| 2025 | CogSci | People use mixed strategies to make efficient but structured inferences about agents in roles. | Aaron Baker, Khushi Sharma, Yarrow Dunham, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2025 | CogSci | People use theory of mind to craft lies exploiting audience desires. | Marlene Berke, Ben Sterling, Kartik Chandra, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2025 | CogSci | Children's beliefs about parents drive their learning about the world. | Brandon Carrillo, Julian Jara-Ettinger, Julia A. Leonard |
| 2025 | CogSci | GPT-4o Lacks Core Features of Theory of Mind. | John Muchovej, Amanda L. Royka, Shane Lee, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2025 | CogSci | Interjections as Tools for Sharing Mental States. | Amanda L. Royka, Kate Choi, Rory Schoenberger, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2025 | CogSci | Speakers strategically adjust their descriptions based on perceived memorability. | Urvi Suwal, Ben Morris, Qi Lin, Paula Rubio-Fernndez, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2025 | CogSci | When Seating Matters: Modeling Graded Social Attitudes as Bayesian Inference. | Zihan Wang, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2025 | CogSci | Six-Year-Olds Use an Intuitive Theory of Attention to Infer What Others See, Whom to Trust, and What They Want. | Rui Zhang, Marlene Berke, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2024 | CogSci | Roles guide rapid inferences about agent knowledge and behavior. | Aaron Baker, Yarrow Dunham, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2024 | CogSci | No signatures of first-person simulation in Theory of Mind judgments about thinking. | Marlene Berke, Ben Sterling, Abi Tenenbaum, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2024 | CogSci | Children's Expectations About Epistemic Change. | Mack Briscoe, Rui Zhang, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2024 | CogSci | Computational Social Cognition: Approaches and challenges. | Ismail Guennouni, Joseph M. Barnby, Julian Jara-Ettinger, Rebecca Saxe, Maarten Speekenbrink |
| 2024 | CogSci | Emblems and Improvised Gestures are Structured to Guide their Own Detection. | Amanda L. Royka, Gwyneth Heuser, Marieke Schouwstra, Simon Kirby, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2024 | CogSci | Reasoning about knowledge in lie production. | Zhi Yi Tan, Julian Jara-Ettinger, Marlene Berke |
| 2024 | UAI | MetaCOG: A Heirarchical Probabilistic Model for Learning Meta-Cognitive Visual Representations. | Marlene Berke, Zhangir Azerbayev, Mario Belledonne, Zenna Tavares, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2023 | CogSci | Detecting social biases using mental state inference. | Mika Asaba, Isaac Davis, Julia A. Leonard, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2023 | CogSci | Thinking about Thinking as Rational Computation. | Marlene Berke, Abi Tenenbaum, Ben Sterling, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2023 | CogSci | Violation of epistemic expectations: Children monitor what others know and recognize unexpected sources of knowledge. | Aaron Chuey, Julian Jara-Ettinger, Hyowon Gweon |
| 2023 | CogSci | Guiding Inference: Signaling intentions using efficient action. | Amanda L. Royka, Georgina Trk, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 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 | Integrating Experience into Bayesian Theory of Mind. | Marlene Berke, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2022 | CogSci | Inferring the internal structure of social collectives. | Isaac Davis, Yarrow Dunham, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2022 | CogSci | Hierarchical task knowledge constrains and simplifies action understanding. | Isaac Davis, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2022 | CogSci | Modeling Cue-integration in Emotion Inferences. | Srishti Goel, Julian Jara-Ettinger, Maria Gendron |
| 2022 | CogSci | Multiple representational theories explain non-human primate perspective-taking: Evidence from computational modeling. | Daniel J. Horschler, Marlene Berke, Laurie Santos, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2022 | CogSci | Language universals rely on social cognition: Computational models of the use of this and that to redirect the receiver's attention. | Marieke Schouwstra, Julian Jara-Ettinger, Paula Rubio-Fernndez |
| 2022 | CogSci | People Have Systematically Different Intuitions about Ownership even in Seemingly Simple Cases. | Xiuyuan Zhang, Paul Bloom, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2021 | CogSci | I can tell you know a lot, although I'm not sure what: Modeling broad epistemic inference from minimal action. | Rosie Aboody, Isaac Davis, Yarrow Dunham, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2021 | CogSci | Children consider the probability of random success when evaluating knowledge. | Rosie Aboody, Stephanie Denison, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2021 | CogSci | Thinking about thinking through inverse reasoning. | Marlene Berke, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2021 | CogSci | Reasoning about social attitudes with uncertain beliefs. | Isaac Davis, Ryan Carlson, Yarrow Dunham, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2021 | CogSci | What happened here? Children integrate physical reasoning to infer actions from indirect evidence. | Colin Jacobs, Michael Lopez-Brau, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2021 | CogSci | Detecting the involvement of agents through physical reasoning. | Michael Lopez-Brau, Joseph Kwon, Breanna McBean, Ilker Yildirim, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2021 | CogSci | I Know You Know I'm Signaling: Novel gestures are designed to guide observers' inferences about communicative goals. | Amanda L. Royka, Marieke Schouwstra, Simon Kirby, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2020 | CogSci | From information-seeking actions (and their costs), adults jointly infer both what others know, and what they believe they can learn. | Rosie Aboody, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2020 | CogSci | Mental inference: Mind perception as Bayesian model selection. | Lukas Burger, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2020 | CogSci | Mental state inference from indirect evidence through Bayesian event reconstruction. | Michael Lopez-Brau, Joseph Kwon, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2020 | CogSci | Beyond rationality: We infer other people's goals by learning agent-variable expectations of efficient action. | Joan Danielle Ongchoco, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2020 | CogSci | The Signature of All Things: Children Infer Knowledge States from Static Images. | Madeline Pelz, Laura Schulz, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2019 | CogSci | Ignorance = doing what is reasonable: Children expect ignorant agents to act based on prior knowledge. | Rosie Aboody, Caiqin Zhou, Madison Flowers, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2019 | CogSci | The price of knowledge: Children infer epistemic states and desires from exploration's cost. | Rosie Aboody, Caiqin Zhou, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2019 | CogSci | Children master the cardinal significance of one-to-one correspondence after they learn to count. | Madison Flowers, Lindsay Stoner, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2019 | CogSci | Inferring the social meaning of objects with intuitive physics and Theory of Mind. | Michael Lopez-Brau, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2019 | CogSci | Imagining the good: An offline tendency to simulate good options even when no decision has to be made. | Joan Danielle Ongchoco, Julian Jara-Ettinger, Joshua Knobe |
| 2019 | CogSci | You must know something I don't: risky behavior implies privileged information. | Emory Richardson, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2018 | CogSci | Success does not imply knowledge: Preschoolers believe that accurate predictions reveal prior knowledge, but accurate observations do not. | Rosie Aboody, Holly Huey, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2018 | CogSci | When teaching breaks down: Teachers rationally select what information to share, but misrepresent learners' hypothesis spaces. | Rosie Aboody, Joey Velez-Ginorio, Laurie Santos, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2018 | CogSci | What Comes to Mind? A Mix of What's Likely and What's Good. | Adam Bear, Samantha Bensinger, Julian Jara-Ettinger, Joshua Knobe |
| 2018 | CogSci | Beyond Principles and Outcomes: Children Determine Fairness Based on Attention and Exactness. | Madison Flowers, Rosie Aboody, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2018 | CogSci | Movement as a message: inferring communicative intent from actions. | Amanda L. Royka, Rosie Aboody, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2018 | CogSci | Joint inferences of speakers' beliefs and referents based on how they speak. | Paula Rubio-Fernndez, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2017 | CogSci | Minimal covariation data support future one-shot inferences about unobservable properties of novel agents. | Julian Jara-Ettinger, Hyowon Gweon |
| 2017 | CogSci | Interpreting actions by attributing compositional desires. | Joey Velez-Ginorio, Max H. Siegel, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Julian Jara-Ettinger |
| 2016 | CogSci | Children consider others' expected costs and rewards when deciding what to teach. | Sophie Bridgers, Julian Jara-Ettinger, Hyowon Gweon |
| 2016 | CogSci | The Nave Utility Calculus unifies spatial and statistical routes to preference. | Julian Jara-Ettinger, Felix Sun, Laura Schulz, Josh Tenenbaum |
| 2015 | CogSci | Go fishing! Responsibility judgments when cooperation breaks down. | Kelsey R. Allen, Julian Jara-Ettinger, Tobias Gerstenberg, Max Kleiman-Weiner, Joshua B. Tenenbaum |
| 2015 | CogSci | Beliefs about desires: Children's understanding of how knowledge and preference influence choice. | Julian Jara-Ettinger, Emily Lydic, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Laura Schulz |
| 2015 | CogSci | The nave utility calculus: Joint inferences about the costs and rewards of actions. | Julian Jara-Ettinger, Laura Schulz, Joshua B. Tenenbaum |
| 2014 | CogSci | I'd do anything for a cookie (but I won't do that): Children's understanding of the costs and rewards underlying rational action. | Julian Jara-Ettinger, Hyowon Gweon, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Laura Schulz |
| 2014 | CogSci | Running to do evil: Costs incurred by perpetrators affect moral judgment. | Julian Jara-Ettinger, Nathaniel Kim, Paul J. Muentener, Laura Schulz |
| 2013 | CogSci | Not so innocent: Reasoning about costs, competence, and culpability in very early childhood. | Julian Jara-Ettinger, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Laura Schulz |
| 2012 | CogSci | Learning What is Where from Social Observations. | Julian Jara-Ettinger, Chris L. Baker, Joshua B. Tenenbaum |