* = authors contributed equally | underline = undergraduate mentee
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.
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.
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. [pdf]
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]
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. [pdf]
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, Amy B. Nguyễn, & Adena Schachner (submitted). [Early reasoning about protection].
Rodney Tompkins & Lindsey J. Powell (submitted). [Early reasoning about protection].
Rodney Tompkins & Adena Schachner (in prep). [Early reasoning about care].
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.