| 2025 | CogSci | Mental Sampling in Social Judgment: Examining Variability in Judgments for the Self, Close, and Distant Others. | Tingyue Li, Derek Powell |
| 2025 | CogSci | Can Large Language Models Predict Associations Among Human Attitudes? | Ana Ma, Derek Powell |
| 2025 | CogSci | Recovering belief structures using a language model on a naturalistic dataset of attitude change. | Trisevgeni Papakonstantinou, Antonina Zhiteneva, Ana Yutong Ma, Derek Powell, Zachary Horne |
| 2025 | EMNLP | Evaluating Large Language Models for Belief Inference: Mapping Belief Networks at Scale. | Trisevgeni Papakonstantinou, Antonina Zhiteneva, Ana Yutong Ma, Derek Powell, Zachary Horne |
| 2024 | ACL | TAXI: Evaluating Categorical Knowledge Editing for Language Models. | Derek Powell, Walter Gerych, Thomas Hartvigsen |
| 2024 | CogSci | Individually-optimal causal structure judgments in a descriptive Bayesian model. | Derek Powell |
| 2023 | CogSci | Learning About Scientists from Climate Consensus Messaging. | Reed Orchinik, Rachit Dubey, Samuel Gershman, Derek Powell, Rahul Bhui |
| 2023 | CogSci | Influencing Perceptions of Climate Scientist Credibility. | Reed Orchinik, Rachit Dubey, Derek Powell, Rahul Bhui |
| 2023 | CogSci | Bayesian confirmation and commonsense notions of evidential strength. | Derek Powell, Shyam Nair |
| 2022 | CogSci | Does mere exposure to ideas encourage belief in them? | Justin Mikell, Derek Powell |
| 2022 | CogSci | A descriptive Bayesian account of optimism in belief revision. | Derek Powell |
| 2022 | CogSci | Expectations bias moral judgments. | Derek Powell, Brittany Schotsch, Justin Mikell, Zachary Horne |
| 2022 | CogSci | Understanding intuitive theories of climate change. | Brittany Schotsch, Derek Powell |
| 2018 | CogSci | Expectations bias judgments of harm against others. | Derek Powell, Zachary Horne |
| 2018 | CogSci | Articulating lay theories through graphical models: A study of beliefs surrounding vaccination decisions. | Derek Powell, Kara Weisman, Ellen M. Markman |
| 2017 | CogSci | Encouraging Fruit and Vegetable Consumption Through Intuitive Theory Building. | Derek Powell, Ellen M. Markman |
| 2016 | CogSci | How should autonomous vehicles behave in moral dilemmas? Human judgments reflect abstract moral principles. | Derek Powell, Patricia W. Cheng, Michael R. Waldmann |
| 2014 | CogSci | Generic Priors Yield Competition Between Independently-Occurring Preventive Causes. | Derek Powell, Alice Merrick, Hongjing Lu, Keith J. Holyoak |
| 2013 | CogSci | More than a feeling: When emotional reactions don't predict moral judgments. | Zachary Horne, Derek Powell |
| 2013 | CogSci | Belief Updating in Moral Dilemmas. | Zachary Horne, Derek Powell, Joseph Spino |
| 2013 | CogSci | Justified True Belief Triggers False Recall of "Knowing". | Derek Powell, Zachary Horne, N. ngel Pinillos, Keith J. Holyoak |
| 2013 | CogSci | Generic Priors Yield Competition Between Independently-Occurring Causes. | Derek Powell, Alice Merrick, Hongjing Lu, Keith J. Holyoak |