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