| 2025 | CogSci | Learning from thought experiments in early childhood. | Igor Bascandziev, Garvin Brod, Patrick Shafto, Elizabeth Bonawitz |
| 2025 | CogSci | Stumped! Learning to think outside the box in 3-7 year old children. | Junyi Chu, Misha O'Keeffe, Silvia Kancong Liu, Elizabeth Bonawitz, Tomer D. Ullman |
| 2024 | CogSci | Young children adapt their search behavior for necessary versus merely possible outcomes. | Luisa Andreuccioli, Sophie Mazor, Katarina Begus, Elizabeth Bonawitz, Stephanie Denison, Caren M. Walker |
| 2024 | CogSci | Parents modify their prosody when asking questions with pedagogical intent. | Igor Bascandziev, Patrick Shafto, Elizabeth Bonawitz |
| 2024 | CogSci | Children use positive prescriptive information when asked to predict random samples. | Jonathan F. Kominsky, Joshua Knobe, Elizabeth Bonawitz |
| 2024 | CogSci | Challenging the control-of-variables strategy: How confounded comparisons can support children's science learning. | Lucas Lrch, Elizabeth Bonawitz, Garvin Brod |
| 2022 | CogSci | Can children recognize pedagogical intent in the prosody of speech? | Igor Bascandziev, Michael LaSorsa, Patrick Shafto, Elizabeth Bonawitz |
| 2022 | CogSci | Adults' Evaluations of Rote and Reflective Teachers. | Ilona Bass, Elizabeth Bonawitz, Tomer D. Ullman |
| 2021 | CogSci | The Sound of Pedagogical Questions. | Igor Bascandziev, Patrick Shafto, Elizabeth Bonawitz |
| 2021 | CogSci | Do You Know What I Know? Children Use Informants' Beliefs About Their Abilities to Calibrate Choices During Pedagogy. | Ilona Bass, Elise Mahaffey, Elizabeth Bonawitz |
| 2021 | CogSci | Mechanisms of early causal reasoning: Investigating infants' sensitivity to confounded information in a causal reasoning task, using EEG and eyetracking. | Katarina Begus, Elizabeth Bonawitz |
| 2021 | CogSci | If it works we didn't need it: Intuitive judgments of 'overreaction'. | Jonathan F. Kominsky, Daniel J. Reardon, Elizabeth Bonawitz |
| 2020 | CogSci | Prosodic Features Carry Information About a Question's Intent. | Igor Bascandziev, Patrick Shafto, Elizabeth Bonawitz |
| 2020 | CogSci | Early Environments and Exploration in the Preschool Years. | Ilona Bass, Aiyana Bedoya, Elizabeth Bonawitz |
| 2020 | CogSci | Modeling pupillary surprise response in elementary school children with theory-based Bayesian models. | Joseph Colantonio II, Igor Bascandziev, Maria Theobald, Garvin Brod, Elizabeth Bonawitz |
| 2020 | CogSci | Memory enhancement from surprise: Investigating threshold and incremental accounts. | Carla Macias, Elizabeth Bonawitz |
| 2020 | CogSci | Great Expectations: Evaluating the Role of Object-Color Expectations on Visual Memory. | Kimele Persaud, Elizabeth Bonawitz |
| 2019 | CogSci | Observing child-led exploration improves parents' causal inferences. | Koeun Choi, Milagros Grados, Elizabeth Bonawitz |
| 2019 | CogSci | Pedagogical Questions Empower Exploration. | Anishka Jean, Emily N. Daubert, Yue Yu, Patrick Shafto, Elizabeth Bonawitz |
| 2019 | CogSci | Age-Related Differences in the Influence of Category Expectations on Episodic Memory in Early Childhood. | Kimele Persaud, Carla Macias, Pernille Hemmer, Elizabeth Bonawitz |
| 2019 | CogSci | "I Never Even Considered That!": Investigating explanations for adults' failures to learn conjunctive causal rules. | Alexandra Rett, Elizabeth Bonawitz, Koeun Choi, Caren M. Walker |
| 2019 | CogSci | The Design of the Learning Environment Shapes Preschoolers' Causal Inference. | Alexandra Rett, Elizabeth Bonawitz, Caren M. Walker |
| 2019 | CogSci | Active information seeking using the Approximate Number System. | Jinjing (Jenny) Wang, Elizabeth Bonawitz |
| 2019 | CogSci | Children with immature intuitive theories seek domain-relevant information. | Jinjing (Jenny) Wang, Yang Yang, Carla Macias, Elizabeth Bonawitz |
| 2018 | CogSci | That'll Teach 'em: How Expectations about Teaching Styles may Constrain Inferences. | Ilona Bass, Patrick Shafto, Elizabeth Bonawitz |
| 2018 | CogSci | Workshop Understanding Exploration-Exploitation Trade-offs. | Elizabeth Bonawitz, Alison Gopnik, Celeste Kidd |
| 2018 | CogSci | Preschoolers are more likely to direct questions to adults than to other children (or selves) during spontaneous conversational acts. | Koeun Choi, Elizabeth Lapidow, Jennifer Austin, Patrick Shafto, Elizabeth Bonawitz |
| 2018 | CogSci | Awesome play: Awe increases preschooler's exploration and discovery. | Joseph Colantonio II, Elizabeth Bonawitz |
| 2017 | CogSci | Towards Automated Classification of Emotional Facial Expressions. | Lewis Baker, Vanessa Lobue, Elizabeth Bonawitz, Patrick Shafto |
| 2017 | CogSci | Didn't know, or didn't show? Preschoolers consider epistemic state and degree of omission when evaluating teachers. | Ilona Bass, Elizabeth Bonawitz, Hyowon Gweon |
| 2017 | CogSci | I know what you need to know: Children's developing theory of mind and pedagogical evidence selection. | Ilona Bass, Elizabeth Bonawitz, Patrick Shafto, Dhaya Ramarajan, Alison Gopnik, Henry Wellman |
| 2017 | CogSci | Inconvenient samples: Modeling the effects of non-consent by coupling observational and experimental results. | Yue Yu, Elizabeth Bonawitz, Patrick Shafto |
| 2016 | CogSci | Active learning: Cognitive development, education, and computational models. | Elizabeth Bonawitz, Fei Xu |
| 2016 | CogSci | Heuristics in exploration: Distributional information is selectively used for active learning. | Elizabeth Lapidow, Elizabeth Bonawitz |
| 2016 | CogSci | Questions in informal teaching: A study of mother-child conversations. | Yue Yu, Elizabeth Bonawitz, Patrick Shafto |
| 2012 | CogSci | Seeing who sees: Contrastive access helps children reason about other minds. | Kathie Pham, Elizabeth Bonawitz, Alison Gopnik |
| 2011 | CogSci | A Simple Sequential Algorithm for Approximating Bayesian Inference. | Elizabeth Bonawitz, Stephanie Denison, Annie Chen, Alison Gopnik, Thomas L. Griffiths |
| 2011 | CogSci | Mind the Gap: Dispositional Agency Facilitates Toddlers' Causal Representations. | Paul J. Muentener, Elizabeth Bonawitz, Alexandra Horowitz, Laura Schulz |