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In press Beck, S.R. (in press) Understanding teaching needs development. Commentary on Kline. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Beck, S.R. & Riggs, K.J. (in press). Developing thoughts about what might have been. Child Development Perspectives.
2014 Cutting, N., Apperly, I.A., Chappell, J. & Beck, S.R. (2014). Why can’t children piece their knowledge together? The puzzling difficulty of tool innovation. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 125, 110-117. DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2013.11.010 [PDF]
2013 Beck, S.R. & Riggs, K.J. (2013) The development of counterfactual reasoning. Chapter in The Developmental Psychology of Reasoning and Decision Making. H.Markovits (Ed.) Psychology Press. Chappell, J., Cutting, N., Apperly, I.A., & Beck, S.R. (In press). The development of tool manufacture in humans: what helps young children make innovative tools? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0409 Beck, S.R., Weisberg, D.P., Burns, P., & Riggs, K.J. (2013). Conditional reasoning and emotional experience: a review of the development of counterfactual thinking. Studia Logica. (Special Issue on Logic of Causal and Probabilistic Reasoning in Uncertain Environments. Schurz & Unterhuber (Eds.). DOI: 10.1007/s11225-013-9508-1 [PDF] Beck, S.R. & Riggs, K.J. (2013). Counterfactuals and reality. Chapter in The Oxford Handbook of the Development of the Imagination. M. Taylor (Ed.). New York, USA: OUP. Eddy, C.M., Beck, S.R., Mitchell, I.J., Praamstra, P., & Pall, H.S. (2013). Theory of Mind deficits in Parkinson’s disease: a product of executive dysfunction? Neuropsychology, 27, 37-47. DOI: 10.1037/a0031302 [PDF]
2012 Beck, S.R., Robinson, E.J., & Rowley, M.G. (2012). Thinking about different types of uncertainty. Chapter in Foundations of Metacognition. M. J. Beran, Brandl, J., Perner, J. & Proust, J. (Eds.) OUP. Weisberg, D.P. & Beck, S.R. (2012). The development of children’s regret and relief. Cognition & Emotion, 26, 820-935. DOI:10.1080/02699931.2011.621933 [PDF] Waters, G.M. & Beck, S.R. (in press) How should we question young children’s understanding of aspectuality? British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 30, 359-476. DOI: 10.1111/j.2044-835X.2011.02044.x [PDF] Beck, S.R., Chappell, J., Apperly, I.A., & Cutting, N. (2012). Tool innovation may be a critical limiting step for the establishment of a rich tool-using culture: a perspective from child development. Behavioral Brain Sciences commentary on The cognitive basis of human tool use, Vaesen. [PDF] DOI:10.1017/S0140525X11001877 Burns, P., Riggs, K.J., & Beck, S.R. (2012). Executive control and the experience of regret. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 111, 501-515. [PDF] Simpson, A., Riggs, K.J., Beck, S.R., Gorniak, S.L., Wu, Y., Abbott, D. & Diamond, A. (2012). Refining the understanding of inhibitory control: How response prepotency is created and overcome. Developmental Science, 15, 62-73. [PDF]
2011 Hoerl, C., McCormack, T., & Beck, S.R. (2011). Understanding counterfactuals, understanding causation. Oxford, UK: OUP. Beck, S.R., Riggs, K.J., & Burns, P. (2011). Multiple developments in counterfactual thinking. Chapter in Understanding counterfactuals, understanding causation. C. Hoerl, T. McCormack, & S.R. Beck, (Eds.) Harris, A., Rowley, M.G., Beck, S.R., Robinson, E.J., & McColgan, K.L.T. (2011) Agency affects adults’, but not children’s, guessing preferences in a novel game of chance. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 64, 1772-1787. doi:10.1080/17470218.2011.582126 [PDF] Beck, S.R., McColgan, K.L.T., Robinson, E.J., & Rowley, M.G. (2011). Imagining what might be: why children under-estimate uncertainty. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 110, 603-610. DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2011.06.010 [PDF] Beck, S.R. & Guthrie, C. (2011). Almost thinking counterfactually: children’s understanding of close counterfactuals. Child Development, 82, 1189-1198. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2011.01590.x [PDF] Beck, S.R., Robinson, A., Ahmed, S., & Abid, R. (2011). Children’s understanding that ambiguous figures have multiple interpretations. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 8, 403-422. doi:10.1080/17405629.2010.515885 [PDF] Eddy, C.M., Mitchell, I.J., Beck, S.R., Cavanna, A.E. & Rickards, H. (2011) Altered subjective fear responses in Huntington’s Disease. Parkinsonism and Related Disorders, 17, 386-389. doi:10.1016/j.parkreldis.2011.01.020 [PDF] Eddy, C.M., Mitchell, I.J., Beck, S.R., Rickards, H. & Cavanna, A.E. (2011). Social reasoning in Tourette Syndrome. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 18, 1-22. doi:10.1080/13546805.2010.538213 [PDF] Cutting, N., Apperly, I.A., Beck, S.R. (2011) Why do children lack the mental flexibility to innovate tools? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 109, 497-511. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2011.02.012 [PDF] Mitchell, I.J., Beck, S.R., Boyal, A., & Edwards, V. R. (2011) Theory of mind deficits following acute alcohol intoxication. European Addiction Research, 17, 164-168. doi:10.1159/000324871 [PDF] Beck, S.R., Apperly, I.A., Chappell, J., Guthrie, C., & Cutting, N. (2011). Making tools isn’t child’s play. Cognition, 119, 301-306. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2011.01.003 [PDF] Beck, S.R., Carroll, D.J., Brunsdon, V.E.A., & Gryg, C.K. (2011). Supporting children's counterfactual thinking with alternative modes of responding. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 108, 190-202. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2010.07.009 [PDF]
2010 Eddy, C.M., Mitchell, I.J., Beck, S.R., Cavanna, A.E., & Rickards, H.E. (2010) Impaired comprehension of non-literal language in Tourette Syndrome. Cognitive and Behavioral Neurology, 23, 178-184. doi:10.1097/WNN.0b013e3181e61cb7 [PDF] Eddy, C.M., Mitchell, I.J., Beck, S.R., Cavanna, A.E., & Rickards, H. (2010). Altered attribution of intention in Tourette’s syndrome. Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience, 22, 348-351. doi:10.1176/appi.neuropsych.22.3.348 [PDF] Beck, S.R., Riggs, K.J., & Gorniak, S.L. (2010). The effect of causal chain length on counterfactual conditional reasoning. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 28, 505-521. doi:10.1348/026151009X450836 [PDF] Weisberg, D.P. & Beck, S.R. (2010). Children’s thinking about their own and others’ regret and relief. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 106, 184-191 doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2010.02.005 [PDF]
2009 Beck, S.R., Riggs, K.J., & Gorniak, S.L. (2009). Relating developments in children’s counterfactual thinking and executive functions. Thinking and Reasoning, 15, 337-354. doi:10.1080/13546780903135904 [PDF] Robinson, E.J., Pendle, J., Rowley, M.G., Beck, S.R., & McColgan, K.L.T. (2009). Guessing imagined and live chance events: Adults behave like children with live events. British Journal of Psychology, 100, 645 – 659. doi:10.1348/000712608X386810 [PDF] Waters, G.M. & Beck, S.R. (2009). The development and robustness of young children’s understanding of aspectuality. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 103, 108-114. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2009.02.008 [PDF] Beck, S.R. & Crilly, M. (2009). Is understanding regret dependent on developments in counterfactual thinking? British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 27, 505-510. doi:10.1348/026151008X401697 [PDF]
2008 Beck, S.R., Robinson, E.J., & Freeth, M. (2008). Can children resist making interpretations when uncertain? Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 99, 252-270. doi:10.1016/j.jecp.2007.06.002 [PDF]
2007 Riggs, K.J. & Beck, S.R. (2007). Thinking developmentally about counterfactual possibilities. Commentary on Byrne R.M.J. (2005) The Rational Imagination. Behavioral Brain Sciences 30,463. doi:10.1017/S0140525X07002695 [PDF]
2006 Robinson, E.J., Rowley, M., Beck, S.R., Carroll, D.J., Apperly, I.A. (2006). Children's sensitivity to their own relative ignorance: Handling of possibilities under epistemic and physical uncertainty. Child Development, 77, 1642-1655 doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00964.x [PDF] Beck. S.R., Robinson, E.J., Carroll, D.J, & Apperly, I.A. (2006). Children’s thinking about counterfactuals and future hypotheticals as possibilities. Child Development, 77, 413-426. doi:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2006.00879.x [PDF]
2005 Crisp, R.J., & Beck, S.R.. (2005). Reducing intergroup bias: The moderating role of ingroup identification. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations. 8, 173-183. doi:10.1177/1368430205051066 [PDF] Robinson, E.J., Kerr, C.E.P., Stevens, A. J., Lilford, R.J., Braunholtz, D.A., Edwards, S.J., Beck, S.R., Rowley, M.G. (2005). Lay public's understanding of equipoise and randomisation in randomised controlled trials. Health Technology Assessment 9(8). [LINK TO PROJECT PAGE AND PDF]
2001 Beck, S.R. & Robinson, E.J., (2001). Children’s ability to make tentative interpretations of ambiguous messages. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 79, 95-114. doi:10.1006/jecp.2000.2583 [PDF]
2000 Robinson, E.J. & Beck, S.R. (2000). What is difficult about counterfactual reasoning? In P. Mitchell and K. Riggs (Eds). Children’s Reasoning and the Mind. Psychology Press
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