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Which book fell first? We found people often pick the wrong one, showing a novel error in physical judgment. New paper with Brandon Goulding available at rdcu.be/feIaY

doi.org/10.3758/s134...

Familiar Magic Helps Children See That Fantastical Events Can Happen in Stories Young children often show a reality bias when thinking about fiction—they say that stories can include realistic events, while rejecting fantastical events. We sought to better understand this bias...

Familiar magic helps children see that fantastical events can happen in stories

📣Recent work by Emily Stonehouse, Terryn Kim, Regan Christensen & Ori Friedman

New article w/ M Pabla & @orifriedman.bsky.social

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

When children claim an unexpected event is impossible they also claim it's never happened, even for immoral events, suggesting their judgments reflect beliefs about what could happen & not merely what should.

New research from University of Waterloo psychologists (Megan Barlow, Tiffany Doan, Ori Friedman @orifriedman.bsky.social, and Stephanie Denison) sheds light on why people often probability match rather than maximize when making decisions. see: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Familiar Magic Helps Children See That Fantastical Events Can Happen in Stories Young children often show a reality bias when thinking about fiction—they say that stories can include realistic events, while rejecting fantastical events. We sought to better understand this bias...

New pub with Emily Stonehouse, Terryn Kim, & Regan Christensen

Familiar Magic Helps Children See That Fantastical Events Can Happen in Stories www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Doing things intentionally: Probability raising and control Intentionality judgments can depend on probability raising—people are more likely to see a desired outcome as intentional if the agent who produced it…

⭐️ From Tiffany Doan, Stephanie Denison, & Ori Friedman:

Doing things intentionally: Probability raising and control

Doing things efficiently: Testing an account of why simple explanations are satisfying People often find simple explanations more satisfying than complex ones. Across seven preregistered experiments, we provide evidence that this simplic…

Doing things efficiently: Testing an account of why simple explanations are satisfying

📣Recent work from Claudia Sehl, Stephanie Denison, & Ori Friedman

Rethinking people’s conceptions of mental life | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences How do people make sense of the emotions, sensations, and cognitive abilities that make up mental life? Pioneering work on the dimensions of mind p...

Kara Weisman has work on this, e.g., doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Learning to Imagine: The Science of Discovering New Possibilities (www.amazon.com/Learning-Ima...) is coming out Nov. 14!
 
To celebrate, I will be posting an image and caption from each chapter over the next several days. Here’s the table of contents to start things off.

I haven't seen an increase in suspicious looking articles, but we get plenty we have to desk reject, often just bc of fit.