Frank Keil

Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 1998-2023
Publications (10 Years): 40

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Emory Richardson, Hannah Hok, Alex Shaw, Frank Keil
Herding cats: children's intuitive theories of persuasion predict slower collective decisions in larger and more diverse groups, but disregard factional power. CogSci (2023)
Emory Richardson, Isaac Davis, Frank Keil
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. CogSci (2023)
Maureen Gill, Frank Keil
What is a consumer product for? How teleology guides judgments of product liability. CogSci (2022)
Emory Richardson, Frank Keil
"He only changed his answer because they shouted at him": children use affective cues to distinguish between genuine and forced consensus. CogSci (2022)
Sehrang Joo, Sami R. Yousif, Fabienne Martin, Frank Keil, Joshua Knobe
No privileged link between intentionality and causation: Generalizable effects of agency in language. CogSci (2022)
Emory Richardson, Daniela Miro-Rivera, Frank Keil
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. CogSci (2022)
Benjamin F. Scheve, Xiuyuan Zhang, Frank Keil
Willingness to Interact Increases When Opponents Offer Specific Evidence. CogSci (2022)
Brynn E. Sherman, Sami R. Yousif, Caroline Reiner, Frank Keil
The speed of statistical perception. CogSci (2022)
Amanda McCarthy, Frank Keil
A Right Way to Explain? Function, Mechanism, and the Order of Explanations. CogSci (2022)
Sehrang Joo, Sami R. Yousif, Frank Keil
What is a 'mechanism'? A distinction between two sub-types of mechanistic explanations. CogSci (2021)
Sami R. Yousif, Frank Keil
'Decoding' the locus of spatial representation from simple localization errors. CogSci (2021)
Nicole Betz, Amanda McCarthy, Frank Keil
Adult Intuitions about Mechanistic Content in Elementary School Science Lessons. CogSci (2021)
Nicole Betz, Frank Keil
Mechanistic Learning Goals Enhance Elementary Student Understanding and Enjoyment of Heart Lessons. CogSci (2021)
Emory Richardson, Frank Keil
You can't trust an angry group: asymmetric evaluations of angry and surprised rhetoric affect confidence in trending opinions. CogSci (2021)
Sehrang Joo, Sami Yousif, Frank Keil
Implicit questions shape information preferences. CogSci (2020)
Alice Liefgreen, Sami Yousif, Frank Keil, David A. Lagnado
I don't know if you did it, but I know why: A 'motive' preference at multiple stages of the legal-investigative process. CogSci (2020)
Amanda McCarthy, Frank Keil
Jargon Jinx: An Early Bias Toward Opaque Explanations. CogSci (2020)
Emory Richardson, Frank Keil
Children use agents' response time to distinguish between memory and novel inference. CogSci (2020)
Sami Yousif, Frank Keil
Illusory causal connections and their effect on subjective probability. CogSci (2020)
Emory Richardson, Frank Keil
Does informational independence always matter? Children believe small group discussion is more accurate than ten times as many independent informants. CogSci (2020)
Jonathan F. Kominsky, Tobias Gerstenberg, Madeline Pelz, Henrik Singmann, Mark Sheskin, Frank Keil
The trajectory of counterfactual simulation in development. CogSci (2019)
Sami Yousif, Emma Alexandrov, Elizabeth Bennette, Frank Keil
Perceived Area Plays a Dominant Role in Visual Quantity Estimation. CogSci (2019)
Samuel Johnson, Gregory Murphy, Max Rodrigues, Frank Keil
Predictions from Uncertain Moral Character. CogSci (2019)
Samuel Johnson, Amanda Royka, Peter McNally, Frank Keil
When Is Science Considered Interesting and Important? CogSci (2019)
Emmanuel Trouche, Aaron Chuey, Kristi Lockhart, Frank Keil
Children Don't Just Wanna Have Fun: An Experimental Demonstration Of Children's Curiosity For How Things Work. CogSci (2018)
Sami Yousif, Rosie Aboody, Frank Keil
Any consensus will do: The failure to distinguish between 'true' and 'false' consensus. CogSci (2018)
Samuel Johnson, Jiewen Zhang, Frank Keil
Psychological Underpinnings of Zero-Sum Thinking. CogSci (2018)
Sami Yousif, Frank Keil
When in doubt: Using confidence and consensus as 'summary statistics' of collective knowledge. CogSci (2018)
Aaron Chuey, Mark Sheskin, Frank Keil
Mechanistic Knowledge Generalizes Differentially. CogSci (2018)
Richard Ahl, Erika DeAngelis, Auburn Stephenson, Sehrang Joo, Frank Keil
It's Complicated: Children Identify Relevant Information About Causal Complexity. CogSci (2018)
Samuel G. B. Johnson, Angie Johnston, Marissa Koven, Frank Keil
Principles Used to Evaluate Mathematical Explanations. CogSci (2017)
Emmanuel Trouche, Aaron Chuey, Kristi Lockhart, Frank Keil
Why Teach How Things Work? Tracking the Evolution of Children's Intuitions About Complexity. CogSci (2017)
Samuel G. B. Johnson, Kristen Kim, Frank Keil
The Determinants of Knowability. CogSci (2016)
Samuel G. B. Johnson, Haylie Kim, Frank Keil
Explanatory Biases in Social Categorization. CogSci (2016)
Samuel G. B. Johnson, Marianna Zhang, Frank Keil
Decision-Making and Biases in Causal-Explanatory Reasoning. CogSci (2016)
Jonathan F. Kominsky, Brent Strickland, Annie Wertz, Claudai Elsner, Karen Wynn, Frank Keil
Causal perception is constrained by principles of Newtonian mechanics. CogSci (2016)
Angie Johnston, Samuel G. B. Johnson, Marissa Koven, Frank Keil
Probabilistic Versus Heuristic Accounts of Explanation in Children: Evidence from a Latent Scope Bias. CogSci (2015)
Samuel G. B. Johnson, Thomas Merchant, Frank Keil
Predictions from Uncertain Beliefs. CogSci (2015)
Samuel G. B. Johnson, Thomas Merchant, Frank Keil
Argument Scope in Inductive Reasoning: Evidence for an Abductive Account of Induction. CogSci (2015)
Samuel G. B. Johnson, Greeshma Rajeev-Kumar, Frank Keil
Belief Utility as an Explanatory Virtue. CogSci (2015)
Samuel G. B. Johnson, Greeshma Rajeev-Kumar, Frank Keil
Inferred Evidence in Latent Scope Explanations. CogSci (2014)
Samuel G. B. Johnson, Andy Jin, Frank Keil
Simplicity and Goodness-of-Fit in Explanation: The Case of Intuitive Curve-Fitting. CogSci (2014)
Samuel G. B. Johnson, Angie Johnston, Amy Toig, Frank Keil
Explanatory Scope Informs Causal Strength Inferences. CogSci (2014)
Benjamin M. Rottman, Frank Keil
Which Parts of Scientific Explanations are Most Important? CogSci (2011)
Brent Strickland, Matt Fischer, Elodie Peyroux, Frank Keil
Syntactic Biases in Intentionality Judgments. CogSci (2011)
Benjamin M. Rottman, Frank Keil
Learning Causal Direction from Repeated Observations over Time. CogSci (2011)
Robert A. Wilson, Frank Keil
The Shadows and Shallows of Explanation. Minds Mach. 8 (1) (1998)