Publications

(I include links to data and code next to each paper when relevant. Please reach out to me at tadeg.quillien AT gmail.com if a link is broken, you have trouble interpreting the data / reproducing an analysis / running a model)


Preprints

Quillien, T., Bramley, N., & Lucas, C. (2023). Guesses as compressed probability distributions. [code & data]

Gyevnar, B., Droop, S., Quillien, T., Cohen, S., Bramley, N., Lucas, C., & Albrecht, S. (2024). People attribute purpose to autonomous vehicles when explaining their behavior. [code & data]


Journal articles

Bramley, N., Zhao, B., Quillien, T., & Lucas, C. (2023). Local search and the evolution of world models. Topics in Cognitive Science. [thread]

Quillien, T., Tooby, J., & Cosmides, L. (2023). Rational inferences about social valuation. Cognition. [SI][code & data][thread]

Quillien, T., & Lucas, C. (2023). Counterfactuals and the logic of causal selection. Psychological Review. [code & data][thread]

Marchant, N., Quillien, T., & Chaigneau, S. (2023). A context-dependent Bayesian account for causal-based categorization. Cognitive Science. [code & data][SI][thread]

Quillien, T. (2023). Rational information search in welfare-tradeoff cognition. Cognition. [code & data][thread]

Quillien, T., & Barlev, M. (2022). Causal judgment in the wild: evidence from the 2020 US presidential election. Cognitive Science. [code][data][SI][thread]

Quillien, T., & German, T. (2021). A simple definition of 'intentionally'. Cognition [code & data][SI][thread]

Quillien, T. (2020). When do we think that X caused Y?. Cognition [code] [SI][blog][media]

Quillien. T. (2020). Evolution of conditional and unconditional commitment. Journal of Theoretical Biology [code][data][SI][media coverage][thread]

Quillien. T. (2019). Universal modesty in signal-burying games. Proceedings of the Royal Society B [code][data][media coverage]

Quillien, T. (2018). Psychological essentialism from first principles. Evolution & Human Behavior

Van Leeuwen, F., Quillien, T., Boyer, P. (2017). Are multiple minimal outgroup males readily associated with threat? Letters on Evolutionary Behavioral Science 

Sznycer, D., Al-Shawaf, L., Bereby-Meyer, Y., Curry, O. S., De Smet, D., Ermer, E., Kim, S., Kim, S., Li, N. P., Lopez Seal, M. F., McClung, J., O, J., Ohtsubo, Y., Quillien, T., Schaub, M., Sell, A., van Leeuwen, F., Cosmides, L., Tooby, J. (2017). Cross-cultural regularities in the cognitive architecture of pride. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences  [media coverage: (1),(2),(3)]


Peer-Reviewed Conference Papers

Marchant, N., Puebla, G., Quillien, T., & Chaigneau, S. (2024). Rationally uncertain: investigating deviations from Explaining Away and Screening Off in causal reasoning. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society.

Konuk, C., Goodale, M., Quillien, T., & Mascarenhas, S. (2023). Plural causes in causal judgment. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society. [code & data][thread]

Marchant, N., Quillien, T., & Chaigneau, S. (2023). Uncertainty can explain apparent mistakes in causal reasoning. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society. [code][thread]

Quillien, T.,  Szollosi, A., Bramley, N., & Lucas, C. (2023). Causal inference shapes counterfactual plausibility. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society. [code & data][thread]

Szollosi, A., Grigoras, V., Quillien, T., Lucas, C., & Bramley, N. (2023). How do instructions, examples, and testing shape task representations? Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society. [demo]

O'Neill, K., Quillien, T., & Henne, P. (2022). A counterfactual model of causal judgments in double prevention. Conference on Computational Cognitive Neuroscience. 

Quillien, T., & Lucas, C. (2022). The logic of guesses: how people communicate probabilistic information. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society. [code & data][thread]

Xia, Z., Zhao, B., Quillien, T. , & Lucas, C. (2022). Dissecting causal asymmetries in inductive generalization. Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society. [code][data]


Book Chapters / Commentaries

Hoffman, M., Quillien, T., & Burum, B. (2024). The social sciences need more than integrative experimental design; we need better theories. Commentary on Almaatouq et al., Behavioral and Brain Sciences. [pdf]

Quillien, T. (2017). Fostering values of fairness. Encyclopedia of Evolutionary Psychological Science

Quillien, T. (2015). Population finiteness is not a concern for null hypothesis significance testing when studying human behavior. Frontiers in Neuroscience [see also target article, and reply from the author]

Popular science writing

Is virtue signalling a vice? (April 2022). Aeon Magazine