Laura Schulz

According to our database, Laura Schulz authored at least 57 papers between 2007 and 2023.

Collaborative distances:

• Dijkstra number of five.
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2023

Skirting the Sacred: Moral Violations Make Intentional Misunderstandings Worse.

Kiera Parece, Sophie Bridgers, Laura Schulz, Tomer D. Ullman

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

Representations of Abstract Relations in Early Childhood.

Nicole Coates, Max H. Siegel, Josh Tenenbaum, Laura Schulz

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

2022

Preschoolers' sensitivity to abstract correlations in the properties of sets and functions.

Nicole Coates, Max H. Siegel, Junyi Chu, Melissa Kline, Josh Tenenbaum, Laura Schulz

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

"Because I want to": Valuing goals for their own sake.

Junyi Chu, Laura Schulz

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

2021

Explore, Exploit, Create: Inventing goals in play.

Sophia Diggs-Galligan, Junyi Chu, Josh Tenenbaum, Laura Schulz

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

Minds at play.

Junyi Chu, Laura Schulz

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

Loopholes, a Window into Value Alignment and the Learning of Meaning.

Sophie Bridgers, Laura Schulz, Tomer D. Ullman

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

2020

The Signature of All Things: Children Infer Knowledge States from Static Images.

Madeline Pelz, Laura Schulz, Julian Jara-Ettinger

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

Preschoolers are Sensitive to their Performance Over Time.

Julia A. Leonard, Julia Sandler, Amanda Nerenberg, Aidan Rubio, Laura Schulz, Allyson Mackey

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

Exploratory play, rational action, and efficient search.

Junyi Chu, Laura Schulz

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

2019

What if everybody did that?: Universalization as a mechanism of moral decision-making.

Sydney Levine, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Laura Schulz, Josh Tenenbaum, Fiery Cushman

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

How can I help? Developmental change in the selectivity of two to four-year-olds' attempts to alleviate others' distress.

Regina N. Ebo, Laura Schulz

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

Query-guided visual search.

Junyi Chu, Jon Gauthier, Roger Levy, Josh Tenenbaum, Laura Schulz

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

2018

Rational Inference of Beliefs and Desires From Emotional Expressions.

Yang Wu, Chris L. Baker, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Laura Schulz

Cogn. Sci., 2018

Toddlers Connect Emotional Responses to Epistemic States.

Yang Wu, Laura Schulz, Rebecca Saxe

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

Children can use others' emotional expressions to infer their knowledge and predict their behaviors in classic false belief tasks.

Yang Wu, Jennah Haque, Laura Schulz

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

Intuitive Statistics & Metacognition in Children and Adults.

Madeline Pelz, Laura Schulz

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

Cognitive pragmatism: Children flexibly choose between facts and conjectures.

Junyi Chu, Laura Schulz

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

2017

What do you really think? Children's ability to infer others' desires when emotional expressions change between social and nonsocial contexts.

Yang Wu, Laura Schulz

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

Whoa! Aww ... Ohh ... Hee! and Mmm: Infants' nuanced distinctions about the probable causes of emotional expressions.

Yang Wu, Paul J. Muentener, Laura Schulz

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

Intuitive psychophysics: Children's exploratory play quantitatively tracks the discriminability of alternative hypotheses.

Rachel Magid, Max H. Siegel, Josh Tenenbaum, Laura Schulz

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

Preschoolers appropriately allocate roles based on relative ability in a cooperative interaction.

Rachel Magid, Mary Depascale, Laura Schulz

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

Preschoolers and Infants Calibrate Persistence from Adult Models.

Julia A. Leonard, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Yuna Lee, Josh Tenenbaum, Laura Schulz

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

2016

The Invisible Hand: Toddlers Connect Probabilistic Events With Agentive Causes.

Yang Wu, Paul J. Muentener, Laura Schulz

Cogn. Sci., 2016

The Naïve Utility Calculus unifies spatial and statistical routes to preference.

Julian Jara-Ettinger, Felix Sun, Laura Schulz, Josh Tenenbaum

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

2015

A fine-grained understanding of emotions: Young children match within-valence emotional expressions to their causes.

Yang Wu, Paul J. Muentener, Laura Schulz

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

Children's ability to infer beliefs and desires from emotional reactions.

Yang Wu, Chris L. Baker, Josh Tenenbaum, Laura Schulz

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

Hypothesis-Space Constraints in Causal Learning.

Pedro Tsividis, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Laura Schulz

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

Quit while you're ahead: Preschoolers' persistence and willingness to accept challenges are affected by social comparison.

Rachel Magid, Laura Schulz

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

If at First You Don't Succeed: The Role of Evidence in Preschoolers' and Infants' Persistence.

Julia A. Leonard, Laura Schulz

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

The naïve utility calculus: Joint inferences about the costs and rewards of actions.

Julian Jara-Ettinger, Laura Schulz, Joshua B. Tenenbaum

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

Beliefs about desires: Children's understanding of how knowledge and preference influence choice.

Julian Jara-Ettinger, Emily Lydic, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Laura Schulz

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

2014

Preschoolers expect others to learn rationally from evidence.

Phyllis Yan, Rachel Magid, Laura Schulz

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

Joint inferences of belief and desire from facial expressions.

Yang Wu, Chris L. Baker, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Laura Schulz

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

Information Selection in Noisy Environments with Large Action Spaces.

Pedro Tsividis, Samuel Gershman, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Laura Schulz

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

The Unintended Consequences of Checklists.

Elise A. Stave, Paul J. Muentener, Laura Schulz

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

Black boxes: Hypothesis testing via indirect perceptual evidence.

Max H. Siegel, Rachel Magid, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Laura Schulz

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

Interhemispheric integration of visual concepts in infancy.

Kimberly Scott, Laura Schulz

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

Running to do evil: Costs incurred by perpetrators affect moral judgment.

Julian Jara-Ettinger, Nathaniel Kim, Paul J. Muentener, Laura Schulz

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

I'd do anything for a cookie (but I won't do that): Children's understanding of the costs and rewards underlying rational action.

Julian Jara-Ettinger, Hyowon Gweon, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Laura Schulz

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

Children consider prior knowledge and the cost of information both in learning from and teaching others.

Hyowon Gweon, Patrick Shafto, Laura Schulz

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

To give a fish or to teach how to fish? Children weigh costs and benefits in considering what information to transmit.

Hyowon Gweon, Veronica Chu, Laura Schulz

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

2013

The invisible hand: Toddlers infer hidden agents when events occur probabilistically.

Yang Wu, Paul J. Muentener, Laura Schulz

Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

Causal determinism in toddlers.

Paul J. Muentener, Laura Schulz

Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

Transitive and periphrastic sentences affect memory for simple causal scenes.

Melissa Kline, Paul J. Muentener, Laura Schulz

Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

Not so innocent: Reasoning about costs, competence, and culpability in very early childhood.

Julian Jara-Ettinger, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Laura Schulz

Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

Exploration and Discovery in Children with Autism.

Hyowon Gweon, Hannah Pelton, Rebecca Saxe, Laura Schulz

Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

2012

Enough is enough: Inductive sufficiency guides learners' ratings of informant helpfulness.

Patrick Shafto, Hyowon Gweon, Chris Fargen, Laura Schulz

Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2012

Children's sensitivity to informant's inductive efficiency and learner's epistemic states in pedagogical contexts.

Hyowon Gweon, Patrick Shafto, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Laura Schulz

Proceedings of the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2012

2011

Toddlers' understanding of prediction, intervention, and means of transmission: When psychological outcomes are easier than physical ones.

Paul J. Muentener, Daniel Friel, Laura Schulz

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

Mind the Gap: Dispositional Agency Facilitates Toddlers' Causal Representations.

Paul J. Muentener, Elizabeth Bonawitz, Alexandra Horowitz, Laura Schulz

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

Children's comprehension and production of transitive sentences is sensitive to the causal structure of events.

Melissa Kline, Jesse Snedeker, Laura Schulz

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

Adults and school-aged children accurately evaluate sins of omission in pedagogical contexts.

Hyowon Gweon, Hannah Pelton, Laura Schulz

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

2010

Inferring Hidden Causal Structure.

Tamar Kushnir, Alison Gopnik, Christopher G. Lucas, Laura Schulz

Cogn. Sci., 2010

2008

The Relation Between Essentialist Beliefs and Evolutionary Reasoning.

Andrew Shtulman, Laura Schulz

Cogn. Sci., 2008

Why Learning Can Be Hard: Preschooler's Causal Inferences.

Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz, Laura Schulz

Proceedings of the Naturally-Inspired Artificial Intelligence, 2008

2007

Children's Rational Exploration.

Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz, Laura Schulz

Proceedings of the Computational Approaches to Representation Change during Learning and Development, 2007