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8769
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7201
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3899

Tania Lombrozo publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Tania Lombrozo sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 159 publications — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Tania Lombrozo D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Tania Lombrozo sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Hellman Fellow

Overview

Tania Lombrozo is a researcher affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their work primarily spans the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences, with a significant emphasis on subfields such as Sociology and Political Science, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, and Philosophy.

The main topics covered in Lombrozo's research include Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, Child and Animal Learning Development, Social and Intergroup Psychology, Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics, Psychological and Educational Research Studies, Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies, and Misinformation and Its Impacts.

The researcher has contributed to multiple recent publications, including:

  • "The Future of Women in Psychological Science" (2020) in Perspectives on Psychological Science
  • "Explanation-seeking curiosity in childhood" (2020) in Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences
  • "A functional approach to explanation-seeking curiosity" (2020) in Cognitive Psychology
  • "Science demands explanation, religion tolerates mystery" (2020) in Cognition
  • "Transformations and Transfer: Preschool Children Understand Abstract Relations and Reason Analogically in a Causal Task" (2020) in Child Development

Lombrozo frequently publishes in venues such as Cognition, Cognitive Science, Cognitive Psychology, Journal of Experimental Psychology General, and Frontiers in Psychology.

Their research collaborations often include frequent coauthors Emily Liquin, Kerem Oktar, Alison Gopnik, Thomas L. Griffiths, and Casey Lewry.

Lombrozo was awarded the Hellman Fellow in 2009, reflecting recognition within their academic career.

Best Publications

  • The structure and function of explanations.

    Tania Lombrozo

  • Oxford studies in experimental philosophy

    Tania Lombrozo;Joshua Michael Knobe;Shaun Nichols

  • Functional explanation and the function of explanation

    Tania Lombrozo;Susan Carey

  • Explanation and Abductive Inference

    Tania Lombrozo

  • The Importance of Understanding the Nature of Science for Accepting Evolution

    Tania Lombrozo;Anastasia Thanukos;Michael Weisberg

  • Causal–explanatory pluralism: How intentions, functions, and mechanisms influence causal ascriptions

    Tania Lombrozo

  • Brain responses to nouns, verbs and class-ambiguous words in context

    Kara D. Federmeier;Jessica B. Segal;Tania Lombrozo;Marta Kutas

  • The role of explanation in discovery and generalization: evidence from category learning

    Joseph Williams;Tania Lombrozo

  • Explanatory Preferences Shape Learning and Inference

    Tania Lombrozo

  • Inferring Design: Evidence of a Preference for Teleological Explanations in Patients With Alzheimer's Disease

    Tania Lombrozo;Deborah Kelemen;Deborah Zaitchik

  • Norms inform mental state ascriptions: A rational explanation for the side-effect effect

    Kevin Uttich;Tania Lombrozo

  • Selective effects of explanation on learning during early childhood.

    Cristine H. Legare;Tania Lombrozo

  • The role of moral commitments in moral judgment.

    Tania Lombrozo

  • Explanation and prior knowledge interact to guide learning

    Joseph J. Williams;Tania Lombrozo

  • Explaining prompts children to privilege inductively rich properties.

    Caren M. Walker;Tania Lombrozo;Cristine H. Legare;Alison Gopnik

  • Occam's rattle: children's use of simplicity and probability to constrain inference.

    Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz;Tania Lombrozo

  • Children adapt their questions to achieve efficient search

    Azzurra Ruggeri;Tania Lombrozo

  • Explanation and categorization: How “why?” informs “what?”

    Tania Lombrozo

  • The Future of Women in Psychological Science

    June Gruber;Jane Mendle;Kristen A. Lindquist;Toni Schmader

  • The hazards of explanation: overgeneralization in the face of exceptions.

    Joseph Jay Williams;Tania Lombrozo;Bob Rehder

  • The Instrumental Value of Explanations

    Tania Lombrozo

Frequent Co-Authors

Alison Gopnik
Alison Gopnik University of California, Berkeley
Thomas L. Griffiths
Thomas L. Griffiths Princeton University
Cristine H. Legare
Cristine H. Legare The University of Texas at Austin
Deborah Kelemen
Deborah Kelemen Boston University
Joshua Knobe
Joshua Knobe Yale University
Shaun Nichols
Shaun Nichols Cornell University
Susan Carey
Susan Carey Harvard University
Dedre Gentner
Dedre Gentner Northwestern University
Edouard Machery
Edouard Machery University of Pittsburgh
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Lisa Feldman Barrett Northeastern University

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