Chen, Huili, Stephen Grimm, Olga Russakovsky, and Tania Lombrozo. 2026. “Machine Understanding”. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2026.04.003: Machine understanding.

Kinney, David, and Tania Lombrozo. 2023. “Tell Me Your (Cognitive) Budget, and I’ll Tell You What You Value: Evidential Relationships Between Values, Data, and Generic Causal Claims about the Social World”. Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6872v0cx: Tell Me Your (Cognitive) Budget, and I’ll Tell You What You Value: Evidential Relationships Between Values, Data, and Generic Causal Claims about the Social World.

Lewry, Casey, and Tania Lombrozo. 2025. “Do Our Theories of Moral Progress Predict Whether We Vote? Evidence from the 2024 US Election”. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Oktar, Kerem, and Tania Lombrozo. (2025) 2025. “How Beliefs Persist Amid Controversy: The Paths to Persistence Model.”. Psychological Review. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/rev0000583: How Beliefs Persist Amid Controversy: The Paths to Persistence model.

Sommer, Joseph, and Tania Lombrozo. 2025. “Do Whales Have Hair? Are Whales Mammals? Identifying Synchronic Inconsistencies Among Beliefs.”. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Cruz, Francisco, and Tania Lombrozo. (2025) 2025. “How Laypeople Evaluate Scientific Explanations Containing Jargon.”. Nature Human Behaviour 9: 2038-53. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02227-0: How laypeople evaluate scientific explanations containing jargon.

Liu, Ryan, Jiayi Geng, Addison Wu, Ilia Sucholutsky, Tania Lombrozo, and Thomas Griffiths. 2025. “Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought Can Reduce Performance on Tasks Where Thinking Makes Humans Worse.”. Proceedings of the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2410.21333: Mind your step (by step): Chain-of-thought can reduce performance on tasks where thinking makes humans worse.

Vesga, Alejandro, Neil Van Leeuwen, and Tania Lombrozo. 2025. “Evidence for Multiple Kinds of Belief in Theory of Mind.”. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 154 (8): 2241-56. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001765: Evidence for multiple kinds of belief in theory of mind.

Oktar, Kerem, and Tania Lombrozo. 2025. “How Aggregated Opinions Shape Beliefs”. Nature Reviews Psychology 4 (2): 81–95. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-024-00398-7: How aggregated opinions shape beliefs.

Williams, Joseph Jay, Tania Lombrozo, Anne Hsu, Bernd Huber, and Juho Kim. 2016. “Revising Learner Misconceptions Without Feedback: Prompting for Reflection on Anomalies”. Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 470-74.

Lewry, Casey, Sana Asifriyaz, and Tania Lombrozo. 2024. “Lay Theories of Moral Progress”. Cognitive Science 48 (11): e70018. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70018: Lay theories of moral progress.

Kinney, David, and Tania Lombrozo. 2024. “Building Compressed Causal Models of the World”. Cognitive Psychology 155: 101682. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2024.101682: Building compressed causal models of the world.

Oktar, Kerem, Tania Lombrozo, and Thomas Griffiths. 2024. “Learning From Aggregated Opinion”. Psychological Science 35 (9): 1010–1024.

Oktar, Kerem, Ilia Sucholutsky, Tania Lombrozo, and Thomas Griffiths. 2024. “Dimensions of Disagreement: Divergence and Misalignment in Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence”. Decision 11 (4): 511-12. https://doi.org/10.1037/dec0000244: Dimensions of Disagreement: Divergence and Misalignment in Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence.

Modrek, Anahid S., and Tania Lombrozo. 2024. “Allow Me to Explain: Benefits of Explaining Extend to Distal Academic Performance”. Cognitive Science 48 (9): e13496.

Lombrozo, Tania. 2024. “Learning by Thinking in Natural and Artificial Minds”. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 28 (11): 1011-22.

Oktar, Kerem, Branson Byers, and Tania Lombrozo. 2024. “Are Disagreements just Differences in Beliefs?”. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Foster-Hanson, Emily, and Tania Lombrozo. 2024. “Functional Explanations Link Gender Essentialism and Normativity”. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Vesga, Alejandro, Neil Van Leeuwen, and Tania Lombrozo. 2024. “Evidence for Distinct Cognitive Attitudes of Belief in Theory of Mind.”. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Lewry, Casey, George Tsai, and Tania Lombrozo. 2024. “Are Ethical Explanations Explanatory? Meta-Ethical Beliefs Shape Judgments about Explanations for Social Change”. Cognition 250: 105860. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105860: Are ethical explanations explanatory? Meta-ethical beliefs shape judgments about explanations for social change.

Vrantsidis, Thalia, and Tania Lombrozo. (2024) 2024. “Inside Ockham’s Razor: A Mechanism Driving Preferences for Simpler Explanations”. Memory & Cognition 53: 746-74.

Liquin, Emily G., and Tania Lombrozo. 2024. “Breaking down (and Moving Beyond) Novelty As a Trigger of Curiosity”. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 47: e106. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X23003333: Breaking down (and moving beyond) novelty as a trigger of curiosity.

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 152 (12): 3359-79. 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.