Publications

My research has been published in leading journals and conferences in developmental psychology, human-robot interaction, and cognitive science. Below you'll find my recent publications, with a focus on child development, interactive technologies, and research methodologies.

Recent Publications

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2024

Is it personal or is it social? The interaction of knowledge domain and statistical evidence in US and Chinese preschoolers' social generalizations.

T Flanagan, XA Zhao, F Xu, T Kushnir
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General2024Journal Article1 citations

A cross-cultural study examining how preschoolers from different cultures use statistical evidence in social learning.

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School-age children are more skeptical of inaccurate robots than adults

T Flanagan, NC Georgiou, B Scassellati, T Kushnir
Cognition2024Journal Article

A study comparing children's and adults' trust in robots when presented with inaccurate information.

2023

Must there be an explanation? Children and the Principle of Sufficient Reason

T Flanagan, A Vesga, T Kushnir, S Nichols
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society2023Conference Paper

An investigation into children's understanding of causality and their beliefs about the necessity of explanations.

The minds of machines: Children's beliefs about the experiences, thoughts, and morals of familiar interactive technologies.

T Flanagan, G Wong, T Kushnir
Developmental Psychology2023Journal Article24 citations

An investigation into how children conceptualize and attribute mental states to interactive technologies.

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2022

Children's Developing Beliefs About Agency and Free Will in an Increasingly Technological World

T Flanagan, T Kushnir
Humana mente2022Journal Article2 citations

A study examining how children develop beliefs about agency and free will in the context of modern technology.

2021

Constrained choice: Children's and adults' attribution of choice to a humanoid robot

T Flanagan, J Rottman, LH Howard
Cognitive Science2021Journal Article17 citations

An investigation into how children and adults understand and attribute choice capabilities to humanoid robots.

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The Community-Engaged Lab: A Case-Study Introduction for Developmental Science

J Liu, S Partington, Y Suh, Z Finiasz, T Flanagan, D Kocher, R Kiely, ...
Frontiers in psychology2021Journal Article2 citations

A case study examining the implementation and benefits of community engagement in developmental science research.

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2020

Children's Generalization of Preferences, Causal Functions, and Norms

TM Flanagan, X Zhao, T Kushnir
OSF2020Preprint

Research investigating how children generalize different types of information across social and causal domains.

2019

Do Children Ascribe the Ability to Choose to Humanoid Robots?

T Flanagan, J Rottman, L Howard
CogSci2019Conference Paper1 citations

A conference presentation examining children's attribution of choice abilities to humanoid robots.

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Individual differences in fluency with idea generation predict children's beliefs in their own free will

T Flanagan, T Kushnir
Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society2019Conference Paper2 citations

Research exploring the relationship between children's creative thinking abilities and their beliefs about free will.

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Robot_Agency

TM Flanagan, G Wong
OSF2019Preprint

Research examining how people understand and attribute agency to robotic agents.

2018

What will the robot do?: A psychological, philosophical, and technological study on children's attribution of free will

T Flanagan
2018Thesis

An honors thesis investigating children's understanding and attribution of free will to robotic agents.