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Preprints

Productive causation and compositionality
T. Quillien, N. Bramley, C. Lucas
Pre-print, 2025
[pdf] [code_and_data] [thread]

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]

Journal publications

Religious signaling and prosociality: a review of the literature
S. Northover, T. Quillien, D. Conroy-Beam, A. Cohen
Evolution and Human Behavior, 2024
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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

People attribute purpose to autonomous vehicles when explaining their behavior
B. Gyevnar, S. Droop, T. Quillien, S. Cohen, N. Bramley, C. Lucas, S. Albrecht
Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, forthcoming
[pdf] [code_and_data] [thread]

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]

Commentaries / book chapters

A counterfactual explanation for recency effects in double prevention scenarios: commentary on Thanawala & Erb (2024)
T. Quillien, K. O'Neill, P. Henne
Cognition, forthcoming
[pdf] [target]

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
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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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