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Tamar Kushnir, Ph.D. - Publications

Affiliations: 
Human Ecology Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, United States 
Area:
Social Cognitive Development
Website:
http://www.human.cornell.edu/bio.cfm?netid=tk397
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2024 Flanagan T, Georgiou NC, Scassellati B, Kushnir T. School-age children are more skeptical of inaccurate robots than adults. Cognition. 249: 105814. PMID 38763071 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105814  0.462
2024 Flanagan T, Zhao XA, Xu F, Kushnir T. 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. PMID 38695795 DOI: 10.1037/xge0001605  0.518
2024 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, ... ... Kushnir T, et al. 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: e0292755. PMID 38457421 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0292755  0.761
2024 Finiasz Z, Gelman SA, Kushnir T. Testimony and observation of statistical evidence interact in adults' and children's category-based induction. Cognition. 244: 105707. PMID 38176153 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105707  0.362
2023 Katz T, Kushnir T, Tomasello M. Children are eager to take credit for prosocial acts, and cost affects this tendency. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 237: 105764. PMID 37690347 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2023.105764  0.409
2023 Flanagan T, Wong G, Kushnir T. The minds of machines: Children's beliefs about the experiences, thoughts, and morals of familiar interactive technologies. Developmental Psychology. PMID 37036664 DOI: 10.1037/dev0001524  0.418
2023 Partington S, Nichols S, Kushnir T. Rational learners and parochial norms. Cognition. 233: 105366. PMID 36669334 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105366  0.395
2023 Heck IA, Kushnir T, Kinzler KD. Building representations of the social world: Children extract patterns from social choices to reason about multi-group hierarchies. Developmental Science. e13366. PMID 36588167 DOI: 10.1111/desc.13366  0.373
2022 Shachnai R, Kushnir T, Bian L. Walking in Her Shoes: Pretending to Be a Female Role Model Increases Young Girls' Persistence in Science. Psychological Science. 9567976221119393. PMID 36170452 DOI: 10.1177/09567976221119393  0.401
2022 Kushnir T. Imagination and social cognition in childhood. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews. Cognitive Science. e1603. PMID 35633075 DOI: 10.1002/wcs.1603  0.318
2022 Zhao X, Kushnir T. When it's not easy to do the right thing: Developmental changes in understanding cost drive evaluations of moral praiseworthiness. Developmental Science. e13257. PMID 35301779 DOI: 10.1111/desc.13257  0.531
2022 Ransom A, LaGrant B, Spiteri A, Kushnir T, Anderson AK, De Rosa E. Face-to-face learning enhances the social transmission of information. Plos One. 17: e0264250. PMID 35213587 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0264250  0.328
2021 Zhao X, Wente A, Flecha MF, Galvan DS, Gopnik A, Kushnir T. Culture moderates the relationship between self-control ability and free will beliefs in childhood. Cognition. 210: 104609. PMID 33535141 DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104609  0.676
2021 Heck IA, Kushnir T, Kinzler KD. Social sampling: Children track social choices to reason about status hierarchies. Journal of Experimental Psychology. General. PMID 33523688 DOI: 10.1037/xge0001008  0.337
2021 Zhao X, Zhao X, Gweon H, Kushnir T. Leaving a Choice for Others: Children's Evaluations of Considerate, Socially-Mindful Actions. Child Development. PMID 33458830 DOI: 10.1111/cdev.13480  0.54
2019 Yu Y, Kushnir T. The ontogeny of cumulative culture: Individual toddlers vary in faithful imitation and goal emulation. Developmental Science. e12862. PMID 31111632 DOI: 10.1111/Desc.12862  0.581
2019 Chernyak N, Kang C, Kushnir T. The cultural roots of free will beliefs: How Singaporean and U.S. Children judge and explain possibilities for action in interpersonal contexts. Developmental Psychology. PMID 30652885 DOI: 10.1037/Dev0000670  0.791
2019 Zhao X, Kushnir T. How U.S. And Chinese children talk about personal, moral and conventional choices Cognitive Development. 52: 100804. DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2019.100804  0.409
2019 Zhao X, Kushnir T. How U.S. And Chinese children talk about personal, moral and conventional choices Cognitive Development. 52: 100804. DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2019.100804  0.409
2019 Zhao X, Kushnir T. How U.S. And Chinese children talk about personal, moral and conventional choices Cognitive Development. 52: 100804. DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2019.100804  0.409
2019 Zhao X, Kushnir T. How U.S. And Chinese children talk about personal, moral and conventional choices Cognitive Development. 52: 100804. DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2019.100804  0.409
2019 Zhao X, Kushnir T. How U.S. And Chinese children talk about personal, moral and conventional choices Cognitive Development. 52: 100804. DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2019.100804  0.409
2019 Zhao X, Kushnir T. How U.S. And Chinese children talk about personal, moral and conventional choices Cognitive Development. 52: 100804. DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2019.100804  0.409
2019 Zhao X, Kushnir T. How U.S. And Chinese children talk about personal, moral and conventional choices Cognitive Development. 52: 100804. DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2019.100804  0.409
2019 Zhao X, Kushnir T. How U.S. And Chinese children talk about personal, moral and conventional choices Cognitive Development. 52: 100804. DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2019.100804  0.409
2019 Zhao X, Kushnir T. How U.S. And Chinese children talk about personal, moral and conventional choices Cognitive Development. 52: 100804. DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2019.100804  0.409
2019 Zhao X, Kushnir T. How U.S. And Chinese children talk about personal, moral and conventional choices Cognitive Development. 52: 100804. DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2019.100804  0.409
2019 Zhao X, Kushnir T. How U.S. And Chinese children talk about personal, moral and conventional choices Cognitive Development. 52: 100804. DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2019.100804  0.409
2019 Zhao X, Kushnir T. How U.S. And Chinese children talk about personal, moral and conventional choices Cognitive Development. 52: 100804. DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2019.100804  0.409
2019 Zhao X, Kushnir T. How U.S. And Chinese children talk about personal, moral and conventional choices Cognitive Development. 52: 100804. DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2019.100804  0.409
2019 Zhao X, Kushnir T. How U.S. And Chinese children talk about personal, moral and conventional choices Cognitive Development. 52: 100804. DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2019.100804  0.409
2019 Zhao X, Kushnir T. How U.S. And Chinese children talk about personal, moral and conventional choices Cognitive Development. 52: 100804. DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2019.100804  0.409
2019 Zhao X, Kushnir T. How U.S. And Chinese children talk about personal, moral and conventional choices Cognitive Development. 52: 100804. DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2019.100804  0.409
2019 Zhao X, Kushnir T. How U.S. And Chinese children talk about personal, moral and conventional choices Cognitive Development. 52: 100804. DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2019.100804  0.409
2019 Zhao X, Kushnir T. How U.S. And Chinese children talk about personal, moral and conventional choices Cognitive Development. 52: 100804. DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2019.100804  0.409
2019 Zhao X, Kushnir T. How U.S. And Chinese children talk about personal, moral and conventional choices Cognitive Development. 52: 100804. DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2019.100804  0.409
2019 Zhao X, Kushnir T. How U.S. And Chinese children talk about personal, moral and conventional choices Cognitive Development. 52: 100804. DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2019.100804  0.409
2019 Zhao X, Kushnir T. How U.S. And Chinese children talk about personal, moral and conventional choices Cognitive Development. 52: 100804. DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2019.100804  0.409
2019 Zhao X, Kushnir T. How U.S. And Chinese children talk about personal, moral and conventional choices Cognitive Development. 52: 100804. DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2019.100804  0.409
2019 Zhao X, Kushnir T. How U.S. And Chinese children talk about personal, moral and conventional choices Cognitive Development. 52: 100804. DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2019.100804  0.409
2019 Zhao X, Kushnir T. How U.S. And Chinese children talk about personal, moral and conventional choices Cognitive Development. 52: 100804. DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2019.100804  0.409
2019 Zhao X, Kushnir T. How U.S. And Chinese children talk about personal, moral and conventional choices Cognitive Development. 52: 100804. DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2019.100804  0.409
2019 Zhao X, Kushnir T. How U.S. And Chinese children talk about personal, moral and conventional choices Cognitive Development. 52: 100804. DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2019.100804  0.409
2019 Zhao X, Kushnir T. How U.S. And Chinese children talk about personal, moral and conventional choices Cognitive Development. 52: 100804. DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2019.100804  0.409
2019 Zhao X, Kushnir T. How U.S. And Chinese children talk about personal, moral and conventional choices Cognitive Development. 52: 100804. DOI: 10.1016/J.Cogdev.2019.100804  0.54
2019 Zhao X, Kushnir T. How U.S. And Chinese children talk about personal, moral and conventional choices Cognitive Development. 52: 100804. DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2019.100804  0.409
2019 Zhao X, Kushnir T. How U.S. And Chinese children talk about personal, moral and conventional choices Cognitive Development. 52: 100804. DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2019.100804  0.409
2019 Zhao X, Kushnir T. How U.S. And Chinese children talk about personal, moral and conventional choices Cognitive Development. 52: 100804. DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2019.100804  0.409
2019 Zhao X, Kushnir T. How U.S. And Chinese children talk about personal, moral and conventional choices Cognitive Development. 52: 100804. DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2019.100804  0.409
2019 Zhao X, Kushnir T. How U.S. And Chinese children talk about personal, moral and conventional choices Cognitive Development. 52: 100804. DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2019.100804  0.409
2019 Zhao X, Kushnir T. How U.S. And Chinese children talk about personal, moral and conventional choices Cognitive Development. 52: 100804. DOI: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2019.100804  0.409
2017 Eason AE, Doctor D, Chang E, Kushnir T, Sommerville JA. The Choice Is Yours: Infants' Expectations About an Agent's Future Behavior Based on Taking and Receiving Actions. Developmental Psychology. PMID 29283594 DOI: 10.1037/Dev0000482  0.376
2017 Van de Vondervoort JW, Aknin LB, Kushnir T, Slevinsky J, Hamlin JK. Selectivity in Toddlers' Behavioral and Emotional Reactions to Prosocial and Antisocial Others. Developmental Psychology. PMID 29058929 DOI: 10.1037/Dev0000404  0.334
2017 Chernyak N, Kushnir T. The influence of understanding and having choice on children's prosocial behavior. Current Opinion in Psychology. 20: 107-110. PMID 28888948 DOI: 10.1016/J.Copsyc.2017.07.043  0.794
2017 Zhao X, Kushnir T. Young children consider individual authority and collective agreement when deciding who can change rules. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. PMID 28495209 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jecp.2017.04.004  0.61
2017 Kushnir T, Koenig MA. What I Don't Know Won't Hurt You: The Relation Between Professed Ignorance and Later Knowledge Claims. Developmental Psychology. PMID 28358533 DOI: 10.1037/Dev0000294  0.558
2017 Chernyak N, Trieu BY, Kushnir T. Preschoolers’ Selfish Sharing Is Reduced by Prior Experience With Proportional Generosity Open Mind. 1: 42-52. DOI: 10.1162/OPMI_a_00004  0.684
2017 Chernyak N, Trieu BY, Kushnir T. Preschoolers’ Selfish Sharing Is Reduced by Prior Experience With Proportional Generosity Open Mind. 1: 42-52. DOI: 10.1162/Opmi_A_00004  0.804
2015 Yu Y, Kushnir T. When What's Inside Counts: Sequence of Demonstrated Actions Affects Preschooler's Categorization by Nonobvious Properties. Developmental Psychology. PMID 26689759 DOI: 10.1037/Dev0000088  0.53
2015 Koenig MA, Cole CA, Meyer M, Ridge KE, Kushnir T, Gelman SA. Reasoning about knowledge: Children's evaluations of generality and verifiability. Cognitive Psychology. 83: 22-39. PMID 26451884 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cogpsych.2015.08.007  0.537
2015 Josephs M, Kushnir T, Gräfenhain M, Rakoczy H. Children protest moral and conventional violations more when they believe actions are freely chosen. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. PMID 26341742 DOI: 10.1016/J.Jecp.2015.08.002  0.546
2015 Vredenburgh C, Kushnir T. Young Children's Help-Seeking as Active Information Gathering. Cognitive Science. PMID 25916349 DOI: 10.1111/Cogs.12245  0.543
2015 Kushnir J, Djerassi R, Sofer T, Kushnir T. Threat perception, anxiety and noncompliance with preoperative fasting instructions among mothers of children attending elective same day surgery. Journal of Pediatric Surgery. 50: 869-74. PMID 25783336 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2014.08.018  0.321
2015 Kushnir T, Gopnik A, Chernyak N, Seiver E, Wellman HM. Developing intuitions about free will between ages four and six. Cognition. 138: 79-101. PMID 25721020 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cognition.2015.01.003  0.712
2015 Vredenburgh C, Kushnir T, Casasola M. Pedagogical cues encourage toddlers' transmission of recently demonstrated functions to unfamiliar adults. Developmental Science. 18: 645-54. PMID 25284008 DOI: 10.1111/Desc.12233  0.518
2015 Diesendruck G, Salzer S, Kushnir T, Xu F. When Choices Are Not Personal: The Effect of Statistical and Social Cues on Children's Inferences About the Scope of Preferences Journal of Cognition and Development. 16: 370-380. DOI: 10.1080/15248372.2013.848870  0.534
2014 Fedyk M, Kushnir T. Development links psychological causes to evolutionary explanations. The Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 37: 142-3. PMID 24775129 DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X1300201X  0.367
2014 Lucas CG, Griffiths TL, Xu F, Fawcett C, Gopnik A, Kushnir T, Markson L, Hu J. The child as econometrician: a rational model of preference understanding in children. Plos One. 9: e92160. PMID 24667309 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0092160  0.746
2014 Yu Y, Kushnir T. Social context effects in 2- and 4-year-olds' selective versus faithful imitation. Developmental Psychology. 50: 922-33. PMID 23978298 DOI: 10.1037/A0034242  0.567
2014 Chernyak N, Kushnir T. 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: 10.1080/15248372.2013.777843  0.797
2013 Sobel DM, Kushnir T. Knowledge matters: how children evaluate the reliability of testimony as a process of rational inference. Psychological Review. 120: 779-97. PMID 24015954 DOI: 10.1037/A0034191  0.658
2013 Chernyak N, Kushnir T. Giving preschoolers choice increases sharing behavior. Psychological Science. 24: 1971-9. PMID 23955355 DOI: 10.1177/0956797613482335  0.782
2013 Chernyak N, Kushnir T, Sullivan KM, Wang Q. A comparison of American and Nepalese children's concepts of freedom of choice and social constraint. Cognitive Science. 37: 1343-55. PMID 23692272 DOI: 10.1111/Cogs.12046  0.779
2013 Kushnir T, Vredenburgh C, Schneider LA. "Who can help me fix this toy?" The distinction between causal knowledge and word knowledge guides preschoolers' selective requests for information. Developmental Psychology. 49: 446-53. PMID 23339590 DOI: 10.1037/A0031649  0.416
2013 Xu F, Kushnir T. Infants Are Rational Constructivist Learners Current Directions in Psychological Science. 22: 28-32. DOI: 10.1177/0963721412469396  0.432
2012 Kushnir T. Developing a concept of choice. Advances in Child Development and Behavior. 43: 193-218. PMID 23205412 DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-397919-3.00007-1  0.586
2010 Kushnir T, Gopnik A, Lucas C, Schulz L. Inferring hidden causal structure. Cognitive Science. 34: 148-60. PMID 21564209 DOI: 10.1111/J.1551-6709.2009.01072.X  0.693
2010 Kushnir T, Xu F, Wellman HM. Young children use statistical sampling to infer the preferences of other people. Psychological Science. 21: 1134-40. PMID 20622142 DOI: 10.1177/0956797610376652  0.535
2010 Schulz L, Kushnir T, Gopnik A. Learning From Doing: Intervention and Causal Inference Causal Learning: Psychology, Philosophy, and Computation. DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195176803.003.0006  0.611
2010 Kushnir T, Chernyak N. Understanding the adult moralist requires first understanding the child scientist Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 33: 343-344. DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X10002037  0.776
2009 Kushnir T, Wellman HM, Gelman SA. A self-agency bias in preschoolers' causal inferences. Developmental Psychology. 45: 597-603. PMID 19271843 DOI: 10.1037/A0014727  0.546
2008 Kushnir T, Wellman HM, Gelman SA. The role of preschoolers' social understanding in evaluating the informativeness of causal interventions. Cognition. 107: 1084-92. PMID 18039543 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cognition.2007.10.004  0.435
2007 Kushnir T, Gopnik A. Conditional probability versus spatial contiguity in causal learning: Preschoolers use new contingency evidence to overcome prior spatial assumptions. Developmental Psychology. 43: 186-96. PMID 17201518 DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.43.1.186  0.661
2006 Sobel DM, Kushnir T. The importance of decision making in causal learning from interventions. Memory & Cognition. 34: 411-9. PMID 16752604 DOI: 10.3758/Bf03193418  0.498
2005 Kushnir T, Gopnik A. Young children infer causal strength from probabilities and interventions. Psychological Science. 16: 678-83. PMID 16137252 DOI: 10.1111/J.1467-9280.2005.01595.X  0.665
2004 Gopnik A, Glymour C, Sobel DM, Schulz LE, Kushnir T, Danks D. A theory of causal learning in children: causal maps and Bayes nets. Psychological Review. 111: 3-32. PMID 14756583 DOI: 10.1037/0033-295X.111.1.3  0.758
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