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Charles W. Kalish is a researcher affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States. Their work primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with a focus on specific subfields such as Social Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education, Sociology and Political Science, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The scientist's research topics include Child and Animal Learning Development, Cultural Differences and Values, Animal and Plant Science Education, Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation, Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, and Science Education and Perceptions.

Charles W. Kalish has published in various academic venues. Frequent publication sources include:

  • Advances in child development and behavior
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied
  • Child Development
  • Journal of Cognition and Development
  • Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Charles W. Kalish reflect a breadth of topics within social and developmental psychology. Selected publications are:

  • "Intuitive sociology," 2021, Advances in child development and behavior
  • "Like mother, like daughter: Adults' judgments about genetic inheritance," 2022, Journal of Experimental Psychology Applied
  • "Deterministic or probabilistic: U.S. children's beliefs about genetic inheritance," 2024, Child Development
  • "Direct Assessments of Social Skills Can Complement Teacher Ratings in Predicting Children's Academic Achievement," 2023, Journal of Cognition and Development
  • "Personalizing the demands of reason," 2020, Behavioral and Brain Sciences

Throughout their career, Charles W. Kalish has collaborated with several frequent coauthors, including Kristin Shutts, David Menéndez, Olympia N. Mathiaparanam, Vienne Seitz, and Andrea Marquardt Donovan.

Best Publications

  • The role of covariation versus mechanism information in causal attribution

    Woo kyoung Ahn;Charles W. Kalish;Douglas L. Medin;Susan A. Gelman

  • As Time Goes By: Children's Early Understanding of Growth in Animals

    Karl S. Rosengren;Susan A. Gelman;Charles W. Kalish;Michael McCormick

  • Foundations of Financial Well‐Being: Insights into the Role of Executive Function, Financial Socialization, and Experience‐Based Learning in Childhood and Youth

    Anita I. Drever;Elizabeth Odders-White;Charles W. Kalish;Nicole M. Else-Quest

  • The role of mechanism beliefs in causal reasoning.

    Woo-kyoung Ahn;Charles W. Kalish

  • Preschoolers' understanding of germs as invisible mechanisms

    Charles W. Kalish

  • Why essences are essential in the psychology of concepts.

    Woo kyoung Ahn;Charles Kalish;Susan A. Gelman;Douglas L. Medin

  • Reasons and Causes: Children's Understanding of Conformity to Social Rules and Physical Laws

    Charles Kalish

  • Essentialism and graded membership in animal and artifact categories

    Charles W. Kalish

  • Children's predictions of consistency in people's actions

    Charles W. Kalish

  • Exploring the relation between preschool children's magical beliefs and causal thinking

    Karl S. Rosengren;Charles W. Kalish;Anne K. Hickling;Susan A. Gelman

  • Development of social category representations: early appreciation of roles and deontic relations.

    Charles W. Kalish;Christopher A. Lawson

  • Children's Reasoning about Norms and Traits as Motives for Behavior.

    Charles W Kalish;Sean M Shiverick

  • On Wooden Pillows: Multiple Classification and Children's Category‐based Inductions

    Charles W. Kalish;Susan A. Gelman

  • Causes and symptoms in preschoolers' conceptions of illness

    Charles Kalish

  • Causal status effect in children's categorization

    Woo kyoung Ahn;Susan A. Gelman;Jennifer A. Amsterlaw;Jill Hohenstein

  • Preschoolers' Understanding of Mental and Bodily Reactions to Contamination: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You, But Cannot Sadden You.

    Charles Kalish

  • Children's ascriptions of property rights with changes of ownership

    Sunae Kim;Charles W. Kalish

  • The role of maltreatment experience in children's understanding of the antecedents of emotion

    Susan B. Perlman;Charles W. Kalish;Seth D. Pollak

  • Human Active Learning

    Rui M. Castro;Charles Kalish;Robert Nowak;Ruichen Qian

  • What young children's understanding of contamination and contagion tells us about their concepts of illness

    Charles W. Kalish

Frequent Co-Authors

Timothy T. Rogers
Timothy T. Rogers University of Wisconsin–Madison
Susan A. Gelman
Susan A. Gelman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Martha W. Alibali
Martha W. Alibali University of Wisconsin–Madison
Karl S. Rosengren
Karl S. Rosengren University of Wisconsin–Madison
Woo-kyoung Ahn
Woo-kyoung Ahn Yale University
Douglas L. Medin
Douglas L. Medin Northwestern University
Mark A. Sabbagh
Mark A. Sabbagh Queen's University
James L. McClelland
James L. McClelland Stanford University
Philip J. Kellman
Philip J. Kellman University of California, Los Angeles
Paul L. Harris
Paul L. Harris Harvard University

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