RESEARCH PAPERS
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Amir, D. & Kidd, C. (Under review).
Undervaluation of children’s knowledge as epistemic injustice.
Baer, C. Engelmann, J. & Kidd, C. (Under review).
Children leverage confidence to rationally integrate beliefs.
Kidd, C., & Birhane, A. (Under review).
Orticio, E., Meyer, M., & Kidd, C. (Under review).
Children flexibly adapt their evidentiary standards to their informational environment.
Yang, H.A., Piantadosi, S., Kidd, C. (Under review).
Children’s estimation of peripheral information drives improvements in approximate number sense.
Martí, L., & Kidd, C. (In revision).
“Fringe” beliefs aren’t fringe.
Orticio, E., Martí, L., Bi, B., O'Shaughnessy, D., & Kidd, C. (In revision).
Judgements of political statements are influenced by speaker identity.
PEER-REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Perfors, A., Piantadosi, S.T., & Kidd, C. (2023).
Trans-inclusive gender categories are cognitively natural.
Nature Human Behavior, 7,1609–1611. [PDF]
Kidd, C. & Birhane, A. (2023).
How AI can distort human beliefs.
Science, 380(6651), 1222-1223. [PDF]
Martí, L., Wu, S., Piantadosi, S. T., & Kidd, C. (2023).
Latent diversity in human concepts.
Open Mind, 7, 79–92. [PDF]
Baer, C., & Kidd, C. (2022).
Learning with certainty in childhood.
Trends in Cognitive Science, 26(10), 887-896. [PDF]
Orticio, E., Martí, L., & Kidd, C. (2022).
Social prevalence Is rationally integrated in belief updating.
Open Mind, 6, 77-87. [PDF]
Wu, S., Blanchard, T., Meschke, E., Aslin, R. N., Hayden, B. Y., & Kidd, C. (2022).
Macaques preferentially attend to intermediately surprising information.
Biology Letters, 18(7), 20220144. [PDF]
Cubit, Laura S., Canale, R., Handsman, R., Kidd, C., Bennetto, L. (2021.)
Visual attention preference for intermediate predictability in young children.
Child Development, 92(2), 691-703.[PDF]
Llorens, A., Tzovara, A., Bellier, L., ... Dronkers, N.F. (2021.)
Gender bias in academia: a lifetime problem that needs solutions.
Neuron, 109(13), 2047-2074. [PDF]
Pelz, M., & Kidd, C. (2020.)
The elaboration of exploratory play.
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 375(1803), 20190503. [PDF]
Sumner, E. DeAngelis, E., Hyatt, M., Goodman, N.D., & Kidd, C. (2019.)
Cake or Broccoli? Recency biases children’s verbal responses.
PLOS ONE, 14(6): e0217207. [PDF]
Wade, S., & Kidd, C. (2019.)
The role of prior knowledge and curiosity on learning.
Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 26(4), 1377-1387. [PDF}
Wade, S., & Kidd, C. (2018.)
Cross cultural differences in the influence of peers on exploration during play.
Cognitive Science, 42(8), 3050-3070. [PDF]
Martí, L., Mollica, F., Piantadosi, S.T., & Kidd, C. (2018.)
Certainty is primarily determined by past performance during concept learning.
Open Mind, 2(2), 47-60. [PDF]
Mintz, T.H., Walker, R.L., Welday, A., & Kidd, C. (2018.)
Infantsʼ universal sensitivity to vowel harmony and their use of vowel harmony as a cue for segmenting speech.
Cognition, 171, 95-107. [PDF]
Undurraga, E.A., Behrman, J.R., Emmett, S.D., Kidd, C., Piantadosi, S.T., Reyes-García, V., Sharma, A., Zhang, R., & Godoy, R.A. (2018.)
Child stunting is associated with weaker human capital among native Amazonians.
American Journal of Human Biology, 30(1), E23059. [PDF]
Hemmer, P., Persaud, K., Kidd, C., & Piantadosi, S.T. (2017.)
Seeing Colors: Cultural and environmental influences on episodic memory.
I-Perception, 8(6), 1-5. [PDF]
Oudeyer, P., Lopes, M., Kidd, C., & Gottlieb, J. (2016.)
Curiosity and intrinsic motivation for autonomous machine learning.
European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) News, 17, 34-35. [PDF]
Piantadosi, S.T., & Kidd, C. (2016.)
Extraordinary intelligence and the care of infants.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(25), 6874-6879. [PDF]
Piantadosi, S.T., & Kidd, C. (2016.)
Endogenous or exogenous? The data don't say.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(20), E2764. [PDF]
Kidd, C., & Hayden, B.Y. (2015.)
The psychology and neuroscience of curiosity.
Neuron, 88(3), 449-460. [PDF]
Jara-Ettinger, J., Gibson, E., Kidd, C., & Piantadosi, S.T. (2015.)
Native Amazonian children forego egalitarianism when they learn to count.
Developmental Science, 19(6), 1104-1110. [PDF]
Kidd, C., Piantadosi, S.T., & Aslin, R.N. (2014.)
The Goldilocks effect in infant auditory cognition.
Child Development, 85(5),1795-804. [PDF]
Piantadosi, S.T., Kidd, C., & Aslin, R.N. (2014.)
Rich Analysis and Rational Models: Inferring individual behavior from infant looking data.
Developmental Science, 17(3), 321–337. [PDF]
Kidd, C., Palmeri, H., & Aslin, R.N. (2013.)
Rational Snacking: Young children’s decision-making on the marshmallow task is moderated by beliefs about environmental reliability.
Cognition, 126, 109-114. [PDF]
Kidd, C., Piantadosi, S.T., & Aslin, R.N. (2012.)
The Goldilocks Effect: Human infants allocate attention to visual sequences that are neither too simple nor too complex.
PLOS ONE, 7(5), e36399. [PDF]
Kidd, C., White, K.S., & Aslin, R.N. (2011.)
Toddlers use speech disfluencies to predict speakers’ referential intentions.
Developmental Science, 14(4), 925–934. [PDF]
McGovern, G.C., Kidd, C., & Piantadosi, S.T. (2010.)
Psychology of authority in quid pro quo sexual harassment cases: 50 years of psychological science demonstrate the influence of authority and social norms.
Louisiana Advocates (pp. 14-17). Baton Rouge: Louisiana Association for Justice. [PDF]
PEER-REVIEWED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS PAPERS
Oricio, E., Meyer, M., & Kidd, C. (2023).
Children flexibly adapt their evidentiary standards to their informational environments.
Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Yang, H., Piantadosi, S.T., & Kidd, C. (2023).
Children’s estimation of peripheral information drives improvements in approximate number sense.
Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Bi, B., Martí, L., O'Shaughnessy, D., & Kidd, C. (2021).
Judgements of political statements are influenced by speaker identity.
Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3253). [PDF]
Martí, L., Conover, A. & Kidd, C. (2021).
“Fringe” beliefs aren’t fringe.
Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3240). [ABSTRACT PDF] [PAPER PDF]
Orticio, E., Martí, L., & Kidd, C. (2021).
Beliefs are most swayed by social prevalence under uncertainty.
Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2822-2828). [PDF]
Wu, S., Meschke, E., Blanchard, T., Aslin, R.N., Hayden, B.Y., & Kidd, C. (2021.)
Macaques preferentially attend to intermediately surprising information.
Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp.1882), [PDF]
Wade, S., & Kidd, C. (2020).
Influence of topic knowledge on curiosity.
Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3471-3477). [PDF]
Martí, L., Mollica, F., Piantadosi, S.T., & Kidd, C. (2019).
Same Words, Same Context, Different Meanings: People are unaware that their own concepts are not always shared.
Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2296-2302). [PDF]
Canale, R., Loewenstein, & Kidd, C. (2019).
Simplicity preferences in young children’s decision-making.
Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3249). [PDF]
Kidd, C. (2018.)
Summary of responses to dialog initiation “Curiosity as driver of extreme specialization in humans”.
IEEE Cognitive and Developmental Systems (CDS) Newsletter, 15(1), 15. [PDF] [ISSUE PDF]
Kidd, C. (2017.)
Curiosity as Driver of Extreme Specialization in Humans.
IEEE Cognitive and Developmental Systems (CDS) Newsletter, 14(2), 12-13. [PDF]
Ullman, T.D., Alonso-Diaz, S., Ferrigno, S., Zahid, S., & Kidd, C. (2017.)
Weighty matters: The role of physical weight in non-physical language across age and culture.
Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3412-3416). [PDF]
Azab, H., Ruskin, D. & Kidd, C. (2016).
Adults' guesses on probabilistic tasks reveal incremental representativeness biases.
Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2831-2836). [PDF]
Kidd, C. (2016.) The Importance of Conceptual Replications for Testing Computational Cognitive Theories.
IEEE Cognitive and Developmental Systems (CDS) Newsletter, 13(2), 10-11. [PDF]
Martí, L., Mollica, F., Piantadosi, S.T., & Kidd, C. (2016).
What determines human certainty?
Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 698-703). [PDF]
Hemmer, P., Persaud, K., Kidd, C., & Piantadosi, S.T. (2015.)
Inferring the Tsimane' people's use of color categories from recognition memory.
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 896-901). [PDF]
Macias, C., Yung, A., Hemmer, P., & Kidd, C. (2015.)
Memory strategically encodes externally unavailable information.
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1458-1463). [PDF]
Partridge, E., McGovern, M., Yung, A., & Kidd, C. (2015.)
Young children's self-directed information gathering on touchscreens.
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1835-1840). [PDF]
Pelz, M., Piantadosi, S.T., & Kidd, C. (2015.)
The dynamics of idealized attention in complex learning environments.
Proceedings of the Fifth Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics. [PDF]
Pelz, M., Yung, A., & Kidd, C. (2015.)
Quantifying Curiosity and Exploratory Play on Touchscreen Tablets.
Proceedings of the IDC 2015 Workshop on Digital Assessment and Promotion of Children's Curiosity. [PDF]
Sumner, E., DeAngelis, E., Hyatt, M., Goodman, N.D., & Kidd, C. (2015.)
Toddlers Always Get the Last Word: Recency biases in early verbal behavior.
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2296-2301). [PDF]
Wade, S., & Kidd, C. (2015.)
Cross-cultural comparison of peer influence on discovery rate during play.
Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2535-2540). [PDF]
Kidd, C., Piantadosi, S.T., & Aslin, R.N. (2010.)
The Goldilocks Effect: Infantsʼ preference for visual stimuli that are neither too predictable nor too surprising.
Proceedings of the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2476-2481). [PDF]
Kidd, C., White, K.S., & Aslin, R.N. (2009.)
Children’s use of disfluencies for pragmatic inference in lexical development.
Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1494-1499). [PDF]
OTHER PEER-REVIEWED PUBLICATIONS
Kidd, C., Schmitt, A., Muller, S., Cantlon, J., Walsh, W., Eubank, G., Meyer, L., Reynolds, L., Burke, T., Crews, T. & Judd, A. (2018.)
What still needs to be done to break the silence surrounding sexual harassment.
TIME Magazine, Dec. 11, 2018. [PDF]
Kidd, C. (2013.)
Rational Approaches to Learning and Development.
Ph.D. Thesis, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, University of Rochester. [THESIS PDF] [SYNOPSIS PDF]
Kidd, C., White, K.S., & Aslin, R.N. (2011.)
Learning the Meaning of “Um”: Toddlersʼ developing use of speech disfluencies as cues to speakersʼ referential intentions.
In I. Arnon & E.V. Clark (Eds.), Experience, Variation, and Generalization: Learning a First Language (Trends in Language Acquisition Research).
Amsterdam: John Benjamins. (pp. 91–106). [PDF]