How do people explain social change?

Lewry, C., Asifriyaz, S., & Lombrozo, T. (2024). Lay theories of moral progress. Cognitive Science, 48, 11, e70018. (PDF)

Lewry, C., Tsai, G., & Lombrozo, T. (2024). Are ethical explanations explanatory? Meta-ethical beliefs shape judgments about explanations for social change. Cognition, 250, 105860. (PDF)

Lewry, C. & Lombrozo, T. (under review). Responsibility for inequality: A framework and review.

Lewry, C. & Lombrozo, T. (in prep.). Do our theories of moral progress predict whether we vote? Evidence from the 2024 US election. 

How might ChatGPT policies affect students?

Lewry, C., Daniels, J., & Shelton, N. (in prep). Professors’ perceptions of ambiguous ChatGPT use in classrooms may harm Black students.

How do our explanations shape our moral judgments?

Lewry, C., Kelemen, D., & Lombrozo, T. (2023). The moral consequences of teleological beliefs about the human species. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152(12), 3359–3379. (PDF)

What makes kids and adults curious?

Lewry, C., Gorucu, S., Liquin, E.G., & Lombrozo, T. (2023). Minimally-counterintuitive stimuli trigger greater curiosity than merely improbable stimuli. Cognition, 230, 105286. (PDF)

Lewry, C., Curtis, K., Vasilyeva, N., Xu, F., & Griffiths, T. L. (2021). Intuitions about magic track the development of intuitive physics Cognition, 214, 104762. (PDF)