2024 - Present​​​

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• Landers, M., & Shaw, A. (in press) Green-Eyed Monster or Green-Eyed Mirage? A New Procedure for Telling When Begrudging Others’ Success is or is Not Envy. Emotion

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• Hok., H., Silva, G., Shaw, A., Yang, F., (in press). Who should have a voice? Children’s evaluations of universalist versus exclusive voting. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

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• Morris, B., Yurovsky, D., & Shaw, A. (in press). Um…” Thinking out loud: Children infer the social meaning of speech disfluencies. Child Development.

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• Vasquez, K., & Shaw, A. (2026). Good person, but bad friend: Children’s developing evaluations of tattling. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 264, 106439.

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• Richardson, E., Hok, H., Shaw, A., & Keil, F. (2025). Herding cats: children and adults infer slower collective decisions from teams with more people or factions, but disagree about whether strong consensus speeds up decisions. Cognition, 263, 106211. 

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• Hok, H., Gerdin, E., Zhao, X., Shaw, A. (2025). When should the majority rule?: Children’s developing intuitions about majority rules voting. Cognition, 260, e106128.  

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• Santhanagopalan, R., Hok, H., Shaw, A., & Kinzler, K. D. (2025). The ontogeny of attitudes toward migrants. Developmental Science, 28, e13599.

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• Berry, Z., Silver, I., & Shaw, A. (2024). Moral paragons, but crummy friends: The case of snitching. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied.

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• Hok, H., Vasquez, K., Barakzai, A., & Shaw, A. (2024). The nonmeek inherit the earth: Children generalize dominance, but not submissiveness. Developmental Psychology, 60, 1187-1202.

2019 - 2023​

 

• Ayalon, O., Hok, H., Shaw, A., & Gordon, G. (2023). When it is ok to give the Robot Less: Children’s Fairness Intuitions Towards Robots. International Journal of Social Robotics, 15, 1581-1601​

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• Silver, I., & Shaw, A. (2022) When and why 'staying out of it' backfires in moral and political disagreements. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

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• Gordon-Hecker, T., Shaw, A. & Choshen-Hillel, S. (2022). One for me, two for you: Agency increases children’s satisfaction with disadvantageous inequity. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology.

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• Good, K., & Shaw, A. (2022). Being versus appearing smart: Children’s developing intuitions about how reputational motives guide behavior. Child Development, 93, 418-436. 

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• Good, K., & Shaw, A. (2021). Achieving a good impression: Reputation management and performance goals. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science. e1552.

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• Hok, H., Martin, A., Trail, Z., & Shaw, A. (2020). When children treat condemnation as a signal: The costs and benefits of condemnation. Child Development, 91, 1439-1455.

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• Hurst, M., Shaw, A., Chernyak, N., & Levine, S. (2020). Giving a larger amount or a larger proportion: Stimulus format impacts children’s social evaluations. Developmental Psychology, 56, 2212-2222.

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• Liberman, Z. & Shaw, A. (2020). Even his friend said he’s bad: Children think personal alliances bias gossip. Cognition. 
    

• Choshen-Hillel, S., Shaw, A., & Caruso, E. (2020). Lying to appear honest. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General 
   

• Liberman., Z., ^Gerdin, E., Kinzler, K.,  & Shaw, A. (2020).  (Un)common knowledge: Children use social relationships to determine who knows what. Developmental Science.

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• Echelbarger, M., Good, K., & Shaw, A. (2020). Will she give you two cookies for one chocolate?: Children's intuitions about trade. Judgement and Decision Making, 15, 959-971.

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• Bregant, J., Caruso, E., & Shaw, A. (2020). Crime because Punishment? The Inferential Psychology of Morality and Punishment. University of Illinois Law Review, 2020, 1177-1207

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• Shaw, A. & Choshen-Hillel, S. (2020). Who are “we”? Dealing with conflicting moral obligations. Commentary in Behavior and Brain Sciences. 
   

• Huppert., E. Shaw, A., & Decety, J. (2020). The effect of hunger on children’s sharing behavior and fairness preferences. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology​​

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• Choshen-Hillel, S., *Lin, Z., & Shaw, A. (2020). Children weigh equity and efficiency in making allocation decisions: Evidence from the US, Israel, and China. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.

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• Shaw, A., Barakzai, A., & Keysar, B. (2019). When negative reciprocity is more fair than positive reciprocity. Cognitive Science.

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• Liberman, Z., & Shaw, A. (2019). Children use similarity, propinquity, and loyalty to predict which people are friends. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 184, 1-17
   

• Bregant, J., Wellbery, I., & Shaw, A. (2019). Crime, but not punishment? Children are more lenient when the “spirit of the law” is unbroken. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 178, 266-282. 

2015 - 2018

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• Liberman., Z., & Shaw, A. (2018). Secret to friendship: Children make inferences about friendship based on secret sharing. Developmental Psychology, 54, 2139-2151.

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• Kardas, M., Shaw, A., & Caruso, E. (2018). How to give away your cake and eat it too: Relinquishing control prompts reciprocal generosity. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 15, 1054-1074. 

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• Barakzai, A., & Shaw, A. (2018). Friends without benefits: When “helpful” friends are worse than unhelpful friends. Evolution and Human Behavior,  5, 529-537. 

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• Shaw, A., Choshen-Hillel, S., & Caruso, E. (2018). Being biased against friends to appear unbiased. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, ​​78, 104-115. 

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• Choshen-Hillel, S., Shaw, A., & Caruso, E. (2018). Disadvantaged but not dissatisfied: Agency interventions ameliorate negative reactions to unequal pay. Journal of Experiment Psychology: Applied,  24, 578-599. 

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• Silver, I. & Shaw, A. (2018). Pint-sized public relations: Developing reputation management. Trends in Cognitive Science, 22, 277-279.​​

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• Silver, I., & Shaw, A. (2018). No harm still foul: Concerns with reputation drive dislike of harmless plagiarizers. Cognitive Science, 42, 213-240. ​​​​​​​​​

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• DeScioli, P., Shaw, A., & Delton, A. (2018). Share the wealth: Redistribution can increase economic efficiency. Political Behavior, 40, 279-300. 

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• Shaw, A., & Choshen-Hillel, S. (2017). It’s not fair: Folk intuitions about disadvantageous and advantageous inequity aversion. Judgment and Decision Making, 12, 208-223.

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• Shaw, A., DeScioli, P., Barakzai, A., & Kurzban, K. (2017). Whoever is not with me is against me: The costs of neutrality amoung friends. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 71, 96-104.

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• Liberman, Z., & Shaw, A. (2017). Children use partial sharing as a cue to friendship. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 159, 97-109.

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• ​​Shaw, A., Choshen-Hillel, S., & Caruso, E. (2016). The development of inequity aversion: Understanding when (and why) people give others the bigger piece of the pie. Psychological Science, 27, 1352-1359. 

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• Tu, Y., Shaw, A., & Fishbach,A (2016). The friendly taking effect: How interpersonal closeness leads to a seemingly  selfish yet jointly maximizing choice.  Journal of Consumer Research, 42, 669-687. 

  

• Bregant, J., Shaw, A, & Kinzler, K. (2016). Intuitive jurisprudence: Early reasoning about the functions of punishment.  Journal of Empirical Legal Studies.

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• Shaw, A. (2016). Fairness: What it isn’t, what it is, and what it might be for. Evolutionary Perspectives on Child Development and Education. (pp. 193-214) Springer International Publishing.

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• Phillips, S.J., & Shaw, A. (2015). Manipulating morality: Third-party intentions alter moral judgments by changing causal reasoning. Cognitive Science, 6, 1320-1347. 

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• Shaw, A., & Olson, K.R. (2015). Whose idea is it anyway: The importance of reputation in acknowledgement.  Developmental Science, 18, 502-509.

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• Choshen-Hillel, S., Shaw, A., & Caruso, E. (2015). Waste management: How reducing partiality can promote efficient resource allocation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 109, 210-231. 

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• Pietraszewski, D. & Shaw, A. (2015). Not by strength alone: Children’s conflict expectations follow the logic of the asymmetric war of attrition. Human Nature, 26, 44-72. 

2011 - 2014

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• Shaw, A., Montinari, N., Piovesan, M., Olson, K.R., Gino, F., & Norton, M.I. (2014). Children develop a veil of fairness. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143, 363-375.

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• Shaw, A., & Olson, K.R. (2014). Fairness as an aversion to partiality: The development of procedural justice. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 119, 40-53.

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• DeScioli, P., Massenkoff, M., Shaw, A., Petersen, M.B., &Kurzban, R (2014). Equity or equality Moral judgments follow the money. Proceedings of the Royal Society – B:Biological Science, 281, 20142112. 

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• Yang, F., Shaw, A., Garduno, E., & Olson, K.R. (2014). No one likes a copy-cat: A cross cultural investigation of children’s response to plagiarism. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 121, 111-119.

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• Shaw, A (2013). Beyond “To share or not to share”: The impartiality account of fairness. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 22, 413-417. 

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• Li, V., Shaw, A., & Olson, K.R. (2013). Ideas versus labor: What do children value in artistic creation? Cognition, 127, 38-45. 

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• Shaw, A., & Knobe, J. (2013). Not all mutualism is fair, and not all fairness is mutualistic. Behavior and Brain Sciences, 36, 100-101.

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• Shaw, A.,  Li, V., & Olson, K.R. (2013). Reputation is everything. In M.Banaji & S.Gelman (Eds.), Navigating the social world (pp. 220-224). New York: Oxford.

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• Shaw, A., & Olson, K.R. (2013). All inequality is not equal: Children correct inequalities using resource value. Frontiers in Emotion Science, 4, 393. 

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• Leimgruber, K., Shaw, A., Santos, L.R., & Olson, K.R. (2012). Young children are more generous when others are aware of their actions. PLoS-ONE, 7, e48292. 

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• Shaw, A., Li, V., & Olson, K.R. (2012). Children apply principles of physical ownership to ideas. Cognitive Science, 36, 1383-1403.

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• Shaw, A., DeScioli, P., & Olson, K.R. (2012). Fairness versus favoritism in children. Evolution and Human Behavior, 33, 736-745. 

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• Shaw, A., & Olson, K.R. (2012). Children discard a resource to avoid inequity. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 141, 382-395. 

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• Shaw, A., & Santos, L.R. (2012). Lab support for strong reciprocity is weak: Punishing for reputation rather than cooperation. Behavior and Brain Sciences, 35, 39.

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• Olson, K.R., & Shaw, A. (2011). “No fair, copycat!”: What children’s response to plagiarism tells us about their understanding of ideas. Developmental Science, 14, 431-439. 

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