Publications

 

Lombrozo, T. (2009). Book review: why Why Darwin Matters matters. Evolution: Education & Outreach, 2, 141-143. (pdf)

Lombrozo, T. (2009). Explanation and categorization: how ''why?'' informs ''what?''. Cognition, 110, 248-253. (pdf)

Lombrozo, T. (2009). The role of moral commitments in moral judgment. Cognitive Science, 33, 273-286. (pdf)

Lombrozo, T., Thanukos, A., & Weisberg, M. (2008). The importance of understanding the nature of science for accepting evolution. Evolution: Education & Outreach, 1(3), 290-298. (pdf)

Lombrozo, T. (2007). Simplicity and probability in causal explanation. Cognitive Psychology, 55(3), 232-257. (pdf)

Lombrozo, T., Kelemen, D., Zaitchik, D. (2007). Inferring design: Evidence of a preference for teleological explanations in patients with Alzheimer's Disease. Psychological Science, 18(11), 999-1006. (pdf)

Sloman, S., Lombrozo, T., & Malt, B. (2007). Ontological commitments and domain-specific categorisation. In M.J. Roberts (Ed.), Integrating the Mind. Hove, UK: Psychology Press.

Lombrozo, T. (2006). The structure and function of explanations. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10(10), 464-470. (pdf)

Lombrozo, T. & Carey, S. (2006). Functional explanation and the function of explanation. Cognition 99(2), 167-204. (pdf)

Lombrozo, T., Shtulman, A., & Weisberg, M. (2006) The Intelligent Design controversy: lessons from psychology and education. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 10(2), 56-57. (pdf)

Lombrozo, T., Judson, J., & MacLeod, D.I.A. (2005). Flexibility of spatial averaging in visual perception. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 272(1564), 725-732. (pdf)

Federmeier, K.D, Segal, J.B., Lombrozo, T., Kutas, M. (2000). Brain responses to nouns, verbs, and class-ambiguous words in context. Brain, 123(12), 2552-2566. (pdf)

Conference Papers

Uttich, K. & Lombrozo, T. (2009). Moral norms inform mental state ascriptions: an alternative explanation for the side-effect effect. In N.A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1096-1101). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)

Williams, J.J. & Lombrozo, T. (2009). Explaining promotes discovery: evidence from category learning. In N.A. Taatgen & H. van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1186-1191). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)

Uttich, K. & Lombrozo, T. (2009). Moral norms inform mental state ascriptions: an alternative explanation for the side-effect effect. Proceedings of the 35th annual conference of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology.

Williams, J.J. & Lombrozo, T. (2009). Explaining promotes discovery: evidence from category learning. Proceedings of the 35th annual conference of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology.

Bonawitz, E.B. & Lombrozo, T. (2008). Ockham’s razor as inductive bias in preschoolers causal explanations. Proceedings of the 7th International IEEE Conference on Development and Learning.

Lombrozo, T. (2008). The role of moral theories in moral judgment. Proceedings of the 34th annual conference of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology.

Lombrozo, T. (2007). Mechanisms and functions: empirical evidence for distinct modes of understanding. Proceedings of the 33rd annual conference of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology.

Lombrozo, T. (2006). Two routes to moral consideration: a psychological investigation of moral intuitions. Proceedings of the 32nd annual conference of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology.

Lombrozo, T. & Rutstein, J.J. (2004). Simplicity in explanation. Proceedings of the 26th annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society. 837-842.

Lombrozo, T. (2004). Causal constraints and regularities. Proceedings of the 30th annual conference of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology.