Ori Friedman
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Ori Friedman
Society for Philosophy and Psychology
about 1 month ago
Familiar magic helps children see that fantastical events can happen in stories 📣Recent work by Emily Stonehouse, Terryn Kim, Regan Christensen & Ori Friedman
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Familiar Magic Helps Children See That Fantastical Events Can Happen in Stories
Young children often show a reality bias when thinking about fiction—they say that stories can include realistic events, while rejecting fantastical events. We sought to better understand this bias...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15248372.2025.2547629
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Andrew Shtulman
3 months ago
New article w/ M Pabla &
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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.
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4 months ago
New research from University of Waterloo psychologists (Megan Barlow, Tiffany Doan, Ori Friedman
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Probability matching and statistical naïveté | Judgment and Decision Making | Cambridge Core
Probability matching and statistical naïveté - Volume 20
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/judgment-and-decision-making/article/probability-matching-and-statistical-naivete/71303043FF60DC7FF50288D289BD47C8
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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....
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Familiar Magic Helps Children See That Fantastical Events Can Happen in Stories
Young children often show a reality bias when thinking about fiction—they say that stories can include realistic events, while rejecting fantastical events. We sought to better understand this bias...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15248372.2025.2547629
6 months ago
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Cognition Updates now posting on LinkedIn
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Ori Friedman
Cognition
7 months ago
📢 We’re now on LinkedIn! 💼 Follow us for publication updates, journal news, and more from our community of authors and editors. 🔗
linkedin.com/company/cognition-journal
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Ori Friedman
Society for Philosophy and Psychology
8 months ago
⭐️ From Tiffany Doan, Stephanie Denison, & Ori Friedman: Doing things intentionally: Probability raising and control
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Doing things intentionally: Probability raising and control
Intentionality judgments can depend on probability raising—people are more likely to see a desired outcome as intentional if the agent who produced it…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0732118X25000200
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Ori Friedman
Society for Philosophy and Psychology
over 1 year ago
Doing things efficiently: Testing an account of why simple explanations are satisfying 📣Recent work from Claudia Sehl, Stephanie Denison, & Ori Friedman
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Doing things efficiently: Testing an account of why simple explanations are satisfying
People often find simple explanations more satisfying than complex ones. Across seven preregistered experiments, we provide evidence that this simplic…
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S001002852400063X
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Andrew Shtulman
over 2 years ago
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.
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