Julian Jara-Ettinger
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Asaba M, Santos M, Jara-Ettinger J, Leonard J
Dev Psychol
. 2025 Feb;
PMID: 39899016
Students often receive encouragement but do not always find it motivating. Whose encouragement motivates students and what cognitive mechanisms underlie this process? We propose that students' responses to positive feedback...
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Rubio-Fernandez P, Berke M, Jara-Ettinger J
Trends Cogn Sci
. 2024 Dec;
29(3):269-281.
PMID: 39694731
How does social cognition help us communicate through language? At what levels does this interaction occur? In classical views, social cognition is independent of language, and integrating the two can...
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Ongchoco J, Davis I, Jara-Ettinger J, Paul L
Open Mind (Camb)
. 2024 Nov;
8:1291-1311.
PMID: 39544357
The discovery of a new kind of experience can teach an agent what that kind of experience is like. Such a discovery can be epistemically transformative, teaching an agent something...
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Ronderos C, Aparicio H, Long M, Shukla V, Jara-Ettinger J, Rubio-Fernandez P
Open Mind (Camb)
. 2024 Oct;
8:1213-1227.
PMID: 39474158
People derive contrastive inferences when interpreting adjectives (e.g., inferring that 'the short pencil' is being contrasted with a longer one). However, classic eye-tracking studies revealed contrastive inferences with scalar and...
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Jara-Ettinger J, Rubio-Fernandez P
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
. 2024 Aug;
121(32):e2402068121.
PMID: 39088395
Linguistic communication is an intrinsically social activity that enables us to share thoughts across minds. Many complex social uses of language can be captured by domain-general representations of other minds...
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Berke M, Jara-Ettinger J
Behav Brain Sci
. 2024 Jun;
47:e122.
PMID: 38934449
Why have core knowledge? Standard answers typically emphasize the difficulty of learning core knowledge from experience, or the benefits it confers for learning about the world. Here, we suggest a...
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Zhang X, Bloom P, Jara-Ettinger J
Psychol Sci
. 2024 May;
35(8):858-871.
PMID: 38743821
Our understanding of ownership influences how we interact with objects and with each other. Here, we studied people's intuitions about ownership transfer using a set of simple, parametrically varied events....
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Goel S, Jara-Ettinger J, Ong D, Gendron M
Nat Commun
. 2024 Mar;
15(1):2443.
PMID: 38499519
The ability to make nuanced inferences about other people's emotional states is central to social functioning. While emotion inferences can be sensitive to both facial movements and the situational context...
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Ongchoco J, Knobe J, Jara-Ettinger J
Cognition
. 2023 Dec;
243:105669.
PMID: 38039797
Much of our thinking focuses on deciding what to do in situations where the space of possible options is too large to evaluate exhaustively. Previous work has found that people...
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OShaughnessy D, Cordero T, Mollica F, Boni I, Jara-Ettinger J, Gibson E, et al.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
. 2023 Aug;
120(35):e2215999120.
PMID: 37603761
We investigate number and arithmetic learning among a Bolivian indigenous people, the Tsimane', for whom formal schooling is comparatively recent in history and variable in both extent and consistency. We...