Kalish, C. W., & Lawson, C. A. (in press). Development of social category representations: Early appreciation of roles and deontic relations Child Development. Click Here to Request Copy
Kalish, C. W., & Lawson, C. A. (2007). Negative evidence and inductive generalization. Thinking and Reasoning, 13, 394-425. Click Here to Request Copy
Kalish, C. W., & Cornelius, R. (2007). What is to be done: Children's ascriptions of conventional obligations. Child Development 78, 859-878Click Here to Request Copy
Kalish, C. W. (2006) Integrating normative and psychological knowledge: What should we be thinking about? Journal of Cognition and Culture, 6, 161-178 Click Here to Request Copy
Lawson, C. A., & Kalish, C. W. (2006). Inductive Inferences Across Time and Identity: Are Category Members More Alike Than Single Individuals? Journal of Cognition and Development. 7, 233-252.Click Here to Request Copy
Kalish, C. W. (2005). Becoming status conscious: Children's appreciation of social reality. Philosophical Explorations. 8, 245-263. Click Here to Request Copy
Kalish, C. W. & Shiverick, S. A. (2004). Rules and Preferences: Children's Reasoning About Motives for Behavior. Cognitive Development, 19, 401-416. Click Here to Request Copy.
Kalish, C. W. (2002). Children's Predictions of Consistency in People's Actions. Cognition, 84, 237-265. Click Here to Request Copy
Kalish, C. W. (2002). Gold, Jade, and Emeruby: The value of naturalness for theories of concepts and categories. Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 22, 45-56. Click Here to Request Copy
Kalish, C. W. (2002). Essentialist to some degree: The structure of natural kind categories. Memory & Cognition, 30, 340-352. Click Here to Request Copy
Ahn, W., Kalish, C., W., et al. (2001). Why essences are essential in the psychology of concepts. Cognition, 82, 59-69
Kalish, C. W., Weissman, M. D., & Bernstein, D. (2000). Taking decisions seriously: Young children's understanding of conventional truth. Child Development, 71, 1289-1308. Click Here to Request Copy
Ahn, W., Gelman, S. A., Amsterlaw, J. A., Hohenstein, J., & Kalish, C. W. (2000). Causal status effect in children's categorization. Cognition, 76, B35-B38.
Weissman, M. D., & Kalish, C. W. (1999). The inheritance of desired characteristics: Children's views on the role of maternal intentions in parent-offspring resemblance. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 73, 245-265. Click Here to Request Copy
Kalish, C. W. (1998). Young children's predictions of illness: Failure to recognize probabilistic causation. Developmental Psychology, 34, 1046-1058. Click Here to Request Copy
Kalish, C. W. (1998). Reasons and causes: Children's understanding of conformity to social rules and physical laws. Child Development, 69, 706-720. Click Here to Request Copy
Kalish, C. W. (1998). Natural and artificial kinds: Are children realists or relativists about categories? Developmental Psychology, 34, 376-391. Click Here to Request Copy
Kalish, C. W. (1997). Preschoolers' understanding of mental and bodily reactions to contamination: What you don't know can hurt you but cannot sadden you. Developmental Psychology, 33, 79-91. Click Here to Request Copy
Kalish, C. W. (1996). Causes and symptoms in preschooler's conceptions of illness. Child Development, 67, 1647-1670. Click Here to Request Copy
Kalish, C. W. (1996). Preschoolers' understanding of germs as invisible mechanisms. Cognitive Development, 11, 83-106.
Kalish, C. W. (1995). Essentialism and graded membership in animal and artifact categories. Memory & Cognition, 23, 335-353.
Ahn, W., Kalish, C. W., Medin, D. L., & Gelman, S. A.(1995). Role of covariation versus mechanism information in causal attribution. Cognition, 54, 299-352.
Rosengren, K. R., Kalish, C. W., Hickling, A., & Gelman, S. A. (1994). Exploring the relations between preschool children's magical beliefs and causal thinking. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 12, 69-82.
Kalish, C. W., & Gelman, S. A. (1992). On wooden pillows: Multiple classification and children's category-based inductions. Child Development, 63, 1536-1557.
Rosengren, K. R., Gelman, S. A., Kalish, C. W., & McCormick, M. (1991). As time goes by: Children's understanding of biological growth. Child Development, 62,1302-1320.
Kalish, C. W. (in press). Pragmatic and prescriptive aspects of children's categorization. in C. Kalish & M. Sabbagh (Eds.) Conventionality in cognitive development. New Directions in Child and Adolescent Development.Click Here to Request Copy
Kalish, C. W., & Lawson, C. A. (2002). Children Think the Darndest Things: Review of Imagining the Impossible. Contemporary Psychology, 47,
Kalish, C. W., & Viola, B. (2002). Having our concepts and changing them too. Human Development. Essay Review, 45, 360-366
Rosati, A. D., Knowles, E. D., Kalish, C. W., Gopnik, A., Ames, D. R., & Morris, M. W. (2001). The rocky road from acts to dispositions: Insights for attribution theory from developmental research in theories of mind. In B. Malle, L. Moses & D. Baldwin (Eds.) Intentions and Intentionality: Foundations of Social Cognition, (pp. 287-303). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Click Here to Request Copy
Ames, D. R., Knowles, E. D., Morris, M. W., Kalish, C. W., Rosati, A. D., & Gopnik, A. (2001). The social folk theorist: Insights from social and cultural psychology on the contents and contexts of folk theorizing. In B. Malle, L. Moses & D. Baldwin (Eds.) Intentions and Intentionality: Foundations of Social Cognition, (pp. 307-330). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Kalish, C.W. (2000). Children's thinking about truth: A parallel to judgments of social domains? In M. Laupa (Ed.), Rights and wrongs: How children and young adults judge the world, New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, No. 89, 3-18, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. Click Here to Request Copy
Ahn, W., & Kalish, C. W. (2000). The role of mechanism beliefs in causal reasoning. In F. Keil & R. A. Wilson (Eds.), Explanation and cognition.(pp. 199-226). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Click Here to Request Copy
Kalish, C. W. (2000). What young children's understanding of contamination and contagion tells us about their concepts of illness. In M. Siegal & C. Peterson (Eds.), Children's understanding of biology and health. (pp. 99-130). New York: Cambridge University Press. Click Here to Request Copy
Gelman, S. A., & Kalish, C. W. (1993). Categories and causality. In R. Pasnak & M. L. Howe (Eds.), Emerging themes in cognitive development, (pp. 3-32). New York: Springer-Verlag.
Kalish, C. W. (1992). A re-examination of graded membership in animal and artifact categories. Proceedings of the 14th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, (pp. 879-884). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.
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