Frank C. Keil

According to our database, 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.

Emory Richardson, Hannah Hok, Alex Shaw, Frank Keil

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.

Emory Richardson, Isaac Davis, Frank Keil

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

2022

Understanding "Why: " How Implicit Questions Shape Explanation Preferences.

Sehrang Joo, Sami R. Yousif, Frank C. Keil

Cogn. Sci., 2022

The speed of statistical perception.

Brynn E. Sherman, Sami R. Yousif, Caroline Reiner, Frank Keil

Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

Willingness to Interact Increases When Opponents Offer Specific Evidence.

Benjamin F. Scheve, Xiuyuan Zhang, Frank Keil

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.

Emory Richardson, Daniela Miro-Rivera, Frank Keil

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.

Emory Richardson, Frank Keil

Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

A Right Way to Explain? Function, Mechanism, and the Order of Explanations.

Amanda McCarthy, Frank Keil

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.

Sehrang Joo, Sami R. Yousif, Fabienne Martin, Frank Keil, Joshua Knobe

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.

Maureen Gill, Frank Keil

Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

2021

'Decoding' the locus of spatial representation from simple localization errors.

Sami R. Yousif, Frank Keil

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.

Emory Richardson, Frank Keil

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.

Sehrang Joo, Sami R. Yousif, Frank Keil

Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

Adult Intuitions about Mechanistic Content in Elementary School Science Lessons.

Nicole Betz, Amanda McCarthy, Frank Keil

Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

Mechanistic Learning Goals Enhance Elementary Student Understanding and Enjoyment of Heart Lessons.

Nicole Betz, Frank Keil

Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

2020

Illusory causal connections and their effect on subjective probability.

Sami R. Yousif, Frank Keil

Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

Children use agents' response time to distinguish between memory and novel inference.

Emory Richardson, Frank Keil

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.

Emory Richardson, Frank Keil

Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

Jargon Jinx: An Early Bias Toward Opaque Explanations.

Amanda McCarthy, Frank Keil

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.

Alice Liefgreen, Sami R. Yousif, Frank Keil, David A. Lagnado

Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

Implicit questions shape information preferences.

Sehrang Joo, Sami R. Yousif, Frank Keil

Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

2019

Perceived Area Plays a Dominant Role in Visual Quantity Estimation.

Sami R. Yousif, Emma Alexandrov, Elizabeth Bennette, Frank Keil

Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

The trajectory of counterfactual simulation in development.

Jonathan F. Kominsky, Tobias Gerstenberg, Madeline Pelz, Henrik Singmann, Mark Sheskin, Frank Keil

Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

When Is Science Considered Interesting and Important?

Samuel Johnson, Amanda L. Royka, Peter McNally, Frank Keil

Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

Predictions from Uncertain Moral Character.

Samuel Johnson, Gregory Murphy, Max Rodrigues, Frank Keil

Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

2018

Knowing When Help Is Needed: A Developing Sense of Causal Complexity.

Jonathan F. Kominsky, Anna P. Zamm, Frank C. Keil

Cogn. Sci., 2018

When in doubt: Using confidence and consensus as 'summary statistics' of collective knowledge.

Sami R. Yousif, Frank Keil

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.

Sami R. Yousif, Rosie Aboody, Frank Keil

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.

Emmanuel Trouche, Aaron Chuey, Kristi Lockhart, Frank Keil

Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

Psychological Underpinnings of Zero-Sum Thinking.

Samuel Johnson, Jiewen Zhang, Frank Keil

Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

Mechanistic Knowledge Generalizes Differentially.

Aaron Chuey, Mark Sheskin, Frank Keil

Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

It's Complicated: Children Identify Relevant Information About Causal Complexity.

Richard Ahl, Erika DeAngelis, Auburn Stephenson, Sehrang Joo, Frank Keil

Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

2017

The Influence of Social Interaction on Intuitions of Objectivity and Subjectivity.

Matthew Fisher, Joshua Knobe, Brent Strickland, Frank C. Keil

Cogn. Sci., 2017

Why Teach How Things Work? Tracking the Evolution of Children's Intuitions About Complexity.

Emmanuel Trouche, Aaron Chuey, Kristi Lockhart, Frank Keil

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

Opponent Uses of Simplicity and Complexity in Causal Explanation.

Samuel G. B. Johnson, J. J. Valenti, Frank C. Keil

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

Statistical and Mechanistic Information in Evaluating Causal Claims.

Samuel G. B. Johnson, Frank C. Keil

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

Principles Used to Evaluate Mathematical Explanations.

Samuel G. B. Johnson, Angie Johnston, Marissa Koven, Frank Keil

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.

Matthew Fisher, Frank C. Keil

Cogn. Sci., 2016

Causal perception is constrained by principles of Newtonian mechanics.

Jonathan F. Kominsky, Brent Strickland, Annie Wertz, Claudai Elsner, Karen Wynn, Frank Keil

Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2016

Decision-Making and Biases in Causal-Explanatory Reasoning.

Samuel G. B. Johnson, Marianna Zhang, Frank Keil

Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2016

The Determinants of Knowability.

Samuel G. B. Johnson, Kristen Kim, Frank Keil

Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2016

Explanatory Biases in Social Categorization.

Samuel G. B. Johnson, Haylie Kim, Frank Keil

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.

Brian J. Edwards, Russell C. Burnett, Frank C. Keil

Cogn. Sci., 2015

The better part of not knowing: Virtuous ignorance.

Jonathan F. Kominsky, Philip Langthorne, Frank C. Keil

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.

Angie Johnston, Samuel G. B. Johnson, Marissa Koven, Frank Keil

Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015

Belief Utility as an Explanatory Virtue.

Samuel G. B. Johnson, Greeshma Rajeev-Kumar, Frank Keil

Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015

Argument Scope in Inductive Reasoning: Evidence for an Abductive Account of Induction.

Samuel G. B. Johnson, Thomas Merchant, Frank Keil

Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015

Predictions from Uncertain Beliefs.

Samuel G. B. Johnson, Thomas Merchant, Frank Keil

Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2015

2014

Children Use Temporal Cues to Learn Causal Directionality.

Benjamin M. Rottman, Jonathan F. Kominsky, Frank C. Keil

Cogn. Sci., 2014

Overestimation of Knowledge About Word Meanings: The "Misplaced Meaning" Effect.

Jonathan F. Kominsky, Frank C. Keil

Cogn. Sci., 2014

Inferred Evidence in Latent Scope Explanations.

Samuel G. B. Johnson, Greeshma Rajeev-Kumar, Frank Keil

Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2014

Explanatory Scope Informs Causal Strength Inferences.

Samuel G. B. Johnson, Angie Johnston, Amy Toig, Frank Keil

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.

Samuel G. B. Johnson, Andy Jin, Frank Keil

Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2014

2011

Syntactic Biases in Intentionality Judgments.

Brent Strickland, Matt Fischer, Elodie Peyroux, Frank Keil

Proceedings of the 33th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2011

Learning Causal Direction from Repeated Observations over Time.

Benjamin M. Rottman, Frank Keil

Proceedings of the 33th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2011

Which Parts of Scientific Explanations are Most Important?

Benjamin M. Rottman, Frank Keil

Proceedings of the 33th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2011

2010

The Feasibility of Folk Science.

Frank C. Keil

Cogn. Sci., 2010

2008

The Seductive Allure of Neuroscience Explanations.

Deena Skolnick Weisberg, Frank C. Keil, Joshua Goodstein, Elizabeth Rawson, Jeremy R. Gray

J. Cogn. Neurosci., 2008

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

Frank C. Keil, Courtney Stein, Lisa Webb, Van Dyke Billings, Leonid Rozenblit

Cogn. Sci., 2008

2002

The misunderstood limits of folk science: an illusion of explanatory depth.

Leonid Rozenblit, Frank C. Keil

Cogn. Sci., 2002

2001

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

Frank C. Keil

Artif. Intell., 2001

1998

The Shadows and Shallows of Explanation.

Robert A. Wilson, Frank Keil

Minds Mach., 1998

1990

Constraints on Constraints: Surveying the Epigenetic Landscape.

Frank C. Keil

Cogn. Sci., 1990

1985

The More Things Change ...: Metamorphoses and Conceptual Structure.

Michael H. Kelly, Frank C. Keil

Cogn. Sci., 1985