How do people explain social change?

Lewry, C. & Lombrozo, T. (2026). Responsibility for inequality: A framework and review. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 17456916251393206. (PDF)

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)

What motivates collective action?

Lewry, C. & Lombrozo, T. (2025). What motivates individuals to engage in collective action? Moral responsibility, not causal responsibility, drives voting. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 47).

Lewry, C. & Lombrozo, T. (under review). Causal and moral responsibility play distinct roles in voting.

Lewry, C., Lombrozo, T., & Peretz-Lange, R. (in prep). How do perceived moral and causal responsibility
shape children’s voting behaviors?

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?

Liquin, E. G., Callaway, F., Lewry, C., & Lombrozo, T. (under review) A computational approach to disentangling the triggers of curiosity in children and adults. 

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)