Laura Schulz

9.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
114 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Laura Schulz is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology and Education. According to data from OpenAlex, Laura Schulz has authored 114 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 96 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 28 papers in Social Psychology and 25 papers in Education. Recurrent topics in Laura Schulz's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (94 papers), Early Childhood Education and Development (14 papers) and Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference (14 papers). Laura Schulz is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (94 papers), Early Childhood Education and Development (14 papers) and Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference (14 papers). Laura Schulz collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Netherlands. Laura Schulz's co-authors include Alison Gopnik, Elizabeth Bonawitz, Hyowon Gweon, Clark Glymour, Joshua B. Tenenbaum, David M. Sobel, Noah D. Goodman, Julian Jara‐Ettinger, Tamar Kushnir and David Danks and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Laura Schulz

113 papers receiving 5.1k citations

Hit Papers

A Theory of Causal Learning in Children: Causal Maps and ... 2004 2026 2011 2018 2004 2011 200 400 600

Peers

Laura Schulz
Comparison fields: 5 of 134
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology 3.8k
  • Education 1.3k
  • Cognitive Neuroscience 1.3k
  • Social Psychology 1.2k
  • Artificial Intelligence 921
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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
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3 26
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Cognitive pragmatism: Children flexibly choose between facts and conjectures.
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What do you really think? Children's ability to infer others' desires when emotional expressions change between social and nonsocial contexts.
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The Naïve Utility Calculus unifies spatial and statistical routes to preference.
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Beliefs about desires: Children's understanding of how knowledge and preference influence choice.
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Quit while you're ahead: Preschoolers' persistence and willingness to accept challenges are affected by social comparison.
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I’d do anything for a cookie (but I won’t do that): Children’s understanding of the costs and rewards underlying rational action
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Black boxes: Hypothesis testing via indirect perceptual evidence
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To give a fish or to teach how to fish? Children weigh costs and benefits in considering what information to transmit.
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Information Selection in Noisy Environments with Large Action Spaces
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Joint inferences of belief and desire from facial expressions
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Not so innocent: Reasoning about costs, competence, and culpability in very early childhood
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Adults and school-aged children accurately evaluate sins of omission in pedagogical contexts
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"The Block Makes It Go": Causal Language Helps Toddlers Integrate Prediction, Action, and Expectations about Contact Relations
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The Double-edged Sword of Pedagogy: Modeling the Effect of Pedagogical Contexts on Preschoolers’ Exploratory Play
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Training a Bayesian: Three-and-a-half-year-olds' Reasoning about Ambiguous Evidence
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Weighing the Evidence: Children's Naïve Theories of Balance Affect Their Exploratory Play
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Intuitive Theories of Mind: A Rational Approach to False Belief
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