Peer Reviewed Publications
Blakey, K.H., Renner, E., Atkinson, M., Rafetseder, E., Caldwell, C.A. (2022). Children transition from simple associations to explicitly reasoned social learning strategies between age four and eight. Scientific Reports, 12, 5045. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-09092-1
Blakey, K.H., Atkinson, M., Rafetseder, E., Renner, E., Caldwell, C.A. (2022). Taking account of others’ goals in social information use: The development of 3- to 7-year-old children’s ability. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 215, 105325.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105325
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105325
Blakey, K.H., Rafetseder, E., Atkinson, M., Renner, E., Cowan-Forsythe, F., Sati, S.J., Caldwell, C.A. (2021). Development of strategic social information seeking: Implications for cumulative culture. PLOS One, 16(8): e0256605.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256605
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256605
Atkinson, M., Blakey, K. H., Caldwell, C. A. (2020). Inferring behaviour from partial social information plays little or no role in the cultural transmission of adaptive traits. Cognitive Science, 44, 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.1290
Caldwell, C.A., Atkinson, M., Blakey, K.H., Dunstone, J., Kean, D., Mackintosh, G., Renner, E., Wilks, C.E.H. (2020). Experimental assessment of capacities for cumulative culture: Review and evaluation of methods. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 11(1), 1–15. https://doi.org/10/djm2
Blakey, K.H., Mason, E., Cristea, M., McGuigan, N., Messer, E.J.E. (2019). Does kindness always pay? The influence of recipient affection and generosity on young children’s allocation decisions in a resource distribution task. Current Psychology, 38(4), 939. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12144-019-00260-7
Other Publications
Blakey, K. H., Rafetseder, E., Melis, G., Veit, A., Amelung, K., Freudensprung, F., Kovacs, K., & Virányi, Z. (2024). Non-verbal rationality? 2-year-old children, dogs and pigs show unselective responses to unreliability, but to different degrees. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ajh76 (Pre-print)
Caldwell, C.A., Renner, E., Kean, D., Blakey, K.H., Wilks, C.E.H., Atkinson, M., Kraemer, S.B., Mackintosh, G. (2021). Human culture is cumulative, but CCE will not be evident in all contexts. Commentary on: Vaesen, K., & Houkes, W. Is human culture cumulative? Current Anthropology, 62(2), 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1086/714032
Wilks, C.E.H., Blakey, K.H. (2018). In the jungle of cultural complexity. Evolutionary Anthropology, 180–183.
https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21724
https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21724
In Progress
Blakey, K.H., Rafetseder, E., Melis, G., Veit, A., Amelung, K., Freudensprung, F., Kovacs, K., & Virányi, Z. Non-verbal rationality? 2-year-old children, dogs and pigs show unselective responses to unreliability, but to different degrees. (Under Review)
Melis G., & Blakey K.H. Epistemic rationality begins unreflectively. (Under Review)
Blakey, K.H. Children consider others’ need and reputation in costly sharing decisions.
Blakey, K.H., Virányi, Z., Melis, G., & Rafetseder, E. The role of explicit feedback in assessing reflective belief revision.
Blakey, K.H., Rafetseder, E., Virányi, Z., & Melis, G. Reimagining metacognition: The transition from unreflective to basic reflective thinking.