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Psychology Department

Language, Cognition & Perception

Coley, J.D., Hayes, B., Lawson, C., & Moloney, M. (In press). Knowledge, expectations, and inductive inferences within conceptual hierarchies. Cognition.

Medin, D., Coley, J.D., Storms, G. & Hayes, B. (In press). A relevance theory of induction. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review.

Shafto, P. & Coley, J.D. (2003). Development of categorization and reasoning in the natural world: Novices to experts, naïve similarity to ecological knowledge. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory & Cognition, 29, 641-649.

Ross, N., Medin, D.L., Coley, J.D., & Atran, S. (2003). Cultural and experiential differences in the development of biological induction. Cognitive Development, 18, 25-47.

Stepanova, O. & Coley, J.D. (2002). The green-eyed monster: Concepts of envy and jealousy in Russian and English. Journal of Cognition & Culture, 2, 235-262.

Ahn, W., Kalish, C., Gelman, S.A., Medin, D.L., Luhmann, C., Atran, S., Coley, J.D. & Shafto, P. (2001). Why essences are essential in the psychology of concepts. Cognition, 82, 59-69.

Coley, J.D. (2000). On the importance of comparative research: The case of folkbiology. Child Development, 71, 82-90.

Chapters in Edited Volumes

Coley, J.D., Solomon, G.E.A., & Shafto, P. (2002). The development of folkbiology: A cognitive science perspective on children's understanding of the biological world. In P. Kahn & S. Kellert (Eds.), Children and nature: Psychological, sociocultural and evolutionary investigations (65-91). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Presentations

Baraff, E. & Coley, J.D. (2003). Thinking About Music: Novice and Expert Inductive Reasoning. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Boston.

Coley, J.D. & Baraff, E. (2003). Effects of Time Pressure on Expert and Novice Category-Based Induction. Paper to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Coley, J.D. & Blaszczyk, K. (2003). Salience of taxonomic versus ecological relations in urban and rural children's folk biology. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa, FL.

Coley, J.D. & Freeman, A.C. (2003). Folk biological induction in urban and rural children. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa, FL.

Coley, J.D. & Stepanova, O. (2003). Knowledge and category-based induction. Paper presented at Categorization Inside and Outside the Lab: Festschrift in Honor of Douglas L. Medin, Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe IL.

Stepanova, O. & Coley, J.D. (2003). Animals And Alcohol: The Role of Experience in Inductive Reasoning Among College Students. Paper to be presented at the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Coley, J.D., Medin, D.L., Ross, N. & Atran, S. (2001). Anthropocentrism in folk biology: A comparison of urban, rural and Native American children. Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN.

Shafto, P. & Coley, J.D. (2001). From the depths of the sea to you and me: Expertise and adult conceptual development. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN.

Coley, J.D., Medin, D.L. & James, L.B. (1999). Folk biological induction among Native American children. Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Albuquerque, NM.

Invited Colloquia

Experience and the Development of Folk Biological Reasoning. Department of Psychology, Emory University (October, 2003).

Knowledge and Inductive Reasoning. Department of Psychology, Yale University (October 2003).

The Impact of Experience and Culture on Folk Biological Induction. Department of Psychology, Smith College (February, 2002).

Knowledge, Experience, and Inductive Reasoning. Center for the Study of Human Development, Department of Education, Brown University (October, 2002).

The Impact of experience on understanding the biological world. Department of Psychology, Boston University (November, 2001).

Reasoning about Plants and Animals: A Comparison of Urban, Rural and Native American Children. Department of Psychology, Miami University (September, 2000).

External Funding

Experience and the Development of Folk Biological Reasoning. (August 1 2003 - July 31 2008.) National Science Foundation, Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, Program in Developmental and Learning Sciences/Children's Research Initiative.