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Brosseau-Liard, P.E., & Birch, S. A. J. (in press). Epistemic states and traits: Preschoolers appreciate the differential informativeness of situation-specific and person-specific cues to knowledge. Child Development. [Abstract]
Brosseau-Liard, P. E., & Birch, S. A. J. (in press). I bet you know more and are nicer too!’: What children infer from others’ accuracy. Developmental Science. [Link to On-line Early View]
Chandler, M. J. & Birch, S. A. J. (in press). The Development of Knowing. In R. M. Lerner (Ed.-in-chief) & W. F. Overton (Vol. Ed.). Handbook of life-span development: Vol 1. Biology, cognition, and methods across the life-span. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley. [140 pages]. Invited manuscript. [Abstract]
Hewitt, P. L., Blasberg, J. S., Flett, G. L., Besser, Sherry, S. B., Caelian, C., Papsdorf, M., Cassels, T, G. & Birch, S. (in press). Perfectionistic self-presentation in children and adolescents: Development and validation of the Perfectionistic Self-Presentation Scale-Junior Form. Psychological Assessment.
Birch, S. A. J., Akmal, N. & Frampton, K. L. (2010). Two-year-olds are vigilant of others’ nonverbal cues to credibility. Developmental Science, 13, 363-369. [pdf file]
Birch, S. A. J., Vauthier, S. A., & Bloom, P. (2008). Three- and four-year-olds spontaneously use others' past performance to guide their learning. Cognition, 107, 1018-1034. [pdf file]
Birch, S. A. J., & Bloom, P. (2007). The curse of knowledge in reasoning about false beliefs. Psychological Science, 18, 382-386. [pdf file]
Birch, S. A. J., & Bernstein, D. (2007). What kids can tell us about hindsight bias: A fundamental constraint on perspective-taking? Social Cognition, 25, 78-97. [pdf file]
Birch, S. A. J. (2005). When knowledge is a curse: Children’s and adults’ mental state reasoning. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 14, 25-29.[pdf file]
Kuhlmeier, V. A., & Birch, S. A. J. (2005). Steps toward categorizing motivation: Abilities, limitations, and conditional contraints. A commentary on 'Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition' by Tomasello, Carpenter, Call, Behne, & Moll. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28, 706-707. [pdf file]
Birch, S. A. J., & Bloom, P. (2004). Understanding children’s and adults' limitations in mental state reasoning. Trends in Cognitive Science, 8, 255-260. [pdf file]
Birch, S. A. J, & Bloom, P. (2003). Children are cursed: An asymmetric bias in mental state attribution. Psychological Science, 14, 283-286. [pdf file]
Birch. S. A. J., & Bloom, P. (2002). Preschoolers are sensitive to the speaker’s knowledge when learning proper names. Child Development, 73, 434-444. [pdf file]
Bigelow, A. & Birch, S. A. J. (1999). The effects of contingency in previous interactions on infants' preference for social partners. Infant Behavior and Development, 22, 367-382. [pdf file]