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Stephanie Denison
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Research
Latest papers
Do infants recognize relationships indirectly?
The Behavioral and brain sciences · 2026
The Predictive Utility of Past Success: Skill and Chance in Children's Theory of Performance.
Developmental science · 2026
Six-Year-Olds, but Not Younger Children, Consider the Probability of Being Right by Chance When Inferring Others' Knowledge.
Child development · 2025
Latest funding
- $65,698
Children's reasoning about variable social and physical causes
SSHRC · 2024 · Principal investigator
- $235,000
Probability learning and statistical inference in infancy and early childhood
NSERC · 2020 · Principal investigator
- $64,676
The development of social causal reasoning in infancy: Using others' emotions to direct behaviour
SSHRC · 2018 · Principal investigator
22 publications.
Do infants recognize relationships indirectly?
Ozlu A, Sehl CG, Denison S, 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
Six-Year-Olds, but Not Younger Children, Consider the Probability of Being Right by Chance When Inferring Others' Knowledge.
Aboody R, Lu J, Denison S, Jara-Ettinger J
Up and down: counterfactual closeness is robust to direction of comparison.
Doan T, Denison S, Friedman O
Not just social networks: How people infer relations from mutual connections.
Sehl CG, Denison S, Friedman O
Who Peeked? Children Infer the Likely Cause of Improbable Success.
Chung AM, Kim T, Friedman O, Denison S
Doing things efficiently: Testing an account of why simple explanations are satisfying.
Sehl CG, Denison S, Friedman O
Emotions before actions: When children see costs as causal.
Sehl CG, Friedman O, Denison S
Close counterfactuals and almost doing the impossible.
Doan T, Denison S, Friedman O
Probability and intentional action.
Ericson SR, Denison S, Turri J, Friedman O
Children's reasoning about variable social and physical causes
Principal investigators: Denison, Stephanie M.
Keywords: social cognition; cognitive development; children's learning
Probability learning and statistical inference in infancy and early childhood
Principal investigators: Denison, Stephanie
Keywords: cognitive development; developmental psychology; statistical learning; probability; inductive inference; infant and child cognition; learning; probability learning; information gathering; information integration
The development of social causal reasoning in infancy: Using others' emotions to direct behaviour
Principal investigators: Denison, Stephanie
Keywords: (1) Infant cognition; (2) Social cognition; (3) Theory of mind; (4) Desire psychology; (5) Desire-based reasoning; (6) Conceptual development; (7) Emotion
Advancing research in infant language and cognitive development through eye-tracking
Principal investigators: White, Katherine
The development of probabilistic inference in infants
Principal investigators: Denison, Stephanie
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
- Stephanie Denison and Daphna Buchsbaum: 1 shared paper
- Stephanie Denison and John Turri: 1 shared paper
- Child and Adolescent Psychology
- Psychology
- Philosophy (except philosophy of specific fields)
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