Frank C. Keil

According to our database1, Frank C. Keil authored at least 64 papers between 1985 and 2023.

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2023
Herding cats: children's intuitive theories of persuasion predict slower collective decisions in larger and more diverse groups, but disregard factional power.
Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

Agenda setting and The Emperor's New Clothes: people infer that letting powerful agents make their opinion known early can trigger information cascades and pluralistic ignorance.
Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

2022
Understanding "Why: " How Implicit Questions Shape Explanation Preferences.
Cogn. Sci., 2022

The speed of statistical perception.
Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

Willingness to Interact Increases When Opponents Offer Specific Evidence.
Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

Know your network: people infer cultural drift from network structure, and expect collaborating with more distant experts to improve innovation, but collaborating with network-neighbors to improve memory.
Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

"He only changed his answer because they shouted at him": children use affective cues to distinguish between genuine and forced consensus.
Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

A Right Way to Explain? Function, Mechanism, and the Order of Explanations.
Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

No privileged link between intentionality and causation: Generalizable effects of agency in language.
Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

What is a consumer product for? How teleology guides judgments of product liability.
Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

2021
'Decoding' the locus of spatial representation from simple localization errors.
Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

You can't trust an angry group: asymmetric evaluations of angry and surprised rhetoric affect confidence in trending opinions.
Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

What is a 'mechanism'? A distinction between two sub-types of mechanistic explanations.
Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

Adult Intuitions about Mechanistic Content in Elementary School Science Lessons.
Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

Mechanistic Learning Goals Enhance Elementary Student Understanding and Enjoyment of Heart Lessons.
Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

2020
Illusory causal connections and their effect on subjective probability.
Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

Children use agents' response time to distinguish between memory and novel inference.
Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

Does informational independence always matter? Children believe small group discussion is more accurate than ten times as many independent informants.
Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

Jargon Jinx: An Early Bias Toward Opaque Explanations.
Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

I don't know if you did it, but I know why: A 'motive' preference at multiple stages of the legal-investigative process.
Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

Implicit questions shape information preferences.
Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

2019
Perceived Area Plays a Dominant Role in Visual Quantity Estimation.
Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

The trajectory of counterfactual simulation in development.
Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

When Is Science Considered Interesting and Important?
Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

Predictions from Uncertain Moral Character.
Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

2018
Knowing When Help Is Needed: A Developing Sense of Causal Complexity.
Cogn. Sci., 2018

When in doubt: Using confidence and consensus as 'summary statistics' of collective knowledge.
Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

Any consensus will do: The failure to distinguish between 'true' and 'false' consensus.
Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

Children Don't Just Wanna Have Fun: An Experimental Demonstration Of Children's Curiosity For How Things Work.
Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

Psychological Underpinnings of Zero-Sum Thinking.
Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

Mechanistic Knowledge Generalizes Differentially.
Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

It's Complicated: Children Identify Relevant Information About Causal Complexity.
Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

2017
The Influence of Social Interaction on Intuitions of Objectivity and Subjectivity.
Cogn. Sci., 2017

Why Teach How Things Work? Tracking the Evolution of Children's Intuitions About Complexity.
Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

Opponent Uses of Simplicity and Complexity in Causal Explanation.
Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

Statistical and Mechanistic Information in Evaluating Causal Claims.
Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

Principles Used to Evaluate Mathematical Explanations.
Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

2016
The Curse of Expertise: When More Knowledge Leads to Miscalibrated Explanatory Insight.
Cogn. Sci., 2016

Causal perception is constrained by principles of Newtonian mechanics.
Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2016

Decision-Making and Biases in Causal-Explanatory Reasoning.
Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2016

The Determinants of Knowability.
Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2016

Explanatory Biases in Social Categorization.
Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2016

2015
Effects of Causal Structure on Decisions About Where to Intervene on Causal Systems.
Cogn. Sci., 2015

The better part of not knowing: Virtuous ignorance.
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015

Probabilistic Versus Heuristic Accounts of Explanation in Children: Evidence from a Latent Scope Bias.
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015

Belief Utility as an Explanatory Virtue.
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015

Argument Scope in Inductive Reasoning: Evidence for an Abductive Account of Induction.
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015

Predictions from Uncertain Beliefs.
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015

2014
Children Use Temporal Cues to Learn Causal Directionality.
Cogn. Sci., 2014

Overestimation of Knowledge About Word Meanings: The "Misplaced Meaning" Effect.
Cogn. Sci., 2014

Inferred Evidence in Latent Scope Explanations.
Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2014

Explanatory Scope Informs Causal Strength Inferences.
Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2014

Simplicity and Goodness-of-Fit in Explanation: The Case of Intuitive Curve-Fitting.
Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2014

2011
Syntactic Biases in Intentionality Judgments.
Proceedings of the 33th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2011

Learning Causal Direction from Repeated Observations over Time.
Proceedings of the 33th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2011

Which Parts of Scientific Explanations are Most Important?
Proceedings of the 33th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2011

2010
The Feasibility of Folk Science.
Cogn. Sci., 2010

2008
The Seductive Allure of Neuroscience Explanations.
J. Cogn. Neurosci., 2008

Discerning the Division of Cognitive Labor: An Emerging Understanding of How Knowledge Is Clustered in Other Minds.
Cogn. Sci., 2008

2002
The misunderstood limits of folk science: an illusion of explanatory depth.
Cogn. Sci., 2002

2001
The scope of the cognitive sciences: Reply to 6 reviews of The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences.
Artif. Intell., 2001

1998
The Shadows and Shallows of Explanation.
Minds Mach., 1998

1990
Constraints on Constraints: Surveying the Epigenetic Landscape.
Cogn. Sci., 1990

1985
The More Things Change ...: Metamorphoses and Conceptual Structure.
Cogn. Sci., 1985


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