Tamar Kushnir

Best Publications

• A Theory of Causal Learning in Children: Causal Maps and Bayes Nets.

  Alison Gopnik;Clark Glymour;David M. Sobel;Laura E. Schulz

  1715
  Citations

• Young Children Use Statistical Sampling to Infer the Preferences of Other People

  Tamar Kushnir;Fei Xu;Henry M. Wellman

  326
  Citations

• Knowledge matters: how children evaluate the reliability of testimony as a process of rational inference.

  David M. Sobel;Tamar Kushnir

  302
  Citations

• Young Children Infer Causal Strength From Probabilities and Interventions

  Tamar Kushnir;Alison Gopnik

  235
  Citations

• Conditional probability versus spatial contiguity in causal learning: Preschoolers use new contingency evidence to overcome prior spatial assumptions.

  Tamar Kushnir;Alison Gopnik

  211
  Citations

• Infants Are Rational Constructivist Learners

  Fei Xu;Tamar Kushnir

  202
  Citations

• Developing intuitions about free will between ages four and six.

  Tamar Kushnir;Alison Gopnik;Nadia Chernyak;Elizabeth Seiver

  126
  Citations

• The Role of Preschoolers' Social Understanding in Evaluating the Informativeness of Causal Interventions.

  Tamar Kushnir;Henry M. Wellman;Susan A. Gelman

  121
  Citations

• The importance of decision making in causal learning from interventions

  David M. Sobel;Tamar Kushnir

  120
  Citations

• A comparison of American and Nepalese children's concepts of freedom of choice and social constraint.

  Nadia Chernyak;Tamar Kushnir;Katherine M. Sullivan;Qi Wang

  111
  Citations

• The child as econometrician: a rational model of preference understanding in children.

  Christopher G. Lucas;Thomas L. Griffiths;Fei Xu;Christine Fawcett

  110
  Citations

• “Who can help me fix this toy?” The distinction between causal knowledge and word knowledge guides preschoolers' selective requests for information.

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  88
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• Giving Preschoolers Choice Increases Sharing Behavior

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  88
  Citations

• Infants Use Statistical Sampling to Understand the Psychological World

  Henry M. Wellman;Tamar Kushnir;Fei Xu;Kimberly A. Brink

  74
  Citations

• The developmental and cultural psychology of free will

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  74
  Citations

• Selectivity in Toddlers' Behavioral and Emotional Reactions to Prosocial and Antisocial Others.

  Julia W. Van de Vondervoort;Lara B. Aknin;Tamar Kushnir;Janine Slevinsky

  66
  Citations

• Children protest moral and conventional violations more when they believe actions are freely chosen

  Marina Josephs;Tamar Kushnir;Maria Gräfenhain;Maria Gräfenhain;Hannes Rakoczy

  60
  Citations

• Pedagogical cues encourage toddlers' transmission of recently demonstrated functions to unfamiliar adults

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  55
  Citations

• Culture moderates the relationship between self-control ability and free will beliefs in childhood.

  Xin Zhao;Adrienne Wente;María Fernández Flecha;Denise Segovia Galvan

  53
  Citations

• The cultural roots of free will beliefs: How Singaporean and U.S. Children judge and explain possibilities for action in interpersonal contexts.

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  49
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