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Binz, M., Akata, E., Almaatouq, A., Alsobay, M., Ariasov, O., Brändle, F., Broska, D., Burton, J. W., Busch, N., Callaway, F., Cheung, V., Christian, B., Coda-Forno, J., Demircan, C., Dentella, V., Eckstein, M. K., Éltető, N., Franke, M., Griffiths, T. L., … Schulz, E. (2026). Post-training makes large language models less human-like. (preprint)
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Liang, K., Hu, H., Liu, R., Griffiths, T. L., & Fisac, J. F. (2026). RLHS: Mitigating misalignment in RLHF with hindsight simulation. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2026, 11457-11483. (pdf)
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Lieder, F., Callaway, F., & Griffiths, T. L. (2026). The Rational Use of Cognitive Resources. Princeton University Press.
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Maier, M., Lieder, F., & Griffiths, T. L. (2026). How The Bias-Variance Tradeoff Shapes Human Strategy Selection. (preprint)
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Radulescu, A., van Opheusden, B., Callaway, F., Griffiths, T. L., & Hillis, J. M. (2026). A resource-rational account of human eye movements during immersive visual search. Open Mind, 10, 91–117. (pdf)
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Binz, M., Akata, E., Bethge, M., Brändle, F., Callaway, F., Coda-Forno, J., Dayan, P., Demircan, C., Eckstein, M. K., Éltető, N., Griffiths, T. L., Haridi, S., Jagadish, A. K., Ji-An, L., Kipnis, A., Kumar, S., Ludwig, T., Mathony, M., Mattar, M., Modirshanechi, A., Nath, S. S., Peterson, J. C., Rmus, M., Russek, E. M., Saanum, T., Scharfenberg, N., Schubert, J. A., Schulze Buschoff, L. M., Singhi, N., Sui, X., Thalmann, M., Theis, F., Truong, V., Udandarao, V., Voudouris, K., Wilson, R., Witte, K., Wu, S., Wulff, D., Xiong, H., & Schulz, E. (2025). A foundation model to predict and capture human cognition. Nature. (pdf)
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Correa, C. G., Sanborn, S., Ho, M. K., Callaway, F., Daw, N. D., & Griffiths, T. L. (2025). Exploring the hierarchical structure of human plans via program generation. Cognition, 255, 105990. (pdf)
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Frömer, R., Callaway, F., Griffiths, T. L., & Shenhav, A. (2025). Considering what we know and what we won't know: Expectations and Confidence guide value integration in value-based decision-making. Open Mind: Dicoveries in Cognitive Science, 9, 791-813. (pdf)
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Gelpí, R. A., Whalen, A., Griffiths, T. L., Xu, F., & Buchsbaum, D. (2025). Can children and adults balance majority size with information quality in learning from preferences? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. (pdf)
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Liang, K., Hu, H., Zhao, X., Song, D., Griffiths, T. L., & Fisac, J. F. (2025) Machine Bullshit: Characterizing the Emergent Disregard for Truth in Large Language Models. (preprint)
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Musslick, S., Bartlett, L. K., Chandramouli, S. H., Dubova, M., Gobet, F., Griffiths, T. L., Hullman, J., King, R. D., Kutz, J. N., Lucas, C. G., Mahesh, S., Pestilli, F., Sloman, S. J., & Holmes, W. R. (2025). Automating the practice of science: Opportunities, challenges, and implications. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 122(5), e2401238121. (pdf)
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Plonsky, O., Apel, R., Ert, E., Tennenholtz, M., Bourgin, D., Peterson, J. C., Reichman, D., Griffiths, T. L., Russell, S. J., Carter, E. C., Cavanagh, J. F., & Erev, I. (2025). Predicting human decisions with behavioural theories and machine learning. Nature Human Behaviour, 9(11), 2271–2284. (pdf)
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Ying, L., Collins, K. M., Sharma, P., Colas, C., Zhao, K. I., Weller, A., Tavares, Z., Isola, P., Gershman, S. J., Andreas, J. D., Griffiths, T. L., Chollet, F., Allen, K. R., & Tenenbaum, J. B. (2025). Assessing adaptive world models in machines with novel games. (preprint)
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Allen, K., Brändle, F., Botvinick, M., Fan, J. E., Gershman, S. J., Gopnik, A., Griffiths, T. L., Hartshorne, J. K., Hauser, T. U., Ho, M., de Leeuw, J. R., Ma, W. J., Murayama, K., Nelson, J. D., van Opheusden, B., Pouncy, T., Rafner, J., Rahwan, I., Rutledge, R. B., Sherson, J., Şimşek, Ö., Spiers, H., Summerfield, C., Thalmann, M., Vélez, N., Watrous, A. J., Tenenbaum, J. B., & Schulz, E. (2024). Using games to understand the mind. Nature Human Behaviour, 8, 1035–1043. (pdf)
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Krueger, P. M., Callaway, F., Gul, S., Griffiths, T. L., & Lieder, F. (2024). Identifying resource-rational heuristics for risky choice. Psychological Review, 131(4), 905–951. (pdf)
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F. and Griffiths, T. L.hp?author=A.">A., Bullopublications.php?author=R.">R., Gokhaleblications.php?author=">Marjieh, R., Gokhale, A., Bullo, F. and Griffiths, T. L. (2024). Task allocation in teams as a multi-armed bandit. In Proceedings of Collective Intelligence 2024. (pdf)
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Russek, E. M., Callaway, F., & Griffiths, T. L. (2024). Inverting cognitive models with neural networks to infer preferences from fixations. Cognitive Science, 48(11), e70015. (pdf)
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Tian, Y., Ravichander, A., Qin, L., Bras, R. L., Marjieh, R., Peng, N., Choi, Y., Griffiths, T. L., & Brahman, F. (2024). MacGyver: Are large language models creative problem solvers? 25th Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (pdf)
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Brinkmann, L., Baumann, F., Bonnefon, J., Derex, M., Müller, T. F., Nussberger, A., Czaplicka, A., Acerbi, A., Griffiths, T. L., Henrich, J., Leibo, J. Z., McElreath, R., Oudeyer, P., Stray, J., & Rahwan, I. (2023). Machine culture. Nature Human Behaviour, 7(11), 1855-1868.(pdf)
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Callaway, F., Griffiths, T. L., & Karreskog, G. (2023). Rational heuristics for one-shot games. (preprint)
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Callaway, F., Griffiths, T. L., Norman, K. A., & Zhang, Q. (2023). Optimal metacognitive control of memory recall. Psychological Review, 131(3), 781–811. (pdf)
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Callaway, F., Hardy, M., & Griffiths, T. L. (2023). Optimal nudging for cognitively bounded agents: A framework for modeling, predicting, and controlling the effects of choice architectures. Psychological Review, 130(6), 1457–1491. (pdf)
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Chang, M., Dayan, A. L., Meier, F., Griffiths, T. L., Levine, S., & Zhang, A. (2023). Neural Constraint Satisfaction: Hierarchical abstraction for combinatorial generalization in object rearrangement. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Learning Representations. (pdf)
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Correa, C. G., Ho, M. K., Callaway, F., Daw, N. D., Griffiths, T. L. (2023). Humans decompose tasks by trading off utility and computational cost. PLOS Computational Biology, 19(6), e1011087. (pdf)
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Jain, Y. R., Callaway, F., Griffiths, T. L., Dayan, P., He, R., Krueger, P. M., & Lieder, F. (2023). A computational process-tracing method for measuring people’s planning strategies and how they change over time. Behavior Research Methods, 55, 2037–2079. (pdf)
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Li, M. Y., Callaway, F., Thompson, W. D., Adams, R., & Griffiths, T. L. (2023). Learning to learn functions. Cognitive Science, 47(4), e13262. (pdf)
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Reichman, D., Lieder, F., Bourgin, D. D., Talmon, N., & Griffiths, T. L. (2023). The computational challenges of means selection problems: Network structure of Goal Systems predicts human performance. Cognitive Science, 47(8), e13330. (pdf)
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Xia, F., Zhu, J., & Griffiths, T. (2023). Comparing human predictions from expert advice to on-line optimization algorithms. 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Callaway, F., Jain, Y. R., van Opheusden, B., Das, P., Iwama, G., Gul, S., Krueger, P. M., Becker, F., Griffiths, T. L., & Lieder, F. (2022). Leveraging artificial intelligence to improve people’s planning strategies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(12), e2117432119. (pdf)
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Callaway, F., van Opheusden, B., Gul, S., Das, P., Krueger, P. M., Griffiths, T. L., & Lieder, F. (2022). Rational use of cognitive resources in human planning. Nature Human Behaviour, 6, 1–14. (pdf)
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Callaway, F., Rangel, A., & Griffiths, T. L. (2021). Fixation patterns in simple choice reflect optimal information sampling. PLOS Computational Biology, 17(3), e1008863. (pdf)
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Gates, V., Callaway, F., Ho, M. K., Griffiths, T. (2021). A rational model of people's inferences about others' preferences based on response times. Cognition, 217, 104885. (pdf)
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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)
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Milli, S., Lieder, F., & Griffiths, T. L. (2021). A rational reinterpretation of dual-process theories. Cognition, 217, 104881. (pdf)
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Callaway, F., Hardy, M., & Griffiths, T. L. (2020). Optimal nudging. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Correa, C. G.*, Ho, M. K.*, Callaway, F., & Griffiths, T. L. (2020). Resource-rational Task Decomposition to Minimize Planning Costs. Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Lieder, F., & Griffiths, T. L. (2020). Resource-rational analysis: Understanding human cognition as the optimal use of limited computational resources. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43, e1. (pdf) (Response to Commentaries)
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Jupyter, P., Blank, D., Bourgin, D., Brown, A., Bussonnier, M., Frederic, J., Granger, B., Griffiths, T. L., Hamrick, J., Kelley, K., Pacer, M., Page, L., Perez, F., Ragan-Kelley, B., Suchow, J. W., & Willing, C. (2019). nbgrader: A tool for creating and grading assignments in the Jupyter notebook. Journal of Open Source Education, 2(11), 32. (pdf)
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Lieder, F., Chen, O. X., Krueger, P. M., & Griffiths, T. L. (2019). Cognitive prostheses for goal achievement. Nature Human Behaviour, 3(10), 1096-1106. (pdf)
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Griffiths, T. L., Callaway, F., Chang, M. B., Grant, E., Krueger, P. M., & Lieder, F. (2019). Doing more with less: meta-reasoning and meta-learning in humans and machines. Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 29, 24-30. (pdf)
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Lieder, F., Callaway, F., Jain, Y. R., Krueger, P. M., Das, P., Gul, S., & Griffiths, T. L. (2019). A cognitive tutor for helping people overcome present bias. Proceedings of the Fourth Multidisciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making. (pdf)
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Reichman, D., Lieder, F., Bourgin, D. D., Talmon, N., & Griffiths, T. L. (2018). The computational challenges of pursuing multiple goals: Network structure of goal systems predicts human performance. (preprint)
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Lieder, F., Shenhav, A., Musslick, S., & Griffiths, T.L. (2018). Rational metareasoning and the plasticity of cognitive control. PLoS Computational Biology, 14, e1006043. (pdf)
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Lieder, F., Griffiths, T. L., Huys, Q. J. M., & Goodman, N. D. (2018). Empirical evidence for resource-rational anchoring and adjustment. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 25, 775-784. (pdf)
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Lieder, F., Griffiths, T. L., Huys, Q. J. M., & Goodman, N. D. (2018). The anchoring bias reflects rational use of cognitive resources. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 25, 322-349. (pdf)
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Lieder, F., Griffiths, T. L., & Hsu, M (2018). Over-representation of extreme events in decision making reflects rational use of cognitive resources. Psychological Review, 125(1), 1-32. (pdf)
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Callaway, F., Gul, S., Krueger, P. M., Griffiths, T. L., & Lieder, F. (2018). Learning to select computations. Proceedings of the 35th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence. (pdf)
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Callaway, F., Lieder, F., Das, P., Gul, S., Krueger, P. M., & Griffiths, T. L. (2018). A resource-rational analysis of human planning. Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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de Heer, W. A., Huth, A. G., Griffiths, T. L., Gallant, J. L., & Theunissen, F. E. (2017). The hierarchical cortical organization of human speech processing. Journal of Neuroscience, 37(27), 6539-6557. (pdf)
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Lieder, F., & Griffiths, T. L. (2017). Strategy selection as rational metareasoning. Psychological Review, 124(6), 762-794. (pdf)
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Shenhav, A., Musslick, S., Lieder, F., Kool, W., Griffiths, T. L., Cohen, J. D., & Botvinick, M. M. (2017). Toward a rational and mechanistic account of mental effort. Annual Review of Neuroscience.(pdf)
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Fisac, J. F., Gates, M. A., Hamrick, J. B., Liu, C., Hadfield-Menell, D., Palaniappan, M., Malik, D., Sastry, S. S., Griffiths, T. L., & Dragan, A. D. (2017). Pragmatic-Pedagogic Value Alignment. International Symposium on Robotics Research. (pdf)
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Meng, Y., Griffiths, T. L., & Xu, F. (2017). Inferring intentional agents from violation of randomness. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Bourgin, D. D., Lieder, F., Reichman, D., Talmon, N., & Griffiths, T. L. (2017). The structure of goal systems predicts human performance. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Krueger, P. M., Lieder, F., & Griffiths, T. L. (2017). Enhancing metacognitive reinforcement learning using reward structures and feedback. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Lieder, F., Krueger, P. M., & Griffiths, T. L. (2017). An automatic method for discovering rational heuristics for risky choice. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Callaway, F., Hamrick, J. B., & Griffiths, T. L. (2017). Discovering simple heuristics from mental simulation. Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Milli, S., Lieder, F., & Griffiths, T. L. (2017) When does bounded-optimal metareasoning favor few cognitive systems? Proceedings of the 31st AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. (pdf)
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Huth, A. G., de Heer, W. A., Griffiths, T. L., Theunissen, F. E., & Gallant, J. L. (2016). Natural speech reveals the semantic maps that tile the human cerebral cortex. Nature, 532 453-458. (pdf)
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Ruggeri, A., Lombrozo, T., Griffiths, T. L., & Xu, F. (2016). Sources of developmental change in the efficiency of information search. Developmental Psychology, 52, 2159-2173. (pdf)
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Fisac, J. F., Liu, C., Hamrick, J. B., Sastry, S., Hedrick, J. K., Griffiths, T. L., & Dragan, A. D. (2016). Generating plans that predict themselves. In Proceedings of the 12th International Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (WAFR 2016). (pdf)
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Lieder, F., & Griffiths, T. L. (2016). Helping people make better decisions using optimal gamification Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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O'Grady, S., Griffiths, T. L., & Xu, F. (2016). Do simple probability judgements rely on integer approximation? Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Liu, C., Hamrick, J. B., Fisac, J. F., Dragan, A. D, Hendrick, J. K., Sastry, S. S, & Griffiths, T. L. (2016). Goal inference improves objective and perceived performance in human-robot collaboration. Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems. (pdf)
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Hu, J., Lucas, C. G., Griffiths, T. L., & Xu, F. (2015). Preschoolers' understanding of graded preferences. Cognitive Development, 36, 93-102. (pdf)
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Griffiths, T. L., Lieder, F., & Goodman, N. D. (2015). Rational use of cognitive resources: Levels of analysis between the computational and the algorithmic. Topics in Cognitive Science, 7, 217-229. (pdf)
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Hu, J., Whalen, A., Buchsbaum, D., Griffiths, T. L., & Xu, F. (2015). Can children balance the size of a majority with the quality of their information? Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Lieder, F., & Griffiths, T. L. (2015). When to use which heuristic: A rational solution to the strategy selection problem. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Lieder, F., Sim, Z., Hu, J. C., & Griffiths, T. L. (2015). Children and adults differ in their strategies for social learning. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Ruggeri, A., Lombrozo, T., Griffiths, T. L., & Xu, F. (2015). Children search for information as efficiently as adults, but seek additional confirmatory evidence. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Lieder, F., Plunkett, D., Hamrick, J. B., Russell, S. J., Hay, N. J., & Griffiths, T. L. (2014). Algorithm selection by rational metareasoning as a model of human strategy selection. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 27. (pdf)
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Lucas, C. G., Griffiths, T. L., Xu, F., Fawcett, C., Gopnik, A., Kushnir, T., Markson, L., & Hu, J. (2014). The child as econometrician: A rational model of preference understanding in children. PLOS One, 9(3), e92160. (pdf)
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Lieder, F., Hsu, M., & Griffiths, T. L. (2014). The high availability of extreme events serves resource-rational decision-making. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Hu, J.. C, Buchsbaum, D., Griffiths, T. L., & Xu, F. (2013). When does the majority rule? Preschoolers' trust in majority informants varies by task domain. Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Lieder, F., Griffiths, T. L., & Goodman, N. D. (2012). Burn-in, bias, and the rationality of anchoring. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 25. (pdf)
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Bugnyar, T., Boyd, R., Bossan, B., Gächter, S., Griffiths, T., Hammerstein, P., Jensen, K., Mussweiler, T., Nagel, R., & Warneken, F. (2012). Evolutionary perspectives on social cognition. In P. Hammerstein & J. R. Stevens (Eds.) Evolution and the Mechanisms of Decision Making: Toward a Darwinian Decision Theory. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. (book)
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Perfors, A., Tenenbaum, J. B., Griffiths, T. L., & Xu, F. (2011). A tutorial introduction to Bayesian models of cognitive development. Cognition, 120, 302-321. (pdf)
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Griffiths, T. L., & Reali, F. (2011). Modelling minds as well as populations. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B. (pdf)
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Waisman, A. S., Lucas, C. G., Griffiths, T. L., & Jacobs, L. F. (2011). A Bayesian model of navigation in squirrels. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Reali, F., & Griffiths, T. L. (2010). Words as alleles: Connecting language evolution with Bayesian learners to models of genetic drift. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B, 277, 429-436. (pdf)
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Reali, F., & Griffiths, T. L. (2009). The evolution of linguistic frequency distributions: Relating regularization to inductive biases through iterated learning. Cognition, 111, 317-328. (pdf)
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Lucas, C., Griffiths, T. L., Xu, F., & Fawcett, C. (2009). A rational model of preference learning and choice prediction by children. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 21. (pdf)
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Levy, R., Reali, F., & Griffiths, T. L. (2009). Modeling the effects of memory on human online sentence processing with particle filters. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 21. (pdf)
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Reali, F., & Griffiths, T. L. (2008). The evolution of frequency distributions: Relating regularization to inductive biases through iterated learning. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Xu, J., Reali, F., & Griffiths, T. L. (2008). A formal analysis of cultural evolution by replacement. Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. (pdf)
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Wood, F., & Griffiths, T. L. (2007). Particle filtering for nonparametric Bayesian matrix factorization. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 19. (pdf)
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Wood, F., Griffiths, T. L., & Ghahramani, Z. (2006). A non-parametric Bayesian method for inferring hidden causes. Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2006). (pdf)

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