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Preprints

Plural causes
C. Konuk, T. Quillien, S. Mascarenhas
Pre-print, 2024
[pdf] [code_and_data] [thread]

Guesses as compressed probability distributions
T. Quillien, N. Bramley, C. Lucas
Pre-print, 2023
[pdf] [code_and_data] [thread]

People attribute purpose to autonomous vehicles when explaining their behavior
B. Gyevnar, S. Droop, T. Quillien, S. Cohen, N. Bramley, C. Lucas, S. Albrecht
Pre-print, 2024
[pdf] [code_and_data] [thread]

Journal publications

Religious signaling and prosociality: a review of the literature
S. Northover, T. Quillien, D. Conroy-Beam, A. Cohen
Evolution and Human Behavior, forthcoming
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Local search and the evolution of world models
N. Bramley, B. Zhao, T. Quillien, C. Lucas
Topics in Cognitive Science, 2023
[pdf] [thread]

Rational inferences about social valuation
T. Quillien, J. Tooby, L. Cosmides
Cognition, 2023
[pdf] [SI] [code_and_data] [thread]

Counterfactuals and the logic of causal selection
T. Quillien, C. Lucas
Psychological Review, 2023
[pdf] [code_and_data] [thread]

A context-dependent Bayesian account for causal-based categorization
N. Marchant, T. Quillien, S. Chaigneau
Cognitive Science, 2023
[pdf] [SI] [code_and_data] [thread]

Rational information search in welfare-tradeoff cognition
T. Quillien
Cognition, 2023
[pdf] [code_and_data] [thread]

Causal judgment in the wild: evidence from the 2020 US presidential election
T. Quillien, M. Barlev
Cognitive Science, 2022
[pdf] [SI] [code] [data] [thread]

A simple definition of 'intentionally'
T. Quillien, T. German
Cognition, 2021
[pdf] [SI] [code_and_data] [thread]

When do we think that X caused Y?
T. Quillien
Cognition, 2020
[pdf] [SI] [code] [media]

Evolution of conditional and unconditional commitment
T. Quillien
Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2020
[pdf] [SI] [code] [data] [media] [thread]

Universal modesty in signal-burying games
T. Quillien
Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2019
[pdf] [code] [data] [media]

Psychological essentialism from first principles
T. Quillien
Evolution & Human Behavior, 2018
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Are multiple minimal outgroup males readily associated with threat?
F. Van Leeuwen, T. Quillien, P. Boyer
Letters on Evolutionary Behavioral Science, 2017
[pdf] [data]

Cross-cultural regularities in the cognitive architecture of pride
D. Sznycer, L. Al-Shawaf, Y. Bereby-Meyer, O. S. Curry, D. De Smet, E. Ermer, S. Kim, S. Kim, N. P. Li, M. F. Lopez Seal, J. McClung, J. O, Y. Ohtsubo, T. Quillien, M. Schaub, A. Sell, F. van Leeuwen, L. Cosmides, J. Tooby
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2017
[pdf] [media_1] [media_2] [media_3]

Peer-reviewed conference proceedings

Rationally uncertain: investigating deviations from Explaining Away and Screening Off in causal reasoning
N. Marchant, G. Puebla, T. Quillien, S. Chaigneau
Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024
[pdf] [code]

Plural causes in causal judgment
C. Konuk, M. Goodale, T. Quillien, S. Mascarenhas
Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023
[pdf] [code_and_data] [thread]

Uncertainty can explain apparent mistakes in causal reasoning
N. Marchant, T. Quillien, S. Chaigneau
Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023
[pdf] [thread]

Causal inference shapes counterfactual plausibility
T. Quillien, A. Szollosi, N. Bramley, C. Lucas
Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023
[pdf] [code_and_data] [thread]

How do instructions, examples, and testing shape task representations?
A. Szollosi, V. Grigoras, T. Quillien, C. Lucas, N. Bramley
Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023
[pdf] [demo]

A counterfactual model of causal judgments in double prevention
K. O'Neill, T. Quillien, P. Henne
Conference on Computational Cognitive Neuroscience, 2022
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The logic of guesses: how people communicate probabilistic information
T. Quillien, C. Lucas
Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022
[pdf] [code_and_data] [thread]

Dissecting causal asymmetries in inductive generalization
Z. Xia, B. Zhao, T. Quillien, C. Lucas
Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022
[pdf] [code] [data]

Book chapters / commentaries

The social sciences need more than integrative experimental design; we need better theories
M. Hoffman, T. Quillien, B. Burum
Behavioral and Brain Sciences (commentary), 2024
[pdf] [target] [reply]

Fostering values of fairness
T. Quillien
Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science, 2017
[pdf]

Population finiteness is not a concern for null hypothesis significance testing when studying human behavior
T. Quillien
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2015
[pdf] [target] [reply]

Posters

Price fairness judgments are selectively sensitive to information about marginal profit
T. Quillien
HBES Vancouver, 2016
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Popular science writing

The mathematics and psychology of 'virtue signalling' (editor's title: 'Is virtue signaling a vice?')
T. Quillien
Aeon Magazine, 2022
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