PUBLICATIONS
Barlow, M., Doan, T., Friedman, O., & Denison, S. (in press). Probability matching and statistical naïveté. Judgment and Decision Making.
Doan, T., Denison, S., & Friedman, O. (2025). Doing things intentionally: Probability raising and control. New Ideas in Psychology, 78, 101164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2025.101164
Lucca, K., Yuen, F., Wang, Y., Alessandroni, N., Allison, O., Alvarez, M., ..., Doan, T., ... & Hamlin, J. K. (2025). Infants’ social evaluation of helpers and hinderers: A large‐scale, multi‐lab, coordinated replication study. Developmental Science, 28, e13581. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13581
Doan, T., Ong, D. C., & Wu, Y. (2025). Emotion understanding as third-person appraisals: Integrating appraisal theories with developmental theories of emotion. Psychological Review, 132, 130-153. https://doi.org/10.1037/rev0000507
Doan, T., Denison, S., & Friedman, O. (2024). Up and down: Counterfactual closeness is robust to direction of comparison. Cognition and Emotion, 39, 1301-1311. https://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2024.2434149
Doan, T. & Wu, Y. (2024). Children and adults consider others' resources when inferring their emotions. In Proceedings of the 46th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp. 1091-1097). Cognitive Science Society.
Doan, T., Denison, S., & Friedman, O. (2024). Close counterfactuals and almost doing the impossible. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 31, 187-195. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-023-02335-w
Doan, T., Friedman, O., & Denison, S. (2023). Calculated feelings: How children use probability to infer emotions. Open Mind, 7, 879-893. https://doi.org/10.1162/opmi_a_00111
Doan, T., Denison, S., & Friedman, O. (2023). Two kinds of counterfactual closeness. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152, 1787-1796. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001369
Doan, T., Stonehouse, E., Denison, S., & Friedman, O. (2022). The odds tell children what people favor. Developmental Psychology, 58, 1759-1766. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001395
Lu, J., Doan, T., & Denison, S. (2021). Can children use numerical reasoning to compare odds in games? In Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp. 2409-2415). Cognitive Science Society.
Doan, T., Friedman, O., & Denison, S. (2021). Oh… so close! Children’s close counterfactual reasoning and emotion inferences. Developmental Psychology, 57, 678-688. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001174
Doan, T., Friedman, O., & Denison, S. (2021). Toddlers and preschoolers understand that some preferences are more subjective than others. Child Development, 92, 853-861. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13581
Doan, T., Castro, A., Bonawitz, E., & Denison, S. (2020). “Wow, I did it!”: Unexpected success increases preschoolers’ exploratory play on a later task. Cognitive Development, 55, 100925. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2020.100925
Doan, T., Friedman, O., & Denison, S. (2020). Young children use probability to infer happiness and the quality of outcomes. Psychological Science, 31, 149-159. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797619895282
Doan, T., Friedman, O., & Denison, S. (2018). Beyond belief: The probability-based notion of surprise in children. Emotion, 18, 1163-1173. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0000394
Doan, T., Friedman, O., & Denison, S. (2018). Children use probability to infer other people’s happiness. In Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp. 1628-1632). Cognitive Science Society.
Doan, T., Denison, S., Lucas, C., & Gopnik, A. (2015). Learning to reason about desires: An infant training study. In Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pp. 578-583). Cognitive Science Society.