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Thomas R. Shultz

Thomas R. Shultz

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Psychology

D-Index
44
Citations
8036
World Ranking
6963
National Ranking
473

Overview

Thomas R. Shultz is affiliated with McGill University in Canada and has a research portfolio spanning across computer science, psychology, and social sciences. Their academic work primarily focuses on artificial intelligence, developmental and educational psychology, and cognitive neuroscience, with secondary interests in cultural studies and sociology.

Shultz's research addresses multiple topics including child and animal learning development, language and cultural evolution, neural networks and applications, cognitive science and mapping, Bayesian modeling and causal inference, language development and disorders, and adversarial robustness in machine learning.

Frequent coauthors in Shultz's work include Ardavan Salehi Nobandegani, Jamie M. Wise, Irina Rish, Marcel Montrey, and Sylvain Sirois.

The recent publication record of Shultz features the following papers:

  • Text understanding in GPT-4 versus humans, 2025, Royal Society Open Science
  • Text Understanding in GPT-4 vs Humans, 2024, arXiv (Cornell University)

Additionally, Shultz has contributed to works such as:

  • Copy the In-group: Group Membership Trumps Perceived Reliability, Warmth, and Competence in a Social-Learning Task, 2021, Psychological Science
  • The St. Petersburg Paradox: A Fresh Algorithmic Perspective, 2020, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Towards Machines that Trust: AI Agents Learn to Trust in the Trust Game, 2023, arXiv (Cornell University)

Shultz's frequent publication venues include arXiv (Cornell University), Psychological Science, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Royal Society Open Science, and Topics in Cognitive Science.

Best Publications

  • Rules of Causal Attribution.

    Thomas R. Shultz

  • COGNITIVE DISSONANCE REDUCTION AS CONSTRAINT SATISFACTION

    Thomas R. Shultz;Mark R. Lepper

  • A Cognitive-Developmental Analysis of Humour

    Thomas R. Shultz

  • Moral Rules: Their Content and Acquisition

    John M. Darley;Thomas R. Shultz

  • The role of incongruity and resolution in children's appreciation of cartoon humor

    Thomas R. Shultz

  • Comparing online and lab methods in a problem-solving experiment.

    Frédéric Dandurand;Thomas R. Shultz;Kristine H. Onishi

  • Modeling Cognitive Development on Balance Scale Phenomena

    Thomas R. Shultz;Denis Mareschal;William C. Schmidt

  • Computational Developmental Psychology

    Thomas R. Shultz

  • Development of the Appreciation of Riddles.

    Thomas R. Shultz

  • Development of the Ability to Detect Linguistic Ambiguity

    Thomas R. Shultz;Robert Pilon

  • Development of the ability to distinguish intended actions from mistakes, reflexes, and passive movements

    Thomas R. Shultz;Diane Wells;Mario Sarda

  • Judging the intentionality of action-outcomes.

    Thomas R. Shultz;Diane Wells

  • The Use of Covariation as a Principle of Causal Analysis.

    Thomas R. Shultz;Roslyn Mendelson

  • Assignment of Moral Responsibility and Punishment.

    Thomas R. Shultz

  • Judgments of causation, responsibility, and punishment in cases of harm-doing.

    Thomas R. Shultz;Michael Schleifer;Ian Altman

  • Modeling cognitive development with a generative connectionist algorithm

    T.R. Shultz;W.C. Schmidt;D. Buckingham;Denis Mareschal

  • The development of the understanding of human behavior: From agency to intentionality.

    Diane Poulin-Dubois;Thomas R. Shultz

  • Generative connectionist networks and constructivist cognitive development

    Denis Mareschal;Thomas R. Shultz

  • Knowledge-based cascade-correlation : using knowledge to speed learning

    Thomas R Shultz;Francois Rivest

  • Development of recursive awareness of intention.

    Thomas R. Shultz;Karen Cloghesy

Frequent Co-Authors

Denis Mareschal
Denis Mareschal Birkbeck, University of London
Mark R. Lepper
Mark R. Lepper Stanford University
Diane Poulin-Dubois
Diane Poulin-Dubois Concordia University
Philip David Zelazo
Philip David Zelazo University of Minnesota
John M. Darley
John M. Darley Princeton University
LouAnn Gerken
LouAnn Gerken University of Arizona
Susan Harter
Susan Harter University of Denver
Leslie B. Cohen
Leslie B. Cohen The University of Texas at Austin
Dedre Gentner
Dedre Gentner Northwestern University
Susan Goldin-Meadow
Susan Goldin-Meadow University of Chicago

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