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Andrew Shtulman studies conceptual development and conceptual change, particularly in the domains of science and religion. His research explores both the acquisition of domain-specific concepts and the development of domain-general inference strategies. He teaches Introduction to Psychology, Introduction to Cognitive Science, Psychological Methods, Cognitive Psychology, and Thinking & Reasoning.
Representative publications:
Shtulman, A. (2009). The development of possibility judgment within and across domains. Cognitive Development, 24, 293-309.
Shtulman, A., & Schulz, L. (2008). The relation between essentialist beliefs and evolutionary reasoning. Cognitive Science, 32, 1049-1062.
Shtulman, A. (2008). Variation in the anthropomorphization of supernatural beings and its implications for cognitive theories of religion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 34, 1123-1138.
Shtulman, A., & Carey, S. (2007). Improbable or impossible? How children reason about the possibility of extraordinary events. Child Development, 78, 1015-1032.
Shtulman, A. (2006). Qualitative differences between naïve and scientific theories of evolution. Cognitive Psychology, 52, 170-194.