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Articles

Singh, L., Barokova, M. D., Baumgartner, H. A., Lopera-Perez, D. C., Omane, P. O., Sheskin, M., ... & Frank, M. C. (2024). A unified approach to demographic data collection for research with young children across diverse cultures. Developmental Psychology.

Ahl, R.E., Hannan, K., Amir, D., Baker, A., Sheskin, M., & McAuliffe, K. (2023). Tokens of virtue: Replicating incentivized measures of children’s prosocial behavior with online methods and virtual resources. Cognitive Development, 66, 101313.

Aboody, R., Yousif, S. R., Sheskin, M., & Keil, F. C. (2022). Says who? Children consider informants’ sources when deciding whom to believe. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(10), 2481-2493.

Chuey, A., McCarthy, A., Lockhart, K., Trouche, E., Sheskin, M., & Keil, F. C. (2021). No Guts, No Glory: Underestimating the Benefits of Providing Children with Mechanistic Details. npj Science of Learning, 6, 30.

Kominsky, J. F., Gerstenberg, T., Pelz, M., Sheskin, M., Singmann, H., Schulz, L., & Keil, F. C. (2021). The trajectory of counterfactual simulation in development. Developmental Psychology.

Richardson, E., Sheskin, M. & Keil, F.C. (2021). An illusion of self-sufficiency for learning about artifacts in scaffolded learners, but not observers. Child Development.

Sheskin, M., Scott, K., … Schulz, L. (2020). Online developmental science to foster innovation, access, and impact. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 24(9), 675-678.

Chuey, A., Lockhart, K., Sheskin, M., & Keil, F. (2020). Children and adults selectively generalize mechanistic knowledge. Cognition, 199, 104321.

Johnston, A. M., Sheskin, M., & Keil, F.C (2019). Learning the relevance of relevance and the trouble with truth: Evaluating explanatory relevance across childhood. Journal of Cognition and Development 20(4), 555-572.

Kominsky, J. F., Gerstenberg, T., Pelz, M., Singmann, H., Sheskin, M., & Keil, F. C. (2019). The trajectory of counterfactual simulation in development. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Sheskin, M. & Keil, F. C. (2018). TheChildLab.com: An video chat platform for developmental research. psyarxiv.com/rn7w5

Chuey, A., Sheskin, M., & Keil, F. (2018). Mechanistic Knowledge Generalizes Differentially. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

Sheskin, M., Chevallier, C., Kanovsky, M. Hulín, M., Ivanescu, A., Lenfesty, H., Regnier, D., Berniunas, R., Castelain, T., Sebesteny A., & Baumard, N. (2018). The needs of the many: Judging sacrifices for the group across cultures. Journal of Cognition and Culture.

Wynn, K., Bloom, P., Jordan, A., Marshall, J., & Sheskin, M. (2018). Not noble savages after all: Limits to early altruism. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 27, 3-8.

Starmans, C., Sheskin, M., & Bloom, P. (2017). Why people prefer unequal societies. Nature Human Behaviour, 1, 0082.

Johnston, A. M., Sheskin, M., Johnson, S. G. B., & Keil, F. (2017). Preferences for explanation generality develop early in biology, but not physics. Child Development.

Sheskin, M., & Baumard, N. (2016). Switching away from utilitarianism: The limited role of utility calculations in moral judgment. PLoS ONE, 11(8), e0160084.

Sheskin, M., Lambert, S., & Baumard, N. (2016). Biological markets explain human ultrasociality. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

Sheskin, M., Nadal, A., Croom, A., Mayer, T., Nissel, J., & Bloom, P. (2016). Some equalities are more equal than others: Quality equality emerges later than numerical equality. Child Development, 87(5), 1520-1528.

Safra, L., Tecu, T., Lambert, S., Sheskin, M., Baumard, N., & Chevallier, C. (2016). Neighborhood deprivation negatively impacts children’s prosocial behavior. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 1760.

Magid, R., Sheskin, M., & Schulz, L. (2015). Imagination and the generation of new ideas. Cognitive Development, 34, 99-110.

Sheskin, M., Chevallier, C., Lambert, S., & Baumard, N. (2014). Life-history theory explains childhood moral development. Trends in Cognitive Science, 18(2), 613-615.

Sheskin, M., Ashayeri, K., Skerry, A., & Santos, L. (2014). Capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) fail to show inequality aversion in a no-cost situation. Evolution and Human Behavior, 35(2), 80-88.

Sheskin, M., Wynn, K., & Bloom, P. (2014). Anti-equality: Social comparison in young children. Cognition, 130(2), 152-156.

Gray, K., Knobe, J., Sheskin, M., Bloom, P., & Barrett, L. (2011). More than a body: Mind perception and the nature of objectification. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 101(6), 1207-1220.

Skerry, A., Sheskin, M., & Santos, L. (2011). Capuchin monkeys are not prosocial in an instrumental helping task. Animal Cognition, 14(5), 647-654.

Ibanez, L., Messinger, D. Newell, L., Sheskin, M., & Lambert, B. (2008). Visual disengagement in the infant siblings of children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Autism: International Journal of Research and Practice, 12, 523-535.

Book Chapters

Sheskin, M. (2017). The evolution of moral development. In M. Li & D. Tracer (Eds.), Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Fairness, Equality, and Justice. Springer.

Baumard, N. & Sheskin, M. (2015). Partner choice and the evolution of a contractualist morality. In Decety, J. & Wheatley, T. (Eds.), The Moral Brain. M.I.T. Press, 35-48.

Sheskin, M. & Santos, L. The evolution of morality: Which aspects of human moral concerns are shared with nonhuman primates?. (2012). In J. Vonk & T. Shackelford (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Evolutionary Psychology. New York: Oxford University Press.

Popular Audience

Sheskin, M. (2018). The inequality delusion: Why we’ve got the wealth gap all wrong. United Kingdom: New Scientist.

Sheskin, M. (2018). Inequality is different from unfairness, and only one of them is wrong. Switzerland: Schweizer Monat.

Starmans, C., Sheskin, M., & Bloom, P. (2017). The science of inequality: Why people prefer unequal societies. United Kingdom: Guardian.

Starmans, C., Sheskin, M., & Bloom, P. (2017). Inequality isn’t the real issue. United States: Wall Street Journal.