Publications

Scott, R., Richman, J. C., & Baillargeon, R. (2015). Infants understand deceptive intentions to implant false beliefs: new evidence for early mentalistic reasoning.. Cognitive Psychology, 82, 32-56.

Scott, R., & Roby, E. (2015). Processing demands impact 3-year-olds’ performance in a spontaneous-response task: New evidence for the processing-load account of early false-belief understanding.. PLoS ONE, 10(e0142405).

Scott, R. M., & Baillargeon, R. (2014). How fresh a look? A reply to Heyes. Developmental Science, 17, 660-664.

Scott, R. M. (2014). Post hoc versus predictive accounts of children’s theory of mind: A reply to Ruffman. Developmental Review, 34, 300-304.

Baillargeon, R., He, Z., Setoh, P., Scott, R., Sloane, S., & Yang, D. Y. J. (2013). False-belief understanding and why it matters: The white-lie hypothesis. In M. Banaji, S. Gelman, M. Banaji, & S. Gelman (Eds.), Navigating the social world: What infants, children, and other species can teach us (pp. 88-95). New York: Oxford University Press.

Barrett, C., Broesch, T., Scott, R., He, Z., Baillargeon, R., Wu, D., Bolz, M., Setoh, P., Wang, J., & Laurence, S. (2013). Is early false-belief reasoning universal? Evidence from three non-western cultures. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 280, 1755.

Scott, R. M., & Baillargeon, R. (2013). Do infants really expect others to act efficiently? A critical test of the rationality principle. Psychological Science, 24, 466-474.

Scott, R., & Fisher, C. (2012). False-belief understanding in 2.5-year-olds: Evidence from two novel verbal spontaneous-response tasks. Cognition, 122, 163-180.

Cimpian, A., & Scott, R. (2012). Children expect generic knowledge to be widely shared.. Cognition, 123, 419-433.

Scott, R., He, Z., Baillargeon, R., & Cummins, D. (2012). False-belief understanding in 2.5-year-olds: Evidence from two novel verbal spontaneous-response tasks.. Developmental Science, 15, 181-193.