Publications

Koenig, M.A. (in press). Beyond Semantic Accuracy: Preschoolers Evaluate a Speaker's Reasons. Child Development.

Koenig, M.A. & Woodward, A.L. (in press). Toddlers learn words in a foreign language: The role of native vocabulary knowledge. Journal of Child Language.

Koenig, M.A., & Jaswal, V.K. (in press). Characterizing children's expectations about expertise and incompetence: halo or pitchfork effects? Child Development

Koenig, M.A., & Doebel, S. (in press). The role of negative information on the development of selective trust. To appear in S. Gelman & M. Banaji (Eds.), The Development of Social Cognition. Oxford University Press: Oxford.

Koenig, M.A., & Cole, C.A. (in press). Words. To appear in D. Reisberg (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Cognitive Psychology. Oxford University Press: Oxford.

Lyons, K., & Koenig, M.A. (in press). The Development of Social Cognition. To appear in D. Roberts & D. Penn (Eds.), Social Cognition in Schizophrenia: From Evidence to Treatment. Oxford University Press: Oxford.

Harris, P.L., Pasquini, E.S., Corriveau, K., Koenig, M.A., & Clement, F. (in press). The emergence of selective trust in early childhood. To appear in J. Perner (Ed.), From Metacognition to Self-Awareness. Oxford University Press: Oxford.

Corrow, S., Cowell, J., Doebel, S., & Koenig, M.A (in press). The Development of Children's Trust in Testimony. To appear in T. Kaefer & S. Neuman (Eds.), Knowledge Development in Early Childhood: How Young Children Build Knowledge and Why it Matters. Guilford Press.

Ganea, P., Koenig, M.A., & Millet, K. (2011). Changing your mind about things unseen: Toddlers' sensitivity to prior reliability. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 109, 445-453.

Koenig, M.A., & Woodward, A.L. (2010). 24-month-olds' sensitivity to the prior accuracy of the source: Possible mechanisms. Developmental Psychology, 46, 815-826.

Koenig, M.A. (2010). Selective trust in testimony: Children's evaluation of the message, the speaker, and the speech act. Oxford Studies in Epistemology, Vol. 3. Oxford University Press: Oxford.

Koenig, M.A. & Harris, P.L. (2008). The basis of children's trust: Reliable testimony or reliable sources? Episteme, 4, 264-284.

Koenig, M.A. & Woodward, A.L. (2007). Word learning. Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics.

Pasquini, E.S., Corriveau, K.H., Koenig, M.A., & Harris, P.L. (2007). Preschoolers monitor the relative accuracy of informants. Developmental Psychology, 43, 1216-1226.

Harris, P.L. & Koenig, M.A. (2007). Imagination and testimony in cognitive development: The cautious disciple? In I. Roth (Ed.), Imaginative Minds. Proceedings of the British Academy.

Harris, P.L. & Koenig, M.A. (2006). Trust in testimony: How children learn about science and religion. Child Development, 77, 505-524.

Koenig, M.A. & Harris, P.L. (2005). Preschoolers mistrust ignorant and inaccurate speakers. Child Development, 76, 1261-1277.

Koenig, M.A. & Harris, P.L. (2005). The role of social cognition in early trust. Trends in Cognitive Science, 9, 457-459.

Clement, F., Koenig, M.A., & Harris, P.L. (2004). The Ontogenesis of Trust. Mind and Language, 19, 360-379.

Koenig, M.A., Clement, F., & Harris, P.L. (2004). Trust in Testimony: Children's Use of True and False Statements. Psychological Science, 15, 694-698.

Gelman, S.A. & Koenig, M.A. (2003). Theory-based categorization in early childhood. In D. Rakison and L. Oakes (Eds.) Concept acquisition and early categorization: Making sense of the blooming, buzzing confusion. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Koenig, M.A. & Echols, C.H. (2003). Infants' understanding of false labeling events: The referential role of words and the people who use them. Cognition, 87, (3), 181-210.

Koenig, M.A. (2002). Children's understanding of belief as a normative concept. New Ideas in Psychology, 20, 107-130.

Gelman, S.A. & Koenig, M.A. (2001). The role of animacy in children's understanding of 'move'. Journal of Child Language, 28, 683-701.