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  1. Children (and many adults) use perceptual similarity to assess relative impossibility.

    Article • Developmental Psychology, August 2024, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Ori Friedman

  2. Children use proximity and ability to infer distinct kinds of counterfactual closeness.

    Article • Developmental Psychology, June 2024, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Ori Friedman

  3. When children choose fantastical events in fiction.

    Article • Developmental Psychology, January 2024, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Ori Friedman

  4. An Adversarial Collaboration on Dirty Money

    Article • Social Psychological and Personality Science, April 2023, SAGE Publications

    Professor Ori Friedman

  5. Probability and intentional action

    Article • Cognitive Psychology, March 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Ori Friedman

  6. Two kinds of counterfactual closeness

    Article • February 2023, Center for Open Science

    Professor Ori Friedman

  7. Probability and intentional action

    Article • February 2023, Center for Open Science

    Professor Ori Friedman

  8. The Odds Tell Children What People Favor

    Article • February 2023, Center for Open Science

    Professor Ori Friedman

  9. Two kinds of counterfactual closeness.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology General, February 2023, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Ori Friedman

  10. The second-order problem of other minds

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, January 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ori Friedman

  11. The Social Network: How People Infer Relationships From Mutual Connections

    Article • December 2022, Center for Open Science

    Professor Ori Friedman

  12. Anchored in the present: Preschoolers more accurately infer their futures when confronted with their pasts

    Article • November 2022, Center for Open Science

    Professor Ori Friedman

  13. Novelty preferences depend on goals

    Article • November 2022, Center for Open Science

    Professor Ori Friedman

  14. Anchored in the present: preschoolers more accurately infer their futures when confronted with their pasts

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, October 2022, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Ori Friedman

  15. Blind to Bias? Young Children Do Not Anticipate that Sunk Costs Lead to Irrational Choices

    Article • October 2022, Center for Open Science

    Professor Ori Friedman

  16. Children’s Accent-based Inferences Depend on Geographic Background

    Article • October 2022, Center for Open Science

    Professor Ori Friedman

  17. Preschoolers are sensitive to accent distance

    Article • October 2022, Center for Open Science

    Professor Ori Friedman

  18. Prominence, Property, and Inductive Inference

    Article • August 2022, Center for Open Science

    Professor Ori Friedman

  19. Attributing ownership to hold others accountable

    Article • Cognition, August 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Ori Friedman

  20. The odds tell children what people favor.

    Article • Developmental Psychology, June 2022, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Ori Friedman

  21. Novelty preferences depend on goals

    Article • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, May 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ori Friedman

  22. Young Children Infer Psychological Ownership from Stewardship

    Article • May 2022, Center for Open Science

    Professor Ori Friedman

  23. Easy or difficult? Children’s understanding of how supply and demand affect goal completion

    Article • May 2022, Center for Open Science

    Professor Ori Friedman

  24. Easy or difficult? Children's understanding of how supply and demand affect goal completion

    Article • Child Development, May 2022, Wiley

    Professor Ori Friedman

  25. Expectations of how machines use individuating information and base-rates

    Article • Judgment and Decision Making, May 2022, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ori Friedman

  26. Causal knowledge and children’s possibility judgments

    Article • April 2022, Center for Open Science

    Professor Ori Friedman

  27. Young children infer psychological ownership from stewardship.

    Article • Developmental Psychology, April 2022, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Ori Friedman

  28. Attributing Ownership to Hold Others Accountable

    Article • March 2022, Center for Open Science

    Professor Ori Friedman

  29. Causal knowledge and children’s possibility judgments

    Article • Child Development, December 2021, Wiley

    Professor Ori Friedman

  30. Blind to Bias? Young Children Do Not Anticipate that Sunk Costs Lead to Irrational Choices

    Article • Cognitive Science, November 2021, Wiley

    Professor Ori Friedman

  31. Butt-dialing the devil: Evil agents are expected to disregard intentions behind requests

    Article • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, September 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Ori Friedman

  32. Butt-dialing the devil: Evil agents are expected to disregard intentions behind requests

    Article • July 2021, Center for Open Science

    Professor Ori Friedman

  33. Varieties of value: Children differentiate caring from liking

    Article • Cognitive Development, July 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Ori Friedman

  34. Varieties of value: Children differentiate caring from liking

    Article • June 2021, Center for Open Science

    Professor Ori Friedman

  35. Toddlers and preschoolers understand that some preferences are more subjective than others

    Article • May 2021, Center for Open Science

    Professor Ori Friedman

  36. Oh … so close! Children’s close counterfactual reasoning and emotion inferences.

    Article • Developmental Psychology, May 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Ori Friedman

  37. Toddlers and Preschoolers Understand That Some Preferences Are More Subjective Than Others

    Article • Child Development, May 2021, Wiley

    Professor Ori Friedman

  38. Oh…So close! Children’s close counterfactual reasoning and emotion inferences

    Article • April 2021, Center for Open Science

    Professor Ori Friedman

  39. Young children infer feelings of ownership from habitual use.

    Article • Emotion, April 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Ori Friedman

  40. A similarity heuristic in children’s possibility judgments

    Article • March 2021, Center for Open Science

    Professor Ori Friedman

  41. Children’s Beliefs about Possibility Differ Across Dreams, Stories, and Reality

    Article • March 2021, Center for Open Science

    Professor Ori Friedman

  42. A Similarity Heuristic in Children’s Possibility Judgments

    Article • Child Development, January 2021, Wiley

    Professor Ori Friedman

  43. Unsolicited but acceptable: Non-owners can access property if the owner benefits.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology General, January 2021, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Ori Friedman

  44. Actual knowledge

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, January 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ori Friedman

  45. Knowledge before belief

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, September 2020, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ori Friedman

  46. Is Probabilistic Evidence a Source of Knowledge

    Article • August 2020, Center for Open Science

    Professor Ori Friedman

  47. Unsolicited but acceptable: Non-owners can access property if the owner benefits

    Article • August 2020, Center for Open Science

    Professor Ori Friedman

  48. Children’s Beliefs About Possibility Differ Across Dreams, Stories, and Reality

    Article • Child Development, July 2020, Wiley

    Professor Ori Friedman

  49. Expert or Esoteric? Philosophers Attribute Knowledge Differently Than All Other Academics

    Article • Cognitive Science, June 2020, Wiley

    Professor Ori Friedman

  50. Disgust and Moral Judgment: Distinguishing Between Elicitors and Feelings Matters

    Article • Social Psychological and Personality Science, June 2020, SAGE Publications

    Professor Ori Friedman

  51. Working memory develops at a similar rate across diverse stimuli

    Article • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, March 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Ori Friedman

  52. Young children use probability to infer happiness and the quality of outcomes

    Article • February 2020, Center for Open Science

    Professor Ori Friedman

  53. Young Children Infer Feelings of Ownership from Habitual Use

    Article • February 2020, Center for Open Science

    Professor Ori Friedman

  54. Children’s working memory develops at similar rates for sequences differing in compressibility

    Article • L’Année psychologique, January 2020, CAIRN

    Professor Ori Friedman

  55. Young Children Use Probability to Infer Happiness and the Quality of Outcomes

    Article • Psychological Science, December 2019, SAGE Publications

    Professor Ori Friedman

  56. Beyond Belief: The Probability-Based Notion of Surprise in Children

    Article • December 2019, Center for Open Science

    Professor Ori Friedman

  57. Young Children use Supply and Demand to Infer Desirability

    Article • November 2019, Center for Open Science

    Professor Ori Friedman

  58. Young children use supply and demand to infer desirability.

    Article • Developmental Psychology, September 2019, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Ori Friedman

  59. Give and take: Ownership affects how 2- and 3-year-olds allocate resources

    Article • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, September 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Ori Friedman

  60. Questions and potential answers about ways ownership and art matter for one another

    Article • August 2019, Center for Open Science

    Professor Ori Friedman

  61. Preschoolers are sensitive to accent distance

    Article • Journal of Child Language, August 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ori Friedman

  62. Questions and Potential Answers About Ways Ownership and Art Matter for One Another

    Article • Empirical Studies of the Arts, August 2019, SAGE Publications

    Professor Ori Friedman

  63. An advantage for ownership over preferences in children’s future thinking

    Article • June 2019, Center for Open Science

    Professor Ori Friedman

  64. An advantage for ownership over preferences in children’s future thinking.

    Article • Developmental Psychology, June 2019, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Ori Friedman

  65. Give and take: Ownership affects how 2- and 3-year-olds allocate resources

    Article • June 2019, Center for Open Science

    Professor Ori Friedman

  66. Article • May 2019, Center for Open Science

    Professor Ori Friedman

  67. Children Value Objects With Distinctive Histories

    Article • April 2019, Center for Open Science

    Professor Ori Friedman

  68. Children value objects with distinctive histories.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology General, April 2019, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Ori Friedman

  69. Children show reduced trust in confident advisors who are partially informed

    Article • Cognitive Development, April 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Ori Friedman

  70. I owe you an explanation: Children’s beliefs about when people are obligated to explain their actions

    Article • March 2019, Center for Open Science

    Professor Ori Friedman

  71. Children show reduced trust in confident advisors who are partially informed

    Article • March 2019, Center for Open Science

    Professor Ori Friedman

  72. Distant lands make for distant possibilities

    Article • March 2019, Center for Open Science

    Professor Ori Friedman

  73. Sunk Cost Bias and Withdrawal Aversion

    Article • The American Journal of Bioethics, March 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Ori Friedman, Michał Białek

  74. Ownership Matters: People Possess a Naïve Theory of Ownership

    Article • Trends in Cognitive Sciences, February 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Ori Friedman

  75. Future-oriented objects

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, January 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ori Friedman

  76. Distant lands make for distant possibilities: Children view improbable events as more possible in far-away locations.

    Article • Developmental Psychology, December 2018, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Ori Friedman

  77. The development of territory-based inferences of ownership

    Article • Cognition, August 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Ori Friedman

  78. Children hold owners responsible when property causes harm.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Psychology General, August 2018, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Ori Friedman

  79. Theory of mind ability in high socially anxious individuals

    Article • Anxiety Stress & Coping, June 2018, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Ori Friedman

  80. Children hold owners responsible when property causes harm

    Article • June 2018, Center for Open Science

    Professor Ori Friedman

  81. Children’s accent-based inferences depend on geographic background

    Article • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, June 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Ori Friedman

  82. Using versus liking: Young children use ownership to predict actions but not to infer preferences

    Article • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, May 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Ori Friedman

  83. The Development of Territory-Based Inferences of Ownership

    Article • April 2018, Center for Open Science

    Professor Ori Friedman

  84. Beyond belief: The probability-based notion of surprise in children.

    Article • Emotion, March 2018, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Ori Friedman

  85. Using versus liking: Young children use ownership to predict actions, but not to infer preferences

    Article • January 2018, Center for Open Science

    Professor Ori Friedman

  86. Legal Ownership Is Psychological: Evidence from Young Children

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ori Friedman

  87. Spoiled for choice: Identifying the building blocks of folk-economic beliefs

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, January 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ori Friedman

  88. Young children protest and correct pretense that contradicts their general knowledge

    Article • Cognitive Development, July 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Ori Friedman

  89. Accent, Language, and Race: 4-6-Year-Old Children's Inferences Differ by Speaker Cue

    Article • Child Development, April 2017, Wiley

    Professor Ori Friedman

  90. Children’s judgments about ownership rights and body rights: Evidence for a common basis

    Article • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, March 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Ori Friedman

  91. Fitting the Message to the Listener: Children Selectively Mention General and Specific Facts

    Article • Child Development, February 2017, Wiley

    Professor Ori Friedman

  92. She Bought the Unicorn From the Pet Store: Six- to Seven-Year-Olds Are Strongly Inclined to Generate Natural Explanations.

    Article • Developmental Psychology, January 2017, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Ori Friedman

  93. Young children’s understanding of the limits and benefits of group ownership.

    Article • Developmental Psychology, January 2017, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Ori Friedman

  94. Preschoolers use emotional reactions to infer relations

    Article • Cognitive Development, October 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Ori Friedman

  95. Young children infer preferences from a single action, but not if it is constrained

    Article • Cognition, October 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Ori Friedman

  96. Children’s generic interpretation of pretense

    Article • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, October 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Ori Friedman

  97. Ownership Rights

    Article • April 2016, Wiley

    Professor Ori Friedman

  98. Knowledge central: A central role for knowledge attributions in social evaluations

    Article • Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, March 2016, SAGE Publications

    Professor Ori Friedman

  99. “Because It's Hers”: When Preschoolers Use Ownership in Their Explanations

    Article • Cognitive Science, March 2016, Wiley

    Professor Ori Friedman

  100. Where are you from? Preschoolers infer background from accent

    Article • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, March 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Ori Friedman

  101. If I am free, you can’t own me: Autonomy makes entities less ownable

    Article • Cognition, March 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Ori Friedman

  102. Identical but not interchangeable: Preschoolers view owned objects as non-fungible

    Article • Cognition, January 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Ori Friedman

  103. Creation in Judgments about the Establishment of Ownership

    Article • Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, September 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Ori Friedman

  104. Children have difficulty using object location to recognize when natural objects are owned

    Article • Cognitive Development, July 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Ori Friedman

  105. Rule-based category use in preschool children

    Article • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, March 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Ori Friedman

  106. Preschoolers and Toddlers Use Ownership to Predict Basic Emotions

    Article • Emotion, January 2015, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Ori Friedman

  107. Toddlers Assert and Acknowledge Ownership Rights

    Article • Social Development, November 2014, Wiley

    Professor Ori Friedman

  108. Is Probabilistic Evidence a Source of Knowledge?

    Article • Cognitive Science, October 2014, Wiley

    Professor Ori Friedman

  109. For the greater goods? Ownership rights and utilitarian moral judgment

    Article • Cognition, October 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Ori Friedman

  110. Parallels in Preschoolers' and Adults' Judgments About Ownership Rights and Bodily Rights

    Article • Cognitive Science, July 2014, Wiley

    Professor Ori Friedman

  111. Preschoolers can infer general rules governing fantastical events in fiction

    Article • Developmental Psychology, May 2014, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Ori Friedman

  112. Mine, yours, no one’s: Children’s understanding of how ownership affects object use

    Article • Developmental Psychology, January 2014, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Ori Friedman

  113. Taking ‘know’ for an answer: A reply to Nagel, San Juan, and Mar

    Article • Cognition, December 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Ori Friedman, Christina Starmans

  114. Children and Adults Use Gender and Age Stereotypes in Ownership Judgments

    Article • Journal of Cognition and Development, November 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Ori Friedman

  115. Young Children's Understanding of Ownership

    Article • Child Development Perspectives, October 2013, Wiley

    Professor Ori Friedman

  116. Preschoolers Selectively Infer History When Explaining Outcomes: Evidence From Explanations of Ownership, Liking, and Use

    Article • Child Development, October 2013, Wiley

    Professor Ori Friedman

  117. Young Children Give Priority to Ownership When Judging Who Should Use an Object

    Article • Child Development, May 2013, Wiley

    Professor Ori Friedman

  118. How Do Children Represent Pretend Play?

    Article • April 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Ori Friedman

  119. The Origin of Children’s Appreciation of Ownership Rights

    Article • April 2013, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Ori Friedman

  120. First Possession, History, and Young Children's Ownership Judgments

    Article • Child Development, March 2013, Wiley

    Professor Ori Friedman

  121. The Folk Epistemology of Lotteries

    Article • January 2013, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Ori Friedman

  122. Just pretending can be really learning: Children use pretend play as a source for acquiring generic knowledge.

    Article • Developmental Psychology, January 2013, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Ori Friedman

  123. The folk conception of knowledge

    Article • Cognition, September 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Ori Friedman, Christina Starmans

  124. Acquiring ownership and the attribution of responsibility

    Article • Cognition, August 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Ori Friedman

  125. Preschoolers Acquire General Knowledge by Sharing in Pretense

    Article • Child Development, March 2012, Wiley

    Professor Ori Friedman

  126. Artifacts and natural kinds: Children's judgments about whether objects are owned

    Article • Developmental Psychology, January 2012, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Ori Friedman

  127. Twenty-one reasons to care about the psychological basis of ownership

    Article • New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, June 2011, Wiley

    Professor Ori Friedman

  128. Ownership and object history

    Article • New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, June 2011, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Professor Ori Friedman

  129. The signature of inhibition in theory of mind: children’s predictions of behavior based on avoidance desire

    Article • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, November 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ori Friedman

  130. Necessary for Possession: How People Reason About the Acquisition of Ownership

    Article • Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, July 2010, SAGE Publications

    Professor Ori Friedman

  131. Is young children’s recognition of pretense metarepresentational or merely behavioral? Evidence from 2- and 3-year-olds’ understanding of pretend sounds and speech

    Article • Cognition, May 2010, Elsevier

    Professor Ori Friedman

  132. The Opposites Task: Using General Rules to Test Cognitive Flexibility in Preschoolers

    Article • Journal of Cognition and Development, April 2010, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Ori Friedman

  133. Non-interpretative metacognition for true beliefs

    Article • Behavioral and Brain Sciences, April 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ori Friedman

  134. Children do not follow the rule “ignorance means getting it wrong”

    Article • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, January 2009, Elsevier

    Professor Ori Friedman

  135. Preschoolers infer ownership from “control of permission”

    Article • Developmental Psychology, January 2009, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Professor Ori Friedman

  136. Determining who owns what: Do children infer ownership from first possession?

    Article • Cognition, June 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Ori Friedman

  137. First possession: An assumption guiding inferences about who owns what

    Article • Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, April 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ori Friedman

  138. The conceptual underpinnings of pretense: Pretending is not ‘behaving-as-if’

    Article • Cognition, October 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Ori Friedman

  139. Theory of mind and the right cerebral hemisphere: Refining the scope of impairment

    Article • Laterality Asymmetries of Body Brain and Cognition, April 2006, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Ori Friedman

  140. Recognition of pretend and real actions in play by 1- and 2-year-olds: Early success and why they fail

    Article • Cognitive Development, January 2006, Elsevier

    Professor Ori Friedman, Professor Francesca M. Bosco

  141. Processing demands in belief-desire reasoning: inhibition or general difficulty?

    Article • Developmental Science, April 2005, Wiley

    Professor Ori Friedman

  142. Core mechanisms in ‘theory of mind’

    Article • Trends in Cognitive Sciences, December 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Ori Friedman

  143. A developmental shift in processes underlying successful belief-desire reasoning

    Article • Cognitive Science, November 2004, Wiley

    Professor Ori Friedman

  144. A developmental shift in processes underlying successful belief-desire reasoning

    Article • Cognitive Science, November 2004, Wiley

    Professor Ori Friedman

  145. Mechanisms of Belief-Desire Reasoning

    Article • Psychological Science, August 2004, SAGE Publications

    Professor Ori Friedman

  146. Problems with the Seeing = Knowing Rule

    Article • Developmental Science, November 2003, Wiley

    Professor Ori Friedman