Mariel K. Goddu

Harvard University — United States

Psychology · Social Sciences

11h-index620citations42works4.32yr avg
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Research Topics

Child and Animal Learning Development(18), Early Childhood Education and Development(5), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition(5), Education Practices and Challenges(5), Values and Moral Education(5)

Publications42 total

Fun isn't easy: Children selectively manipulate task difficulty when “playing for fun” versus “playing to win”.
Developmental Psychology·2025· 1 cited
Children’s developing ability to predict novel outcomes from variability information.
Developmental Psychology·2025Open Access
Against AI welfare: Care practices should prioritize living beings over AI
AI Magazine·2025Open Access
Cognitive ontology in terms of cognitive homology
2025
Disanalogies between causal learning in animals vs. machines: Comment on “Disentangled representations for causal cognition” by F. Torresan & M. Baltieri
Physics of Life Reviews·2025
‘Helpless’ infants are active, goal-directed agents: response to Cusack et al.
Trends in Cognitive Sciences·2025· 3 citedOpen Access
Why Care Practices Should Prioritize Living Beings Over AI: Critique of “AI Welfare”
2025· 1 citedOpen Access
"Helpless" infants are active, goal-directed agents: Reply to Cusack et al.
2025Open Access
"Helpless" infants are active, goal-directed agents: Reply to Cusack et al.
2025Open Access
Causal relational problem solving in toddlers
Cognition·2024· 1 citedOpen Access
Children’s play differs from both exploring and exploiting
2024· 1 citedOpen Access
LLMs don’t know anything: reply to Yildirim and Paul
Trends in Cognitive Sciences·2024· 7 cited
Providing Explanations Shifts Preschoolers’ Metaphor Preferences
2024· 2 cited
Invited Reply: Modal reasoning in non-human animals: possible ways forward
Biology Letters·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
The development of human causal learning and reasoning
Nature Reviews Psychology·2024· 52 cited
Author response for "Invited Reply: Modal reasoning in non-human animals: possible ways forward"
2024
Preschoolers’ Comprehension of Functional Metaphors
Open Mind·2024· 3 citedOpen Access
Fun isn’t easy: Children selectively manipulate task difficulty when “playing for fun” vs. “playing to win”
2023· 5 citedOpen Access
Chimpanzees prepare for alternative possible outcomes
Biology Letters·2023· 22 citedOpen Access
Results_Data.xlsx from Chimpanzees prepare for alternative possible outcomes
Figshare·2023Open Access
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Frequent Co-authors

Alison Gopnik(16), Frank C. Keil(6), Caren M. Walker(6), Rebecca Zhu(5), Kristi L. Lockhart(4), Christoph J. Völter(4), Josep Call(4), Hannes Rakoczy(4), Esther Herrmann(4), Joshua Rule(3), Junyi Chu(3), Verity Pinter(3), Emily Rose Reagan(3), Elizabeth Bonawitz(3), Tomer Ullman(3), Martin Zettersten(3), Ruthe Foushee(3), Elizabeth Lapidow(2), Jan M. Engelmann(2), Adrienne Wente(2)