Vasil, Ny, Mahesh Srinivasan, Monica E. Ellwood-Lowe, Sierra Delaney, Alison Gopnik, and Tania Lombrozo. 2024. “Structural Explanations Lead Young Children and Adults to Rectify Resource Inequalities”. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 242: 105896. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2024.105896: Structural explanations lead young children and adults to rectify resource inequalities.

Metz, S. Emlen, Emily G. Liquin, and Tania Lombrozo. 2023. “Distinct Profiles for Beliefs about Religion Versus Science”. Cognitive Science 47 (11): e13370. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13370: Distinct Profiles for Beliefs about Religion versus Science.

Gill, Maureen, and Tania Lombrozo. 2023. “Seeking Evidence and Explanation Signals Religious and Scientific Commitments”. Cognition 238: 105496. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105496: Seeking Evidence and Explanation Signals Religious and Scientific Commitments.

Lewry, Casey, Deborah Kelemen, and Tania Lombrozo. 2023. “The Moral Consequences of Teleological Beliefs about the Human Species”. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001446: The moral consequences of teleological beliefs about the human species.

Oktar, Kerem, Adam Lerner, Maya Malaviya, and Tania Lombrozo. 2023. “Philosophy Instruction Changes Views on Moral Controversies by Decreasing Reliance on Intuition”. Cognition 236: 105434. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105434: Philosophy Instruction Changes Views on Moral Controversies by Decreasing Reliance on Intuition.

Cusimano, Corey, and Tania Lombrozo. 2023. “People Recognize and Condone Their Own Morally Motivated Reasoning”. Cognition 234: 105379. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105379: People recognize and condone their own morally motivated reasoning.

Van Leeuwen, Neil, and Tania Lombrozo. 2023. “The Puzzle of Belief”. Cognitive Science 47 (2): e13245. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13245: The Puzzle of Belief.

Lombrozo, Tania, and Emily G. Liquin. 2023. “Explanation Is Effective Because It Is Selective”. Current Directions in Psychological Science 32 (3): 212-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214231156106: Explanation is effective because it is selective.

Lewry, Casey, Sera Gorucu, Emily G. Liquin, and Tania Lombrozo. 2023. “Minimally Counterintuitive Stimuli Trigger Greater Curiosity Than Merely Improbable Stimuli”. Cognition 230: 105286. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105286: Minimally counterintuitive stimuli trigger greater curiosity than merely improbable stimuli.

Foster-Hanson, Emily, and Tania Lombrozo. 2022. “How “is” Shapes ‘ought’ for Folk-Biological Concepts”. Cognitive Psychology 139: 101507. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2022.101507: How “is” shapes “ought” for folk-biological concepts.

Vasil, Ny, and Tania Lombrozo. 2022. “Explanations and Causal Judgments Are Differentially Sensitive to Covariation and Mechanism Information”. Frontiers in Psychology 13: 911177. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.911177: Explanations and Causal Judgments Are Differentially Sensitive to Covariation and Mechanism Information.

Davoodi, Telli, and Tania Lombrozo. 2023. “Scientific and Religious Explanations, Together and Apart”. In Conjunctive Explanations, edited by Jonah Schupbach and David Glass, 219-45. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003184324-13: Scientific and Religious Explanations, Together and Apart.

Dubey, Rachit, Thomas Griffiths, and Tania Lombrozo. 2022. “If it’s Important, Then I’m Curious: Increasing Perceived Usefulness Stimulates Curiosity”. Cognition 226: 105193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105193: If it’s important, then I’m curious: Increasing perceived usefulness stimulates curiosity.

Lewry, Casey, and Tania Lombrozo. 2022. “Ethical Explanations”. Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Kinney, David, and Tania Lombrozo. 2022. “Evaluations of Causal Claims Reflect a Trade-Off Between Informativeness and Compression”. Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Foster-Hanson, Emily, and Tania Lombrozo. 2022. “What Are Men and Mothers For? The Causes and Consequences of Functional Reasoning about Social Categories”. Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Oktar, Kerem, and Tania Lombrozo. 2022. “Mechanisms of Belief Persistence in the Face of Societal Disagreement”. Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Vrantsidis, Thalia, and Tania Lombrozo. 2022. “Simplicity As a Cue to Probability: Multiple Roles for Simplicity in Evaluating Explanations”. Cognitive Science 46 (7): e13169. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13169: Simplicity as a Cue to Probability: Multiple roles for Simplicity in Evaluating Explanations.

Brockbank, Erik, Tania Lombrozo, Alison Gopnik, and Caren M. Walker. 2022. “Ask Me Why don’t Tell Me Why: Asking Children for Explanations Facilitates Relational Thinking”. Developmental Science 26 (1): e13274. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13274: Ask me why don’t tell me why: Asking children for explanations facilitates relational thinking.

Davoodi, Telli, and Tania Lombrozo. 2022. “Varieties of Ignorance: Mystery and the Unknown in Science and Religion”. Cognitive Science 46 (4): e13129. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13129: Varieties of ignorance: Mystery and the unknown in science and religion.

Oktar, Kerem, and Tania Lombrozo. 2022. “Deciding to Be Authentic: Intuition Is Favored Over Deliberation When Authenticity Matters”. Cognition 223: 105021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105021: Deciding to be Authentic: Intuition is Favored Over Deliberation When Authenticity Matters.

Giffin, Carly, and Tania Lombrozo. 2022. “Mens Rea in Moral Judgment and Criminal Law”. In Oxford Handbook of Moral Psychology, edited by Manuel Vargas and John Doris. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Davoodi, Telli, and Tania Lombrozo. 2022. “Explaining the Existential: Scientific and Religious Explanations Play Different Functional Roles.”. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 151 (5): 1199–1218. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/xge0001129: Explaining the existential: Scientific and religious explanations play different functional roles.

Lombrozo, Tania, Joshua Knobe, and Shaun Nichols, eds. 2021. Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy: Volume 4. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Vasil, Ny, Azzurra Ruggeri, and Tania Lombrozo. 2022. “When and How Children Use Explanations to Guide Generalizations”. Cognitive Development 61: 101144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2021.101144: When and how children use explanations to guide generalizations.

Cusimano, Corey, and Tania Lombrozo. 2021. “Reconciling Scientific and Commonsense Values to Improve Reasoning”. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 25 (11): 937-49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2021.06.004: Reconciling scientific and commonsense values to improve reasoning.

Liquin, Emily G., and Tania Lombrozo. 2022. “Motivated to Learn: An Account of Explanatory Satisfaction”. Cognitive Psychology 132: 101453. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2021.101453: Motivated to learn: An account of explanatory satisfaction.

Foster-Hanson, Emily, and Tania Lombrozo. 2021. “The Function of Function: People Use Teleological Information to Predict Prevalence”. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Lewry, Casey, Deborah Kelemen, and Tania Lombrozo. 2021. “From Teleology to Morality: Why Belief in Human Purpose Prompts Moral Condemnation of Individuals Who Fail to Fulfill It”. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/y7gk8: From teleology to morality: Why belief in human purpose prompts moral condemnation of individuals who fail to fulfill it.

Oktar, Kerem, and Tania Lombrozo. 2021. “Deciding to Be Authentic: Intuition Is Favored Over Deliberation for Self-Reflective Decisions”. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Cusimano, Corey, Natalia C. Zorrilla, David Danks, and Tania Lombrozo. 2021. “Reason-Based Constraint in Theory of Mind”. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Liquin, Emily G., Frederick Callaway, and Tania Lombrozo. 2021. “Developmental Change in What Elicits Curiosity”. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Vasilyeva, Nadya, Mei Murphy, Oce Bohra, Jenny Chen, Selena Xandra Cuevas, Samhita Katteri, Tania Lombrozo, and Alison Gopnik. 2021. “‘It Depends’: How Children Reason about Stable and Unstable Causes”. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Ruggeri, Azzurra, Caren M. Walker, Tania Lombrozo, and Alison Gopnik. 2021. “How to Help Young Children Ask Better Questions?”. Frontiers in Psychology 11: 2908. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.586819: How to Help Young Children Ask Better Questions?.

Lombrozo, Tania, Joshua Knobe, and Shaun Nichols, eds. 2020. Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy: Volume 3. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Dubey, Rachit, Hermish Mehta, and Tania Lombrozo. 2021. “Curiosity Is Contagious: A Social Influence Intervention to Induce Curiosity”. Cognitive Science 45 (2): e12937. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12937: Curiosity is Contagious: A Social Influence Intervention to Induce Curiosity.

Goddu, Mariel, Tania Lombrozo, and Alison Gopnik. 2020. “Transformations and Transfer: Preschool Children Understand Abstract Relations and Reason Analogically in a Causal Task”. Child Development 91 (6): 1898-1915. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13412: Transformations and transfer: Preschool children understand abstract relations and reason analogically in a causal task.

Cusimano, Corey, and Tania Lombrozo. 2021. “Morality Justifies Motivated Reasoning in the Folk Ethics of Belief”. Cognition 209: 104513. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104513: Morality justifies motivated reasoning in the folk ethics of belief.

Gruber, June, Jane Mendle, Kristen A. Lindquist, Toni Schmader, Lee Anna Clark, Eliza Bliss-Moreau, Modupe Akinola, et al. 2021. “The Future of Women in Psychological Science”. Perspectives on Psychological Science 16 (3): 483-516. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691620952789: The Future of Women in Psychological Science.

Blanchard, Thomas, Dylan Murray, and Tania Lombrozo. 2022. “Experiments on Causal Exclusion.”. Mind and Language 37 (5): 1067-89. https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12343: Experiments on Causal Exclusion.

Liquin, Emily G., S. Emlen Metz, and Tania Lombrozo. 2020. “Science Demands Explanation, Religion Tolerates Mystery.”. Cognition 204: 104398. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104398: Science demands explanation, religion tolerates mystery.

Vasilyeva, Nadya, and Tania Lombrozo. 2020. “Structural Thinking about Social Categories: Evidence from Formal Explanations, Generics, and Generalization.”. Cognition 204: 104383. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104383: Structural thinking about social categories: Evidence from formal explanations, generics, and generalization.

Aronowitz, Sarah, and Tania Lombrozo. 2020. “Learning through Simulation.”. Philosophers’ Imprint 20 (1): 1-18. https://philpapers.org/rec/AROLTS: Learning through simulation.

Plunkett, Dillon, Lara Buchak, and Tania Lombrozo. 2020. “When and Why People Think Beliefs Are ‘debunked’ by Scientific Explanations of Their Origins.”. Mind and Language 35 (1): 3-28. https://doi.org/10.1111/mila.12238: When and why people think beliefs are “debunked” by scientific explanations of their origins.

Aronowitz, Sarah, and Tania Lombrozo. 2020. “Experiential Explanation.”. Topics in Cognitive Science 12 (4): 1321-36. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12445: Experiential explanation.

Liquin, Emily G., and Tania Lombrozo. 2020. “Explanation-Seeking Curiosity in Childhood.”. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences 35: 14-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cobeha.2020.05.012: Explanation-Seeking Curiosity in Childhood.

Liquin, Emily G., and Tania Lombrozo. 2020. “A Functional Approach to Explanation-Seeking Curiosity.”. Cognitive Psychology 119: 101276. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2020.101276: A Functional Approach to Explanation-Seeking Curiosity.

Cusimano, Corey, and Tania Lombrozo. 2020. “Morality Justifies Motivated Reasoning”. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society.

Liquin, Emily G., Frederick Callaway, and Tania Lombrozo. 2020. “Quantifying Curiosity: A Formal Approach to Dissociating Causes of Curiosity.”. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society.

Vasilyeva, Nadya, Alison Gopnik, and Tania Lombrozo. 2020. “When Generic Language Does Not Promote Psychological Essentialism”. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Cognitive Science Society.