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2020 – today
- 2023
- [c49]Emory Richardson, Isaac Davis, Frank Keil:
Agenda setting and The Emperor's New Clothes: people infer that letting powerful agents make their opinion known early can trigger information cascades and pluralistic ignorance. CogSci 2023 - [c48]Emory Richardson, Hannah Hok, Alex Shaw, Frank Keil:
Herding cats: children's intuitive theories of persuasion predict slower collective decisions in larger and more diverse groups, but disregard factional power. CogSci 2023 - 2022
- [j15]Sehrang Joo, Sami R. Yousif, Frank C. Keil:
Understanding "Why: " How Implicit Questions Shape Explanation Preferences. Cogn. Sci. 46(2) (2022) - [c47]Maureen Gill, Frank Keil:
What is a consumer product for? How teleology guides judgments of product liability. CogSci 2022 - [c46]Sehrang Joo, Sami R. Yousif, Fabienne Martin, Frank Keil, Joshua Knobe:
No privileged link between intentionality and causation: Generalizable effects of agency in language. CogSci 2022 - [c45]Amanda McCarthy, Frank Keil:
A Right Way to Explain? Function, Mechanism, and the Order of Explanations. CogSci 2022 - [c44]Emory Richardson, Frank Keil:
"He only changed his answer because they shouted at him": children use affective cues to distinguish between genuine and forced consensus. CogSci 2022 - [c43]Emory Richardson, Daniela Miro-Rivera, Frank Keil:
Know your network: people infer cultural drift from network structure, and expect collaborating with more distant experts to improve innovation, but collaborating with network-neighbors to improve memory. CogSci 2022 - [c42]Benjamin F. Scheve, Xiuyuan Zhang, Frank Keil:
Willingness to Interact Increases When Opponents Offer Specific Evidence. CogSci 2022 - [c41]Brynn E. Sherman, Sami R. Yousif, Caroline Reiner, Frank Keil:
The speed of statistical perception. CogSci 2022 - 2021
- [c40]Nicole Betz, Frank Keil:
Mechanistic Learning Goals Enhance Elementary Student Understanding and Enjoyment of Heart Lessons. CogSci 2021 - [c39]Nicole Betz, Amanda McCarthy, Frank Keil:
Adult Intuitions about Mechanistic Content in Elementary School Science Lessons. CogSci 2021 - [c38]Sehrang Joo, Sami R. Yousif, Frank Keil:
What is a 'mechanism'? A distinction between two sub-types of mechanistic explanations. CogSci 2021 - [c37]Emory Richardson, Frank Keil:
You can't trust an angry group: asymmetric evaluations of angry and surprised rhetoric affect confidence in trending opinions. CogSci 2021 - [c36]Sami R. Yousif, Frank Keil:
'Decoding' the locus of spatial representation from simple localization errors. CogSci 2021 - 2020
- [c35]Sehrang Joo, Sami R. Yousif, Frank Keil:
Implicit questions shape information preferences. CogSci 2020 - [c34]Alice Liefgreen, Sami R. Yousif, Frank Keil, David A. Lagnado:
I don't know if you did it, but I know why: A 'motive' preference at multiple stages of the legal-investigative process. CogSci 2020 - [c33]Amanda McCarthy, Frank Keil:
Jargon Jinx: An Early Bias Toward Opaque Explanations. CogSci 2020 - [c32]Emory Richardson, Frank Keil:
Does informational independence always matter? Children believe small group discussion is more accurate than ten times as many independent informants. CogSci 2020 - [c31]Emory Richardson, Frank Keil:
Children use agents' response time to distinguish between memory and novel inference. CogSci 2020 - [c30]Sami R. Yousif, Frank Keil:
Illusory causal connections and their effect on subjective probability. CogSci 2020
2010 – 2019
- 2019
- [c29]Samuel Johnson, Gregory Murphy, Max Rodrigues, Frank Keil:
Predictions from Uncertain Moral Character. CogSci 2019: 506-512 - [c28]Sami R. Yousif, Emma Alexandrov, Elizabeth Bennette, Frank Keil:
Perceived Area Plays a Dominant Role in Visual Quantity Estimation. CogSci 2019: 1241-1246 - [c27]Samuel Johnson, Amanda L. Royka, Peter McNally, Frank Keil:
When Is Science Considered Interesting and Important? CogSci 2019: 1970-1976 - [c26]Jonathan F. Kominsky, Tobias Gerstenberg, Madeline Pelz, Henrik Singmann, Mark Sheskin, Frank Keil:
The trajectory of counterfactual simulation in development. CogSci 2019: 2044-2050 - 2018
- [j14]Jonathan F. Kominsky, Anna P. Zamm, Frank C. Keil:
Knowing When Help Is Needed: A Developing Sense of Causal Complexity. Cogn. Sci. 42(2): 491-523 (2018) - [c25]Richard Ahl, Erika DeAngelis, Auburn Stephenson, Sehrang Joo, Frank Keil:
It's Complicated: Children Identify Relevant Information About Causal Complexity. CogSci 2018 - [c24]Aaron Chuey, Mark Sheskin, Frank Keil:
Mechanistic Knowledge Generalizes Differentially. CogSci 2018 - [c23]Samuel Johnson, Jiewen Zhang, Frank Keil:
Psychological Underpinnings of Zero-Sum Thinking. CogSci 2018 - [c22]Emmanuel Trouche, Aaron Chuey, Kristi Lockhart, Frank Keil:
Children Don't Just Wanna Have Fun: An Experimental Demonstration Of Children's Curiosity For How Things Work. CogSci 2018 - [c21]Sami R. Yousif, Rosie Aboody, Frank Keil:
Any consensus will do: The failure to distinguish between 'true' and 'false' consensus. CogSci 2018 - [c20]Sami R. Yousif, Frank Keil:
When in doubt: Using confidence and consensus as 'summary statistics' of collective knowledge. CogSci 2018 - 2017
- [j13]Matthew Fisher, Joshua Knobe, Brent Strickland, Frank C. Keil:
The Influence of Social Interaction on Intuitions of Objectivity and Subjectivity. Cogn. Sci. 41(4): 1119-1134 (2017) - [c19]Samuel G. B. Johnson, Angie Johnston, Marissa Koven, Frank Keil:
Principles Used to Evaluate Mathematical Explanations. CogSci 2017 - [c18]Samuel G. B. Johnson, Frank C. Keil:
Statistical and Mechanistic Information in Evaluating Causal Claims. CogSci 2017 - [c17]Samuel G. B. Johnson, J. J. Valenti, Frank C. Keil:
Opponent Uses of Simplicity and Complexity in Causal Explanation. CogSci 2017 - [c16]Emmanuel Trouche, Aaron Chuey, Kristi Lockhart, Frank Keil:
Why Teach How Things Work? Tracking the Evolution of Children's Intuitions About Complexity. CogSci 2017 - 2016
- [j12]Matthew Fisher, Frank C. Keil:
The Curse of Expertise: When More Knowledge Leads to Miscalibrated Explanatory Insight. Cogn. Sci. 40(5): 1251-1269 (2016) - [c15]Samuel G. B. Johnson, Haylie Kim, Frank Keil:
Explanatory Biases in Social Categorization. CogSci 2016 - [c14]Samuel G. B. Johnson, Kristen Kim, Frank Keil:
The Determinants of Knowability. CogSci 2016 - [c13]Samuel G. B. Johnson, Marianna Zhang, Frank Keil:
Decision-Making and Biases in Causal-Explanatory Reasoning. CogSci 2016 - [c12]Jonathan F. Kominsky, Brent Strickland, Annie Wertz, Claudai Elsner, Karen Wynn, Frank Keil:
Causal perception is constrained by principles of Newtonian mechanics. CogSci 2016 - 2015
- [j11]Brian J. Edwards, Russell C. Burnett, Frank C. Keil:
Effects of Causal Structure on Decisions About Where to Intervene on Causal Systems. Cogn. Sci. 39(8): 1912-1924 (2015) - [c11]Samuel G. B. Johnson, Thomas Merchant, Frank Keil:
Predictions from Uncertain Beliefs. CogSci 2015 - [c10]Samuel G. B. Johnson, Thomas Merchant, Frank Keil:
Argument Scope in Inductive Reasoning: Evidence for an Abductive Account of Induction. CogSci 2015 - [c9]Samuel G. B. Johnson, Greeshma Rajeev-Kumar, Frank Keil:
Belief Utility as an Explanatory Virtue. CogSci 2015 - [c8]Angie Johnston, Samuel G. B. Johnson, Marissa Koven, Frank Keil:
Probabilistic Versus Heuristic Accounts of Explanation in Children: Evidence from a Latent Scope Bias. CogSci 2015 - [c7]Jonathan F. Kominsky, Philip Langthorne, Frank C. Keil:
The better part of not knowing: Virtuous ignorance. CogSci 2015 - 2014
- [j10]Benjamin M. Rottman, Jonathan F. Kominsky, Frank C. Keil:
Children Use Temporal Cues to Learn Causal Directionality. Cogn. Sci. 38(3): 489-513 (2014) - [j9]Jonathan F. Kominsky, Frank C. Keil:
Overestimation of Knowledge About Word Meanings: The "Misplaced Meaning" Effect. Cogn. Sci. 38(8): 1604-1633 (2014) - [c6]Samuel G. B. Johnson, Andy Jin, Frank Keil:
Simplicity and Goodness-of-Fit in Explanation: The Case of Intuitive Curve-Fitting. CogSci 2014 - [c5]Samuel G. B. Johnson, Angie Johnston, Amy Toig, Frank Keil:
Explanatory Scope Informs Causal Strength Inferences. CogSci 2014 - [c4]Samuel G. B. Johnson, Greeshma Rajeev-Kumar, Frank Keil:
Inferred Evidence in Latent Scope Explanations. CogSci 2014 - 2011
- [c3]Benjamin M. Rottman, Frank Keil:
Which Parts of Scientific Explanations are Most Important? CogSci 2011 - [c2]Benjamin M. Rottman, Frank Keil:
Learning Causal Direction from Repeated Observations over Time. CogSci 2011 - [c1]Brent Strickland, Matt Fischer, Elodie Peyroux, Frank Keil:
Syntactic Biases in Intentionality Judgments. CogSci 2011 - 2010
- [j8]Frank C. Keil:
The Feasibility of Folk Science. Cogn. Sci. 34(5): 826-862 (2010)
2000 – 2009
- 2008
- [j7]Frank C. Keil, Courtney Stein, Lisa Webb, Van Dyke Billings, Leonid Rozenblit:
Discerning the Division of Cognitive Labor: An Emerging Understanding of How Knowledge Is Clustered in Other Minds. Cogn. Sci. 32(2): 259-300 (2008) - [j6]Deena Skolnick Weisberg, Frank C. Keil, Joshua Goodstein, Elizabeth Rawson, Jeremy R. Gray:
The Seductive Allure of Neuroscience Explanations. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 20(3): 470-477 (2008) - 2002
- [j5]Leonid Rozenblit, Frank C. Keil:
The misunderstood limits of folk science: an illusion of explanatory depth. Cogn. Sci. 26(5): 521-562 (2002) - 2001
- [j4]Frank C. Keil:
The scope of the cognitive sciences: Reply to 6 reviews of The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences. Artif. Intell. 130(2): 217-221 (2001)
1990 – 1999
- 1998
- [j3]Robert A. Wilson, Frank Keil:
The Shadows and Shallows of Explanation. Minds Mach. 8(1): 137-159 (1998) - 1990
- [j2]Frank C. Keil:
Constraints on Constraints: Surveying the Epigenetic Landscape. Cogn. Sci. 14(1): 135-168 (1990)
1980 – 1989
- 1985
- [j1]Michael H. Kelly, Frank C. Keil:
The More Things Change ...: Metamorphoses and Conceptual Structure. Cogn. Sci. 9(4): 403-416 (1985)
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