Joo, S. & Yousif, S.R., Martin, F., Keil, F.C., and Knobe, J. (2025). No privileged link between intentionality and causation: Generalizable effects of agency in language. Cognition.
Joo, S. and Yousif, S.R. (2022). Are we teleologically essentialist? Cognitive Science.
Joo, S., Yousif, S.R., Martin, F., Keil, F.C., & Knobe, J. (2022). No privileged link between intentionality and causation: Generalizable effects of agency in language. Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society . Toronto, Canada: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Joo, S., Yousif, S.R., and Keil, F.C. (2022). Understanding ‘Why’: How implicit questions shape explanation preferences. Cognitive Science.
Joo, S., Yousif, S.R., and Knobe, J. (2021). Teleology beyond explanation. Mind & Language.
Joo, S., Yousif, S. R., and Keil, F. C. (2021). What is a 'mechanism'? A distinction between two sub-types of mechanistic explanations. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Vienna, Austria: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Joo, S., Yousif, S. R., and Keil, F. C. (2020). Implicit questions shape information preferences. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Toronto, ON: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Ahl, R.E., DeAngelis, E., Stephenson, A., Joo, S., and Keil, F.C. (2018). It’s complicated: Children identify relevant information about causal complexity. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]
Joo, S. and Lombrozo, T. (In prep). When does what inform why? The role of category labels in explanations.
Joo, S., Yousif, S.R., and Keil, F.C. (Being revised). Understanding ‘How’: Two kinds of mechanistic explanations underlie known explanation preferences. [Preprint available]
Joo, S., Yousif, S.R., and Keil, F.C. (In prep). Are children intuitively theist? Children's undrstanding of epxlanation is shaped by the pragmatics of 'why' questions.
Joo, S., Yousif, S.R., Martin, F., Keil, F.C., & Knobe, J. (2022, July). No privileged link between intentionality and causation: Generalizable effects of agency in language. Talk presented at at the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. [Winner of the Cognitive Science Society Disciplinary Diversity and Integration Award]
Joo, S. and Yousif, S.R. (2022, July). Are we teleologically essentialist? Talk presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology.
Joo, S., Yousif, S.R., Martin, F., Keil, F.C., & Knobe, J. (2022, May). Does causality matter? Impressions of agency influence judgments of both causal and non-causal sentences. Talk presented at the second Experiments in Linguistic Meaning (ELM) Conference.
Joo, S., Yousif, S.R., and Keil, F.C. (2022, April). Do children have an intuitive belief in God(s)? Children's teleological explanation preferences and intentional design. Talk presented at the 2022 Biennial Cognitive Development Society Conference.
Joo, S., Yousif, S.R., Martin, F., Keil, F.C., & Knobe, J. (2022, January). Does causality matter? Impressions of agency influence judgments of both causal and non-causal sentences. Talk presented at the 2nd annual Agency and Intentions in Language (AIL2) workshop.
Joo, S., Yousif, S.R., and Keil, F.C. (2021, July). What is a 'mechanism'? A distinction between two sub-types of mechanistic explanations. Poster presented at the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. [Poster]
Joo, S., Yousif, S.R., and Keil, F.C. (2021, June - Postponed due to COVID-19). Understanding 'Why': How implicit questions shape explanation preferences. Talk presented at the annual meeting of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology.
Joo, S., Yousif, S.R., and Keil, F.C. (2021, April). How children understand the pragmatics of ‘why’ questions. Talk presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development.
Joo, S., Yousif, S.R., and Keil, F.C. (2020, July). Implicit questions shape information preferences. Poster presented at the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. [Poster]