- Chair of Department of Psychology
- Charles C. and Dorathea S. Dilley Professor of Psychology and Linguistics
Field:
Expertise:
Cognition, cognitive development, explanation, intuitive theories
Description:
We are especially interested in how early competencies form a foundation for later, more sophisticated, causal understandings. We also extensively consider the interplay between domain-specific and domain-general processes and structures, such as between the domains of folk biology and folk physics. More generally, all these issues bear on the topic of folk science, that is, how people naturally construct explanatory accounts of various domains of phenomena.