MPRG iSearch | Information Search, Ecological and Active Learning Research with Children
Publications 2020-2022/23
References accepted before 6 October 2023
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Journal Article (33)
2024
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, , , , & (2024). The wisdom of the coherent: Improving correspondence with coherence-weighted aggregation. Decision, 11(1), 60–85. https://doi.org/10.1037/dec0000211
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, , , , & (2024). Preschoolers search longer when there is more information to be gained. Developmental Science, 27(1), Article e13411. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13411
2023
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, , , & (2023). (Why) is misinformation a problem? Perspectives on Psychological Science, 18(6), 1436–1463. https://doi.org/10.1177/17456916221141344
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, , , & (2023). Children seek help based on how others learn. Child Development, 94(5), 1259–1280. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13926
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, , , & (2023). Preschoolers' information search strategies: Inefficient but adaptive. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, Article 1080755. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1080755
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, , , , , , & (2023). Developmental changes in exploration resemble stochastic optimization. Nature Human Behaviour, 7, 1955–1967. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01662-1
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, , & (2023). Promises on the go: A field study on keeping one's word. Frontiers in Psychology, 14, Article 1097239. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1097239
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, , & (2023). Smart or just lucky? Inferring question-asking competence from strategies' efficiency versus effectiveness. Developmental Psychology, 59(6), 1136–1152. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001516
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, , , , , & (2023). Neural correlates of changing food choices while bypassing values. NeuroImage, 274, Article 120134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2023.120134
2022
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, , , & (2022). Children’s failure to control variables may reflect adaptive decision‑making. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 29, 2314–2324. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-022-02120-1
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, & (2022). Children's active physical learning is as effective and goal-targeted as adults'. Developmental Psychology, 58(12), 2310–2321. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001435
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, , & (2022). Differential impact of web habits and active navigation on adolescents' online learning. Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 8, Article 100246. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbr.2022.100246
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, , , , , & (2022). Are tutor robots for everyone? The influence of attitudes, anxiety, and personality on robot‑led language learning. International Journal of Social Robotics, 14, 297–312. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-021-00789-3
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, , & (2022). Developmental trajectories in the understanding of everyday uncertainty terms. Topics in Cognitive Science, 14(2), 258–281. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12564
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, , , , & (2022). The likelihood difference heuristic and binary test selection given situation-specific utilities. Decision, 9(3), 285–319. https://doi.org/10.1037/dec0000160
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(2022). An introduction to ecological active learning. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 31(6), 471–479. https://doi.org/10.1177/09637214221112114
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, , & (2022). Finding the (most efficient) way out of a maze is easier than asking (good) questions. Developmental Psychology, 58(9), 1730–1746. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001386
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, , & (2022). When and how children use explanations to guide generalizations. Cognitive Development, 61, Article 101144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2021.101144
2021
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, & (2021). What is a good question asker better at? From unsystematic generalization to adult-like selectivity across childhood. Cognitive Development, 59, Article 101082. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2021.101082
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, , & (2021). Collaborative reasoning in the context of group competition. PLoS ONE, 16(2), Article e0246589. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246589
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, , , , & (2021). How is the hypothesis space represented? Evidence from young children’s active search and predictions in a multiple-cue inference task. Developmental Psychology, 57(7), 1080–1093. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001201
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, , , , & (2021). When even a robot tutor zooms: A study of embodiment, attitudes, and impressions. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 8, Article 679893. https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2021.679893
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, , , & (2021). Development of directed and random exploration in children. Developmental Science, 24(4), Article e13095. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13095
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, , & (2021). Movement matters! Understanding the developmental trajectory of embodied planning. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 633100. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.633100
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, & (2021). "Alexa, let me ask you something different": Children's adaptive information search with voice assistants. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, 3(4), 595–605. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbe2.270
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, , , & (2021). Playing entropy mastermind can foster children's information-theoretical intuitions. Frontiers in Education, 6, Article 595000. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2021.595000
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, , , & (2021). How to help young children ask better questions? Frontiers in Psychology, 11, Article 586819. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.586819
2020
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(2020). Digital learning games for mathematics and computer science education: The need for preregistered RCTs, standardized methodology, and advanced technology. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, Article 2127. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.02127
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, , , , & (2020). Memory enhancements from active control of learning in children with autism spectrum disorder. Autism, 24(8), 1995–2007. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362361320931244
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, , , & (2020). Young children's ability to produce valid and relevant counter-arguments. Child Development, 91(3), 685–693. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13338
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, , , , , & (2020). Learning from behavioural changes that fail. Topics in Cognitive Science, 24(12), 969–980. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2020.09.009
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, , & (2020). The paradox of help seeking in the entropy mastermind game. Frontiers in Education, 5, Article 533998. https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2020.533998
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, , , , & (2020). Similarities and differences in spatial and non-spatial cognitive maps. PLoS Computational Biology, 16(9), Article e1008149. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008149
Book Chapter (3)
2022
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, & (2022). Searching for information, from infancy to adolescence. In , , & (Eds.), The drive for knowledge: The science of human information seeking (pp. 77–97). Cambridge University Press.
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, , & (2022). What makes a good query? Prospects for a comprehensive theory of human information acquisition. In , , & (Eds.), The drive for knowledge: The science of human information seeking (pp. 101–123). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009026949.006
2020
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, , & (2020). Developmental changes in question-asking. In , , & (Eds.), The questioning child: Insights from psychology and education (pp. 118–143). Cambridge University Press.
Conference Paper (4)
2023
Conference Paper
, , & (2023). Efficient detectives in the sandbox: Children demonstrate adaptive information-search strategies in a novel spatial search game. In , , , & (Eds.), Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 702–708). UC Merced.
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, , , & (2023). Preschoolers select the relevant information when looking for a hidden present. In , , , & (Eds.), Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1951–1957). UC Merced.
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, , & (2023). The role of causal stability in children’s active exploration. In , , , & (Eds.), Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2186–2192). UC Merced.
2022
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, , & (2022). Developmental changes in children’s training strategies. In , , , & (Eds.), Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 44, pp. 3425–3431). Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5cz5n57d.
Thesis - PhD (2)
2021
Thesis - PhD
(2021). Active and ecological learning to navigate the social world [PhD Thesis, TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology].
Thesis - PhD
(2021). Active learning strategies in child- and adulthood: An interdisciplinary perspective [PhD Thesis, Technische Universität München].