For now, PDFs for personal use can be found on the PI's personal website.
2025
Angelaki, D. E., Batista, A., Fitzgerald, T., Kominsky, J. F., Lengyel, M., Mathis, A., ... & Zimmermann, J. (2026). The Simons Collaboration on Ecological Neuroscience: Studying how the brain interacts with the world. Neuron. Download
Arslan, A., & Kominsky, J. F. (2026). Causal coherence improves episodic memory of dynamic events. Cognition, 266, 106317. 10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106317
Arslan, A., & Kominsky, J. F. (2025). Navigating decision space: Causal structure improves performance in a branching choice task. Plos one, 20(12), e0336899. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0336899
Kominsky, J. F., & Wenig, K. (2025). Causal perception (s). Cognitive Science, 49(9), e70107. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.70107
Kominsky, J. F., Knobe, J., & Bonawitz, E. (2025). The development of the “first thing that comes to mind”. Developmental Psychology. https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dev0001994
Ciftci, B. G., Kominsky, J. F., & Csibra, G. (2025). Do infants use cues of saliva-sharing to infer close relationships? A replication of Thomas et al.(2022). Royal Society Open Science, 12(4), 240229. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.240229
ManyBabies4 Consortium (2025). Infants’ Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large-Scale, Multi-Lab, Coordinated Replication Study. Developmental Science, 28: e13581. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13581
2024
Kominsky, J. F., & Carey, S. (2024). Infants' representations of michottean triggering events. Cognition, 250, 105844. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2024.105844
2023
Kominsky, J. F., Bascandziev, I., Shafto, P., & Bonawitz, E. (2023). Talk of the Town mobile app platform: New method for engaging family in STEM learning and research in homes and communities. Frontiers in Psychology, 14. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1110940
2022
Gill, M., Kominsky, J. F., Icard, T. F., & Knobe, J. (2022). An interaction effect of norm violations on causal judgment. Cognition, 228, 105183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105183
Kominsky, J. F., Li, Y., & Carey, S. (2022). Infants’ Attributions of Insides and Animacy in Causal Interactions. Cognitive Science, 46(1), e13087. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13087
Kominsky, J. F. (2022). The challenges of improving infant research methods. Infant and Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1002/icd.2332
Kominsky, J. F., Lucca, K., Thomas, A. J., Frank, M. C., & Hamlin, J. K. (2022). Simplicity and validity in infant research. Cognitive Development, 63, 101213. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2022.101213
2021
Kominsky, J. F., Begus, K., Bass, I., Colantonio, J., Leonard, J. A., Mackey, A. P., & Bonawitz, E. (2021). Organizing the Methodological Toolbox: Lessons Learned From Implementing Developmental Methods Online. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 4081. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.702710
Kominsky, J. F., Gerstenberg, T., Pelz, M., Sheskin, M., Singmann, H., Schulz, L., & Keil, F. C. (2021). The Trajectory of Counterfactual Reasoning in Development. Developmental Psychology, 57(2), 253-268. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001140
Kominsky, J. F., Reardon, D., & Bonawitz, E. (2021). Intuitive judgments of “overreaction” and their relationship to compliance with public health measures. Journal of Applied Research in Memory and Cognition, 10(4), 542-553. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jarmac.2021.11.001
Kominsky, J. F., Shafto, P., & Bonawitz, E. (2021). “There’s something inside”: Children’s intuitions about animate agents. PloS one, 16(5), e0251081. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0251081
Kominsky, J. F., Baker, L., Keil, F. C., & Strickland, B. (2021). Causality and continuity close the gaps in event representations. Memory and Cognition, 49(3), 518-531. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-020-01102-9
2020
Byers-Heinlein, K., Bergmann, C., Davies, C., Frank, M. C., Hamlin, J. K., Kline, M., Kominsky, J. F., Kosie, J. E., Lew-Williams, C., Liu, L., Mastroberardino, M., Singh, L., Waddell, C. P. G., Zettersten, M., & Soderstrom, M. (2020). Building a collaborative Psychological Science: Lessons learned from ManyBabies 1. Canadian Psychology, 61(4), 349-363. https://doi.org/10.1037/cap0000216
Kominsky, J. F., & Scholl, B. J. (2020). Retinotopic adaptation reveals distinct categories of causal perception. Cognition, 203, 104339. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104339
2019
Kominsky, J. F. (2019). PyHab: Open-source real time infant gaze coding and stimulus presentation software. Infant Behavior and Development, 54, 114-119. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2018.11.006
Kominsky, J. F., & Phillips, J. (2019). Immoral Professors and Malfunctioning Tools: Counterfactual Relevance Accounts Explain the Effect of Norm Violations on Causal Selection. Cognitive Science, 43, e12792. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12792
2018
Kominsky, J. F., Zamm, A. P., & Keil, F. C. (2018). Knowing When Help Is Needed: A Developing Sense of Causal Complexity. Cognitive Science, 42(2), 491-523. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12509
2017
Icard, T. F., Kominsky, J. F., & Knobe, J. (2017). Normality and actual causal strength. Cognition, 161, 80-93. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2017.01.010
Kominsky, J. F., Strickland, B., Wertz, A. E., Elsner, C., Wynn, K., & Keil, F. C. (2017). Categories and Constraints in Causal Perception. Psychological Science, 28(11), 1649-1662. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797617719930
2016
Kominsky, J. F., Langthorne, P., & Keil, F. C. (2016). The better part of not knowing: Virtuous ignorance. Developmental Psychology, 52(1), 31-45. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000065
2015
Banerjee, K., Kominsky, J. F., Fernando, M., & Keil, F. C. (2015). Figuring out function: Children’s and adults’ use of ownership information in judgments of artifact function. Developmental Psychology, 51(12), 1791-1801. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0039751
Kominsky, J. F., Phillips, J., Gerstenberg, T., Lagnado, D., & Knobe, J. (2015). Causal superseding. Cognition, 137, 196-209. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2015.01.013
2014 and earlier
Kominsky, J. F., & Keil, F. C. (2014). Overestimation of Knowledge About Word Meanings: The “Misplaced Meaning” Effect. Cognitive Science, 38(8), 1604-1633. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12122
Keil, F. C., & Kominsky, J. F. (2013). Missing Links in Middle School: Developing Use of Disciplinary Relatedness in Evaluating Internet Search Results. PLoS One, 8(6), e67777. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0067777