Peer-reviewed journal articles and chapters
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Benítez, J., Foster-Hanson, E., & Rhodes, M. (Submitted). Generic references to gender predict essentialism even when they express counter-stereotypic ideas. Pre-print
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Gallagher, N. M., Foster-Hanson, E., & Olson, K. R., (2025). Gender categorization and memory in transgender and cisgender people. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 116, 104691. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jesp.2024.104691 PDF
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Foster-Hanson, E., Ziska, K. M., & Rhodes, M. (2024). How Cultural Input Shapes the Development of Idealized Biological Prototypes. Journal of Cognition and Development, 1–29. https://doi.org/10.1080/15248372.2024.2409680 PDF​
Peebles, I., Kinney, D., & Foster-Hanson, E. (2024). Systematic decision frameworks for the socially responsible use of precision medicine. npj Genomic Medicine, 9(1), 46. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41525-024-00433-9 PDF​
Foster-Hanson, E., & Venkatagiri, S. (2024, July). Promoting Ethical Technology Design Practices by Leveraging Human Psychology. In Companion Publication of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 157-161). https://doi.org/10.1145/3656156.3663716 PDF​
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Rottman, J., Foster-Hanson, E., & Bellersen, S. (2023). One strike and you’re a lout: Cherished values increase the stringency of moral character attributions. Cognition, 239, 105570. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105570 PDF​
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Lei, R. F., Foster-Hanson, E., & Goh, J. X. (2023). A sociohistorical model of intersectional prototypes. Nature Reviews Psychology: Perspectives. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-023-00165-0 PDF Pre-print
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Foster-Hanson, E., & Rhodes, M. (2022). Stereotypes as prototypes in children's gender concepts. Developmental Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13345 PDF Pre-print OSF
Foster-Hanson, E., & Lombrozo, T. (2022b). How "is" shapes "ought" for folk-biological concepts. Cognitive Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2022.101507 PDF Pre-print OSF
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Foster-Hanson, E., Leslie, S.J., & Rhodes, M. (2022). Speaking of kinds: How generic language shapes the development of category representations. Cognitive Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13223 Pre-print OSF
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Lei, R. F., Leshin, R., Moty, K., Foster-Hanson, E., & Rhodes, M. (2021). How race and gender shape the development of social prototypes in the United States. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001164 PDF Pre-print OSF
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Foster-Hanson, E., Roberts, S.O., Gelman, S.A., & Rhodes, M. (2021). Categories convey prescriptive information across domains. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105231 PDF Pre-print OSF
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Foster-Hanson, E., & Rhodes, M. (2021). The Psychology of Natural Kinds Terms. In S.T. Biggs, & H. Geirsson (Eds.) The Routledge Handbook on Linguistic Reference. London: Routledge. PDF Pre-print
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Foster-Hanson, E., & Rhodes, M. (2020). How origin stories shape children’s social reasoning. Cognitive Development, 56, 100962. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2020.100962. PDF Pre-print OSF
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Rhodes, M., Rizzo, M., Foster-Hanson, E., Moty, K., Leshin, R., Wang, M. M., Benitez, J., & Ocampo, J. D. (2020). Advancing developmental science via unmoderated remote research with children. Journal of Cognition and Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/15248372.2020.1797751. PDF Pre-print Companion website
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Foster-Hanson, E.*, Moty, K.*, Cardarelli, A., Ocampo, J. D., & Rhodes, M. (2020). Developmental changes in strategies for gathering evidence about biological kinds. Cognitive Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12837. PDF Pre-print OSF
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Foster-Hanson, E., & Rhodes, M. (2019a). Is the most representative skunk the average or the stinkiest? Developmental changes in representations of biological categories. Cognitive Psychology, 110, 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogpsych.2018.12.004. PDF Pre-print OSF
Foster-Hanson, E., & Rhodes, M. (2019b). The development of normative social role concepts. Cognitive Science. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12782. PDF Pre-print OSF
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Foster-Hanson, E., Cimpian, A., Leshin, R., & Rhodes, M. (2018). Asking children to “be helpers” can backfire after setbacks. Child Development. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13147. PDF OSF
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Pinango, M. M., Zhang, M., Foster-Hanson, E., Negishi, M., Lacadie, C. and Constable, R. T. (2016). Metonymy as referential dependency: Psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic arguments for a unified linguistic treatment. Cognitive Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.12341.
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Peer-reviewed conference proceedings
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Foster-Hanson, E., & Lombrozo, T. (2024). Functional Explanations Link Gender Essentialism and Normativity. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 46. Rotterdam, Netherlands: Cognitive Science Society. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3s78z492 PDF
Foster-Hanson, E., Lombrozo, T. (2022a). What Are Men and Mothers For? The Causes and Consequences of Functional Reasoning About Social Categories. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4xm7m1s1 PDF
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Rottman, J., Foster-Hanson, E., Bellersen, S., & Kroll, N. (2022). One strike and you’re a lout: Perceptions of moral character are fugacious, not tenacious. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0z8227jj
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Tessler, M. H., Goodman, N., Danks, D., Foster-Hanson, E., Rhodes, M., & Carlson, G. (2018). Generalizations, from representation to transmission. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7d0130zc
Foster-Hanson, E., Leslie, S.J., & Rhodes, M. (2016). How does generic language elicit essentialist beliefs? Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/00w6h956​​