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Ori Friedman
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Research
Latest papers
Agents of possibility: Specifying which person an event involved helps children gauge what is possible.
Child development · 2026 · senior author
A compression account of development in the ability to group information in working memory.
Journal of experimental child psychology · 2026
Do infants recognize relationships indirectly?
The Behavioral and brain sciences · 2026 · senior author
Latest funding
- $113,626
How Possibility Judgments Develop: Three Mechanisms That May Support Children's and Adults' Judgments of What is Possible
NSERC · 2023 · Principal investigator
- $80,103
Principle-based Reasoning about Ownership and Control
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
- $42,405
Principle-based Reasoning about Ownership and Control
SSHRC · 2023 · Principal investigator
60 publications.
Agents of possibility: Specifying which person an event involved helps children gauge what is possible.
Goulding BW, Ronfard S, Friedman O
A compression account of development in the ability to group information in working memory.
Debraise M, Fartoukh M, Friedman O, Vanni L, Mathy F
Do infants recognize relationships indirectly?
Ozlu A, Sehl CG, Denison S, Friedman O
The Moral Standing of Created Agents: Bad Is More Owned Than Good.
Stonehouse EE, Friedman O
The domino error: A novel mistake in simple physical reasoning.
Goulding BW, Friedman O
The Predictive Utility of Past Success: Skill and Chance in Children's Theory of Performance.
Pawsey H, Bauman J, Ozlu A, Denison S, Friedman O
Not All Authors Are Equal: Moral Judgments of Plagiarism From AI and Human Sources.
Brake C, Lee K, Friedman O
Denying the possible: Why children judge the improbable impossible.
Goulding BW, Shtulman A, Ronfard S, Friedman O
Children's Judgments of Possibility Align With Their Judgments of Actuality.
Pabla M, Shtulman A, Friedman O
Up and down: counterfactual closeness is robust to direction of comparison.
Doan T, Denison S, Friedman O
How Possibility Judgments Develop: Three Mechanisms That May Support Children's and Adults' Judgments of What is Possible
Principal investigators: Friedman, Ori
Keywords: possibility; improbable events; counterintuitive; belief; cognitive development; conceptual development; imagination; knowlege
Principle-based Reasoning about Ownership and Control
Principal investigators: Friedman, Ori
Keywords: ownership; control; social cognition; developmental psychology
Principle-based Reasoning about Ownership and Control
Principal investigators: Friedman, Ori
Keywords: ownership; control; social cognition; developmental psychology
The ROSie app: A novel, mobile computing device application to support developmental psychology recruitment, outreach, and studies.
Principal investigators: Sommerville, Jessica
Keywords: developmental psychology cognitive development unmoderated testing recruitment outreach methods
How non-material aspects of ownership influence children and their social interactions
Principal investigators: Friedman, Ori
Keywords: developmental psychology; social cognition; ownership; possessions; materialism
The Development of Children's Attributions of Knowledge
Principal investigators: Friedman, Ori
The Development of Children's Judgments of What is Owned and Who Can Own
Principal investigators: Friedman, Ori
Children's reasoning about ownership of property
Principal investigators: Friedman, Ori
Keywords: ownership; children; developmental psychology; cognitive development; conceptual development; social cognition; social reasoning; property
Children's pretense: representing fictional worlds and relating them to reality
Principal investigators: Friedman, Ori
Children's reasoning about ownership of property
Principal investigators: Friedman, Ori
Keywords: ownership; property; possession; proprietary behavior; cognitive development; social cognition; abstract reasoning; law and psychology
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Stephanie Denison and Ori Friedman: 11 shared papers
- Ori Friedman and John Turri: 4 shared papers
- Kang Lee and Ori Friedman: 1 shared paper
- Stephanie Denison and John Turri: 1 shared paper
- Ori Friedman and Elizabeth Nilsen: 1 shared paper
- Child and Adolescent Psychology
- Philosophy (except philosophy of specific fields)
- Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development
Co-authors at University of Waterloo, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Stephanie Denison
Child and Adolescent Psychology
11 shared papers, latest 2026
John Turri
Philosophy (except philosophy of specific fields)
4 shared papers, latest 2024
Elizabeth Nilsen
Child and Adolescent Psychology
1 shared papers, latest 2018
Kang Lee
Department of Applied Psychology and Human Development
1 shared papers, latest 2026
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