Caren M. Walker

1.5k total citations
54 papers, 885 citations indexed

About

Caren M. Walker is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Caren M. Walker has authored 54 papers receiving a total of 885 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 19 papers in Education and 10 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Caren M. Walker's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (38 papers), Educational Strategies and Epistemologies (13 papers) and Education and Critical Thinking Development (6 papers). Caren M. Walker is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (38 papers), Educational Strategies and Epistemologies (13 papers) and Education and Critical Thinking Development (6 papers). Caren M. Walker collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Peru. Caren M. Walker's co-authors include Alison Gopnik, Tania Lombrozo, Patricia A. Ganea, Cristine H. Legare, Joseph Jay Williams, Ellen Winner, Gail D. Heyman, Elizabeth Bonawitz, Sophie Bridgers and Jamie Amemiya and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Child Development and Psychological Science.

In The Last Decade

Caren M. Walker

50 papers receiving 830 citations

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Henrik Saalbach Germany

Sophie Bridgers United States

Christopher A. Was United States

Heather Winskel Australia

Anne K. Hickling United States

Veronica X. Yan United States

Laura Wagner United States

Judith H. Danovitch United States

Charles A. Weaver United States

Μαρία Πλατσίδου Greece

Henrik Saalbach Germany

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443 ×0.8

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Caren M. Walker

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Amemiya, Jamie, et al.. (2025). Hiding discrimination in plain sight: The development of reasoning about disparate impact policies.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 155(1). 116–132.

Amemiya, Jamie, Gail D. Heyman, & Caren M. Walker. (2024). How barriers become invisible: Children are less sensitive to constraints that are stable over time. Developmental Science. 27(4).

Amemiya, Jamie, Gail D. Heyman, & Caren M. Walker. (2023). Emphasizing others’ persistence can promote unwarranted social inferences in children and adults.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 152(10). 2977–2988. 3 indexed citations

Lombrozo, Tania, et al.. (2022). Ask me why, don't tell me why: Asking children for explanations facilitates relational thinking. Developmental Science. 26(1). e13274–e13274. 3 indexed citations

Amemiya, Jamie, Gail D. Heyman, & Caren M. Walker. (2021). How People Make Causal Judgments about Unprecedented Societal Events. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 43(43).

Goddu, Mariel K., et al.. (2021). A Tale of Three Platforms: Investigating Preschoolers’ Second-Order Inferences Using In-Person, Zoom, and Lookit Methodologies. Frontiers in Psychology. 12. 731404–731404. 16 indexed citations

Walker, Caren M., et al.. (2020). Explanation Supports Hypothesis Generation in Learning. PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations

Walker, Caren M., et al.. (2020). Knowing when to quit: Children consider access to solutions when deciding whether to persist.. Cognitive Science. 3 indexed citations

Walker, Caren M., et al.. (2019). Does the intuitive scientist conduct informative experiments?: Children's early ability to select and learn from their own interventions.. Cognitive Science. 2085–2091. 1 indexed citations

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Nyhout, Angela, et al.. (2019). Thinking counterfactually supports children's ability to conduct a controlled test of a hypothesis.. Cognitive Science. 2488–2494. 3 indexed citations

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Goddu, Mariel K. & Caren M. Walker. (2018). Toddlers and Adults Simultaneously Track Multiple Hypotheses in a Causal Learning Task.. Cognitive Science. 2 indexed citations

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Walker, Caren M., et al.. (2018). Considering alternatives facilitates anomaly detection in preschoolers.. Cognitive Science. 2 indexed citations

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Walker, Caren M., et al.. (2017). The paradox of relational development is not universal: Abstract reasoning develops differently across cultures. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 1721–1726. 1 indexed citations

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Walker, Caren M., Sophie Bridgers, & Alison Gopnik. (2016). The early emergence and puzzling decline of relational reasoning: Effects of knowledge and search on inferring abstract concepts. Cognition. 156. 30–40. 33 indexed citations

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Walker, Caren M., Tania Lombrozo, Cristine H. Legare, & Alison Gopnik. (2014). Explaining prompts children to privilege inductively rich properties. Cognition. 133(2). 343–357. 77 indexed citations

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Walker, Caren M., Tania Lombrozo, Cristine H. Legare, & Alison Gopnik. (2013). Explaining to Others Prompts Children to Favor Inductively Rich Properties. Cognitive Science. 35(35). 2 indexed citations

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Gopnik, Alison & Caren M. Walker. (2013). Considering Counterfactuals: The Relationship between Causal Learning and Pretend Play. 6(1). 15–28. 25 indexed citations

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Walker, Caren M., Joseph Jay Williams, Tania Lombrozo, & Alison Gopnik. (2012). Explaining Influences Children's Reliance on Evidence and Prior Knowledge in Causal Induction. Cognitive Science. 34(34). 16 indexed citations

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Williams, Joseph Jay, Caren M. Walker, & Tania Lombrozo. (2012). Explaining increases belief revision in the face of (many) anomalies. Cognitive Science. 34(34). 5 indexed citations

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Walker, Caren M., Patricia A. Ganea, & Alison Gopnik. (2012). Children's Causal Learning from Fiction: Assessing the Proximity Between Real and Fictional Worlds. Cognitive Science. 34(34). 6 indexed citations

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