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  1. The first location heuristic: An early emerging way of judging where things belong.
  2. Who Peeked? Children Infer the Likely Cause of Improbable Success
  3. Up and down: counterfactual closeness is robust to direction of comparison
  4. Doing things efficiently: Testing an account of why simple explanations are satisfying
  5. Robust Evidence for Knowledge Attribution and Luck: A Comment on Hall et al. (2024)
  6. Children (and many adults) use perceptual similarity to assess relative impossibility.
  7. Children use proximity and ability to infer distinct kinds of counterfactual closeness.
  8. Emotions before actions: When children see costs as causal
  9. People Accept Breaks in the Causal Chain Between Crime and Punishment
  10. People accept breaks in the causal chain between crime and punishment
  11. When children choose fantastical events in fiction.
  12. Sunk cost predictions as theory of mind
  13. Can compression take place in working memory without a central contribution of long-term memory?
  14. Local or foreign? Flexibility in children’s preference for similar others.
  15. Ownership and Value in Childhood
  16. Perceived similarity explains beliefs about possibility.
  17. An Adversarial Collaboration on Dirty Money
  18. Probability and intentional action
  19. Two kinds of counterfactual closeness
  20. Probability and intentional action
  21. The Odds Tell Children What People Favor
  22. Two kinds of counterfactual closeness.
  23. The second-order problem of other minds
  24. Calculated Feelings: How Children Use Probability to Infer Emotions
  25. Why Children Believe They Are Owned
  26. Ownership and willingness to compete for resources
  27. The Social Network: How People Infer Relationships From Mutual Connections
  28. The social network: How people infer relationships from mutual connections.
  29. Anchored in the present: Preschoolers more accurately infer their futures when confronted with their pasts
  30. Anchored in the present: Preschoolers more accurately infer their futures when confronted with their pasts
  31. Novelty preferences depend on goals
  32. Anchored in the present: preschoolers more accurately infer their futures when confronted with their pasts
  33. Blind to Bias? Young Children Do Not Anticipate that Sunk Costs Lead to Irrational Choices
  34. Children’s Accent-based Inferences Depend on Geographic Background
  35. Preschoolers are sensitive to accent distance
  36. Prominence, Property, and Inductive Inference
  37. Attributing ownership to hold others accountable
  38. The odds tell children what people favor.
  39. Novelty preferences depend on goals
  40. Young Children Infer Psychological Ownership from Stewardship
  41. Easy or difficult? Children’s understanding of how supply and demand affect goal completion
  42. Easy or difficult? Children's understanding of how supply and demand affect goal completion
  43. Expectations of how machines use individuating information and base-rates
  44. Causal knowledge and children’s possibility judgments
  45. Causal knowledge and children’s possibility judgments
  46. Young children infer psychological ownership from stewardship.
  47. Attributing Ownership to Hold Others Accountable
  48. Causal knowledge and children’s possibility judgments
  49. Blind to Bias? Young Children Do Not Anticipate that Sunk Costs Lead to Irrational Choices
  50. Butt-dialing the devil: Evil agents are expected to disregard intentions behind requests
  51. Butt-dialing the devil: Evil agents are expected to disregard intentions behind requests
  52. Butt-dialing the devil: Evil agents are expected to disregard intentions behind requests
  53. Varieties of value: Children differentiate caring from liking
  54. Varieties of value: Children differentiate caring from liking
  55. Toddlers and preschoolers understand that some preferences are more subjective than others
  56. Oh … so close! Children’s close counterfactual reasoning and emotion inferences.
  57. Toddlers and Preschoolers Understand That Some Preferences Are More Subjective Than Others
  58. Oh…So close! Children’s close counterfactual reasoning and emotion inferences
  59. Young children infer feelings of ownership from habitual use.
  60. A similarity heuristic in children’s possibility judgments
  61. Children’s Beliefs about Possibility Differ Across Dreams, Stories, and Reality
  62. Likely stories: Young children favor typical over atypical story events
  63. A similarity heuristic in children’s possibility judgments
  64. Children’s Beliefs about Possibility Differ Across Dreams, Stories, and Reality
  65. A Similarity Heuristic in Children’s Possibility Judgments
  66. Unsolicited but acceptable: Non-owners can access property if the owner benefits.
  67. Actual knowledge
  68. Likely stories: Young children favor typical over atypical story events
  69. Knowledge before belief
  70. Is Probabilistic Evidence a Source of Knowledge
  71. Unsolicited but acceptable: Non-owners can access property if the owner benefits
  72. Winners and Losers in the Folk Epistemology of Lotteries
  73. Children’s Beliefs About Possibility Differ Across Dreams, Stories, and Reality
  74. Expert or Esoteric? Philosophers Attribute Knowledge Differently Than All Other Academics
  75. Disgust and Moral Judgment: Distinguishing Between Elicitors and Feelings Matters
  76. Working memory develops at a similar rate across diverse stimuli
  77. Young children use probability to infer happiness and the quality of outcomes
  78. Young Children Infer Feelings of Ownership from Habitual Use
  79. Children’s working memory develops at similar rates for sequences differing in compressibility
  80. Young Children Use Probability to Infer Happiness and the Quality of Outcomes
  81. Beyond Belief: The Probability-Based Notion of Surprise in Children
  82. Young Children use Supply and Demand to Infer Desirability
  83. Young children use supply and demand to infer desirability.
  84. Give and take: Ownership affects how 2- and 3-year-olds allocate resources
  85. Questions and potential answers about ways ownership and art matter for one another
  86. Preschoolers are sensitive to accent distance
  87. Questions and Potential Answers About Ways Ownership and Art Matter for One Another
  88. An advantage for ownership over preferences in children’s future thinking
  89. An advantage for ownership over preferences in children’s future thinking
  90. An advantage for ownership over preferences in children’s future thinking.
  91. Give and take: Ownership affects how 2- and 3-year-olds allocate resources
  92. Children Value Objects With Distinctive Histories
  93. Children value objects with distinctive histories.
  94. Children show reduced trust in confident advisors who are partially informed
  95. I owe you an explanation: Children’s beliefs about when people are obligated to explain their actions
  96. Children show reduced trust in confident advisors who are partially informed
  97. Distant lands make for distant possibilities
  98. Sunk Cost Bias and Withdrawal Aversion
  99. Ownership Matters: People Possess a Naïve Theory of Ownership
  100. Future-oriented objects
  101. Distant lands make for distant possibilities: Children view improbable events as more possible in far-away locations.
  102. The development of territory-based inferences of ownership
  103. Children hold owners responsible when property causes harm.
  104. Theory of mind ability in high socially anxious individuals
  105. Children hold owners responsible when property causes harm
  106. Children hold owners responsible when property causes harm
  107. Children’s accent-based inferences depend on geographic background
  108. Using versus liking: Young children use ownership to predict actions but not to infer preferences
  109. The Development of Territory-Based Inferences of Ownership
  110. The Development of Territory-Based Inferences of Ownership
  111. Beyond belief: The probability-based notion of surprise in children.
  112. Using versus liking: Young children use ownership to predict actions, but not to infer preferences
  113. Legal Ownership Is Psychological: Evidence from Young Children
  114. Spoiled for choice: Identifying the building blocks of folk-economic beliefs
  115. Young children protest and correct pretense that contradicts their general knowledge
  116. Accent, Language, and Race: 4-6-Year-Old Children's Inferences Differ by Speaker Cue
  117. Children’s judgments about ownership rights and body rights: Evidence for a common basis
  118. Fitting the Message to the Listener: Children Selectively Mention General and Specific Facts
  119. She Bought the Unicorn From the Pet Store: Six- to Seven-Year-Olds Are Strongly Inclined to Generate Natural Explanations.
  120. Young children’s understanding of the limits and benefits of group ownership.
  121. Preschoolers use emotional reactions to infer relations
  122. Young children infer preferences from a single action, but not if it is constrained
  123. Children’s generic interpretation of pretense
  124. Ownership Rights
  125. Knowledge central: A central role for knowledge attributions in social evaluations
  126. “Because It's Hers”: When Preschoolers Use Ownership in Their Explanations
  127. Where are you from? Preschoolers infer background from accent
  128. If I am free, you can’t own me: Autonomy makes entities less ownable
  129. Identical but not interchangeable: Preschoolers view owned objects as non-fungible
  130. Creation in Judgments about the Establishment of Ownership
  131. Children have difficulty using object location to recognize when natural objects are owned
  132. Rule-based category use in preschool children
  133. Preschoolers and Toddlers Use Ownership to Predict Basic Emotions
  134. Toddlers Assert and Acknowledge Ownership Rights
  135. Is Probabilistic Evidence a Source of Knowledge?
  136. For the greater goods? Ownership rights and utilitarian moral judgment
  137. Parallels in Preschoolers' and Adults' Judgments About Ownership Rights and Bodily Rights
  138. Preschoolers can infer general rules governing fantastical events in fiction
  139. Mine, yours, no one’s: Children’s understanding of how ownership affects object use
  140. Taking ‘know’ for an answer: A reply to Nagel, San Juan, and Mar
  141. Children and Adults Use Gender and Age Stereotypes in Ownership Judgments
  142. Young Children's Understanding of Ownership
  143. Preschoolers Selectively Infer History When Explaining Outcomes: Evidence From Explanations of Ownership, Liking, and Use
  144. First Possession, History, and Young Children's Ownership Judgments
  145. Young Children Give Priority to Ownership When Judging Who Should Use an Object
  146. How Do Children Represent Pretend Play?
  147. The Origin of Children’s Appreciation of Ownership Rights
  148. The Folk Epistemology of Lotteries
  149. Just pretending can be really learning: Children use pretend play as a source for acquiring generic knowledge.
  150. The folk conception of knowledge
  151. Acquiring ownership and the attribution of responsibility
  152. Preschoolers Acquire General Knowledge by Sharing in Pretense
  153. Artifacts and natural kinds: Children's judgments about whether objects are owned
  154. Twenty-one reasons to care about the psychological basis of ownership
  155. Ownership and object history
  156. The signature of inhibition in theory of mind: children’s predictions of behavior based on avoidance desire
  157. Necessary for Possession: How People Reason About the Acquisition of Ownership
  158. Is young children’s recognition of pretense metarepresentational or merely behavioral? Evidence from 2- and 3-year-olds’ understanding of pretend sounds and speech
  159. The Opposites Task: Using General Rules to Test Cognitive Flexibility in Preschoolers
  160. Non-interpretative metacognition for true beliefs
  161. Children do not follow the rule “ignorance means getting it wrong”
  162. Preschoolers infer ownership from “control of permission”
  163. Determining who owns what: Do children infer ownership from first possession?
  164. First possession: An assumption guiding inferences about who owns what
  165. The conceptual underpinnings of pretense: Pretending is not ‘behaving-as-if’
  166. Theory of mind and the right cerebral hemisphere: Refining the scope of impairment
  167. Recognition of pretend and real actions in play by 1- and 2-year-olds: Early success and why they fail
  168. Processing demands in belief-desire reasoning: inhibition or general difficulty?
  169. Core mechanisms in ‘theory of mind’
  170. A developmental shift in processes underlying successful belief-desire reasoning
  171. A developmental shift in processes underlying successful belief-desire reasoning
  172. Mechanisms of Belief-Desire Reasoning
  173. Problems with the Seeing = Knowing Rule