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PAPERS UNDER REVIEW

Lee, Y., Radkani, S., & Saxe, R. Children learn what is right or wrong selectively from a legitimate authority’s punishment. Preprint

Lee, Y., Charles, S. N., & Solomon, L. H. To whom should punishment communicate? Children’s and adults’ perceptions of punishment’s message.

Lee, Y., Jung, S., Song, H., & Warneken, F. How do Korean and US children judge unequal resource allocations that harm or benefit the ingroup?

Lee, Y., & Warneken, F. Children’s third-party punishment reveals a genuine concern for fairness and justice.

Deutchman, P., Marshall, J., Lee, Y., Warneken, F., & McAuliffe, K. Descriptive norms influence children’s injunctive and moral norm beliefs.

PUBLISHED PAPERS

Lee, Y., & Solomon, L. H. (in press). Children’s and adults’ understanding of how punishment shapes social relationships. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. OSF Pre-registration PDF

Gelman, S.A., Nancekivell, S.E., Lee, Y., Schaub, F. (2025). Children’s understanding of digital tracking and digital privacy. In: Christakis, D.A., Hale, L. (eds) Handbook of Children and Screens (pp. 643–649). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-69362-5_87 PDF

Lee, Y., & Solomon, L. H. (2025). Not all punishment is equal: The effect of punishment severity on children’s social evaluations. Developmental Psychology, 61, 311–322. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001845 OSF Pre-registration PDF

Lee, Y., Dunlea, J. P., & Solomon, L. H. (2024). Why do God and humans punish? Perceived retributivist punishment motives hinge on views of the true self. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 50, 1167-1181. https://doi.org/10.1177/01461672231160027 OSF Pre-registration PDF

Gollwitzer, A., Marshall, J., Lee, Y., Deutchman, P., Warneken, F., & McAuliffe, K.  (2024). Parent and community political orientation predicts children's health behaviours. European Journal of Social Psychology, 54, 843-858. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejsp.3055 OSF Pre-registration PDF

Lee, Y., He, S., & Warneken, F. (2024). Children’s third-party punishment does not change depending on the prospect of future interaction. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153, 608–620. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001515 OSF Pre-registration PDF 

Lee, Y., Payir, A., & Solomon, L. H. (2023). Benevolent God concepts and past kind behaviors induce generosity toward outgroups. Social Cognition, 41, 321-339. https://doi.org/10.1521/soco.2023.41.4.321 OSF Pre-registration PDF

Marshall, J., Lee, Y., Deutchman, P., Wang, Z., Horsey, C. D., Warneken, F., & McAuliffe, K. (2023). When not helping is nice: Children’s changing evaluations of helping during COVID-19. Developmental Psychology, 59, 953–962. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001501 OSF Pre-registration PDF

Lee, Y., & Gelman, S. A. (2022). The development of digital ownership in children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 224, 105519. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2022.105519 OSF Pre-registration PDF

Lee, Y., Marshall, J., Deutchman, P., McAuliffe, K. & Warneken, F. (2022). Children’s judgments of interventions against norm violations: COVID-19 as a naturalistic case study. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 221, 105452. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2022.105452 OSF Pre-registration PDF

Lee, Y., & Warneken, F. (2022). The influence of age and experience of (un)fairness on third-party punishment in children. Social Development, 31, 1176-1193. https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12604 OSF Pre-registration PDF

Lee, Y., & Warneken, F. (2022). Does third-party punishment in children aim for equality? Developmental Psychology, 58, 866-873. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001331 OSF Pre-registration PDF

Lee, Y., & Warneken, F. (2020). Children’s evaluations of third-party responses to unfairness: Children prefer helping over punishment. Cognition, 205, 104374. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104374 OSF PDF

Lee, Y., Yun, J. E., Kim, E., & Song, H. (2015). The development of infants’ sensitivity to behavioral intentions when inferring others’ social preferences. PLoS ONE, 10, e0135588. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0135588 PDF

Lee, Y., & Song, H. (2014). Infants’ understanding of intentions underlying agents’ helping and hindering actions. Korean Journal of Cognitive Science, 25, 135-157.