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Career

· Graduate Student (D.Phil.), University of Oxford1980–
· Professor of Psychology and Affiliate Professor of Philosophy, University of California at Berkeley

Publications (277)

Words, thoughts, and theories
1997
1,445
cited
Children's understanding of representational change and its relation to the understanding of false belief and the appearance-reality distinction.
Child Development · 1988
1,338
cited
A theory of causal learning in children: causal maps and Bayes nets.
Psychology Review · 2004
1,135
cited
Why the Child's Theory of Mind Really Is a Theory
1992
1,045
cited
Early reasoning about desires: evidence from 14- and 18-month-olds.
Developmental Psychology · 1997
870
cited
How we know our minds: The illusion of first-person knowledge of intentionality
Behavioral and Brain Sciences · 1993
800
cited
Cultural learning. Author's reply
1993
731
cited
The theory theory.
1994
716
cited
Reconstructing constructivism: causal models, Bayesian learning mechanisms, and the theory theory.
Psychological bulletin · 2012
596
cited
Causal learning mechanisms in very young children: two-, three-, and four-year-olds infer causal relations from patterns of variation and covariation.
Developmental Psychology · 2001
474
cited
The scientist in the crib : minds, brains, and how children learn
1999
461
cited
Causal learning : psychology, philosophy, and computation
2007
434
cited
Knowing How You Know: Young Children's Ability to Identify and Remember the Sources of Their Beliefs.
1988
406
cited
Young Children's Understanding of Changes in Their Mental States.
1991
386
cited
Detecting blickets: how young children use information about novel causal powers in categorization and induction.
Child Development · 2000
385
cited
Scientific Thinking in Young Children: Theoretical Advances, Empirical Research, and Policy Implications
Science · 2012
340
cited
Theoretical explanations of children's understanding of the mind
1991
340
cited
Children's causal inferences from indirect evidence: Backwards blocking and Bayesian reasoning in preschoolers
Cognitive Sciences · 2004
337
cited
Early acquisition of verbs in Korean: a cross-linguistic study
Journal of Child Language · 1995
331
cited
The Development of Categorization in the Second Year and Its Relation to Other Cognitive and Linguistic Developments.
1987
309
cited
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