| 2024 | CogSci | Children's unexpected inferences across knowledge types. | Amanda McCarthy, Emma Courtney, Frank Keil |
| 2024 | CogSci | Strong but wrong: Adult's intuitions of functional and mechanistic knowledge. | Amanda McCarthy, Emma Courtney, Frank Keil |
| 2022 | CogSci | A Right Way to Explain? Function, Mechanism, and the Order of Explanations. | Amanda McCarthy, Frank Keil |
| 2021 | CogSci | Adult Intuitions about Mechanistic Content in Elementary School Science Lessons. | Nicole Betz, Amanda McCarthy, Frank Keil |
| 2020 | CogSci | Jargon Jinx: An Early Bias Toward Opaque Explanations. | Amanda McCarthy, Frank Keil |
| 2019 | CogSci | Children's Unscientific Conceptions Before and After Instruction in Space Science. | Florencia K. Anggoro, Benjamin D. Jee, Amanda McCarthy, Victoria Jackson, Demitria Tsitsopoulos, Ioli Karageorgiou |
| 2016 | CogSci | Using analogical comparison to help children learn the day-night cycle. | Benjamin D. Jee, Florencia K. Anggoro, Natalie Evans, Caitlin Murphy, Jessica Tran, Caroline Morano, Amanda McCarthy, Victoria Jackson |