Which book fell first? We found people often pick the wrong one, showing a novel error in physical judgment. New paper with Brandon Goulding available at rdcu.be/feIaY doi.org/10.3758/s134...

Familiar magic helps children see that fantastical events can happen in stories 
📣Recent work by Emily Stonehouse, Terryn Kim, Regan Christensen & Ori Friedman

New article w/ M Pabla & @orifriedman.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... When children claim an unexpected event is impossible they also claim it's never happened, even for immoral events, suggesting their judgments reflect beliefs about what could happen & not merely what should.

New research from University of Waterloo psychologists (Megan Barlow, Tiffany Doan, Ori Friedman @orifriedman.bsky.social, and Stephanie Denison) sheds light on why people often probability match rather than maximize when making decisions. see: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

New pub with Emily Stonehouse, Terryn Kim, & Regan Christensen Familiar Magic Helps Children See That Fantastical Events Can Happen in Stories www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Cognition Updates now posting on LinkedIn

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⭐️ From Tiffany Doan, Stephanie Denison, & Ori Friedman: Doing things intentionally: Probability raising and control

Doing things efficiently: Testing an account of why simple explanations are satisfying 📣Recent work from Claudia Sehl, Stephanie Denison, & Ori Friedman

Learning to Imagine: The Science of Discovering New Possibilities (www.amazon.com/Learning-Ima...) is coming out Nov. 14!   To celebrate, I will be posting an image and caption from each chapter over the next several days. Here’s the table of contents to start things off.