| 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 |
| 2024 | CogSci | Circular but Suggestive: Pragmatic Insights from Reductive Tautologies. | Martin Meyer, Frank Keil |
| 2023 | CogSci | 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. | Emory Richardson, Isaac Davis, Frank Keil |
| 2023 | CogSci | Herding cats: children's intuitive theories of persuasion predict slower collective decisions in larger and more diverse groups, but disregard factional power. | Emory Richardson, Hannah Hok, Alex Shaw, Frank Keil |
| 2022 | CogSci | What is a consumer product for? How teleology guides judgments of product liability. | Maureen Gill, Frank Keil |
| 2022 | CogSci | No privileged link between intentionality and causation: Generalizable effects of agency in language. | Sehrang Joo, Sami R. Yousif, Fabienne Martin, Frank Keil, Joshua Knobe |
| 2022 | CogSci | A Right Way to Explain? Function, Mechanism, and the Order of Explanations. | Amanda McCarthy, Frank Keil |
| 2022 | CogSci | "He only changed his answer because they shouted at him": children use affective cues to distinguish between genuine and forced consensus. | Emory Richardson, Frank Keil |
| 2022 | CogSci | 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. | Emory Richardson, Daniela Miro-Rivera, Frank Keil |
| 2022 | CogSci | Willingness to Interact Increases When Opponents Offer Specific Evidence. | Benjamin F. Scheve, Xiuyuan Zhang, Frank Keil |
| 2022 | CogSci | The speed of statistical perception. | Brynn E. Sherman, Sami R. Yousif, Caroline Reiner, Frank Keil |
| 2021 | CogSci | Mechanistic Learning Goals Enhance Elementary Student Understanding and Enjoyment of Heart Lessons. | Nicole Betz, Frank Keil |
| 2021 | CogSci | Adult Intuitions about Mechanistic Content in Elementary School Science Lessons. | Nicole Betz, Amanda McCarthy, Frank Keil |
| 2021 | CogSci | What is a 'mechanism'? A distinction between two sub-types of mechanistic explanations. | Sehrang Joo, Sami R. Yousif, Frank Keil |
| 2021 | CogSci | You can't trust an angry group: asymmetric evaluations of angry and surprised rhetoric affect confidence in trending opinions. | Emory Richardson, Frank Keil |
| 2021 | CogSci | 'Decoding' the locus of spatial representation from simple localization errors. | Sami R. Yousif, Frank Keil |
| 2020 | CogSci | Implicit questions shape information preferences. | Sehrang Joo, Sami R. Yousif, Frank Keil |
| 2020 | CogSci | I don't know if you did it, but I know why: A 'motive' preference at multiple stages of the legal-investigative process. | Alice Liefgreen, Sami R. Yousif, Frank Keil, David A. Lagnado |
| 2020 | CogSci | Jargon Jinx: An Early Bias Toward Opaque Explanations. | Amanda McCarthy, Frank Keil |
| 2020 | CogSci | Does informational independence always matter? Children believe small group discussion is more accurate than ten times as many independent informants. | Emory Richardson, Frank Keil |
| 2020 | CogSci | Children use agents' response time to distinguish between memory and novel inference. | Emory Richardson, Frank Keil |
| 2020 | CogSci | Illusory causal connections and their effect on subjective probability. | Sami R. Yousif, Frank Keil |
| 2019 | CogSci | Predictions from Uncertain Moral Character. | Samuel Johnson, Gregory Murphy, Max Rodrigues, Frank Keil |
| 2019 | CogSci | When Is Science Considered Interesting and Important? | Samuel Johnson, Amanda L. Royka, Peter McNally, Frank Keil |
| 2019 | CogSci | The trajectory of counterfactual simulation in development. | Jonathan F. Kominsky, Tobias Gerstenberg, Madeline Pelz, Henrik Singmann, Mark Sheskin, Frank Keil |
| 2019 | CogSci | Perceived Area Plays a Dominant Role in Visual Quantity Estimation. | Sami R. Yousif, Emma Alexandrov, Elizabeth Bennette, Frank Keil |
| 2018 | CogSci | It's Complicated: Children Identify Relevant Information About Causal Complexity. | Richard Ahl, Erika DeAngelis, Auburn Stephenson, Sehrang Joo, Frank Keil |
| 2018 | CogSci | Mechanistic Knowledge Generalizes Differentially. | Aaron Chuey, Mark Sheskin, Frank Keil |
| 2018 | CogSci | Psychological Underpinnings of Zero-Sum Thinking. | Samuel Johnson, Jiewen Zhang, Frank Keil |
| 2018 | CogSci | Children Don't Just Wanna Have Fun: An Experimental Demonstration Of Children's Curiosity For How Things Work. | Emmanuel Trouche, Aaron Chuey, Kristi Lockhart, Frank Keil |
| 2018 | CogSci | Any consensus will do: The failure to distinguish between 'true' and 'false' consensus. | Sami R. Yousif, Rosie Aboody, Frank Keil |
| 2018 | CogSci | When in doubt: Using confidence and consensus as 'summary statistics' of collective knowledge. | Sami R. Yousif, Frank Keil |
| 2017 | CogSci | Principles Used to Evaluate Mathematical Explanations. | Samuel G. B. Johnson, Angie Johnston, Marissa Koven, Frank Keil |
| 2017 | CogSci | Why Teach How Things Work? Tracking the Evolution of Children's Intuitions About Complexity. | Emmanuel Trouche, Aaron Chuey, Kristi Lockhart, Frank Keil |
| 2016 | CogSci | Explanatory Biases in Social Categorization. | Samuel G. B. Johnson, Haylie Kim, Frank Keil |
| 2016 | CogSci | The Determinants of Knowability. | Samuel G. B. Johnson, Kristen Kim, Frank Keil |
| 2016 | CogSci | Decision-Making and Biases in Causal-Explanatory Reasoning. | Samuel G. B. Johnson, Marianna Zhang, Frank Keil |
| 2016 | CogSci | Causal perception is constrained by principles of Newtonian mechanics. | Jonathan F. Kominsky, Brent Strickland, Annie Wertz, Claudai Elsner, Karen Wynn, Frank Keil |
| 2015 | CogSci | Predictions from Uncertain Beliefs. | Samuel G. B. Johnson, Thomas Merchant, Frank Keil |
| 2015 | CogSci | Argument Scope in Inductive Reasoning: Evidence for an Abductive Account of Induction. | Samuel G. B. Johnson, Thomas Merchant, Frank Keil |
| 2015 | CogSci | Belief Utility as an Explanatory Virtue. | Samuel G. B. Johnson, Greeshma Rajeev-Kumar, Frank Keil |
| 2015 | CogSci | Probabilistic Versus Heuristic Accounts of Explanation in Children: Evidence from a Latent Scope Bias. | Angie Johnston, Samuel G. B. Johnson, Marissa Koven, Frank Keil |
| 2014 | CogSci | Simplicity and Goodness-of-Fit in Explanation: The Case of Intuitive Curve-Fitting. | Samuel G. B. Johnson, Andy Jin, Frank Keil |
| 2014 | CogSci | Explanatory Scope Informs Causal Strength Inferences. | Samuel G. B. Johnson, Angie Johnston, Amy Toig, Frank Keil |
| 2014 | CogSci | Inferred Evidence in Latent Scope Explanations. | Samuel G. B. Johnson, Greeshma Rajeev-Kumar, Frank Keil |
| 2011 | CogSci | Which Parts of Scientific Explanations are Most Important? | Benjamin M. Rottman, Frank Keil |
| 2011 | CogSci | Learning Causal Direction from Repeated Observations over Time. | Benjamin M. Rottman, Frank Keil |
| 2011 | CogSci | Syntactic Biases in Intentionality Judgments. | Brent Strickland, Matt Fischer, Elodie Peyroux, Frank Keil |