Frank C. Keil

18.8k citations
229 papers · 10.5k indexed · 4 hit papers · h-index 46
Topics
Child and Animal Learning Development (125 papers)Educational Strategies and Epistemologies (27 papers)Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (26 papers)

In The Last Decade

Frank C. Keil

219 papers receiving 9.5k citations

Hit Papers

Concepts, Kinds, and Cognitive Development198920262001201319892005200720022505007501000

Peers

Frank C. Keil
Comparison fields: 5 of 172
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology 5.1k
  • Cognitive Neuroscience 2.9k
  • Social Psychology 2.5k
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 2.1k
  • Sociology and Political Science 1.9k
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All Works

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‘Decoding’ the locus of spatial representation from simple localization errors
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Jargon Jinx: An Early Bias Toward Opaque Explanations.
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I don't know if you did it, but I know why: A 'motive' preference at multiple stages of the legal-investigative process.
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Does informational independence always matter? Children believe small group discussion is more accurate than ten times as many independent informants.
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Perceived Area Plays a Dominant Role in Visual Quantity Estimation.
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Psychological Underpinnings of Zero-Sum Thinking.
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Opponent Uses of Simplicity and Complexity in Causal Explanation.
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Decision-Making and Biases in Causal-Explanatory Reasoning.
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Explanatory biases in social categorization
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Belief utility as an explanatory virtue
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Inferred Evidence in Latent Scope Explanations
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Simplicity and Goodness-of-Fit in Explanation: The Case of Intuitive Curve-Fitting.
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Learning Causal Direction from Repeated Observations over Time
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Connecting Causal Events: Learning Causal Structures Through Repeated Interventions Over Time
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Words, Moms, and Things: Language as a Road Map to Reality.
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About Frank C. Keil

Frank C. Keil is a scholar working on General Decision Sciences, Developmental and Educational Psychology and History and Philosophy of Science, having authored 229 papers that have together received 10.5k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Child and Animal Learning Development (125 papers), Educational Strategies and Epistemologies (27 papers) and Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics (26 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Developmental and Educational Psychology (5.1k citations), General Decision Sciences (451 citations) and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (2.1k citations). Frank C. Keil has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Frequent co-authors include Leon Rozenblit, Robert A. Wilson, Ken Springer, Derek E. Lyons, Justin L. Barrett, Matthew Fisher, Candice M. Mills, Andrew G. Young, Deena Skolnick Weisberg and Jeremy R. Gray. Their work appears in journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

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