| 2025 | CogSci | Perceived musicality in an android increases positive social attributions. | Chaolan Lin, Adena Schachner |
| 2025 | CogSci | When Default Options Explain Away Preferences: A Causal Reasoning Account of Mental State Reasoning from Default Options. | Xingyu (Shirley) Liu, Craig R. M. McKenzie, Adena Schachner |
| 2025 | CogSci | When Walls Talk: People Make Social Inferences From Towns' Protective Features. | Amy Nguyen, Rodney Tompkins, Adena Schachner |
| 2022 | CogSci | People think of others as more prosocial when they are motivated by aesthetic goals vs. instrumental goals. | Tanushree Agrawal, Adena Schachner |
| 2021 | CogSci | From music to animacy: Causal reasoning links animate agents with musical sounds. | Min-Ju Kim, Adena Schachner |
| 2021 | CogSci | Children Use Artifacts to Infer Others' Shared Interests. | Madison Pesowski, Deborah Kelemen, Adena Schachner |
| 2020 | CogSci | Hearing water temperature: Characterizing the development of nuanced perception of auditory events. | Tanushree Agrawal, Michelle Lee, Amanda Calcetas, Danielle Clarke, Naomi Lin, Adena Schachner |
| 2020 | CogSci | Do you see what I see? Children's understanding of perception and physical interaction over video chat. | Elizabeth Bennette, Alison Metzinger, Michelle Lee, Adena Schachner |
| 2020 | CogSci | People use inverse planning to rationally seek social information from objects. | Ethan Hurwitz, Adena Schachner |
| 2020 | CogSci | Gesture Production and Theory of Mind: Effective Disambiguation in Communication through Gesture. | Min-Ju Kim, Adena Schachner |
| 2020 | CogSci | Children use inverse planning to detect social transmission in design of artifacts. | Madison Pesowski, Alyssa Quy, Michelle Lee, Adena Schachner |
| 2020 | CogSci | Starting small: Exploring the origins of successor function knowledge. | Rose M. Schneider, Ashlie Pankonin, Adena Schachner, David Barner |
| 2019 | CogSci | Detecting social transmission in the design of artifacts via inverse planning. | Ethan Hurwitz, Timothy F. Brady, Adena Schachner |
| 2019 | CogSci | Designing good deception: Recursive theory of mind in lying and lie detection. | Lauren Oey, Adena Schachner, Ed Vul |
| 2018 | CogSci | Intuitive archeology: Detecting social transmission in the design of artifacts. | Adena Schachner, Timothy F. Brady, Kiani Oro, Michelle Lee |
| 2018 | CogSci | Entropy, order and agency: The cognitive basis of the link between agents and order. | Adena Schachner, Min-Ju Kim |
| 2011 | CogSci | Spontaneous goal inference without concrete external goals. | Adena Schachner, Susan Carey |