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Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz
dblp:134/0258 · also Elizabeth Bonawitz
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44ranked-venue papers
3as first author
12since 2021 · last 2025
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 44 · 3 first-author · 12 since 2021Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 44 · 3 first-author · 12 since 2021
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Learning from thought experiments in early childhood
Igor Bascandziev, Garvin Brod, Patrick Shafto, Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz |
CogSci | 4 |
| 2025 | Stumped! Learning to think outside the box in 3-7 year old children
Junyi Chu, Misha O'Keeffe, Silvia Kancong Liu, Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz, Tomer D. Ullman |
CogSci | 4 |
| 2024 | Young children adapt their search behavior for necessary versus merely possible outcomes
Luisa Andreuccioli, Sophie Mazor, Katarina Begus, Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz, Stephanie Denison, Caren M. Walker |
CogSci | 4 |
| 2024 | Parents modify their prosody when asking questions with pedagogical intent
Igor Bascandziev, Patrick Shafto, Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz |
CogSci | 3 |
| 2024 | Children use positive prescriptive information when asked to predict random samples
Jonathan F. Kominsky, Joshua Knobe, Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz |
CogSci | 3 |
| 2024 | Challenging the control-of-variables strategy: How confounded comparisons can support children's science learning
Lucas Lörch, Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz, Garvin Brod |
CogSci | 2 |
| 2022 | Can children recognize pedagogical intent in the prosody of speech?
Igor Bascandziev, Michael LaSorsa, Patrick Shafto, Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz |
CogSci | 4 |
| 2022 | Adults' Evaluations of Rote and Reflective Teachers
Ilona Bass, Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz, Tomer D. Ullman |
CogSci | 2 |
| 2021 | The Sound of Pedagogical Questions
Igor Bascandziev, Patrick Shafto, Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz |
CogSci | 3 |
| 2021 | Do You Know What I Know? Children Use Informants' Beliefs About Their Abilities to Calibrate Choices During Pedagogy
Ilona Bass, Elise Mahaffey, Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz |
CogSci | 3 |
| 2021 | Mechanisms of early causal reasoning: Investigating infants' sensitivity to confounded information in a causal reasoning task, using EEG and eyetracking
Katarina Begus, Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz |
CogSci | 2 |
| 2021 | If it works we didn't need it: Intuitive judgments of 'overreaction'
Jonathan F. Kominsky, Daniel J. Reardon, Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz |
CogSci | 3 |
| 2020 | Prosodic Features Carry Information About a Question's Intent
Igor Bascandziev, Patrick Shafto, Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz |
CogSci | 3 |
| 2020 | Early Environments and Exploration in the Preschool Years
Ilona Bass, Aiyana Bedoya, Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz |
CogSci | 3 |
| 2020 | Modeling pupillary surprise response in elementary school children with theory-based Bayesian models
Joseph Colantonio II, Igor Bascandziev, Maria Theobald, Garvin Brod, Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz |
CogSci | 5 |
| 2020 | Memory enhancement from surprise: Investigating threshold and incremental accounts
Carla Macias, Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz |
CogSci | 2 |
| 2020 | Great Expectations: Evaluating the Role of Object-Color Expectations on Visual Memory
Kimele Persaud, Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz |
CogSci | 2 |
| 2019 | Observing child-led exploration improves parents' causal inferences
Koeun Choi, Milagros Grados, Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz |
CogSci | 3 |
| 2019 | Pedagogical Questions Empower Exploration
Anishka Jean, Emily N. Daubert, Patrick Shafto, Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz |
CogSci | 5 |
| 2019 | Age-Related Differences in the Influence of Category Expectations on Episodic Memory in Early Childhood
Kimele Persaud, Carla Macias, Pernille Hemmer, Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz |
CogSci | 4 |
| 2019 | "I Never Even Considered That!": Investigating explanations for adults' failures to learn conjunctive causal rules
Alexandra Rett, Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz, Koeun Choi, Caren M. Walker |
CogSci | 2 |
| 2019 | The Design of the Learning Environment Shapes Preschoolers' Causal Inference
Alexandra Rett, Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz, Caren M. Walker |
CogSci | 2 |
| 2019 | Active information seeking using the Approximate Number System
Jinjing (Jenny) Wang, Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz |
CogSci | 2 |
| 2019 | Children with immature intuitive theories seek domain-relevant information
Jinjing (Jenny) Wang, Carla Macias, Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz |
CogSci | 4 |
| 2018 | That'll Teach 'em: How Expectations about Teaching Styles may Constrain Inferences
Ilona Bass, Patrick Shafto, Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz |
CogSci | 3 |
| 2018 | Workshop Understanding Exploration-Exploitation Trade-offs
Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz, Alison Gopnik, Celeste Kidd |
CogSci | 1 |
| 2018 | Preschoolers are more likely to direct questions to adults than to other children (or selves) during spontaneous conversational acts
Koeun Choi, Elizabeth Lapidow, Jennifer Austin, Patrick Shafto, Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz |
CogSci | 5 |
| 2018 | Awesome play: Awe increases preschooler's exploration and discovery
Joseph Colantonio II, Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz |
CogSci | 2 |
| 2017 | Towards Automated Classification of Emotional Facial Expressions
Lewis Baker, Vanessa Lobue, Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz, Patrick Shafto |
CogSci | 3 |
| 2017 | Didn't know, or didn't show? Preschoolers consider epistemic state and degree of omission when evaluating teachers
Ilona Bass, Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz, Hyowon Gweon |
CogSci | 2 |
| 2017 | I know what you need to know: Children's developing theory of mind and pedagogical evidence selection
Ilona Bass, Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz, Patrick Shafto, Dhaya Ramarajan, Alison Gopnik, Henry Wellman |
CogSci | 2 |
| 2017 | Inconvenient samples: Modeling the effects of non-consent by coupling observational and experimental results
Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz, Patrick Shafto |
CogSci | 2 |
| 2016 | Active learning: Cognitive development, education, and computational models
Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz |
CogSci | 1 |
| 2016 | Heuristics in exploration: Distributional information is selectively used for active learning
Elizabeth Lapidow, Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz |
CogSci | 2 |
| 2016 | Preschoolers evaluate risk and reward in exploration-exploitation tasks
Elizabeth Lapidow, Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz |
CogSci | 2 |
| 2016 | Questions in informal teaching: A study of mother-child conversations
Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz, Patrick Shafto |
CogSci | 2 |
| 2015 | A Puzzle for your thoughts: Information about the difficulty of one task influences preschoolers' exploratory play with a novel toy
Amanda Castro, Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz |
CogSci | 2 |
| 2015 | Explaining Choice Behavior: The Intentional Selection Assumption
Kelley Durkin, Leyla Roksan Caglar, Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz, Patrick Shafto |
CogSci | 3 |
| 2015 | Do infants compare ratios or use simpler heuristics in probabilistic inference?
Samantha Gualtieri, Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz, Stephanie Denison |
CogSci | 2 |
| 2014 | Controlling the message: Preschoolers' use of evidence to teach and deceive others
Marjorie Rhodes, Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz, Patrick Shafto, Annie Chen |
CogSci | 2 |
| 2012 | Is that your final answer? The effects of neutral queries on children's choices
Aaron Gonzalez, Patrick Shafto, Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz, Alison Gopnik |
CogSci | 3 |
| 2012 | Seeing who sees: Contrastive access helps children reason about other minds
Kathie Pham, Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz, Alison Gopnik |
CogSci | 2 |
| 2011 | A Simple Sequential Algorithm for Approximating Bayesian Inference
Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz, Stephanie Denison, Annie Chen, Alison Gopnik, Thomas L. Griffiths 0001 |
CogSci | 1 |
| 2011 | Mind the Gap: Dispositional Agency Facilitates Toddlers' Causal Representations
Paul J. Muentener, Elizabeth Baraff Bonawitz, Alexandra Horowitz, Laura Schulz |
CogSci | 2 |