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Kelemen, D., Phillips, B., & Seston, R. (2011). Children's functional categorization of natural and unnatural things: The role of intentional cues. Manuscript in preparation.

Seston, R. & Kelemen, D. (2011). Children's conformity when acquiring novel conventions: The case of artifacts. Manuscript in submission. [Request PDF]

Rottman, J. & Kelemen, D. (2011). Beyond disgust: cognition and emotion in acquiring purity-based morals. Manuscript in submission. [Request PDF]

Phillips, B., Kelemen, D. & Seston, R. (2011). Learning about tool categories via eavesdropping. Child Development, In press. [PDF]

Kelemen, D., Seston, R., & Saint Georges, L. (2011). The designing mind: Children's reasoning about intended function and artifact structure. Journal of Cognition and Development. [PDF]

Rottman, J., & Kelemen, D. (2011). Is there such a thing as a Christian child? Evidence of religious beliefs in early childhood. To appear in P. McNamara & W. Wildman (Eds.), Science and the world's religions: Origins and destinies. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger Press. [PDF]

Kelemen, D. (2011). Teleological minds: How natural intuitions about agency and purpose influence learning about evolution. To appear in K.S. Rosengren, S. Brem, E.M. Evans, & G. Sinatra (Eds.), Evolution challenges: Integrating research and practice in teaching and learning about evolution. Oxford: University Press. [PDF]

Donovan, E. & Kelemen, D. (2011). Just Rewards: Children and adults equate accidental inequity with intentional unfairness. Journal of Cognition and Culture, 11, 137-150. [PDF]

Dennis, T.A. & Kelemen, D. (2009). Preschool children's views on emotion regulation: Functional associations and implications for social-emotional adjustment. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 33, 243-252. [PDF]

Kelemen, D. & Rosset, E. (2009). The Human Function Compunction: Teleological explanation in adults. Cognition, 111, 138-143. [PDF]

Casler, K. & Kelemen, D. (2008). Developmental continuity in teleo-functional explanation: Reasoning about nature among Romanian Romani adults. Journal of Cognition and Development, 9(3), 340-362. [PDF]

DiYanni, C. & Kelemen, D. (2008). Using a bad tool with good intention: Young childrens' imitation of adults' questionable choices. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 101(4), 241-261. [PDF]

Lombrozo, T. , Kelemen, D. & Zaitchik, D (2007). Inferring design: Evidence of a preference for teleological explanations in patients with alzheimer's disease. Psychological Science, 18(11), 999-1006. [PDF]

Kelemen, D. & Carey, S. (2007). The essence of artifacts: Developing the design stance. In S. Laurence & E. Margolis (Eds.) Creations of the Mind: Theories of artifacts and their representation. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Reprinted in C. Pleh (2007). Pszichológiai Szemle (Psychological Review). [PDF]

Casler, K. & Kelemen, D. (2007). Reasoning about artifacts at 24 months: The developing teleo-functional stance. Cognition, 103, 120-130. [PDF]

Casler, K. & Kelemen, D. (2005). Young children’s rapid learning about artifacts. Developmental Science, 8, 472-480. [PDF]

DiYanni, C. & Kelemen, D. (2005). Time to get a new mountain? The role of function in children’s conceptions of natural kinds. Cognition, 97, 325-335. [PDF]

Kelemen, D., Callanan, M., Casler, K. & Pérez-Granados, D. R. (2005). Why things happen: Teleological explanation in parent-child conversations. Developmental Psychology, 41(1), 251-264. [PDF]

Kelemen, D., & DiYanni, C. (2005). Intuitions about origins: Purpose and intelligent design in children's reasoning about nature. Journal of Cognition and Development, 6, 3-31. [PDF]

Kelemen, D. (2004). Counterintuition, existential anxiety, and religion as a by-product of the designing mind. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 27, 739-740. [PDF]

Kelemen, D. (2004). Are children "intuitive theists"?: Reasoning about purpose and design in nature. Psychological Science, 15, 295-301. [PDF]

Kelemen, D. (2003). British and American children’s preferences for teleological-functional explanations of the natural world. Cognition, 88, 201-221. [PDF]

Kelemen, D., Widdowson, D., Posner, T., Brown, A.L. & Casler, K. (2003). Teleo-functional constraints on preschool children’s reasoning about living things. Developmental Science, 6, 329-345. [PDF]

Kelemen, D. (1999). Functions, goals and intentions: Children’s teleological reasoning about objects. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 12, 461-468. [PDF]

Kelemen, D. (1999). Why are rocks pointy?: Children’s preference for teleological explanations of the natural world. Developmental Psychology, 35, 1440-1453. [PDF]

Kelemen, D. (1999). The scope of teleological thinking in preschool children. Cognition, 70, 241 -272. [PDF]

Kelemen, D. (1999). Beliefs about purpose: On the origins of teleological thought. In M. and S. Lea (Eds.). The Descent of Mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Bloom, P. & Kelemen, D. (1995). Syntactic cues in the acquisition of collective nouns. Cognition, 56, 1-30. [PDF]

Bloom, P., Kelemen, D., Fountain, A. & Courtney, E. (1995). The acq of collective nouns. In D. MacLaughlin and S. McEwen (Eds.), The Proceedings of the 19th Boston University Conference on Language Development. Cascadilla Press.

Bloom, P. & Kelemen, D. (1995). Syntactic and conceptual factors in the acquisition of collective nouns. In E. Clark (Ed.), The Proceedings of the Twenty-Sixth Annual Child Language Research Forum. Stanford: CSLI.

Kelemen, D. & Bloom, P. (1994). Domain-specific knowledge in simple categorization. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1(3), 390-395. [PDF]

Manstead, A. S. R., Parker, D., Stradling, S. G., Reason, J. T., Baxter, J. S. & Kelemen, D. (1992). Perceived consensus in estimates of the prevalence of driving errors and violations. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 22, 509-530

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