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(2023). Children use disagreement to infer what happened. PsyArXiv.

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(2023). A counterfactual simulation model of causal language. PsyArXiv.

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(2023). Realism of Visual, Auditory, and Haptic Cues in Phenomenal Causality. IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC).

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(2023). Understanding Social Reasoning in Language Models with Language Models. arXiv.

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(2023). Making a positive difference: Criticality in groups. Cognition.

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(2023). A computational model of responsibility judgments from counterfactual simulations and intention inferences. Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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(2023). Father, don't forgive them, for they could have known what they're doing. Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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(2023). Show and tell: Learning causal structures from observations and explanations. Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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(2023). You are what you're for: Essentialist categorization in large language models. Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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(2023). A Semantics for Causing, Enabling, and Preventing Verbs Using Structural Causal Models. Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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(2023). Causal Reasoning Across Agents and Objects. Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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(2023). Learning what matters: Causal abstraction in human inference. Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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(2023). Teleology and generics. Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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(2023). If not me, then who? Responsibility and replacement. PsyArXiv.

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(2023). Mental Jenga: A counterfactual simulation model of causal judgments about physical support. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

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(2023). Active causal structure learning in continuous time. Cognitive Psychology.

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(2023). Explanations can reduce overreliance on AI systems during decision-making. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction.

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(2022). What would have happened? Counterfactuals, hypotheticals, and causal judgments. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

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(2022). Beyond the Imitation Game: Quantifying and extrapolating the capabilities of language models. arXiv.

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(2022). Stop, children what's that sound? Multi-modal inference through mental simulation. Cognitive Science Proceedings.

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(2022). That was close! A counterfactual simulation model of causal judgments about decisions. Cognitive Science Proceedings.

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(2022). Looking into the past: Eye-tracking mental simulation in physical inference. Cognitive Science Proceedings.

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(2022). Probabilistic models of physical reasoning. Reverse engineering the mind: Probabilistic models of cognition.

(2022). Uncalibrated Models Can Improve Human-AI Collaboration. NeurIPS (oral presentation).

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(2022). Inference from explanation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

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(2021). Moral dynamics: Grounding moral judgment in intuitive physics and intuitive psychology. Cognition.

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(2021). A counterfactual simulation model of causation by omission. Cognition.

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(2021). Predicting responsibility judgments from dispositional inferences and causal attributions. Cognitive Psychology.

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(2021). A counterfactual simulation model of causal judgments for physical events. Psychological Review.

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(2021). Who went fishing? Inferences from social evaluations. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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(2021). The trajectory of counterfactual simulation in development. Developmental Psychology.

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(2021). Do humans trust advice more if it comes from AI? An analysis of Human-AI interactions. arXiv.

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(2020). Expectations affect physical causation judgments. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

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(2020). The language of causation. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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(2020). Whom will Granny thank? Thinking about what could have been informs children's inferences about relative helpfulness. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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(2020). Causal responsibility and robust causation. Frontiers in Psychology.

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(2020). Moral values pervade implicit and explicit causal attribution: Evidence from basic language processing. Cognitive Science.

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(2019). Explaining intuitive difficulty judgments by modeling physical effort and risk. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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(2019). Intervening in time. Time and Causality Across the Sciences.

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(2019). Quantitative causal selection patterns in token causation. PLoS ONE.

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(2019). The trajectory of counterfactual simulation in development. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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(2018). Time in causal structure learning. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition.

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(2018). Intuitive experimentation in the physical world. Cognitive Psychology.

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(2018). Lucky or clever? From expectations to responsibility judgments. Cognition.

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(2018). What's fair? How children assign reward to members of teams with differing causal structures. Cognition.

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(2018). Judgments of actual causation approximate the effectiveness of interventions. PsyArXiv.

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(2018). Tiptoeing around it: Inference from absence in potentially offensive speech. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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(2018). What happened? Reconstructing the past from vision and sound. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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(2017). Eye-tracking causality. Psychological Science.

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(2017). Causal learning from interventions and dynamics in continuous time. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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(2017). Causation in legal and moral reasoning. Oxford Handbook of Causal Reasoning.

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(2017). Faulty towers: A hypothetical simulation model of physical support. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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(2017). Intuitive Theories. Oxford Handbook of Causal Reasoning.

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(2017). Marbles in inaction: Counterfactual simulation and causation by omission. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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(2017). Physical problem solving: Joint planning with symbolic, geometric, and dynamic constraints. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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(2016). Implicit measurement of motivated causal attribution. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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(2016). Natural science: Active learning in dynamic physical microworlds. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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(2016). Plans, habits, and theory of mind. PLoS ONE.

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(2016). Understanding ``almost'': Empirical and computational studies of near misses. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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(2015). A difference-making framework for intuitive judgments of responsibility. Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility.

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(2015). Causal conceptions in social explanation and moral evaluation: A historical tour. Perspectives on Psychological Science.

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(2015). Causal superseding. Cognition.

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(2015). Concepts in a probabilistic language of thought. The Conceptual Mind: New Directions in the Study of Concepts.

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(2015). Go fishing! Responsibility judgments when cooperation breaks down. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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(2015). How, whether, why: Causal judgments as counterfactual contrasts. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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(2015). Inference of intention and permissibility in moral decision making. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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(2015). Responsibility judgments in voting scenarios. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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(2014). Attributing responsibility: Actual and counterfactual worlds. Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy.

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(2014). Causal supersession. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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(2014). From counterfactual simulation to causal judgment. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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(2014). The order of things: Inferring causal structure from temporal patterns. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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(2014). Wins above replacement: Responsibility attributions as counterfactual replacements. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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(2013). Back on track: Backtracking in counterfactual reasoning. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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(2013). Causal responsibility and counterfactuals. Cognitive Science.

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(2013). Making a difference: Responsibility, causality, and counterfactuals. Unpublished PhD thesis.

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(2012). Finding fault: Counterfactuals and causality in group attributions. Cognition.

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(2012). Noisy Newtons: Unifying process and dependency accounts of causal attribution. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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(2012). Ping Pong in Church: Productive use of concepts in human probabilistic inference. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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(2012). When contributions make a difference: Explaining order effects in responsibility attributions. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

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(2012). Why blame Bob? Probabilistic generative models, counterfactual reasoning, and blame attribution. Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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(2011). Beyond outcomes: The influence of intentions and deception. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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(2011). Blame the skilled. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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(2011). Rational order effects in responsibility attributions. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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(2010). Observing and Intervening: Rational and Heuristic Models of Causal Decision Making. Open Psychology Journal.

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(2010). Spreading the blame: The allocation of responsibility amongst multiple agents. Cognition.

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(2010). The dice are cast: The role of intended versus actual contributions in responsibility attribution. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

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(2009). The allocation of responsibility amongst multiple causes. Unpublished MSc thesis.

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