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List of works by Deena Skolnick Weisberg

Childhood origins of adult resistance to science

scientific article published on May 2007

Does expertise moderate the seductive allure of reductive explanations?

scientific article published on 15 July 2019

Does reading a single passage of literary fiction really improve theory of mind? An attempt at replication.

scientific article

Embracing complexity: rethinking the relation between play and learning: comment on Lillard et al. (2013).

scientific article

Embracing nonfiction: How to extend the Distancing-Embracing model

scientific article published in January 2017

Investigating the effectiveness of fantasy stories for teaching scientific principles

scientific article published on 15 December 2020

Knowledge about the nature of science increases public acceptance of science regardless of identity factors

scientific article published on 18 December 2020

Mise en place: setting the stage for thought and action

scientific article published on 27 March 2014

No support for the claim that literary fiction uniquely and immediately improves theory of mind: A reply to Kidd and Castano's commentary on Panero et al. (2016).

scientific article published on March 2017

Non-Scientific Criteria for Belief Sustain Counter-Scientific Beliefs

scientific article published in February 2018

Of Blickets, Butterflies, and Baby Dinosaurs: Children's Diagnostic Reasoning Across Domains

scientific article published on 25 August 2020

People's explanatory preferences for scientific phenomena

Pretend play

scientific article published on 29 January 2015

Pretense, counterfactuals, and Bayesian causal models: why what is not real really matters

scientific article

The Development of Diagnostic Inference About Uncertain Causes

article

The Development of Substitute Object Pretense: The Differential Importance of Form and Function

article

The interplay between moral actions and moral judgments in children and adults

scientific article published on 01 June 2018

The power of possibility: causal learning, counterfactual reasoning, and pretend play ⬇️

scientific article published on August 5, 2012

The seductive allure is a reductive allure: People prefer scientific explanations that contain logically irrelevant reductive information

scientific article published on 28 June 2016

The seductive allure of neuroscience explanations

scientific article

What does Batman think about SpongeBob? children's understanding of the fantasy/fantasy distinction

scientific article

Which Counterfactuals Matter? A Response to Beck

scientific article

Young children separate multiple pretend worlds

scientific article published in September 2009

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