| 2025 | CHI | Fostering Appropriate Reliance on Large Language Models: The Role of Explanations, Sources, and Inconsistencies. | Sunnie S. Y. Kim, Jennifer Wortman Vaughan, Q. Vera Liao, Tania Lombrozo, Olga Russakovsky |
| 2025 | CogSci | Do our theories of moral progress predict whether we vote? Evidence from the 2024 US election. | Casey Lewry, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2025 | CogSci | Do Whales Have Hair? Are Whales Mammals? Identifying Synchronic Inconsistencies Among Beliefs. | Joseph Sommer, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2025 | ICML | Mind Your Step (by Step): Chain-of-Thought can Reduce Performance on Tasks where Thinking Makes Humans Worse. | Ryan Liu, Jiayi Geng, Addison J. Wu, Ilia Sucholutsky, Tania Lombrozo, Thomas L. Griffiths |
| 2024 | CogSci | The effect of jargon on perceptions of explanation quality: Reconciling contradictory findings. | Francisco Cruz, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2024 | CogSci | Functional Explanations Link Gender Essentialism and Normativity. | Emily Foster-Hanson, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2024 | CogSci | Who is responsible for collective action? | Casey Lewry, Tania Lombrozo, Shannon Wing, Sydney Levine, Josh Tenenbaum, Lionel Wong, Sofia Bonicalzi, Tobias Gerstenberg |
| 2024 | CogSci | Are Disagreements Just Differences in Beliefs? | Kerem Oktar, John Branson Byers, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2024 | CogSci | Evidence for distinct cognitive attitudes of belief in theory of mind. | Alejandro Vesga, Neil Van Leeuwen, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2023 | CogSci | Tell Me Your (Cognitive) Budget, and I'll Tell You What You Value: Evidential Relationships Between Values, Data, and Generic Causal Claims about the Social World. | David Kinney, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2023 | CogSci | Intuitive theories of moral progress. | Casey Lewry, Sana Asifriyaz, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2023 | CogSci | Ideological Differences in Paths to Persistence. | Kerem Oktar, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2023 | CogSci | The Edge of Ockham's Razor: Examining Boundary Conditions on Preferences for Simpler Explanations. | Thalia Vrantsidis, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2022 | CogSci | What Are Men and Mothers For? The Causes and Consequences of Functional Reasoning About Social Categories. | Emily Foster-Hanson, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2022 | CogSci | Evaluations of Causal Claims Reflect a Trade-Off Between Informativeness and Compression. | David Kinney, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2022 | CogSci | Ethical Explanations. | Casey Lewry, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2022 | CogSci | Mechanisms of Belief Persistence in the Face of Societal Disagreement. | Kerem Oktar, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2022 | CogSci | Simplicity beyond probability: Simplicity's role in evaluating explanations goes beyond providing cues to priors and likelihoods. | Thalia Vrantsidis, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2021 | CogSci | Reason-Based Constraint in Theory of Mind. | Corey J. Cusimano, Natalia C. Zorrilla, David Danks, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2021 | CogSci | The function of function: People use teleological information to predict prevalence. | Emily Foster-Hanson, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2021 | CogSci | Why belief in species purpose prompts moral condemnation of individuals who fail to fulfill that purpose. | Casey Lewry, Deborah Kelemen, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2021 | CogSci | Developmental Change in What Elicits Curiosity. | Emily Liquin, Frederick Callaway, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2021 | CogSci | Deciding to be Authentic: Intuition is Favored Over Deliberation for Self-Reflective Decisions. | Kerem Oktar, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2021 | CogSci | "It Depends": How Children Reason about Stable and Unstable Causes. | Nadya Vasilyeva, Mei Murphy, Oce Bohra, Jenny Chen, Selena Xandra Cuevas, Samhita Katteri, Tania Lombrozo, Alison Gopnik |
| 2020 | CogSci | Experiential Explanations in Iterated Learning. | Sara Aronowitz, Casey Lewry, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2020 | CogSci | Morality justifies motivated reasoning. | Corey J. Cusimano, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2020 | CogSci | Explaining the Existential: Functional Roles of Scientific and Religious Explanation. | Telli Davoodi, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2020 | CogSci | People view humans as existing for purposes and condemn those who fail to fulfill them. | Casey Lewry, Tania Lombrozo, Deborah Kelemen |
| 2020 | CogSci | Quantifying Curiosity: A Formal Approach to Dissociating Causes of Curiosity. | Emily Liquin, Frederick Callaway, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2020 | CogSci | You Should Really Think This Through: Cross-Domain Variation in Preferences for Intuition and Deliberation. | Kerem Oktar, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2020 | CogSci | When Generic Language does not Promote Psychological Essentialism. | Nadya Vasilyeva, Alison Gopnik, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2020 | CogSci | The surprising consequences of engaging in contrastive explanation. | Nadya Vasilyeva, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2019 | CogSci | What makes a good explanation? Cognitive dimensions of explaining intelligent machines. | Roberto Confalonieri, Tarek R. Besold, Tillman Weyde, Kathleen Creel, Tania Lombrozo, Shane T. Mueller, Patrick Shafto |
| 2019 | CogSci | If it's important, then I am curious: A value intervention to induce curiosity. | Rachit Dubey, Tom Griffiths, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2019 | CogSci | Social Consequences of Information Search: Seeking evidence and explanation signals religious and scientific commitments. | Maureen Gill, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2019 | CogSci | Inquiry, Theory-Formation, and the Phenomenology of Explanation. | Emily Liquin, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2019 | CogSci | Causal Structure and Probability Information Modulate the Preference for Simple Explanations. | Emily Liquin, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2019 | CogSci | The Influence of Implicit Normative Commitments in Decision-Making. | Alexia Cristina Martinez, Eugenia Gorlin, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2019 | CogSci | Explanatory Considerations Guide Pursuit. | Patricia Mirabile, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2019 | CogSci | Structural Thinking about Social Categories: Evidence from Formal Explanations, Generics, and Generalization. | Nadya Vasilyeva, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2018 | CogSci | Seeking Ideal Explanations in a Non-Ideal World. | Elizabeth Kon, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2018 | CogSci | Determinants and Consequences of the Need for Explanation. | Emily Liquin, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2018 | CogSci | Explanation and its Limits: Mystery and the Need for Explanation in Science and Religion. | Emily Liquin, Sarah Emlen Metz, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2018 | CogSci | Your liking is my curiosity: a social popularity intervention to induce curiosity. | Hermish Mehta, Rachit Dubey, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2018 | CogSci | When and How Children Use Explanations to Guide Generalizations. | Nadya Vasilyeva, Azzurra Ruggeri, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2017 | CogSci | Explaining Guides Learners Towards Perfect Patterns, Not Perfect Prediction. | Elizabeth Kon, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2017 | CogSci | Explain, Explore, Exploit: Effects of Explanation on Information Search. | Emily Liquin, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2017 | CogSci | The Development of Structural Thinking about Social Categories. | Nadya Vasilyeva, Alison Gopnik, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2016 | CHI | Revising Learner Misconceptions Without Feedback: Prompting for Reflection on Anomalies. | Joseph Jay Williams, Tania Lombrozo, Anne Hsu, Bernd Huber, Juho Kim |
| 2016 | CogSci | Stable Causal Relationships are Better Causal Relationships. | Nadya Vasilyeva, Thomas Blanchard, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2016 | CogSci | Are Symptom Clusters Explanatory? A Study in Mental Disorders and Non-Causal Explanation. | Daniel A. Wilkenfeld, Jennifer Asselin, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2015 | CogSci | Mental states are more important in evaluating moral than conventional violations. | Carly Giffin, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2015 | CogSci | Children search for information as efficiently as adults, but seek additional confirmatory evidence. | Azzurra Ruggeri, Tania Lombrozo, Thomas L. Griffiths, Fei Xu |
| 2015 | CogSci | Explanations and Causal Judgments are Differentially Sensitive to Covariation and Mechanism Information. | Nadya Vasilyeva, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2015 | CogSci | Goals Affect the Perceived Quality of Explanations. | Nadya Vasilyeva, Daniel A. Wilkenfeld, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2014 | CHI | Learning online via prompts to explain. | Joseph Jay Williams, Geza Kovacs, Caren M. Walker, Samuel G. Maldonado, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2014 | CogSci | Effects of Comparison and Explanation on Analogical Transfer. | Brian J. Edwards, Joseph Jay Williams, Dedre Gentner, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2014 | CogSci | Because the Brain Agrees: The Impact of Neuroscientific Explanations for Belief. | Dillon Plunkett, Tania Lombrozo, Lara Buchak |
| 2014 | CogSci | Learning By Asking: How Children Ask Questions To Achieve Efficient Search. | Azzurra Ruggeri, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2013 | CogSci | Linguistic differences in explanation requests and their effects on the evaluation of explanations: the case of English and Turkish. | Melih Barsbey, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2013 | CogSci | Effects of Explanation and Comparison on Category Learning. | Brian J. Edwards, Joseph Jay Williams, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2013 | CogSci | Global Change and Cognition. | Stephan Lewandowsky, Tania Lombrozo, Gordon D. A. Brown, John Cook, Ben R. Newell, Ullrich K. H. Ecker |
| 2013 | CogSci | Explaining to Others Prompts Children to Favor Inductively Rich Properties. | Caren M. Walker, Tania Lombrozo, Cristine H. Legare, Alison Gopnik |
| 2013 | CogSci | Effects of Explaining Anomalies on the Generation and Evaluation of Hypotheses. | Joseph Jay Williams, Caren M. Walker, Samuel G. Maldonado, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2013 | UAI | Evaluating computational models of explanation using human judgments. | Michael Pacer, Joseph Jay Williams, Xi Chen, Tania Lombrozo, Thomas L. Griffiths |
| 2012 | CogSci | How simple explanations change our minds and why we prefer them. | Michael Pacer, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2012 | CogSci | Explaining Influences Children's Reliance on Evidence and Prior Knowledge in Causal Induction. | Caren M. Walker, Joseph Jay Williams, Tania Lombrozo, Alison Gopnik |
| 2012 | CogSci | Explaining increases belief revision in the face of (many) anomalies. | Joseph Jay Williams, Caren M. Walker, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2011 | CogSci | Explanation-based Mechanisms for Learning: An Interdisciplinary Approach. | Michelene T. H. Chi, Gerald DeJong, Cristine H. Legare, Tania Lombrozo, Joseph Jay Williams |
| 2011 | CogSci | What Ockham's Razor Cuts: Quantifying simplicity in explanation choice. | Michael Pacer, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2011 | CogSci | Norms as Direct Explanations of Behavior. | Kevin Uttich, Tania Lombrozo |
| 2011 | CogSci | Explaining drives the discovery of real and illusory patterns. | Joseph Jay Williams, Tania Lombrozo, Bob Rehder |