Caren M. Walker

University of California San Diego — United States

Psychology · Social Sciences

23h-index1.5kcitations100works0.42yr avg
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Research Topics

Child and Animal Learning Development(64), Educational Strategies and Epistemologies(21), Education and Critical Thinking Development(11), Early Childhood Education and Development(10), Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills(8)

Publications100 total

Schema drift: Relational concepts and conceptual change
Cognition·2026Open Access
Children’s developing ability to predict novel outcomes from variability information.
Developmental Psychology·2025Open Access
Hiding discrimination in plain sight: The development of reasoning about disparate impact policies.
Journal of Experimental Psychology General·2025· 1 cited
The Mind Lab: Thought Experiments as a Means to Teaching Science Effectively and Efficiently
2025Open Access
The Mind Lab: Thought Experiments as a Means to Teaching Science Effectively and Efficiently
2025· 1 citedOpen Access
Mind over matter: consistency monitoring and domain-specific learning
Frontiers in Developmental Psychology·2025Open Access
Schema Drift: Relational Concepts and Conceptual Change
SSRN Electronic Journal·2025Open Access
Children’s recognition of causal system categories across superficially distinct events.
Developmental Psychology·2024Open Access
Learners’ causal intuitions explain behavior in control of variables tasks.
Developmental Psychology·2024Open Access
How barriers become invisible: Children are less sensitive to constraints that are stable over time
Developmental Science·2024· 2 citedOpen Access
Calculated Comparisons: Manufacturing Societal Causal Judgments by Implying Different Counterfactual Outcomes
Cognitive Science·2024Open Access
Emphasizing others’ persistence can promote unwarranted social inferences in children and adults.
Journal of Experimental Psychology General·2023· 6 citedOpen Access
Visual explanations prioritize functional properties at the expense of visual fidelity
Cognition·2023· 10 cited
Thinking Structurally: A Cognitive Framework for Understanding How People Attribute Inequality to Structural Causes
Perspectives on Psychological Science·2022· 34 citedOpen Access
Ask me why, don't tell me why: Asking children for explanations facilitates relational thinking
Developmental Science·2022· 8 citedOpen Access
You can’t change the past: Children’s recognition of the causal asymmetry between past and future events
Child Development·2022· 5 cited
Explanation impacts hypothesis generation, but not evaluation, during learning
Cognition·2022· 7 citedOpen Access
A Tale of Three Platforms: Investigating Preschoolers’ Second-Order Inferences Using In-Person, Zoom, and Lookit Methodologies
Frontiers in Psychology·2021· 26 citedOpen Access
Rethinking the “gap”:<scp>Self‐directed</scp>learning in cognitive development and scientific reasoning
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science·2021· 34 cited
Learning to recognize uncertainty vs. recognizing uncertainty to learn: Confidence judgments and exploration decisions in preschoolers
Developmental Science·2021· 26 cited
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Frequent Co-authors

Alison Gopnik(15), Tania Lombrozo(10), Gail D. Heyman(6), Elizabeth Lapidow(6), Patricia A. Ganea(5), Jamie Amemiya(5), Joseph Jay Williams(4), Elizabeth Bonawitz(3), Elizabeth Mortenson(3), Mariel K. Goddu(3), Ellen Winner(2), Isabella Killeen(2), Alexandra Rett(2), Angela Nyhout(2), Erik Brockbank(2), Cristine H. Legare(1), Anna N. Rafferty(1), Lois Hetland(1), Seymour Simmons(1), Lynn T. Goldsmith(1)