Publications by authors named "Frank Keil"

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No privileged link between intentionality and causation: Generalizable effects of agency in language.
Sehrang Joo, Sami R Yousif, Fabienne Martin, Frank C Keil, Joshua Knobe

Cognition· November 2025

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Herding cats: children and adults infer collective decision speed from team size and diversity, but disagree about whether consensus strength matters more than team size.
Emory Richardson, Hannah Hok, Alex Shaw, Frank C Keil

Cognition· October 2025

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Mechanistic complexity is fundamental: Evidence from judgments, attention, and memory.
Tal Boger, Frank C Keil

J Exp Psychol Gen· February 2025

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Adults' learning of complex explanations violates their intuitions about optimal explanatory order.
Amanda M McCarthy, Nicole Betz, Frank C Keil

Cognition· May 2024

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Same people, different group: Social structures are a central component of group concepts.
Alexander Noyes, Frank C Keil, Yarrow Dunham, Katherine Ritchie

Cognition· November 2023

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A right way to explain? Function, mechanism, and the order of explanations.
Amanda M McCarthy, Frank C Keil

Cognition· September 2023

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Young children can infer information preferences from goals and recommend appropriate sources to others.
Aaron Chuey, Kristi Lockhart, Emmanuel Trouche, Frank Keil

Dev Psychol· August 2023

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Subjectivity and social constitution: Contrasting conceptions of institutions, artifacts, and animals.
Alexander Noyes, Yarrow Dunham, Frank C Keil

Dev Psychol· February 2023

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Quantity perception: The forest and the trees.
Sami R Yousif, Frank C Keil

Cognition· December 2022

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Says who? Children consider informants' sources when deciding whom to believe.
Rosie Aboody, Sami R Yousif, Mark Sheskin, Frank C Keil

J Exp Psychol Gen· October 2022

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"I know it's complicated": Children detect relevant information about object complexity.
Richard E Ahl, Erika DeAngelis, Frank C Keil

J Exp Child Psychol· October 2022

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Do children estimate area using an "Additive-Area Heuristic"?
Sami R Yousif, Emma Alexandrov, Elizabeth Bennette, Richard N Aslin, Frank C Keil

Dev Sci· July 2022

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Thinking takes time: Children use agents' response times to infer the source, quality, and complexity of their knowledge.
Emory Richardson, Frank C Keil

Cognition· July 2022

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Win-win denial: The psychological underpinnings of zero-sum thinking.
Samuel G B Johnson, Jiewen Zhang, Frank C Keil

J Exp Psychol Gen· February 2022

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Understanding "Why:" How Implicit Questions Shape Explanation Preferences.
Sehrang Joo, Sami R Yousif, Frank C Keil

Cogn Sci· February 2022

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The potential for effective reasoning guides children's preference for small group discussion over crowdsourcing.
Emory Richardson, Frank C Keil

Sci Rep· January 2022

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Motive on the mind: Explanatory preferences at multiple stages of the legal-investigative process.
Alice Liefgreen, Sami R Yousif, Frank C Keil, David A Lagnado

Cognition· December 2021

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Evidence for multiple sources of inductive potential: Occupations and their relations to social institutions.
Alexander Noyes, Yarrow Dunham, Frank C Keil, Katherine Ritchie

Cogn Psychol· November 2021

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No guts, no glory: underestimating the benefits of providing children with mechanistic details.
Aaron Chuey, Amanda McCarthy, Kristi Lockhart, Emmanuel Trouche, Mark Sheskin, Frank Keil

NPJ Sci Learn· October 2021

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Using space to remember: Short-term spatial structure spontaneously improves working memory.
Sami R Yousif, Monica D Rosenberg, Frank C Keil

Cognition· September 2021

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An Illusion of Self-Sufficiency for Learning About Artifacts in Scaffolded Learners, But Not Observers.
Emory Richardson, Mark Sheskin, Frank C Keil

Child Dev· July 2021

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How We See Area and Why It Matters.
Sami R Yousif, Frank C Keil

Trends Cogn Sci· July 2021

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A Ubiquitous Illusion of Volume: Are Impressions of 3D Volume Captured by an "Additive Heuristic"?
Elizabeth Bennette, Frank C Keil, Sami R Yousif

Perception· May 2021

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The Shape of Space: Evidence for Spontaneous but Flexible Use of Polar Coordinates in Visuospatial Representations.
Sami R Yousif, Frank C Keil

Psychol Sci· April 2021

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The trajectory of counterfactual simulation in development.
Jonathan F Kominsky, Tobias Gerstenberg, Madeline Pelz, Mark Sheskin, Henrik Singmann, Frank C Keil

Dev Psychol· February 2021

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