Richardson, E., & Keil, F.C., (submitted). Anger, evidence, & trending opinions: we trust consensus when we believe it reflects genuine persuasion. [Preprint]. 

Richardson, E., & Keil, F. C. (2022). The potential for effective reasoning guides children’s preference for small group discussion over crowdsourcing. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 1193. [Journal]

Richardson, E., & Keil, F. C. (2022). Thinking takes time: Children use agents’ response times to infer the source, quality, and complexity of their knowledge. Cognition, 224, 105073. [Journal] 

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, 16. [Journal] 

Richardson, E., Hok, H., Shaw, A., & Keil, F. C. (2023). Herding cats: children’s intuitive theories of persuasion predict slower collective decisions in larger and more diverse groups, but disregard factional power. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society [Poster] [PDF] 

Richardson, E., Davis, I., & Keil, F. C. (2023). Agenda setting and The Emperor’s New Clothes: people infer that letting powerful agents make their opinion known early can trigger information cascades and pluralistic ignorance. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society [PDF] 

Richardson, E., & Keil, F. C. (2022). “He only changed his answer because they shouted at him”: Children use affective cues to distinguish between genuine and forced consensus. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]

Richardson, E., Miro-Rivera, D., & Keil, F. C. (2022). Know your network: People infer cultural drift from network structure, and expect collaborating with more distant experts to improve innovation, but collaborating with network-neighbors to improve memory. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]

Richardson, E., & Keil, F. (2021). You can’t trust an angry group- asymmetric evaluations of angry and surprised rhetoric affect confidence in trending opinions. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]

Richardson, E., & Keil, F. C. (2020a). Children use agents’ response time to distinguish between memory and novel inference. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]

Richardson, E., & Keil, F. C. (2020b). Does informational independence always matter? Children believe small group discussion is more accurate than ten times as many independent informants. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]