Frank C. Keil

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53ranked-venue papers

1as first author

17since 2021 · last 2024

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Artificial intelligence and machine learning · 53 · 1 first-author · 17 since 2021Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 52 · 17 since 2021

Year	Publication	Venue	Position
2024	Children's unexpected inferences across knowledge types Amanda McCarthy, Emma Courtney, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	3
2024	Strong but wrong: Adult's intuitions of functional and mechanistic knowledge Amanda McCarthy, Emma Courtney, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	3
2024	Circular but Suggestive: Pragmatic Insights from Reductive Tautologies Frank C. Keil	CogSci	2
2023	Agenda setting and The Emperor's New Clothes: people infer that letting powerful agents make their opinion known early can trigger information cascades and pluralistic ignorance Emory Richardson, Isaac Davis, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	3
2023	Herding cats: children's intuitive theories of persuasion predict slower collective decisions in larger and more diverse groups, but disregard factional power Emory Richardson, Hannah Hok, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	4
2022	What is a consumer product for? How teleology guides judgments of product liability Maureen Gill, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	2
2022	No privileged link between intentionality and causation: Generalizable effects of agency in language Sehrang Joo, Sami R. Yousif, Fabienne Martin, Frank C. Keil, Joshua Knobe	CogSci	4
2022	A Right Way to Explain? Function, Mechanism, and the Order of Explanations Amanda McCarthy, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	2
2022	"He only changed his answer because they shouted at him": children use affective cues to distinguish between genuine and forced consensus Emory Richardson, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	2
2022	Know your network: people infer cultural drift from network structure, and expect collaborating with more distant experts to improve innovation, but collaborating with network-neighbors to improve memory Emory Richardson, Daniela Miro-Rivera, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	3
2022	Willingness to Interact Increases When Opponents Offer Specific Evidence Benjamin F. Scheve, Xiuyuan Zhang, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	3
2022	The speed of statistical perception Brynn E. Sherman, Sami R. Yousif, Caroline Reiner, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	4
2021	Mechanistic Learning Goals Enhance Elementary Student Understanding and Enjoyment of Heart Lessons Nicole Betz, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	2
2021	Adult Intuitions about Mechanistic Content in Elementary School Science Lessons Nicole Betz, Amanda McCarthy, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	3
2021	What is a 'mechanism'? A distinction between two sub-types of mechanistic explanations Sehrang Joo, Sami R. Yousif, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	3
2021	You can't trust an angry group: asymmetric evaluations of angry and surprised rhetoric affect confidence in trending opinions Emory Richardson, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	2
2021	'Decoding' the locus of spatial representation from simple localization errors Sami R. Yousif, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	2
2020	Implicit questions shape information preferences Sehrang Joo, Sami R. Yousif, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	3
2020	I don't know if you did it, but I know why: A 'motive' preference at multiple stages of the legal-investigative process Alice Liefgreen, Sami R. Yousif, Frank C. Keil, David A. Lagnado	CogSci	3
2020	Jargon Jinx: An Early Bias Toward Opaque Explanations Amanda McCarthy, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	2
2020	Does informational independence always matter? Children believe small group discussion is more accurate than ten times as many independent informants Emory Richardson, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	2
2020	Children use agents' response time to distinguish between memory and novel inference Emory Richardson, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	2
2020	Illusory causal connections and their effect on subjective probability Sami R. Yousif, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	2
2019	Predictions from Uncertain Moral Character Samuel Johnson, Gregory Murphy 0001, Max Rodrigues, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	4
2019	When Is Science Considered Interesting and Important? Samuel Johnson, Amanda L. Royka, Peter McNally, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	4
2019	The trajectory of counterfactual simulation in development Jonathan F. Kominsky, Tobias Gerstenberg, Madeline Pelz, Henrik Singmann, Mark Sheskin, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	6
2019	Perceived Area Plays a Dominant Role in Visual Quantity Estimation Sami R. Yousif, Emma Alexandrov, Elizabeth Bennette, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	4
2018	It's Complicated: Children Identify Relevant Information About Causal Complexity Richard Ahl, Erika DeAngelis, Auburn Stephenson, Sehrang Joo, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	5
2018	Mechanistic Knowledge Generalizes Differentially Aaron Chuey, Mark Sheskin, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	3
2018	Psychological Underpinnings of Zero-Sum Thinking Samuel Johnson, Jiewen Zhang, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	3
2018	Children Don't Just Wanna Have Fun: An Experimental Demonstration Of Children's Curiosity For How Things Work Emmanuel Trouche, Aaron Chuey, Kristi Lockhart, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	4
2018	Any consensus will do: The failure to distinguish between 'true' and 'false' consensus Sami R. Yousif, Rosie Aboody, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	3
2018	When in doubt: Using confidence and consensus as 'summary statistics' of collective knowledge Sami R. Yousif, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	2
2017	Principles Used to Evaluate Mathematical Explanations Samuel G. B. Johnson, Angie Johnston, Marissa Koven, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	4
2017	Statistical and Mechanistic Information in Evaluating Causal Claims Samuel G. B. Johnson, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	2
2017	Opponent Uses of Simplicity and Complexity in Causal Explanation Samuel G. B. Johnson, J. J. Valenti, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	3
2017	Why Teach How Things Work? Tracking the Evolution of Children's Intuitions About Complexity Emmanuel Trouche, Aaron Chuey, Kristi Lockhart, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	4
2016	Explanatory Biases in Social Categorization Samuel G. B. Johnson, Haylie Kim, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	3
2016	The Determinants of Knowability Samuel G. B. Johnson, Kristen Kim, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	3
2016	Decision-Making and Biases in Causal-Explanatory Reasoning Samuel G. B. Johnson, Marianna Zhang, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	3
2016	Causal perception is constrained by principles of Newtonian mechanics Jonathan F. Kominsky, Brent Strickland, Annie Wertz, Claudai Elsner, Karen Wynn, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	6
2015	Predictions from Uncertain Beliefs Samuel G. B. Johnson, Thomas Merchant, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	3
2015	Argument Scope in Inductive Reasoning: Evidence for an Abductive Account of Induction Samuel G. B. Johnson, Thomas Merchant, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	3
2015	Belief Utility as an Explanatory Virtue Samuel G. B. Johnson, Greeshma Rajeev-Kumar, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	3
2015	Probabilistic Versus Heuristic Accounts of Explanation in Children: Evidence from a Latent Scope Bias Angie Johnston, Samuel G. B. Johnson, Marissa Koven, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	4
2015	The better part of not knowing: Virtuous ignorance Jonathan F. Kominsky, Philip Langthorne, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	3
2014	Simplicity and Goodness-of-Fit in Explanation: The Case of Intuitive Curve-Fitting Samuel G. B. Johnson, Andy Jin, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	3
2014	Explanatory Scope Informs Causal Strength Inferences Samuel G. B. Johnson, Angie Johnston, Amy Toig, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	4
2014	Inferred Evidence in Latent Scope Explanations Samuel G. B. Johnson, Greeshma Rajeev-Kumar, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	3
2011	Which Parts of Scientific Explanations are Most Important? Benjamin M. Rottman, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	2
2011	Learning Causal Direction from Repeated Observations over Time Benjamin M. Rottman, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	2
2011	Syntactic Biases in Intentionality Judgments Brent Strickland, Matt Fischer, Elodie Peyroux, Frank C. Keil	CogSci	4
2001	The scope of the cognitive sciences: Reply to 6 reviews of The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences Frank C. Keil	Artif. Intell.	1