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Pesowski, M., Superle, M., Banipal, E., Dennison-Hardy, A., & Hooge, A. (2023). “Ask Them” Again: An Inquiry-based Approach to Incorporating Children’s Participation Rights in a Rural, Agriculture-focused Canadian Elementary School. Canadian Journal of Children’s Rights/ Revue Canadienne Des Droits Des Enfants, 10(2), 71–97. [pdf]
Nancekivell, S.E., & Pesowski, M.L. (2023). Ownership as an extension of self: An alternative to a minimalist model. Commentary on Boyer in Behavioral and Brain Sciences. [preprint]
Pesowski, M.L., Powell, L.J., Cikara, M., & Schachner, A. (2023). Interpersonal utility and children’s social inferences from imitation. Cognition, 232, Article 105344. [pdf]
Pesowski, M.L. & Powell, L.J. (2023). Ownership as privileged utility. Cognitive Development, 66, Article 101321. [pdf]
Pesowski, M.L., Nancekivell, S.E., Tasimi, A., & Friedman, O. (2022). Ownership and value in childhood. Annual Review of Developmental Psychology, 4, 161-183.
Pesowski, M.L., Ho, V., & Friedman, O. (2021). Varieties of value: Children differentiate caring from liking. Cognitive Development, 59, 101069. [pdf]
Pesowski, M.L., Kelemen, D., & Schachner, A. (2021). Children use artifacts to infer others’ shared interests. In T. Fitch, C. Lamm, H. Leder, K. Teßmar-Raible (Eds.), Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 500-506). [presentation]
Pesowski, M.L., Quy, A., Lee, M., & Schachner, A. (2020). Children use inverse planning to detect social transmission in design of artifacts. In S. Denison, M. Mack, Y. Xu, & B.C. Armstrong (Eds.), Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 845-851). [presentation]
Pesowski, M.L. & Friedman, O. (2019). Children value objects with distinctive histories. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148, 2120-2128. [pdf]
Pesowski, M.L., Kanngiesser, P., & Friedman, O. (2019). Give and take: Ownership affects how 2- and 3-year-olds allocate resources. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 185, 214-223. [pdf]
Friedman, O., Pesowski, M.L. & Goulding, B. (2018). Legal ownership is psychological: Evidence from young children (pp. 19-31). In J. Peck and S. Shu (Eds.), Psychological ownership and consumer behavior. New York: Springer.
Pesowski, M.L. & Friedman, O. (2018). Using versus liking: Young children use ownership to predict actions, but not to infer preferences. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 169, 19-29. [pdf]
Pesowski, M.L. & Friedman, O. (2016). Preschoolers use emotional reactions to infer relations: The case of ownership. Cognitive Development, 40, 60-67. [pdf]
Pesowski, M.L., Denison, S., & Friedman, O. (2016). Young children infer preferences from a single action, but not if it is constrained. Cognition, 155, 168-175. [pdf]
McEwan, S., Pesowski, M.L., & Friedman, O. (2016). Identical but not interchangeable: Preschoolers view owned objects as non-fungible. Cognition, 146, 16-21. [pdf]
Pesowski, M.L. & Friedman, O. (2015). Preschoolers and toddlers use ownership to predict basic emotions. Emotion, 15, 104-108. [pdf]
Pesowski, M.L. & Friedman, O. (2014). Predicting how people feel: Ownership matters for preschoolers. In P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane, & B. Scassellati (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2771-2774).
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