Publications by authors named "Tamar Kushnir"

35Publications

The ontogeny of cumulative culture: Individual toddlers vary in faithful imitation and goal emulation.

Authors:
Yue Yu Tamar Kushnir

Dev Sci 2020 01 14;23(1):e12862. Epub 2019 Jun 14.

Department of Human Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.

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January 2020

The cultural roots of free will beliefs: How Singaporean and U.S. Children judge and explain possibilities for action in interpersonal contexts.

Authors:
Nadia Chernyak Carissa Kang Tamar Kushnir

Dev Psychol 2019 Apr 17;55(4):866-876. Epub 2019 Jan 17.

Department of Human Development, College of Human Ecology, Cornell University.

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April 2019

The choice is yours: Infants' expectations about an agent's future behavior based on taking and receiving actions.

Authors:
Arianne E Eason Daniel Doctor Ellen Chang Tamar Kushnir Jessica A Sommerville

Dev Psychol 2018 05 28;54(5):829-841. Epub 2017 Dec 28.

Department of Psychology, University of Washington.

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May 2018

Selectivity in toddlers' behavioral and emotional reactions to prosocial and antisocial others.

Authors:
Julia W Van de Vondervoort Lara B Aknin Tamar Kushnir Janine Slevinsky J Kiley Hamlin

Dev Psychol 2018 01 23;54(1):1-14. Epub 2017 Oct 23.

Department of Psychology, The University of British Columbia.

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January 2018

The influence of understanding and having choice on children's prosocial behavior.

Authors:
Nadia Chernyak Tamar Kushnir

Curr Opin Psychol 2018 04 14;20:107-110. Epub 2017 Aug 14.

Department of Human Development, Cornell University, USA.

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April 2018

Young children consider individual authority and collective agreement when deciding who can change rules.

Authors:
Xin Zhao Tamar Kushnir

J Exp Child Psychol 2018 Jan 8;165:101-116. Epub 2017 May 8.

Department of Human Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.

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January 2018

What I don't know won't hurt you: The relation between professed ignorance and later knowledge claims.

Authors:
Tamar Kushnir Melissa A Koenig

Dev Psychol 2017 05 30;53(5):826-835. Epub 2017 Mar 30.

Institute of Child Development, University of Minnesota.

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May 2017

When what's inside counts: Sequence of demonstrated actions affects preschooler's categorization by nonobvious properties.

Authors:
Yue Yu Tamar Kushnir

Dev Psychol 2016 Mar 21;52(3):400-10. Epub 2015 Dec 21.

Department of Human Development, Cornell University.

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March 2016

Reasoning about knowledge: Children's evaluations of generality and verifiability.

Authors:
Melissa A Koenig Caitlin A Cole Meredith Meyer Katherine E Ridge Tamar Kushnir Susan A Gelman

Cogn Psychol 2015 Dec 8;83:22-39. Epub 2015 Oct 8.

University of Michigan, United States.

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December 2015

Children protest moral and conventional violations more when they believe actions are freely chosen.

Authors:
Marina Josephs Tamar Kushnir Maria Gräfenhain Hannes Rakoczy

J Exp Child Psychol 2016 Jan 1;141:247-55. Epub 2015 Sep 1.

Institute of Psychology, University of Göttingen, D-37073 Göttingen, Germany.

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January 2016

Young Children's Help-Seeking as Active Information Gathering.

Authors:
Christopher Vredenburgh Tamar Kushnir

Cogn Sci 2016 Apr 27;40(3):697-722. Epub 2015 Apr 27.

Department of Human Development, Cornell University.

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April 2016

Developing intuitions about free will between ages four and six.

Authors:
Tamar Kushnir Alison Gopnik Nadia Chernyak Elizabeth Seiver Henry M Wellman

Cognition 2015 May 24;138:79-101. Epub 2015 Feb 24.

University of Michigan, United States.

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May 2015

Pedagogical cues encourage toddlers' transmission of recently demonstrated functions to unfamiliar adults.

Authors:
Christopher Vredenburgh Tamar Kushnir Marianella Casasola

Dev Sci 2015 Jul 5;18(4):645-54. Epub 2014 Oct 5.

Department of Human Development, Cornell University, USA.

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July 2015

Development links psychological causes to evolutionary explanations.

Authors:
Mark Fedyk Tamar Kushnir

Behav Brain Sci 2014 Apr;37(2):142-3

Department of Human Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853. http://www.human.cornell.edu/bio.cfm?netid=tk397.

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April 2014

The child as econometrician: a rational model of preference understanding in children.

Authors:
Christopher G Lucas Thomas L Griffiths Fei Xu Christine Fawcett Alison Gopnik Tamar Kushnir Lori Markson Jane Hu

PLoS One 2014 25;9(3):e92160. Epub 2014 Mar 25.

Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, California, United States of America.

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January 2015

A word by any other intonation: fMRI evidence for implicit memory traces for pitch contours of spoken words in adult brains.

Authors:
Michael Inspector David Manor Noam Amir Tamar Kushnir Avi Karni

PLoS One 2013 31;8(12):e82042. Epub 2013 Dec 31.

Laboratory of Brain Imaging and Learning Research, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel ; Department of Diagnostic Imaging, MRI Unit, the Chaim Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel.

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August 2014

Knowledge matters: how children evaluate the reliability of testimony as a process of rational inference.

Authors:
David M Sobel Tamar Kushnir

Psychol Rev 2013 Oct 9;120(4):779-97. Epub 2013 Sep 9.

Cognitive, Linguistic, and Psychological Sciences Department, Brown University.

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October 2013

Social context effects in 2- and 4-year-olds' selective versus faithful imitation.

Authors:
Yue Yu Tamar Kushnir

Dev Psychol 2014 Mar 26;50(3):922-33. Epub 2013 Aug 26.

Department of Human Development, Cornell University.

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March 2014

Giving preschoolers choice increases sharing behavior.

Authors:
Nadia Chernyak Tamar Kushnir

Psychol Sci 2013 Oct 16;24(10):1971-9. Epub 2013 Aug 16.

Department of Human Development, Cornell University.

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October 2013

A comparison of American and Nepalese children's concepts of freedom of choice and social constraint.

Authors:
Nadia Chernyak Tamar Kushnir Katherine M Sullivan Qi Wang

Cogn Sci 2013 Sep-Oct;37(7):1343-55. Epub 2013 May 20.

Department of Human Development, Cornell University.

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April 2014

Fetal liver T2* values: defining a standardized scale.

Authors:
Orly Goitein Yael Eshet Chen Hoffmann Lisa Raviv-Zilka Yishay Salem Ashraf Hamdan David Goitein Tamar Kushnir Iris Eshed Elio Di-Segni Eli Konen

J Magn Reson Imaging 2013 Dec 10;38(6):1342-5. Epub 2013 Apr 10.

Diagnostic Imaging, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, affiliated with the Sackler Medical School, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

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December 2013

"Who can help me fix this toy?" The distinction between causal knowledge and word knowledge guides preschoolers' selective requests for information.

Authors:
Tamar Kushnir Christopher Vredenburgh Lauren A Schneider

Dev Psychol 2013 Mar 21;49(3):446-53. Epub 2013 Jan 21.

Department of Human Development, G62B Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-4401, USA.

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March 2013

Developing a concept of choice.

Authors:
Tamar Kushnir

Adv Child Dev Behav 2012 ;43:193-218

Department of Human Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.

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April 2013

Preface. What is rational constructivism?

Authors:
Fei Xu Tamar Kushnir

Adv Child Dev Behav 2012 ;43:xi-xiv

Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley 94720, USA.

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April 2013

Evidence for tissue iron overload in long-term hemodialysis patients and the impact of withdrawing parenteral iron.

Authors:
Hussam Ghoti Eliezer A Rachmilewitz Ramon Simon-Lopez Raed Gaber Zeev Katzir Eli Konen Tamar Kushnir Domenico Girelli Natascia Campostrini Eitan Fibach Orly Goitein

Eur J Haematol 2012 Jul 18;89(1):87-93. Epub 2012 May 18.

Department of Hematology, E Wolfson Medical Center, Holon, Israel.

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July 2012

Young children use statistical sampling to infer the preferences of other people.

Authors:
Tamar Kushnir Fei Xu Henry M Wellman

Psychol Sci 2010 Aug 9;21(8):1134-40. Epub 2010 Jul 9.

Department of Psychology, Cornell University, G62B MVR, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.

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August 2010

Inferring hidden causal structure.

Authors:
Tamar Kushnir Alison Gopnik Chris Lucas Laura Schulz

Cogn Sci 2010 Jan 27;34(1):148-60. Epub 2009 Oct 27.

Department of Human Development, Cornell University Department of Psychology, University of California at Berkeley Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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January 2010

Is magnetic resonance imaging safe for patients with retained metal fragments from combat and terrorist attacks?

Authors:
Iris Eshed Tamar Kushnir Noga Shabshin Eli Konen

Acta Radiol 2010 Mar;51(2):170-4

Department of Diagnostic Imaging, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

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March 2010

No evidence for myocardial iron overload and free iron species in multitransfused patients with sickle/beta-thalassaemia.

Authors:
Hussam Ghoti Orly Goitein Ariel Koren Carina Levin Tamar Kushnir Eliezer Rachmilewitz Eli Konen

Eur J Haematol 2010 Jan 29;84(1):59-63. Epub 2009 Sep 29.

Edith Wolfson Medical center, Holon, Israel.

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January 2010

A self-agency bias in preschoolers' causal inferences.

Authors:
Tamar Kushnir Henry M Wellman Susan A Gelman

Dev Psychol 2009 Mar;45(2):597-603

Department of Human Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA.

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March 2009

The role of preschoolers' social understanding in evaluating the informativeness of causal interventions.

Authors:
Tamar Kushnir Henry M Wellman Susan A Gelman

Cognition 2008 Jun 26;107(3):1084-92. Epub 2007 Nov 26.

University of Michigan, Department of Psychology, 1012 East Hall, 530 Church St, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1043, United States.

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June 2008

Conditional probability versus spatial contiguity in causal learning: Preschoolers use new contingency evidence to overcome prior spatial assumptions.

Authors:
Tamar Kushnir Alison Gopnik

Dev Psychol 2007 Jan;43(1):186-96

Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1043, USA.

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January 2007

The importance of decision making in causal learning from interventions.

Authors:
David M Sobel Tamar Kushnir

Mem Cognit 2006 Mar;34(2):411-9

Department of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02912, USA.

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March 2006

Young children infer causal strength from probabilities and interventions.

Authors:
Tamar Kushnir Alison Gopnik

Psychol Sci 2005 Sep;16(9):678-83

University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-1650, USA.

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September 2005

A theory of causal learning in children: causal maps and Bayes nets.

Authors:
Alison Gopnik Clark Glymour David M Sobel Laura E Schulz Tamar Kushnir David Danks

Psychol Rev 2004 Jan;111(1):3-32

Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.

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January 2004