library.
2014
Bonawitz, E., Denison, S., Gopnik, A., & Griffiths, T. L. (2014). Win-Stay, Lose-Sample: A simple sequential algorithm for approximating Bayesian inference. Cognitive psychology , 74, 35–65 . Elsevier.

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