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Non-red clear corundum My research focuses on inductive inference and causal reasoning-- how do we predict the future and learn from experience? One line of research explores how children acquire the set of commonsense beliefs that characterize adult thinking. I am particularly interested in children's developing appreciation of physical and intentional causality. Current research addresses the role of norms in social cognition. How does children's understanding of rules and obligations develop, and what role does such understanding play in predicting and explaining people's behavior? A second line of research concerns more general processes of categorization and inference. We explore how people use evidence to make category-based inductions, and how beliefs about the nature and origins of categories affect learning and judgment.
The ability to generalize past experience to new situations, to make inductive inferences, is central to what we think of as learning. We want children to know how to use what they have already learned to make successful judgments about new and less familiar circumstances. I hope that studying the process of generalization will tell us more about how children learn.
Research InformationA copy of my Vita.
If you would like to request copies of some of my papers, please follow this link
The Study of Children's Thinking lab website
Teaching InformationFor information about classes and scheduling check here The Department of Educational Psychology
The class I am teaching in Fall 07: Theories and issues in human development
Other Seminars:
Categorization and the Development of Concepts
How the mind works: Evolutionary perspectives on cognitive development and education
Culture, Cognition, and Development
The Development of Social Cognition
Resources for Cognitive Development at UW-MadisonGeneral Description (somewhat out of date)
Cognitive Science at UW-Madison
Martha Alibali's Lab: Cognitive Development & Communication Lab
Language & Language Development Research
Some Links:Here's a Kalish with a more impressive page-- Mike Kalish
The Society for Philosophy and Psychology
Cognitive & Psychological Sciences at Stanford
Child Development Abstracts Online
The Jean Piaget Society
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