| 2026 | ACL | Accommodation and Epistemic Vigilance: A Pragmatic Account of Why LLMs Fail to Challenge Harmful Beliefs. | Myra Cheng, Robert D. Hawkins, Dan Jurafsky |
| 2026 | ACL | When More Words Say Less: Decoupling Length and Specificity in Image Description Evaluation. | Rhea Kapur, Robert D. Hawkins, Elisa Kreiss |
| 2026 | CHI | Gesturing Toward Abstraction: Multimodal Convention Formation in Collaborative Physical Tasks. | Kiyosu Maeda, William P. McCarthy, Ching-Yi Tsai, Jeffrey Mu, Haoliang Wang, Robert D. Hawkins, Judith E. Fan, Parastoo Abtahi |
| 2025 | CogSci | How do we get to know someone? Diagnostic questions for inferring personal traits. | Erik Brockbank, Tobias Gerstenberg, Judith E. Fan, Robert D. Hawkins |
| 2025 | CogSci | A Computational Account of Epistemic Vigilance: Learning from Selective Truths through Bayesian Reasoning. | Ke Fang, Robert D. Hawkins, Charley M. Wu, Michael Franke |
| 2025 | CogSci | Amortizing Structure Discovery with Generative Flow Networks. | Alex Guerra, Aditya Palaparthi, Sarah-Jane Leslie, Robert D. Hawkins |
| 2025 | CogSci | Two paths to variation in semantic judgments: How ambiguity and conceptual diversity drive individual differences in meaning. | Di Liu, Raja Marjieh, Nori Jacoby, Robert D. Hawkins |
| 2025 | CogSci | Minding the Politeness Gap in Cross-cultural Communication. | Yuka Machino, Max H. Siegel, Matthias Hofer, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, Robert D. Hawkins |
| 2025 | CogSci | Learning to communicate a shared wavelength. | Wasita Mahaphanit, Benjamin Keller, Robert D. Hawkins, Jonathan Phillips, Luke Chang |
| 2025 | CogSci | Function shapes form: Compositionality emerges from communicative needs, not environmental structure alone. | Jessica Mankewitz, Robert D. Hawkins |
| 2025 | CogSci | Dynamics of topic exploration in conversation. | Helen Schmidt, Claire Augusta Bergey, Changyi Zhou, Chelsea Helion, Robert D. Hawkins |
| 2025 | CogSci | Polite Speech Generation in Humans and Language Models. | Haoran Zhao, Robert D. Hawkins |
| 2025 | CogSci | Overcoming sparse and uneven evidence with natural language communication. | Yuliya Zubak, Robert D. Hawkins |
| 2025 | EMNLP | Evaluating distillation methods for data-efficient syntax learning. | Takateru Yamakoshi, Thomas L. Griffiths, R. Thomas McCoy, Robert D. Hawkins |
| 2025 | EMNLP | Comparing human and LLM politeness strategies in free production. | Haoran Zhao, Robert D. Hawkins |
| 2025 | ICML | Core Knowledge Deficits in Multi-Modal Language Models. | Yijiang Li, Qingying Gao, Tianwei Zhao, Bingyang Wang, Haoran Sun, Haiyun Lyu, Robert D. Hawkins, Nuno Vasconcelos, Tal Golan, Dezhi Luo, Hokin Deng |
| 2024 | CogSci | A longitudinal analysis of children's communicative acts. | Claire Augusta Bergey, Misha O'Keeffe, Robert D. Hawkins |
| 2024 | CogSci | When and why does shared reality generalize? | Wasita Mahaphanit, Christopher Welker, Helen Schmidt, Luke Chang, Robert D. Hawkins |
| 2024 | CogSci | Toddlers Actively Sample from Reliable and Unreliable Speakers. | Jessica Mankewitz, Robert D. Hawkins, Jenny R. Saffran |
| 2023 | ACL | Causal interventions expose implicit situation models for commonsense language understanding. | Takateru Yamakoshi, James L. McClelland, Adele Goldberg, Robert D. Hawkins |
| 2023 | CogSci | Advancing Cognitive Science and AI with Cognitive-AI Benchmarking. | Felix Jedidja Binder, Logan Matthew Cross, Yoni Friedman, Robert D. Hawkins, Daniel L. K. Yamins, Judith E. Fan |
| 2023 | CogSci | Semantic uncertainty guides the extension of conventions to new referents. | Ron Eliav, Anya Ji, Yoav Artzi, Robert D. Hawkins |
| 2023 | CogSci | Overinformative Question Answering by Humans and Machines. | Polina Tsvilodub, Michael Franke, Robert D. Hawkins, Noah D. Goodman |
| 2023 | CogSci | Same situation, different goals: Exploring how people construct stories from streams of experience. | Naomi Vaida, Susan T. Fiske, Robert D. Hawkins |
| 2022 | ACL | Probing BERT's priors with serial reproduction chains. | Takateru Yamakoshi, Thomas L. Griffiths, Robert D. Hawkins |
| 2022 | CogSci | Two's company but six is a crowd: emergence of conventions in multiparty communication games. | Veronica Boyce, Robert D. Hawkins, Noah D. Goodman, Michael C. Frank |
| 2022 | CogSci | Identifying concept libraries from language about object structure. | Catherine Wong, William P. McCarthy, Gabriel Grand, Yoni Friedman, Josh Tenenbaum, Jacob Andreas, Robert D. Hawkins, Judith E. Fan |
| 2022 | EMNLP | Abstract Visual Reasoning with Tangram Shapes. | Anya Ji, Noriyuki Kojima, Noah Rush, Alane Suhr, Wai Keen Vong, Robert D. Hawkins, Yoav Artzi |
| 2021 | CogSci | Respect the code: Speakers expect novel conventions to generalize within but not across social group boundaries. | Robert D. Hawkins, Irina Liu, Adele Goldberg, Tom Griffiths |
| 2021 | CogSci | Contextual Flexibility Guides Communication in a Cooperative Language Game. | Abhilasha Ashok Kumar, Ketika Garg, Robert D. Hawkins |
| 2021 | CogSci | Learning to communicate about shared procedural abstractions. | William P. McCarthy, Robert D. Hawkins, Haoliang Wang, Cameron Holdaway, Judith E. Fan |
| 2021 | CogSci | Extending rational models of communication from beliefs to actions. | Theodore R. Sumers, Robert D. Hawkins, Mark K. Ho, Tom Griffiths |