Tania Lombrozo

According to our database, Tania Lombrozo authored at least 80 papers between 2009 and 2024.

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2024

Lay Theories of Moral Progress.

Casey Lewry, Sana Asifriyaz, Tania Lombrozo

Cogn. Sci., November, 2024

Allow Me to Explain: Benefits of Explaining Extend to Distal Academic Performance.

Anahid S. Modrek, Tania Lombrozo

Cogn. Sci., September, 2024

Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse.

Ryan Liu, Jiayi Geng, Addison J. Wu, Ilia Sucholutsky, Tania Lombrozo, Thomas L. Griffiths

CoRR, 2024

2023

Distinct Profiles for Beliefs About Religion Versus Science.

Sarah Emlen Metz, Emily Liquin, Tania Lombrozo

Cogn. Sci., November, 2023

The Puzzle of Belief.

Neil Van Leeuwen, Tania Lombrozo

Cogn. Sci., February, 2023

Dimensions of Disagreement: Unpacking Divergence and Misalignment in Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence.

Kerem Oktar, Ilia Sucholutsky, Tania Lombrozo, Thomas L. Griffiths

CoRR, 2023

The Edge of Ockham's Razor: Examining Boundary Conditions on Preferences for Simpler Explanations.

Thalia Vrantsidis, Tania Lombrozo

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

Ideological Differences in Paths to Persistence.

Kerem Oktar, Tania Lombrozo

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

Intuitive theories of moral progress.

Casey Lewry, Sana Asifriyaz, Tania Lombrozo

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

Tell Me Your (Cognitive) Budget, and I'll Tell You What You Value: Evidential Relationships Between Values, Data, and Generic Causal Claims about the Social World.

David Kinney, Tania Lombrozo

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

2022

Simplicity as a Cue to Probability: Multiple Roles for Simplicity in Evaluating Explanations.

Thalia Vrantsidis, Tania Lombrozo

Cogn. Sci., 2022

Varieties of Ignorance: Mystery and the Unknown in Science and Religion.

Telli Davoodi, Tania Lombrozo

Cogn. Sci., 2022

Simplicity beyond probability: Simplicity's role in evaluating explanations goes beyond providing cues to priors and likelihoods.

Thalia Vrantsidis, Tania Lombrozo

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

Mechanisms of Belief Persistence in the Face of Societal Disagreement.

Kerem Oktar, Tania Lombrozo

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

Ethical Explanations.

Casey Lewry, Tania Lombrozo

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

Evaluations of Causal Claims Reflect a Trade-Off Between Informativeness and Compression.

David Kinney, Tania Lombrozo

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

What Are Men and Mothers For? The Causes and Consequences of Functional Reasoning About Social Categories.

Emily Foster-Hanson, Tania Lombrozo

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

2021

Curiosity Is Contagious: A Social Influence Intervention to Induce Curiosity.

Rachit Dubey, Hermish Mehta, Tania Lombrozo

Cogn. Sci., 2021

"It Depends": How Children Reason about Stable and Unstable Causes.

Nadya Vasilyeva, Mei Murphy, Oce Bohra, Jenny Chen, Selena Xandra Cuevas, Samhita Katteri, Tania Lombrozo, Alison Gopnik

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

Deciding to be Authentic: Intuition is Favored Over Deliberation for Self-Reflective Decisions.

Kerem Oktar, Tania Lombrozo

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

Developmental Change in What Elicits Curiosity.

Emily Liquin, Frederick Callaway, Tania Lombrozo

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

Why belief in species purpose prompts moral condemnation of individuals who fail to fulfill that purpose.

Casey Lewry, Deborah Kelemen, Tania Lombrozo

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

The function of function: People use teleological information to predict prevalence.

Emily Foster-Hanson, Tania Lombrozo

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

Reason-Based Constraint in Theory of Mind.

Corey J. Cusimano, Natalia C. Zorrilla, David Danks, Tania Lombrozo

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

2020

Experiential Explanation.

Sara Aronowitz, Tania Lombrozo

Top. Cogn. Sci., 2020

Explanation classification depends on understanding: extending the epistemic side-effect effect.

Daniel A. Wilkenfeld, Tania Lombrozo

Synth., 2020

The surprising consequences of engaging in contrastive explanation.

Nadya Vasilyeva, Tania Lombrozo

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

When Generic Language does not Promote Psychological Essentialism.

Nadya Vasilyeva, Alison Gopnik, Tania Lombrozo

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

You Should Really Think This Through: Cross-Domain Variation in Preferences for Intuition and Deliberation.

Kerem Oktar, Tania Lombrozo

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

Quantifying Curiosity: A Formal Approach to Dissociating Causes of Curiosity.

Emily Liquin, Frederick Callaway, Tania Lombrozo

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

People view humans as existing for purposes and condemn those who fail to fulfill them.

Casey Lewry, Tania Lombrozo, Deborah Kelemen

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

Explaining the Existential: Functional Roles of Scientific and Religious Explanation.

Telli Davoodi, Tania Lombrozo

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

Morality justifies motivated reasoning.

Corey J. Cusimano, Tania Lombrozo

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

Experiential Explanations in Iterated Learning.

Sara Aronowitz, Casey Lewry, Tania Lombrozo

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

2019

Structural Thinking about Social Categories: Evidence from Formal Explanations, Generics, and Generalization.

Nadya Vasilyeva, Tania Lombrozo

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

Explanatory Considerations Guide Pursuit.

Patricia Mirabile, Tania Lombrozo

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

The Influence of Implicit Normative Commitments in Decision-Making.

Alexia Cristina Martinez, Eugenia Gorlin, Tania Lombrozo

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

Causal Structure and Probability Information Modulate the Preference for Simple Explanations.

Emily Liquin, Tania Lombrozo

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

Inquiry, Theory-Formation, and the Phenomenology of Explanation.

Emily Liquin, Tania Lombrozo

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

Social Consequences of Information Search: Seeking evidence and explanation signals religious and scientific commitments.

Maureen Gill, Tania Lombrozo

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

If it's important, then I am curious: A value intervention to induce curiosity.

Rachit Dubey, Tom Griffiths, Tania Lombrozo

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

What makes a good explanation? Cognitive dimensions of explaining intelligent machines.

Roberto Confalonieri, Tarek R. Besold, Tillman Weyde, Kathleen Creel, Tania Lombrozo, Shane T. Mueller, Patrick Shafto

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

2018

Stable Causal Relationships Are Better Causal Relationships.

Nadya Vasilyeva, Thomas Blanchard, Tania Lombrozo

Cogn. Sci., 2018

Awe as a Scientific Emotion.

Sara Gottlieb, Dacher Keltner, Tania Lombrozo

Cogn. Sci., 2018

Bayesian Occam's Razor Is a Razor of the People.

Thomas Blanchard, Tania Lombrozo, Shaun Nichols

Cogn. Sci., 2018

When and How Children Use Explanations to Guide Generalizations.

Nadya Vasilyeva, Azzurra Ruggeri, Tania Lombrozo

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

Your liking is my curiosity: a social popularity intervention to induce curiosity.

Hermish Mehta, Rachit Dubey, Tania Lombrozo

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

Explanation and its Limits: Mystery and the Need for Explanation in Science and Religion.

Emily Liquin, Sarah Emlen Metz, Tania Lombrozo

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

Determinants and Consequences of the Need for Explanation.

Emily Liquin, Tania Lombrozo

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

Seeking Ideal Explanations in a Non-Ideal World.

Elizabeth Kon, Tania Lombrozo

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

2017

Effects of Manipulation on Attributions of Causation, Free Will, and Moral Responsibility.

Dylan Murray, Tania Lombrozo

Cogn. Sci., 2017

The Development of Structural Thinking about Social Categories.

Nadya Vasilyeva, Alison Gopnik, Tania Lombrozo

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

Explain, Explore, Exploit: Effects of Explanation on Information Search.

Emily Liquin, Tania Lombrozo

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

Explaining Guides Learners Towards Perfect Patterns, Not Perfect Prediction.

Elizabeth Kon, Tania Lombrozo

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

2016

Are Symptom Clusters Explanatory? A Study in Mental Disorders and Non-Causal Explanation.

Daniel A. Wilkenfeld, Jennifer Asselin, Tania Lombrozo

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

Revising Learner Misconceptions Without Feedback: Prompting for Reflection on Anomalies.

Joseph Jay Williams, Tania Lombrozo, Anne Hsu, Bernd Huber, Juho Kim

Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2016

2015

Goals Affect the Perceived Quality of Explanations.

Nadya Vasilyeva, Daniel A. Wilkenfeld, Tania Lombrozo

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

Explanations and Causal Judgments are Differentially Sensitive to Covariation and Mechanism Information.

Nadya Vasilyeva, Tania Lombrozo

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

Children search for information as efficiently as adults, but seek additional confirmatory evidence.

Azzurra Ruggeri, Tania Lombrozo, Thomas L. Griffiths, Fei Xu

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

Mental states are more important in evaluating moral than conventional violations.

Carly Giffin, Tania Lombrozo

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

2014

Learning By Asking: How Children Ask Questions To Achieve Efficient Search.

Azzurra Ruggeri, Tania Lombrozo

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

Because the Brain Agrees: The Impact of Neuroscientific Explanations for Belief.

Dillon Plunkett, Tania Lombrozo, Lara Buchak

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

Effects of Comparison and Explanation on Analogical Transfer.

Brian J. Edwards, Joseph Jay Williams, Dedre Gentner, Tania Lombrozo

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

Learning online via prompts to explain.

Joseph Jay Williams, Geza Kovacs, Caren M. Walker, Samuel G. Maldonado, Tania Lombrozo

Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2014

2013

Evaluating computational models of explanation using human judgments.

Michael Pacer, Joseph Jay Williams, Xi Chen, Tania Lombrozo, Thomas L. Griffiths

Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, 2013

Effects of Explaining Anomalies on the Generation and Evaluation of Hypotheses.

Joseph Jay Williams, Caren M. Walker, Samuel G. Maldonado, Tania Lombrozo

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

Explaining to Others Prompts Children to Favor Inductively Rich Properties.

Caren M. Walker, Tania Lombrozo, Cristine H. Legare, Alison Gopnik

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

Global Change and Cognition.

Stephan Lewandowsky, Tania Lombrozo, Gordon D. A. Brown, John Cook, Ben R. Newell, Ullrich K. H. Ecker

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

Effects of Explanation and Comparison on Category Learning.

Brian J. Edwards, Joseph Jay Williams, Tania Lombrozo

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

Linguistic differences in explanation requests and their effects on the evaluation of explanations: the case of English and Turkish.

Melih Barsbey, Tania Lombrozo

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

2012

Explaining increases belief revision in the face of (many) anomalies.

Joseph Jay Williams, Caren M. Walker, Tania Lombrozo

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

Explaining Influences Children's Reliance on Evidence and Prior Knowledge in Causal Induction.

Caren M. Walker, Joseph Jay Williams, Tania Lombrozo, Alison Gopnik

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

How simple explanations change our minds and why we prefer them.

Michael Pacer, Tania Lombrozo

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

2011

Explaining drives the discovery of real and illusory patterns.

Joseph Jay Williams, Tania Lombrozo, Bob Rehder

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

Norms as Direct Explanations of Behavior.

Kevin Uttich, Tania Lombrozo

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

What Ockham's Razor Cuts: Quantifying simplicity in explanation choice.

Michael Pacer, Tania Lombrozo

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

Explanation-based Mechanisms for Learning: An Interdisciplinary Approach.

Michelene T. H. Chi, Gerald DeJong, Cristine H. Legare, Tania Lombrozo, Joseph Jay Williams

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

2010

The Role of Explanation in Discovery and Generalization: Evidence From Category Learning.

Joseph Jay Williams, Tania Lombrozo

Cogn. Sci., 2010

Explanation as a guide to learning.

Cristine H. Legare, Tania Lombrozo

Proceedings of the Learning in the Disciplines: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference of the Learning Sciences, 2010

2009

The Role of Moral Commitments in Moral Judgment.

Tania Lombrozo

Cogn. Sci., 2009