{"id":444,"date":"2025-02-20T17:29:45","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T17:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labs.la.utexas.edu\/imagcoglab\/?page_id=444"},"modified":"2025-04-17T20:49:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T20:49:15","slug":"publications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/labs.la.utexas.edu\/imagcoglab\/publications\/","title":{"rendered":"Publications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"\"<\/span>
\n
\n

Publications<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Click on the links below to see our previous scientific publications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n\n\n\n
\n

Brenner, J., Steele, K., & Woolley, J. D. (2025). <\/span>Children learn cause-and-effect\u00a0relations from fantastical and realistic storybooks.<\/span><\/a> Journal of Experimental Child\u00a0Psychology<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>253<\/span><\/i>, 106198.<\/span>

Nissel, J., Xu, J., Wu, L., Bricken, Z., Clegg, J.M., Li, H., & Woolley, J. D. (2024). <\/span>Why\u00a0wearing a yellow hat is impossible: Chinese and U.S. children\u2019s possibility\u00a0judgments.<\/span><\/a> Cognition, 251<\/span><\/i>, 105856.<\/span>

Nissel, J., & Woolley, J. D. (2024). <\/span>Anecdata: children\u2019s and adults\u2019 evaluation of\u00a0anecdotal and statistical evidence.<\/span><\/a> Frontiers in Developmental Psychology<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>2<\/span><\/i>,\u00a01324704.<\/span>

Woolley, J. D., Baca, P. & Kelley, K. (2023). <\/span>Development of a na\u00efve theory of\u00a0superstition.<\/span><\/a> Journal of Cognition and Development<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>25, <\/span><\/i>27-45.<\/span>

Dore, R.A., Woolley, J.D., Nissel, J. & Hixon, J.G. (2023). <\/span>Never trust a stranger: Effects\u00a0of explicit belief statements from strangers on children\u2019s reality status beliefs and\u00a0beliefs about consensus.<\/span><\/a> British Journal of Developmental Psychology<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>41<\/span><\/i>, 117- 127.<\/span>

Nissel, J., Li, H., Cramer, A., & Woolley, J.D. (2023). <\/span>Three men make a tiger: The effect of consensus testimony on Chinese and U.S. children\u2019s possibility judgments.<\/span><\/a> Journal of Cognition and Culture, 23<\/span><\/i>(1-2)<\/span>, <\/span><\/i>98-126<\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/i>

Wang, F., Li, H., Zhang, T., Woolley, J. D., & Jing An, J. (2023). <\/span>Exploring factors<\/span> influencing young children’s learning from storybooks: Interactive and\u00a0multimedia features.<\/span><\/a> Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 233, <\/span><\/i>105680.<\/span>

Nissel, J. & Woolley, J. D. (2022). <\/span>Brave new world: Imaginative fictions offer simulated\u00a0safety and actual benefits.<\/span><\/a> Invited commentary, <\/span>Behavioral and Brain Sciences<\/span><\/i>. <\/span>45, Article E289.<\/span><\/i>

Li, H., Yu, H., Woolley, J. D., & Wu, L. (2022). <\/span>The impact of informant type on\u00a0children’s animal knowledge learning.<\/span><\/a> Cognitive Development, 62<\/span><\/i>, 101162.<\/span>

Ghossainy, M.E., Al-Shawaf, L., & Woolley, J.D. (2021). <\/span>Epistemic vigilance in early ontogeny: Children\u2019s use of nonverbal behavior to detect deception.<\/span><\/a> Evolutionary\u00a0 Psychology, 19<\/span><\/i>, 1-11.<\/span>

Bunce, L. & Woolley, J. D. (2021). <\/span>Fantasy orientation and creativity in childhood: A\u00a0closer look.<\/span><\/a> Cognitive Development<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>57<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0<\/span>

Woolley, J. D., Nissel, J. & Gilpin, A. T. (2021). <\/span>Children\u2019s use of testimony to determine reality status.<\/span><\/a> Child Development, 92, <\/span><\/i>e317-e328.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>

Woolley, J. D. & Kelly, K. (2020). <\/span>\u201cWhen something like a ladybug lands on you\u201d: The\u00a0origin and development of children\u2019s concept of luck.<\/span><\/a> Developmental Psychology,\u00a0 56, <\/span><\/i>1866-1878.<\/span>

Woolley, J.D. & Gilpin, A.T. (2020). <\/span>Development of imagination and fantasy.<\/span><\/a> In:\u00a0Benson, J.B. (Ed.), <\/span>Encyclopedia of Infant and Early Childhood Development<\/span><\/i>,\u00a0 2nd edition. vol. 1, Elsevier, pp. 430\u2013437.<\/span>

Woolley, J. D. & Nissel, J. (2020). <\/span>Development of the fantasy-reality distinction.<\/span><\/a> In A.\u00a0Abraham (Ed.), <\/span>The Cambridge Handbook of the Imagination<\/span><\/i>. Cambridge\u00a0 University Press.<\/span>

Woolley, J. W., Bunce, L. & Boerger, E. (2020). <\/span>Relations between imagination and\u00a0creativity.<\/span><\/a> In D. Preiss and J. C. Kaufman (Eds), <\/span>Creativity and the Wandering\u00a0 Mind, 1st Edition<\/span><\/i>. Oxford, U.K.: Elsevier.<\/span>

Li, H., Liu, T. Woolley, J., & Zhang, P. (2019). <\/span>Reality status judgments of real and\u00a0fantastical events in children\u2019s prefrontal cortex: An fNIRS study.<\/span><\/a> Frontiers in Human Neuroscience<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>13:444<\/span><\/i>.<\/span>

Dore, R.A., Woolley, J. D. & Hixon, J.G. (2019). <\/span>\u201cI believe in cusk\u201d: The effect of\u00a0explicit belief statements on children\u2019s reality status judgments and beliefs about\u00a0consensus.<\/span><\/a> Journal of Cognition and Development, 20, <\/span><\/i>35-55.<\/span>

Woolley, J. D. & Rhoads, A. M. (2019). <\/span>Children\u2019s developing conceptions of age, aging,\u00a0and birthdays.<\/span><\/a> Imagination, Cognition, and Personality, 38, <\/span><\/i>268-289.\u00a0<\/span>

Woolley, J. D. & Cornelius, C. A. (2017). <\/span>Wondering how: Children\u2019s and adults\u2019\u00a0explanations for mundane, improbable, and extraordinary events.<\/span><\/a> Psychonomic\u00a0Bulletin and Review<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>24<\/span><\/i>(5),<\/span> 1586-1596.\u00a0<\/span>

Woolley, J. D. & Dunham, J. (2017). <\/span>Children\u2019s beliefs about miracles.<\/span><\/a> Journal of\u00a0 Cognition and Culture, 17, <\/span><\/i>73-93.\u00a0<\/span>

Lopez-Mobilia, G. & Woolley, J. D. (2016). <\/span>Interactions between knowledge and testimony in children\u2019s reality status judgments.<\/span><\/a> Journal of Cognition and\u00a0 Development, 17<\/span><\/i>, 486-504.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>

Goldstein, T. R. & Woolley, J. D. (2016). <\/span>Ho! Ho! Who? Parent promotion of belief and\u00a0live encounters with Santa Claus.<\/span><\/a> Cognitive Development, 39<\/span><\/i>, 113-129.\u00a0<\/span>

Woolley, J. D. (2015). Commentary: <\/span>What do mind readers know and what do we know\u00a0about mind readers?<\/span><\/a> British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 32, <\/span><\/i>388-390.\u00a0<\/span>

Woolley, J. D. & Brown, M. (2015). <\/span>Young children\u2019s understanding of invisibility and\u00a0 its relation to the appearance-reality distinction.<\/span><\/a> Cognitive Development, 34<\/span><\/i>, 63- 75.\u00a0<\/span>

Lillard, A. S. & Woolley, J. D. (2105). <\/span>Grounded in reality: How children make sense of the unreal.<\/span><\/a> Cognitive Development<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>34<\/span><\/i>, 111-114.\u00a0<\/span>

Cornelius, C. & Woolley, J. D. (2013). <\/span>Development of the use of agents as explanations\u00a0for events.<\/span><\/a> In S. Robson & S. Flannery Quinn (Eds.), <\/span>Routledge International\u00a0 Handbook of Young Children’s Thinking and Understanding<\/span><\/i>. Routledge.<\/span>

Woolley, J. D. & Cornelius, C. (2013). <\/span>Beliefs in magical beings and cultural myths.<\/span><\/a> In\u00a0M. Taylor (Ed.), <\/span>Oxford Handbook on The Development of Imagination<\/span><\/i>. Oxford\u00a0 University Press.<\/span>

Woolley, J. D. & Ghossainy, M. (2013). <\/span>Revisiting the fantasy-reality distinction:\u00a0Children as na\u00efve skeptics.<\/span><\/a> Child Development, 84, <\/span><\/i>1491-1495.\u00a0<\/span>

Ma, L. & Woolley, J. D. (2013). <\/span>Children\u2019s sensitivity to speaker gender when learning from others.<\/span><\/a> Journal of Cognition and Development<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>14<\/span><\/i>(1), 100-119.<\/span>

Walker, D. F., Doverspike, W., Ahmed, S., Milevsky, A. & Woolley, J. D. (2012).\u00a0<\/span>Prayer.<\/span><\/a> In Walker, D. F., & Hathaway, W. L. (Eds.), <\/span>Spiritual interventions in\u00a0child and adolescent psychotherapy<\/span><\/i>. American Psychological Association.<\/span>

Woolley, J.D., Ma. L. & Lopez-Mobilia, G. (2011). <\/span>Development of the use of\u00a0conversational cues to assess reality status.<\/span><\/a> Journal of Cognition and\u00a0Development<\/span><\/i>, 12, 537-555.\u00a0<\/span>

Vaden, V. C. & Woolley, J. D. (2011). <\/span>Does God make it real? Children\u2019s belief in\u00a0religious stories from the Judeo-Christian tradition.<\/span><\/a> Child Development, 82, <\/span><\/i>1120- 1135.\u00a0<\/span>

Woolley, J. D., Cornelius, C., & Lacy, W. (2011). <\/span>Developmental changes in the use of\u00a0supernatural explanations for unusual events.<\/span><\/a> Journal of Cognition and Culture,\u00a011, <\/span><\/i>311-337.\u00a0<\/span>

Boerger, E. A., Tullos, S. A. & Woolley, J. D. (2009). <\/span>Return of the Candy Witch:\u00a0Individual differences in acceptance and stability of beliefs in a novel fantastical\u00a0being<\/span><\/a>. <\/span>British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 27 <\/span><\/i>(4), 953-970.\u00a0<\/span>

Tullos, A. & Woolley, J. D. (2009). <\/span>The development of children\u2019s ability to use\u00a0evidence to infer reality status.<\/span><\/a> Child Development, 80<\/span><\/i>, 101-114.\u00a0<\/span>

Woolley, J. D. & Tullos, S. A. (2008). <\/span>Imagination and fantasy.<\/span><\/a> In M. M. Haith & J. B.\u00a0Benson (Eds.), <\/span>Encyclopedia of Infant and Early Childhood Development<\/span><\/i>, 2nd\u00a0edition. Oxford, U.K.: Elsevier, 117-127.\u00a0<\/span>

Woolley, J.D. & Cox, V. (2007). <\/span>Development of beliefs about storybook reality.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Developmental Science, 10(5), <\/span><\/i>681-693.\u00a0<\/span>

Woolley, J. D. (2006). <\/span>Verbal-behavioral dissociations in development.<\/span><\/a> Child\u00a0Development<\/span><\/i>, 77, 1539-1553.<\/span>

Woolley, J. D. & Van Reet, J. (2006). <\/span>Effects of context on judgments of the reality status of novel entities.<\/span><\/a> Child Development<\/span><\/i>, 77, 1778-1793.\u00a0<\/span>

Woolley, J. D., Browne, C. A. & Boerger, E. A. (2006). <\/span>Constraints on children\u2019s judgments of magical causality.<\/span><\/a> Journal of Cognition and Development<\/span><\/i>. 7(2),\u00a0253-277.<\/span>

Woolley, J. D., Boerger, E. A., & Markman, A. (2004). <\/span>A visit from the Candy Witch:\u00a0Children\u2019s belief in a novel fantastical entity.<\/span><\/a> Developmental Science, 7<\/span><\/i>, 456-468<\/span>.<\/span><\/i>

Browne, C. A. & Woolley, J. D. (2004). <\/span>Preschoolers\u2019 magical explanations for\u00a0violations of physical, social, and mental laws.<\/span><\/a> Journal of Cognition and\u00a0 Development 5(2), <\/span><\/i>239-260.<\/span>

Sharon, T. & Woolley, J. D. (2004). <\/span>Do monsters dream? Children\u2019s understanding of\u00a0the fantasy-reality distinction.<\/span><\/a> British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 22<\/span><\/i>,\u00a0 293-310.\u00a0<\/span>

Woolley, J. D. (2003). <\/span>The fantasy\/reality distinction revisited: The case of imaginary\u00a0companions.<\/span><\/a> Review of Taylor, M. (1999). Imaginary companions and the\u00a0children who create them. New York\/Oxford: Oxford University Press. <\/span>Social\u00a0Development, 12<\/span><\/i>, 622-625.<\/span>

Woolley, J. D. (2002). <\/span>Young children\u2019s understanding of pretense and other fictional\u00a0mental states.<\/span><\/a> In Robert W. Mitchell (Ed.), <\/span>Pretending in animals and children.\u00a0<\/span><\/i>Cambridge University Press.\u00a0<\/span>

Davis, D. L., Woolley, J. D., & Bruell, M. J. (2002). <\/span>Young children\u2019s understanding of\u00a0pretense as a mental representation.<\/span><\/a> British Journal of Developmental\u00a0Psychology<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>20<\/span><\/i>, 25-45.\u00a0<\/span>

Woolley, J. D. & Boerger, E. A. (2002). Development of beliefs about the origins and controllability of dreams.<\/span><\/a> Developmental Psychology, 38<\/span><\/i>, 24-31.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>

Woolley, J. D. & Phelps, K. E. (2001). <\/span>The development of children\u2019s beliefs about\u00a0prayer.<\/span><\/a> Journal of Cognition and Culture, 1<\/span><\/i>(2)<\/span>, <\/span><\/i>139-167.\u00a0<\/span>

Browne, C. A. & Woolley, J. D. (2001). <\/span>Theory of mind in children\u2019s naming of\u00a0drawings.<\/span><\/a> Journal of Cognition and Development<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>4<\/span><\/i>(2), 389-412.\u00a0<\/span>

Woolley, J. D. (2000). <\/span>The development of beliefs about mental-physical causality in\u00a0imagination, magic, and religion.<\/span><\/a> In K. Rosengren, C. Johnson, & P. L. Harris\u00a0 (Eds.), <\/span>Imagining the impossible: Magical, scientific, and religious thinking in\u00a0children<\/span><\/i>, Cambridge University Press.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>

Woolley, J. D., Phelps, K. E., Davis, D. L. & Mandell, D. J. (1999). <\/span>Where theories of\u00a0mind meet magic: The development of children\u2019s beliefs about wishing.<\/span><\/a> Child\u00a0Development, 70<\/span><\/i>, 571-587.<\/span>

Bruell, M. J. & Woolley, J. D. (1998). <\/span>Young children\u2019s understanding of diversity in\u00a0pretense.<\/span><\/a> Cognitive Development, 13<\/span><\/i>, 257-277.\u00a0<\/span>

Woolley, J. D. (1997). Thinking about fantasy: Are children fundamentally different thinkers and believers from adults?<\/span><\/a> Child Development, 68<\/span><\/i>, 991-1011.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>

Woolley, J. D. (1997). <\/span>Initiating a dialogue.<\/span><\/a> Child Development<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>68, <\/span><\/i>1027-1030.<\/span>

Woolley, J. D. & Bruell, M. (1996). <\/span>Children’s awareness of the origins of their mental\u00a0representations.<\/span><\/a> Developmental Psychology, 32<\/span><\/i>, 335-346.<\/span>

Woolley, J. D. (1995). <\/span>Young children’s understanding of fictional versus epistemic\u00a0mental representations: Imagination and belief.<\/span><\/a> Child Development, 66, <\/span><\/i>1011- 1021.\u00a0<\/span>

Woolley, J. D. (1995). The fictional mind: Young children’s understanding of pretense, imagination and dreams.<\/span> <\/a>Developmental Review, 15, <\/span><\/i>172-211.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>

Perry, M., Woolley, J. D., & Ifcher, J. (1995). <\/span>Adults’ abilities to detect children’s\u00a0readiness to learn.<\/span><\/a> International Journal of Behavioral Development<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>18<\/span><\/i>(2), 365- 381.\u00a0<\/span>

Phelps, K. E. & Woolley, J. D. (1994). <\/span>The form and function of children’s magical\u00a0beliefs.<\/span><\/a> Developmental Psychology, 30, <\/span><\/i>385-394.<\/span>

Woolley, J. D. & Phelps, K. E. (1994). <\/span>Young children’s practical reasoning about\u00a0imagination.<\/span><\/a> British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 12, <\/span><\/i>53-67.\u00a0<\/span>

Woolley, J. D. ( 1993). <\/span>The developing mind.<\/span><\/a> Review of E.V. Subbotsky, Foundations of\u00a0the mind: Children’s understanding of reality. <\/span>Science, 262, <\/span><\/i>926-927.\u00a0<\/span>

Woolley, J. D. & Wellman, H. M. (1993). <\/span>Origin and truth: Young children’s\u00a0understanding of imaginary mental representations.<\/span><\/a> Child Development, 64, <\/span><\/i>1-17.\u00a0<\/span>

Woolley, J. D. & Wellman, H. M. (1992). <\/span>Children’s conceptions of dreams.<\/span><\/a> Cognitive\u00a0Development<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>7<\/span><\/i>, 365-380.<\/span>

Woolley, J. D. & Wellman, H. M. (1990). <\/span>To adopt the intentional stance?<\/span><\/a> (A peer\u00a0commentary), <\/span>Psychological Inquiry, 1<\/span><\/i>(3)<\/span>, <\/span><\/i>275-277.<\/span>

Woolley, J. D. & Wellman, H. M. (1990). <\/span>Young children’s understanding of realities,\u00a0non-realities, and appearances.<\/span><\/a> Child Development<\/span><\/i>, <\/span>61<\/span><\/i>, 946-961.<\/span>

Wellman, H. M. & Woolley, J. D. (1990). <\/span>From simple desires to ordinary beliefs: The\u00a0early development of everyday psychology.<\/span><\/a> Cognition, 35, <\/span><\/i>245-275.<\/span>

Estes, D., Wellman, H. M. & Woolley, J. D. (1989). <\/span>Children’s understanding of mental\u00a0phenomena.<\/span><\/a> In H. G. Reese (Ed.), <\/span>Advances in Child Development and Behavior,\u00a0Vol. 22.\u00a0<\/span><\/i>

Just, M. A., Carpenter, P. A., & Woolley, J. D. (1982). <\/span>Paradigms and processes in\u00a0reading comprehension.<\/span><\/a> Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 111<\/span><\/i>(2),\u00a0 228-238.<\/span>

Miczek, K. A., Woolley, J., Schlisserman, S., & Yoshimura, H. (1980). Analysis of amphetamine effects on agonistic and affiliative behavior in squirrel monkeys.<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior, 14, <\/span><\/i>Suppl. 1, 103-107.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Click on the links below to see our previous scientific publications. Brenner, J., Steele, K., & Woolley, J. D. (2025). Children learn cause-and-effect\u00a0relations from fantastical and realistic storybooks. Journal of Experimental Child\u00a0Psychology, 253, 106198. Nissel, J., Xu, J., Wu, L., Bricken, Z., Clegg, J.M., Li, H., & Woolley, J. D. (2024). Why\u00a0wearing a yellow hat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":261,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-no-title","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-444","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"mev855","author_link":"https:\/\/labs.la.utexas.edu\/imagcoglab\/author\/mev855\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Click on the links below to see our previous scientific publications. Brenner, J., Steele, K., & Woolley, J. D. (2025). Children learn cause-and-effect\u00a0relations from fantastical and realistic storybooks. Journal of Experimental Child\u00a0Psychology, 253, 106198. Nissel, J., Xu, J., Wu, L., Bricken, Z., Clegg, J.M., Li, H., & Woolley, J. D. (2024). Why\u00a0wearing a yellow hat…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.la.utexas.edu\/imagcoglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.la.utexas.edu\/imagcoglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.la.utexas.edu\/imagcoglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.la.utexas.edu\/imagcoglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/261"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labs.la.utexas.edu\/imagcoglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":93,"href":"https:\/\/labs.la.utexas.edu\/imagcoglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1765,"href":"https:\/\/labs.la.utexas.edu\/imagcoglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/444\/revisions\/1765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labs.la.utexas.edu\/imagcoglab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}