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Graceful degradation and conceptual developmentFRANK KEIL
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520
Behav Brain Sci 34:133-4. 2011..At the same time, this book's details help highlight the challenge of explaining how conceptual change works with real-world concepts that often have heavily degraded internal content...- The shape of things to come: the future of the shape bias controversyFrank C Keil
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520-8205, USA
Dev Sci 11:216-9. 2008 - Explanation and understandingFrank C Keil
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 8205, USA
Annu Rev Psychol 57:227-54. 2006..Across development and cultures, there are differences in preferred explanatory schemes, but rarely are any kinds of schemes completely unavailable to a group... - A bump on a bump? Emerging intuitions concerning the relative difficulty of the sciencesFrank C Keil
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
J Exp Psychol Gen 139:1-15. 2010.... - Hybrid vigor and conceptual structureFRANK KEIL
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Behav Brain Sci 33:215-6. 2010..It may be premature, however, to give up such views completely. Here I defend the possibility of hybrid models of concept structure... - "End-of-life" biases in moral evaluations of othersGeorge E Newman
School of Management, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, United States
Cognition 115:343-9. 2010.... - Sensing the coherence of biology in contrast to psychology: young children's use of causal relations to distinguish two foundational domainsJane E Erickson
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 8205, USA
Child Dev 81:390-409. 2010..The results suggest that 5-year-olds do possess this understanding, and furthermore, they have intuitions about the nature of these different mechanisms... - Where is the essence? Developmental shifts in children's beliefs about internal featuresGeorge E Newman
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 8205, USA
Child Dev 79:1344-56. 2008..These results suggest that even children go beyond mere placeholder notions of essence, committing to conceptual frameworks of how essences might be physically instantiated... - Early understandings of the link between agents and orderGeorge E Newman
School of Management, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:17140-5. 2010..Such expectations appear to be robust into children's preschool years and are hypothesized to result from a more general understanding that agents causally intervene on the world in fundamentally different ways from inanimate objects... - Young Humeans: the role of emotions in children's evaluation of moral reasoning abilitiesJudith H Danovitch
Child Study Center, Yale University School of Medicine, USA
Dev Sci 11:33-9. 2008..Thus, children as young as age 5 view emotional understanding as an important element for moral, but not for nonmoral, reasoning, suggesting that the basis for Humean intuitions emerges early in life... - Early understanding of the division of cognitive laborDonna J Lutz
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 8205, USA
Child Dev 73:1073-84. 2002..Overall, these studies showed that young children have a sense of the division of cognitive labor, albeit fragile... - Biases towards internal features in infants' reasoning about objectsGeorge E Newman
Yale University, 2 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, CT 06520 USA
Cognition 107:420-32. 2008..In the absence of self-generated behaviors, however, infants did not show a preference towards the internal feature... - The development of cynicismCandice M Mills
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
Psychol Sci 16:385-90. 2005..Implications for the development of cynicism and children's understanding of bias are discussed... - The seductive allure of neuroscience explanationsDeena Skolnick Weisberg
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
J Cogn Neurosci 20:470-7. 2008..The neuroscience information had a particularly striking effect on nonexperts' judgments of bad explanations, masking otherwise salient problems in these explanations... - Reflections of other minds: how primate social cognition can inform the function of mirror neuronsDerek E Lyons
Yale University, Department of Psychology, PO Box 208205, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 8205, USA
Curr Opin Neurobiol 16:230-4. 2006..We are thus left with a fascinating question: if not imitation, what are mirror neurons for? Recent advances in the study of non-human primate social cognition suggest a surprising potential answer... - Children's understanding of the Ulysses conflictKatherine S Choe
Department of Psychology, Yale University, USA
Dev Sci 8:387-92. 2005..The results suggest that an understanding of the influence of conflicting mental states on behaviors does not occur until at least 7 years of age... - From symptoms to causes: diversity effects in diagnostic reasoningNancy S Kim
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut 06520 8205, USA
Mem Cognit 31:155-65. 2003..Specifically, the presence of a root cause was more likely to be induced when the symptoms present were further apart in the branching structure... - Should you ask a fisherman or a biologist?: Developmental shifts in ways of clustering knowledgeJudith H Danovitch
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Child Dev 75:918-31. 2004..The most naturalistic ways of envisioning how knowledge is clustered in the minds of others therefore seems to change significantly during the elementary school years... - Knowing the limits of one's understanding: the development of an awareness of an illusion of explanatory depthCandice M Mills
Yale University, P O Box 208205, New Haven, CT 06520 8205, USA
J Exp Child Psychol 87:1-32. 2004..Second and fourth graders showed a clear illusion of explanatory depth for devices, recognizing the inaccuracy of their initial impressions after providing explanations. The illusion did not occur for knowledge of procedures... - The scope and limits of overimitation in the transmission of artefact cultureDerek E Lyons
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 366:1158-67. 2011..Overimitation may illuminate not only the structure of children's causal understanding, but also the social learning processes that support our species' artefact-centric culture... - What do children want to know about animals and artifacts? Domain-specific requests for informationMarissa L Greif
Yale University, USA
Psychol Sci 17:455-9. 2006..Such results speak to debates about the role of function in children's biological reasoning and to accounts of children's artifact concepts... - The hidden structure of overimitationDerek E Lyons
Department of Psychology, Yale University, Box 208205, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:19751-6. 2007.... - Children's sensitivity to circular explanationsLaura A Baum
Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA
J Exp Child Psychol 100:146-55. 2008..Thus, the ability to evaluate the quality of explanations based on structural grounds appears to develop rapidly during the elementary school years... - Children's developing notions of (im)partialityCandice M Mills
The University of Texas at Dallas, P O Box 830688, GR41, Richardson, TX 75083, USA
Cognition 107:528-51. 2008..Not until eighth grade, however, did children indicate that a connected judge was more problematic in subjective situations than in objective ones...
Research Grants
- EXPLANATION, CASE & MECHANISM IN CONCEPTUAL DEVELOPMENTFRANK KEIL; Fiscal Year: 2002....
- The Emergence of Folk ScienceFRANK KEIL; Fiscal Year: 2007..Finally, a set of studies explores various ways in which children are sensitive to causal patterns that might given them a skeletal or framework kind of knowledge within which more precise notions of mechanism can further develop. ..