* = authors contributed equally | underline = undergraduate mentee
Tompkins, Rodney, & Adena Schachner (forthcoming). The development of social evaluations of shared sleep arrangements. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 48. [pdf]
Tompkins, Rodney, Brandon A. Carrillo, Adena Schachner, & Lindsey J. Powell (forthcoming). Children’s beliefs about and preferences for protective versus risky parents and their children. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 48.
Powell, Lindsey J., & Rodney Tompkins (2026). Relational models are too elaborate for basic social relationship reasoning. [Commentary on target article by Ashley J. Thomas]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 49, Article e44. [article]
Liberman, Zoe, & Rodney Tompkins (2026). Young children's friendship expectations align with evolutionary frameworks. Evolution and Human Behavior, 47 (4), Article 106880. [article] [pdf]
Tompkins, Rodney (2026). Paternalistic helping emerges early in humans [Journal Club article]. Nature Reviews Psychology, 5, 239. [article]
Tompkins, Rodney, Vanessa Chao, & Zoe Liberman (2025). Children can consider social relationships when evaluating liars. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 260, Article 106334. [article] [pdf]
Nguyễn, Amy B. *, Rodney Tompkins *, & Adena Schachner (2025). When walls talk: People make social inferences from towns’ protective features. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 47, 4627-4634. [article]
Tompkins, Rodney, & Lindsey J. Powell (2025). Early evaluations of caregivers who help and hinder safe and dangerous goals. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 47, 4079-4086. [article]
Tompkins, Rodney, Chuyi A. Yang, & Katie Vasquez (2025). Through thick and thin: People think family will and ought to reconcile. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 47, 6326. [article]
Tompkins, Rodney, Julian Jara-Ettinger, & Adena Schachner (2025). Societal inferences from the physical world [Commentary on target article by Mark W. Moffett]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 48, Article e73. [article] [pdf]
Tompkins, Rodney, Katie Vasquez, Emily Gerdin, Yarrow Dunham, & Zoe Liberman (2024). Expectations of intergroup empathy bias emerge by early childhood. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153 (11), 2700-2714. [article] [pdf]
Vasquez, Katie, Rodney Tompkins, Kristina R. Olson, & Yarrow Dunham (2023). Children's memory for gender-neutral pronouns. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 227, Article 105589. [article] [pdf]
Rodney Tompkins & Lindsey J. Powell (under review). [Early reasoning about protection].
Oya Serbest, Rodney Tompkins, Noa Dukler, Sarah Kaufman, & Zoe Liberman (under review). [Early reasoning about social categorization].
Rodney Tompkins, Amy B. Nguyễn, & Adena Schachner (in prep). Architecture as a social signal: Protective elements shape children's and adults' reasoning about unfamiliar social groups.
Rodney Tompkins & Adena Schachner (in prep). The development of social reasoning about shared sleep arrangements.
Rodney Tompkins, Brandon A. Carrillo, Adena Schachner, & Lindsey J. Powell (ongoing). Children’s beliefs about and preferences for protective versus risky parents and their children.