Publications

Aboody, R., Zhou, C., & Jara-Ettinger, J. (2019). The price of knowledge: Children infer epistemic states and desires from exploration's cost. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Ongchoco, J., Jara-Ettinger, J., & Knobe, J., (2019). Imagining the good: An offline tendency to simulate good options even when no decision has to be made. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Flowers, M., Stoner, L., & Jara-Ettinger, J., (2019). Children master the cardinal significance of counting after they learn to count. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

2018

Empirical papers

Jara-Ettinger, J., Sun, F., Schulz, L. E., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2018). Sensitivity to the sampling process emerges from the principle of efficiency. Cognitive Science. Supporting information. Stimuli, data, and analyses.

Gibson, E., Jara-Ettinger, J., Levy. R., & Piantadosi, S.T. (2018). The Use of a Computer Display Exaggerates the Connection Between Education and Approximate Number Ability in Remote Populations. Open mind.

Conference proceedings

Rubio-Fernandez, P., & Jara-Ettinger, J., (2018). Joint inferences of speakers' knowledge and referents based on how they speak. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Royka, A., Aboody, R., & Jara-Ettinger, J., (2018). Movement as a message: inferring communicative intent from actions. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Aboody, R., Huey, H., & Jara-Ettinger, J., (2018). Success does not imply knowledge: Preschoolers believe that accurate predictions reveal prior knowledge, but accurate observations do not. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Flowers, M., Aboody, R., & Jara-Ettinger, J., (2018). Beyond Principles: Children Determine Fairness Based on Attention and Exactness. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Bear, A., Besinger,S., Jara-Ettinger, J., & Knobe, J. (2018). What Comes to Mind? A Mix of What's Likely and What's Good. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Aboody, R., Velez-Ginorio, J., Santos, L., & Jara-Ettinger, J., (2018). When teaching breaks down: Teachers rationally select what information to share, but misrepresent learners' hypothesis spaces. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

2017

Theory papers

Rubio-Fernandez, P, Jara-Ettinger, J., & Gibson, E. (2017). Can processing demands explain toddlers' performance in false-belief tasks? Response to Setoh et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Original paper.

Empirical papers

Jara-Ettinger, J., Floyd, S., Tenenbaum, J. B., & Schulz, L. (2017). Children understand that agents maximize expected utilities. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Supporting information. Methods and data.

Gibson, E., Futrell, R., Jara-Ettinger, J., Mahowald, K., Bergen, L., Sivalogeswaran, R., Gibson, M., Piantadosi, S.T., & Conway, J. B. R. (2017). Color naming across languages reflects color use. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Baker, C.L., Jara-Ettinger, J., Saxe, R., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2017). Rational quantitative attribution of beliefs, desires, and percepts in human mentalizing. Nature Human Behaviour.

Ferrigno, S., Jara-Ettinger, J., Piantadosi, S. T., & Cantlon, J. (2017). Universal and uniquely human factors in spontaneous number perception. Nature Communications.

Conference proceedings

Jara-Ettinger, J., & Gweon, H. (2017). Minimal covariation data support future one-shot inferences about unobservable properties of novel agents. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Velez-Ginorio, J., Siegel, M., Tenenbaum, J.B., & Jara-Ettinger, J. (2017). Interpreting actions by attributing compositional desires. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

2012-2016

Theory papers

Jara-Ettinger, J., Gweon, H., Schulz, L. E., & Tenenbaum, J.B. (2016). The naive utility calculus: Computational principles underlying commonsense psychology. Trends in Cognitive Sciences (TiCS).

Empirical papers

Jara-Ettinger, J., Piantadosi, S.T., Spelke, E., Levy, R., & Gibson, E. (2016). Mastery of the logic of natural numbers is not the result of mastery of counting: Evidence from late counters. Developmental Science. Supporting information. Methods and data.

Jara-Ettinger, J., Gibson, E., Kidd, C., & Piantadosi, S. T. (2015). Native Amazonian children forego egalitarianism in merit based tasks when they learn to count. Developmental Science. Data and analyses.

Jara-Ettinger, J., Tenenbaum, J. B., & Schulz, L. E. (2015). Not so innocent: Toddlers' reasoning about costs, competence, and culpability. Psychological Science. Supporting information. Methods and data.

Jara-Ettinger, J., Gweon, H., Tenenbaum, J. B., & Schulz, L. E. (2015). Children's understanding of the costs and rewards underlying rational action. Cognition. Supporting information.

Piantadosi, S.T., Jara-Ettinger, J., & Gibson, E. (2014). Children's learning of number words in an indigenous farming-foraging group. Developmental Science.

Conference proceedings

Jara-Ettinger*, J., Sun*, F., Schulz, L. E. & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2016). The naive utility calculus unifies spatial and statistical routes to preference. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Bridgers, S., Jara-Ettinger, J., & Gweon, H. (2016). Children consider others' expected costs and rewards when deciding what to teach. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Allen, K., Jara-Ettinger, J., Gerstenberg, T., Kleiman-Weiner, M. & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2015). Go fishing! Responsibility judgments when cooperation breaks down. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Jara-Ettinger, J. Schulz, L. E. & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2015). The naive utility calculus: Joint inferences about the costs and rewards of actions. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Jara-Ettinger, J., Lydic, E., Tenenbaum, J., & Schulz, L. E. (2015). Beliefs about desires: Children's understanding of how knowledge and preference influence choice. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Jara-Ettinger, J.*, Kim, N.*, Muentener, P., & Schulz, L. E. (2014). Running to do evil: Costs incurred by perpetrators affect moral judgment. In Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Jara-Ettinger, J., Gweon, H., Tenenbaum, J. B., & Schulz, L. E. (2014). I'd do anything for a cookie (but I won't do that): Children's understanding of the costs and rewards underlying rational action. In Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Jara-Ettinger, J., Tenenbaum, J.B., & Schulz, L. E. (2013). Not so innocent: Reasoning about costs, competence, and culpability in very early childhood. In Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Jara-Ettinger, J., Baker, C.L., & Tenenbaum, J.B. (2012). Learning What is Where from Social Observations. In Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Model code.

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