Publications

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Popular articles
Starmans, C., Sheskin, M. & Bloom, P. (2017). Inequality Isn't the Real Issue.
Starmans, C. (2017). Is it better to beat temptation or never feel tempted at all?
Starmans, C. (2017). Temptation.
Journal articles
Khan, U., Jaffer-Diaz, M., Najafizadeh, A. & Starmans, C. (in press). Going above and beyond? Early reasoning about which moral acts are best. Cognition.
Finlay, M. & Starmans, C. (2022). Not the same same: Distinguishing between similarity and identity in judgments of change. Cognition, 218, 104953.
Starmans, C. & Friedman, O. (2020). Expert or esoteric? Philosophers attribute knowledge differently than all other academics. Cognitive Science, 44(7), e12850.
Espinosa, J. & Starmans, C. (2020). Control it and it is yours: Children's reasoning about the ownership of living things. Cognition, 202, 104319.
Starmans, C., & Bloom, P. (2018). If you become evil, do you die? Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22, (9), 740-741.
Starmans, C., & Bloom, P. (2018). Nothing Personal: What Psychologists Get Wrong About Identity. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22, 7, 566-568.
Starmans, C. (2017). Children's theories of the self. Child Development, 88, 6, 1774-1785.
Starmans, C., Sheskin, M. & Bloom, P. (2017). Why people prefer unequal societies. Nature Human Behavior, 1, 0082.
Starmans, C. & Bloom, P. (2016). The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak: Developmental differences in judgments about inner moral conflict. Psychological Science, 27(11), 1498–1506.
Millar, C., Starmans, C., Fugelsang, J., & Friedman, O. (2016). It’s personal: The effect of personal value on utilitarian moral judgments. Judgment and Decision Making, 11, 326-331.
Starmans, C. & Friedman, O. (2016). If I am free you can't own me: Autonomy makes entities less ownable. Cognition, 148, 145-153. (PDF of stimuli)
Levene, M., Starmans, C. & Friedman, O. (2015). Creation in judgments about the establishment of ownership. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 60, 103-109.
Starmans, C. & Friedman, O. (2013). Taking 'know' for an answer: A reply to Nagel, San Juan, & Mar. Cognition, 129(3) 662-665.
Starmans, C. & Friedman, O. (2012). The Folk Conception of Knowledge. Cognition, 124, 272-283.
Starmans, C. & Bloom, P. (2012). Windows to the Soul: Children and Adults See the Eyes as the Location of the Self. Cognition, 123(2),313-318.
Starmans, C. & Bloom, P. (2011). What do you think you are? Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1234, 44-47.