| 2025 | CogSci | Children's beliefs about parents drive their learning about the world. | Brandon Carrillo, Julian Jara-Ettinger, Julia A. Leonard |
| 2025 | CogSci | Just unlucky?: Children are sensitive to the cause of rejection. | Aarthi Popat, Julia A. Leonard |
| 2025 | CogSci | Parents underestimate young children's abilities which may undermine their parenting practices. | Reut Shachnai, Arielle Belluck, Julia A. Leonard |
| 2025 | CogSci | When Bayesians take over: A computational model of parental intervention. | Reut Shachnai, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Marlene Berke, Julia A. Leonard |
| 2025 | CogSci | The cognitive science of caregiving. | Reut Shachnai, Julia A. Leonard, Alison Gopnik, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Lindsey J. Powell |
| 2025 | CogSci | Hidden costs of overparenting: Children feel worse about their abilities when adults take over for their peers. | Elaine Wang, Reut Shachnai, Julia A. Leonard |
| 2024 | CogSci | Children expect adults to hold gender stereotypes, even when they are not accurate. | Mika Asaba, Marianna Y. Zhang, Julia A. Leonard |
| 2024 | CogSci | Young children reason about adults' achievement goals for them. | Brandon Carrillo, Mika Asaba, Lizbeth Lozano, Lauren Okine, Julia A. Leonard |
| 2024 | CogSci | "I'm here for my gender, not my skill": Causal reasoning shapes beliefs about merit in response to DEI initiatives. | Aarthi Popat, Julia A. Leonard |
| 2024 | CogSci | Practice what you preach: Consistent messages about the value of effort foster children's persistence. | Elaine Wang, Mia Radovanovic, Jessica A. Sommerville, Julia A. Leonard |
| 2023 | CogSci | Detecting social biases using mental state inference. | Mika Asaba, Isaac Davis, Julia A. Leonard, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2023 | CogSci | Children's representations of others' gender biases. | Mika Asaba, Marianna Y. Zhang, Julia A. Leonard |
| 2023 | CogSci | Parents take over less when they think their young child is learning. | Reut Shachnai, Mika Asaba, Lingyan Hu, Julia A. Leonard |
| 2023 | CogSci | Children's developing understanding of learning as improvement over time. | Xiuyuan Zhang, Brandon Carrillo, Julia A. Leonard |
| 2022 | CogSci | Adolescents are most motivated by encouragement from someone who knows their abilities and the domain. | Mika Asaba, Melissa Santos, Julian Jara-Ettinger, Julia A. Leonard |
| 2022 | CogSci | Developmental changes in children's training strategies. | Daniil Serko, Julia A. Leonard, Azzurra Ruggeri |
| 2022 | CogSci | Thinking about doing: Representations of skill learning. | Xiuyuan Zhang, Samuel D. McDougle, Julia A. Leonard |
| 2021 | CogSci | Who is motivating? Students evaluate encouragement based on speaker's knowledge. | Mika Asaba, Amanda Nerenberg, Julia A. Leonard |
| 2020 | CogSci | The Development of Creative Search Strategies. | Yuval Hart, Eliza Kosoy, Emily Liquin, Julia A. Leonard, Allyson Mackey, Alison Gopnik |
| 2020 | CogSci | Preschoolers are Sensitive to their Performance Over Time. | Julia A. Leonard, Julia Sandler, Amanda Nerenberg, Aidan Rubio, Laura Schulz, Allyson Mackey |
| 2019 | CogSci | Who is better? Preschoolers infer relative competence based on efficiency of process and quality of outcome. | Julia A. Leonard, Grace Bennett-Pierre, Hyowon Gweon |
| 2017 | CogSci | Preschoolers and Infants Calibrate Persistence from Adult Models. | Julia A. Leonard, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Yuna Lee, Josh Tenenbaum, Laura Schulz |
| 2015 | CogSci | If at First You Don't Succeed: The Role of Evidence in Preschoolers' and Infants' Persistence. | Julia A. Leonard, Laura Schulz |