* = authors contributed equally | underline = undergraduate mentee
Tompkins, Rodney, Vanessa Chao, & Zoe Liberman (in press). Children can consider social relationships when evaluating liars. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 260, Article 106334. [article] [pdf | preprint] [osf]
Powell, Lindsey J., & Rodney Tompkins (in press). Relational models are too elaborate for basic social relationship reasoning [Commentary on target article by Ashley J. Thomas]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
Nguyễn, Amy *, 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. [pdf] [preprint] [osf]
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. [pdf] [preprint] [osf]
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. [preprint] [osf]
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, e73. [article] [pdf | preprint]
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] [osf]
Vasquez, Katie, Rodney Tompkins, Kristina R. Olson, & Yarrow Dunham (2023). Children's memory for gender-neutral pronouns. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 227, 105589. [article] [pdf] [osf]
Tompkins, Rodney, Amy Nguyễn, & Adena Schachner (in prep). Societal inferences from protective architectural elements.
Tompkins, Rodney, & Lindsey J. Powell (in prep). Early expectations and evaluations of caregiver protection.
Tompkins, Rodney, & Adena Schachner (in prep). Social evaluations of shared sleep arrangements.
Liberman, Zoe, & Rodney Tompkins (in prep). The ontogeny of a concept of friendship.