The human ability to reason about the causes behind other people'behavior is critical for
navigating the social world. Recent empirical research with both children and adults …

Direct instruction facilitates learning without the costs of exploration, yet teachers must be
selective because not everything can nor needs to be taught. How do we decide what to …

From early childhood, humans demonstrate an understanding of ownership and the rights it
confers to owners. This understanding impacts how children reason about people's actions …

Judgments surrounding resource acquisition and valuation are ubiquitous in daily life. How
do humans decide what something is worth to themselves or someone else? One important …

Across development, young children reason about why social inequities exist. However,
when left to their own devices, young children might engage in internal thinking, reasoning …

When making moral judgments of past actions, adults often think counterfactually about what
could have been done differently. Considerable evidence suggests that counterfactual …

When deciding whether to explore, agents must consider both their need for information and
its cost. Do children recognize that exploration reflects a trade‐off between action costs and …

People value those who act with others in mind even as they pursue their own goals. Across
three studies (N= 566; 4‐to 6‐year‐olds), we investigated children's developing …

Comments on an article by T. Kushnir (see record 2022-67710-001). Kushnir highlights an
important link between children's ability to imagine alternatives and their emerging social …

A fundamental part of understanding structural inequality is recognizing that constrained
choices, particularly those that align with societal stereotypes, are poor indicators of a …