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Eiteljoerge, S., Matzerath, A., Gweon, H., & Mani, N. (in press). Infants follow the gaze of same-age peers, young children, and adults. Social Development. [preprint]
Wu, Y., Merrick, M., & Gweon, H. (in press). Infants use others' surprise as vicarious prediction error. Open Mind. [preprint]
Bridgers, B., Altman, S., & Gweon, H. (under review). Toddlers infer the cause of others’ failure and provide effective help.
Richardson, H., Gweon, H., Alves, L., & Saxe, R. (under review). Longitudinal Studies of Behavioral and Neural Theory of Mind Development.
Woo, B. M., Liu, S., Gweon, H., & Spelke, E. (under review). Toddlers evaluate helpers based on the needs of their beneficiaries. [preprint]
Asaba, M., Wu, Y., Carrillo, B., & Gweon, H. (under review). Inferring competence from others’ expressions of surprise.
2024
Kramer, H.J., Lara, K.H., Gweon, H., Zaki, J., Miramontes, M., & Lagattuta, K.H. (2024). This too shall pass, but when? Children’s and adults’ beliefs about the time duration of emotions, desires, and preferences. Child Development, 95, 1299–1314. doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14072. [PDF]
Gweon, H., & Zhu, P. (2024). Where’s the baby in core knowledge? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 47, e129. doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X2300314X
Gweon, H. (2024). Social Learning. Open Encylopedia of Cognitive Science. https://oecs.mit.edu/pub/d8e1n1e8
Adams Shannon, K., Conine-Nakano, A., Frankenhuis, W.E., Frank, M.C., & Gweon, H. (2024). Young children strategically adapt to unreliable social partners. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Chuey, A., Qing, C., Williams, R., Frank, M.C., & Gweon, H. (2024). Show or Tell? Preschool-aged children adapt their communication to their partner’s auditory access. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Zhu, P., Aranda, V., Keene, G., & Gweon, H. (2024). Two-year-olds can reason about the temporal structure of their performance. Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [repository] [PDF]
Woo, B.M., Liu, S., Gweon, H., & Spelke, E.S. (2024). Toddlers prefer agents who help those facing harder tasks. Open Mind, 8, 483–499. doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_00129. [PDF]
Sotomayor-Enriquez, K., Gweon, H., Saxe, R., & Richardson, H. (2024). Open dataset of theory of mind reasoning in early to middle childhood. Data in Brief, 52, 109905. doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2023.109905. [PDF]
2023
Bridgers, S., De Simone, C., Gweon, H., & Ruggeri, A. (2023). Children seek help based on how others learn. Child Development, 94, 1259–1280. doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13926. [PDF]
Gweon, H., Fan, J., & Kim, B. (2023). Socially intelligent machines that learn from humans and help humans learn. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 381(2251), 20220048. doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2022.0048. [PDF]
Chuey, A., Jara-Ettinger, J., & Gweon, H. (2023). Violation of epistemic expectations: Children monitor what others know and recognize unexpected sources of knowledge. Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Chuey, A., Luo, Y., & Markman, E. (2023). Epistemic language in news headlines affects readers' perceptions of objectivity. Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Chuey, A., Sparks, R., & Gweon, H. (2023). Young children can identify knowledgeable speakers from their causal influence over listeners. Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Dietz, G., Outa, J., Lowe, L., Landay, J.A., & Gweon, H. (2023). Theory of AI Mind: How adults and children reason about the “mental states” of conversational AI. Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Zhu, P., Dweck, C., & Gweon, H. (2023). Young children’s curiosity about what others think about the self. Proceedings of the 45th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
2022
Asaba, M., & Gweon, H. (2022). Young children infer and manage what others think about them. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(32), e2105642119. doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2105642119. [repository] [preprint] [PDF]
Asaba, M.*, Li, X.*, Yow, W. Q., & Gweon, H. (2022). Children selectively demonstrate their competence to a puppet when others depict it as an agent. Cognitive Development, 62, 101186. *Shared first authors. doi:10.1016/j.cogdev.2022.101186. [repository] [PDF]
Bass, I., Bonawitz, E., Hawthorne-Madell, D., Vong, W. K., Goodman, N. D., & Gweon. H. (2022). The effects of information utility and teachers' knowledge on evaluations of under-informative pedagogy across development. Cognition, 222, 100499. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104999 [preprint] [PDF]
Chuey, A.*, Williams, R.*, Frank, M. C., & Gweon, H. (2022). Young children’s reasoning about the epistemic consequences of auditory noise. Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. *Joint first authors. [repository] [PDF]
Outa, J.*, Zhou, X. J.*, Gweon, H., & Gerstenberg, T. (2022). Stop, children what’s that sound? Multi-modal inference through mental simulation. Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. *Joint first authors. [repository] [preprint] [PDF]
2021
**Gweon, H. (2021). Inferential social learning: Cognitive foundations of human social learning and teaching. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 25(10), 896-910. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2021.07.008. [preprint] [PDF]
Wu, Y., Schulz, L. E., Frank, M. C., & Gweon, H. (2021). Emotion as information in early social learning. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 30(6), 468-475. doi.org/10.1177/09637214211040779. [preprint] [PDF]
Asaba, M., Chuey, A., & Gweon, H. (2021). Beyond knowledge vs. belief: The contents of mental-state representations and their underlying computations (*Commentary on Philips et al. Knowledge before Belief). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 44 , e141. doi:10.1017/S0140525X20001879. [PDF]
Chuey, A., Asaba, M., Bridgers, S., Carrillo, B., Dietz, G., Garcia, T., Leonard, J. A., Liu, S., Merrick, M., Radwan, S., Stegall, J., Velez, N., Woo, B., Wu, Y., Zhou, X. J., Frank, M. C., Gweon, H. (2021). Moderated Online Data-Collection for Developmental Research: Methods and Replications. Frontiers in Psychology, 12. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.734398. [PDF]
Li, C., Xia, F., Martín-Martín, R., Lingelbach, M., Srivastava, S., Shen, B., Vainio, K., Gokmen, C., Dharan, G., Jain, T., Kurenkov, A., Liu, K., Gweon, H., Wu, J., Fei-Fei, L., & Savarese, S. (2021). iGibson 2.0: Object-Centric Simulation for Robot Learning of Everyday Household Tasks. Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL 2021). [PDF]
Srivastava, S., Li, C., Lingelbach, M., Martín-Martín, R., Xia, F., Vainio, K., Lian, Z., Gokmen, C., Buch, S., Liu, C. K., Savarese, S., Gweon, H., Wu, J., & Fei-Fei, L. (2021). BEHAVIOR: Benchmark for Everyday Household Activities in Virtual, Interactive, and Ecological Environments. Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL 2021). [PDF]
Wu, Y., & Gweon, H. (2021). Preschoolers jointly consider others’ emotional expressions and knowledge to decide when to explore. Child Development, 92,(3), 862-870. doi:10.1111/cdev.13585. [repository] [preprint] [PDF]
Vélez, N. & Gweon, H. (2021). Learning from other minds: An optimistic critique of reinforcement learning models of social learning. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 38, 110-115. doi:10.1016/j.cobeha.2021.01.006. [PDF]
Hawkins, R., Gweon, H., & Goodman, N. (2021). Division of labor in communication: Speakers account for asymmetries in visual perspectives. Cognitive Science, 45(3), e12926. doi:10.1111/cogs.12926. [repository] [preprint] [PDF]
Zhao, A., Zhao, X., Gweon, H., & Kushnir, T. (2021). Leaving a Choice for Others: Children’s Evaluations of Considerate, Socially-Mindful Actions. Child Development, 92(4), 1238 - 1253. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13480. [repository] [PDF]
Wu*, Y., Tessler*, M. H., Asaba, M., Zhu, P., Gweon, H., & Frank, M. C. (2021). Integrating emotional expressions with utterances in pragmatic inference. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Ong, D., Asaba, M., Lim, H. Y., Chen, P., & Gweon, H. (2021). “If only Santa had one more present”: Exploring the development of near-miss counterfactual reasoning. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Dietz, G., Le, J. K., Tamer, N., Han, J., Gweon, H., Murnane, E. L., & Landay, J. A. (2021). StoryCoder: Teaching Computational Thinking Concepts Through Storytelling in a Voice-Guided App for Children. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, (pp. 1-15). [Website] [PDF]
2020
Gweon, H. (2020). The role of communication in acquisition, curation, and transmission of culture. (*Commentary on Veissière et al. Thinking Through Other Minds: A Variational Approach to Cognition and Culture). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43, e104. doi:10.1017/S0140525X19002863. [target article] [PDF]
Sheskin, M., Scott, K., Mills, C.M., Bergelson, E., Bonawitz, E., Spelke, E., Fei-Fei, L., Keil, F., Gweon, H., Tenenbaum, J. B, Jara-Ettinger, J., Adplph, K., Rhodes, M., Frank, M. C., Mehr, S., Schulz, L. (2020). Online developmental science to foster innovation, access, and impact. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 24(9), 675–678. doi:10.1016/j.tics.2020.06.004. [PDF]
Asaba, M. & Gweon, H. (2020). Learning about others to learn about the self: Early reasoning about the informativeness of others’ praise. In E. Brummelman (Ed.), Psychological perspectives on praise. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. [Google Books] [PDF coming soon]
Social Learning Lab (2020). Online testing: Startup guide and materials. Zenodo. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.3762737. [repository]
Bridgers, S., Jara-Ettinger, J., & Gweon, H. (2020). Young children consider the expected utility of others' learning to decide what to teach. Nature Human Behaviour, 4, 144-152. doi: 10.1038/s41562-019-0748-6. [repository] [SI] [PDF]
Richardson, H., Gweon, H., Dodell-Feder, D., Malloy, C., Pelton, H., Keil, B., Kanwisher, N., & Saxe, R. (2020). Response patterns in the developing social brain are organized by social and emotion features and disrupted in children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. Cortex, 125, 12-29. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2019.11.021. [preprint] [PDF]
Asaba, M., Wu, Y., Carrillo, B., & Gweon, H. (2020). You're surprised at her success? Inferring competence from emotional responses to performance outcomes. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [repository] [PDF]
Bridgers, S., Yang, C., Gerstenberg, T., & Gweon, H. (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. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Vélez, N. & Gweon, H. (2020). Preschoolers use minimal statistical information about social groups to infer the preferences and group membership of individuals. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [repository] [PDF]
2019
Vélez, N., Bridgers, S., & Gweon, H. (2019). Rare preference effect: Statistical information influences social affiliation judgments. Cognition, 192, 103994. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2019.06.006. [repository] [SI] [PDF]
Gweon, H. (2019). Understanding others to learn and to inform: Foundations of distinctively human social learning. In S. Grimm (Ed.), Varieties of Understanding: New Perspectives from Philosophy, Psychology, and Theology. Oxford University Press. [PDF]
Asaba, M., Ong, D., & Gweon, H. (2019). Integrating expectations and outcomes: Preschoolers’ developing ability to reason about others’ emotions. Developmental Psychology, 55(8), 1680-1693. doi: 10.1037/dev0000749. [repository] [preprint] [PDF]
Gweon, H., & Schulz, L.E. (2019). From exploration to instruction: Children learn from exploration and tailor their demonstrations to observers’ goals and competence. Child Development, 90(1), e148-e164. doi:10.1111/cdev.13059. [repository] [PDF]
Vélez, N., & Gweon, H. (2019). Neural mechanisms underlying the computation of socially inferred rewards. CCN (Computational Cognitive Neuroscience) Proceedings . [PDF]
Asaba, M., Li, X., Yow, W. Q., & Gweon, H. (2019). A friend, or a toy? Four-year-olds strategically demonstrate their competence to a puppet but only when others treat it as an agent. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 98-104). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [repository] [PDF]
Dietz, G., Landay, J., & Gweon, H. (2019). Building blocks of computational thinking: Young children’s developing capacities for problem decomposition. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1647-1653). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Leonard, J., Bennett-Pierre, G., & Gweon, H. (2019). Who is better? Preschoolers infer relative competence based on efficiency of process and quality of outcome. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 639-645). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Wu, Y., & Gweon, H. (2019). Preschoolers jointly consider others’ expressions of surprise and common ground to decide when to explore. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1226). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. **related publication: Wu & Gweon (2021), Child Development. [PDF]
Wu, Y., & Gweon, H. (2019). Surprisingly unsurprising! Infants’ looks to probable vs. improbable events are modulated by others’ expressions of surprise. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3386). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [preprint]
Yildirim, I., Saeed, B., Bennett-Pierre, G., Gerstenberg, T., Tenenbaum, J., & Gweon, H. (2019). Explaining intuitive difficulty judgments by modeling physical effort and risk. Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1233). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [preprint]
2018
Vélez, N., & Gweon, H. (2018). Integrating incomplete information with imperfect advice. Topics in Cognitive Science, 1 - 17. doi: 10.1111/tops.12388. [repository] [preprint] [SI] [PDF]
Bridgers, S., & Gweon, H. (2018). Means-Inference as a source of variability in early helping. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 1735. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01735 [PDF]
Gweon, H., Shafto, P. & Schulz, L.E. (2018). Development of children's sensitivity to over-informativeness in learning and teaching. Developmental Psychology. , 54(11), 2113-2125. doi: 10.1037/dev0000580. [repository] [PDF]
Gweon, H., & Asaba, M. (2018). Order matters: Children’s evaluation of under-informative teachers depends on context. Child Development, 89(3),e278-e292. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12825. [repository] [PDF]
Asaba, M. & Gweon, H. (2018). Look, I can do it! Young children forego opportunities to teach others to demonstrate their own competence. In Kalish, C., Rau, M., Zhu, J., & Rogers, T. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 106-111). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [repository] [PDF]
Asaba, M., Hembacher, E., Qiu, H., Anderson, B., Frank, M., & Gweon, H. (2018). Young children use statistical evidence to infer the informativeness of praise. In Kalish, C., Rau, M., Zhu, J., & Rogers, T. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 112-117). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [repository] [PDF]
Bennett-Pierre, G., Asaba, M., & Gweon, H. (2018). Preschoolers consider expected task difficulty to decide what to do and whom to help. In Kalish, C., Rau, M., Zhu, J., & Rogers, T. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1359-1364). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Bridgers, S., Gweon, H., Bretzke, M., & Ruggeri, A. (2018). How you learned matters: The process by which others’ learn informs young children’s decisions about whom to ask for help. In Kalish, C., Rau, M., Zhu, J., & Rogers, T. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1402-1407). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Vélez, N., Yuerui, W., & Gweon, H. (2018). Consistent but not diagnostic: Preschooler's intuitions about shared preferences within social groups. In Kalish, C., Rau, M., Zhu, J., & Rogers, T. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2621-2626). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Yoon, E., MacDonald, K., Asaba, M., Gweon, H., & Frank, M. (2018). Balancing informational and social goals in active learning. In Kalish, C., Rau, M., Zhu, J., & Rogers, T. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1218-1223). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [repository] [PDF]
2017
Enright, E. A., Gweon, H., & Sommerville, J. (2017). ‘To the victor go the spoils’: Infants expect resources to align with dominance structures. Cognition , 164, 8-11. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2017.03.008 [PDF]
Gershman, S., Pouncy, T., & Gweon, H. (2017). Learning the structure of social influence. Cognitive Science, 41(S3). 1-31. doi: 10.1111/cogs.12480 [PDF]
Gweon, H., Asaba, M., & Bennett-Pierre, G. (2017). Reverse-engineering the process: Adults and preschoolers’ ability to infer the difficulty of novel tasks. In Gunzelmann, G., Howes, A., Tenbrink, T., & Davelaar, E. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 458-463). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Bridgers, S., Altman, S., & Gweon, H. (2017). How can I help? 24- to 48-month-olds provide help specific to the cause of others’ failed actions. In Gunzelmann, G., Howes, A., Tenbrink, T., & Davelaar, E. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 162-167). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF].
Bass, I., Bonawitz, L. B., & Gweon, H. (2017). Didn’t know, or didn’t show? Preschoolers consider epistemic state and degree of omission when evaluating teachers. In Gunzelmann, G., Howes, A., Tenbrink, T., & Davelaar, E. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 105-110). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF] **related preprint: Bass et al. [preprint] **related publication: Bass, Bonawitz, Hawthorne-Madell, Vong, Goodman, & Gweon, Cognition [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104999]
Jara-Ettinger, J., & Gweon, H. (2017). Minimal covariation data support future one-shot inferences about unobservable properties of novel agents. In Gunzelmann, G., Howes, A., Tenbrink, T., & Davelaar, E. (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 570-575). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
2016
Jara-Ettinger, J., Gweon, H., Schulz, L. E., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2016). The naïve utility calculus: Computational principles underlying commonsense psychology.Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 20(8), 589-604. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2016.05.011 [PDF]
Shneidman, L., Gweon, H., Schulz, L. E., & Woodward, A. (2016). Learning from others and spontaneous exploration: A cross-cultural investigation. Child Development, 87(3), 723–735. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12502. [PDF]
Vélez, N., Bridgers, S., & Gweon, H. (2016). Not all overlaps are equal: Social affiliation and rare overlaps of preferences. In Papafragou, A., Grodner, D., Mirman, D., & J.C., Trueswell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1985-1990). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF] **related publication: Vélez, Bridgers, & Gweon, Cognition [10.1016/j.cognition.2019.06.006]
Bridgers, S., Jara-Ettinger, J., & Gweon, H. (2016). Children consider others’ expected costs and rewards when deciding what to teach. In Papafragou, A., Grodner, D., Mirman, D., & J.C., Trueswell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 710-715). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.[PDF] **related publication: Bridgers, Jara-Ettinger, & Gweon, Nature Human Behaviour [doi: 10.1038/s41562-019-0748-6]
Vélez, N.*, Leong, Y. C.*, Pan, C., Zaki, J., & Gweon, H. (2016). Learning and making novel predictions about others’ preferences. (*Equal contributors). In Papafragou, A., Grodner, D., Mirman, D., & J.C., Trueswell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 966-971). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Asaba, M., & Gweon, H. (2016). Who should I tell? Young children correct and maintain others’ beliefs about the self. In Papafragou, A., Grodner, D., Mirman, D., & J.C., Trueswell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1529-1534). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Zhao, X., Malle, B., & Gweon, H. (2016). Is it a 9 or a 6? Prosocial and selective perspective taking at age four. In Papafragou, A., Grodner, D., Mirman, D., & J.C., Trueswell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 924-929). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Ong, D.*, Asaba, M.*, & Gweon, H. (2016). Young children and adults integrate past expectations and current outcomes to reason about others’ emotions. (*Equal contributors). In Papafragou, A., Grodner, D., Mirman, D., & J.C., Trueswell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 135-140). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [repository] [PDF] **related publication: Asaba, Ong, & Gweon, 2018, Developmental Psychology [doi: 10.1037/dev0000749]
2015
Jara-Ettinger, J., Gweon, H., Tenenbaum, J. B., & Schulz, L. E. (2015). Children's understanding of the costs and rewards underlying rational action. Cognition, 140, 14-23. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2015.03.006 [PDF]
Bass, I., Hawthorne, D., Goodman, N. D., & Gweon, H. (2015). Not by number alone: The effect of teacher's knowledge and its value in evaluating "sins of omission." In D.C. Noelle, R. Dale, A.S. Warlaumont, J. Yoshimi, T. Matlock, C.D. Jennings, & P.P. Maglio (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 166-171). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.[PDF] **related publication: Bass, Bonawitz, Hawthorne-Madell, Vong, Goodman, & Gweon, Cognition [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104999]
Gweon, H., & Asaba, M. (2015). Knowing what he could have shown: The role of alternatives in children's evaluation of under-informative teachers. In D.C. Noelle, R. Dale, A.S. Warlaumont, J. Yoshimi, T. Matlock, C.D. Jennings, & P.P. Maglio (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 848-853). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF] **related publication: Gweon & Asaba, 2018, Child Development
2014
Gweon, H., Pelton, H., Konopka, J.A., & Schulz, L.E. (2014). Sins of omission: Children selectively explore when agents fail to tell the whole truth. Cognition, 132(3), 335-341. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2014.04.013 [PDF]
Koldewyn, K., Yendiki, A., Weigelt, S., Gweon, H., Julian, J., Richardson, H., Malloy, C., Saxe, R., Fischl, B., & Kanwisher, N. (2014). Differences in the right inferior longitudinal fasciculus but no general disruption of white matter tracts in children with autism spectrum disorder. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(5), 1981-1986. [PDF]
Gweon, H., Chu, V., & Schulz, L. E. (2014). To give a fish or to teach how to fish? Children weigh costs and benefits in considering what information to transmit. In P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane, & B. Scassellati (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 559-564). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF] **related publication: Gweon & Schulz, 2019, Child Development.
Gweon, H., Shafto, P., & Schulz, L. E. (2014). Children consider prior knowledge and the cost of information both in learning from and teaching others. In P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane, & B. Scassellati (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp.565-570). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF] **related publication: Gweon, Shafto, & Schulz, 2018, Developmental Psychology.
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 P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane, & B. Scassellati (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp.678-683). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF] **related publication: Jara-Ettinger et al., 2015, Cognition.
2013
Gweon, H., & Saxe, R. (2013). Developmental cognitive neuroscience of Theory of Mind. In J. Rubenstein & P. Rakic (Eds.), Neural Circuit Development and Function in the Brain: Comprehensive Developmental Neuroscience. Elsevier. [PDF]
2012
Gweon, H., Dodell-Feder, D., Bedny, M., & Saxe, R. (2012). Theory of Mind performance in children correlates with functional specialization of a brain region for thinking about thoughts. Child Development, 83(6), 1853-1868. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01829.x [ToM battery OSF repository] [SI] [PDF]
Shafto, P., Gweon, H., Fargen, C., & Schulz, L. (2012). Enough is enough: Inductive sufficiency guides learners' ratings of informant helpfulness. In N. Miyake, D. Peebles, & R. P. Cooper (Eds.), Proceedings of the 34th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 977-982). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
2011
Gweon, H., & Schulz, L. E. (2011). 16-month-olds rationally infer causes of failed actions. Science, 332(6037), 1524. doi: 10.1126/science.1204493 [PDF] [SI]
Bonawitz, E., Shafto, P., Gweon, H., Goodman, N. D., Spelke, E., & Schulz, L. (2011). The double-edged sword of pedagogy: Instruction limits spontaneous exploration and discovery. Cognition, 120(3), 322-330. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2010.10.001 [PDF]
Gweon, H., Young, L., & Saxe, R. (2011). Theory of Mind for you, and for me: behavioral and neural similarities and differences in thinking about beliefs of the self and other. In L. Carlson, C. Hölscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2492 - 2497). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Gweon, H., Pelton, H., & Schulz, L.E. (2011). Adults and school-aged children accurately evaluate sins of omission in pedagogical contexts. In L. Carlson, C. Hölscher, & T. Shipley (Eds.), Proceedings of the 33rd Annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 1242-1247). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF] **related publication: Gweon et al., 2014, Cognition.
2010
Gweon, H., Tenenbaum, J. B., & Schulz, L. E. (2010). Infants consider both the sample and the sampling process in inductive generalization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 107(20), 9066-9071. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1003095107 [PDF] [SI]
Gweon, H., & Schulz, L. E. (2010). Is it me or the world? 16-month-olds distinguish competing hypotheses about the cause of failed interventions. Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 2846-2851. [PDF]** Recipient of Marr Prize 2010 (best student paper); related publication: Gweon & Schulz, 2011, Science.
pre-2010
Gweon, H., Tenenbaum, J. B., & Schulz, L. E. (2009). What are you trying to tell me? A Bayesian model of how toddlers can simultaneously infer property extension and sampling processes. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 1282-1287. [PDF] **related publication: Gweon, Tenenbaum, & Schulz, 2010, PNAS.
Bonawitz, E. B., Shafto, P., Gweon, H., Chang, I., Katz, S., & Schulz, L. (2009) The double-edged sword of pedagogy: Modeling the effect of pedagogical contexts on preschoolers’ exploratory play. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, 1575-1580. [PDF] **related publication: Bonawitz et al., 2011, Cognition
Gweon, H., & Schulz, L. E. (2008). Stretching to learn: Ambiguous evidence and variability in preschoolers’ exploratory play. In B. C. Love, K. McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 570-574). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]