Publications

Curiosity-Driven Learning

Vaisarova, J., Kiefer, S., Şen, H. H., Todd, P., & Lucca, K. (2024). Where should I search next? Messages embedded in storybooks influence children’s strategic exploration in Turkey and the United States. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

Şen, H. H., Kiefer, S., Aksu, E., & Lucca, K. (2024) Developmental differences in children and adults’ enforcement of explore versus exploit search strategies in the United States and Turkey. Developmental Science. doi.org/10.1111/desc.13520

Vaisarova, J. & Lucca, K. (2024) A developmental account of curiosity and creativity. A commentary on Ivancovsky et al. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X23003485.

Sexton, C. L., & Lucca, K. R. (2023). Canine Curiosity: What we do and don’t know, and what human infants could teach us. Animal Behavior and Cognition, 10(4), 355-365. doi:10.26451/abc.10.04.04.2023

Lee, N., Lazaro, V., Wang, J. J., Şen, H., & Lucca, K. (2023). Exploring Individual Differences in Infants’ Looking Preferences for Impossible Events: The Early Multidimensional Curiosity Scale. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 8505.

Mattos, O., Galusca, C., & Lucca, K. (2022) I want to know about my train! Factors driving children’s motivation to learn about individuals. Journal of Cognition & Development.

Lucca, K. The development of information-requesting gestures in infancy and their role in shaping learning outcomes. (2020). The Questioning Child: Insights from Psychology and Education. Butler, L., Ronfard., S., & Corriveau, K. (Eds.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Lucca, K., & Wilbourn, M.P. (2018). The what and the how: Information-seeking pointing gestures facilitate learning object labels and functions in 18-month-olds. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.

Lucca, K., & Wilbourn, M.P. (2016). Communicating to learn: Infants’ pointing gestures reflect an optimal state for learning. Child Development. doi: 10.1111/cdev.12707

Persistence

Kiefer, S., Caballero, A., & Lucca, K. (2023). The role of effort type and intensity in children’s decisions about effort-based outcomes. Infant and Child Development

Lucca, K., Horton, R., & Sommerville, J. (2020). Infants rationally decide when and how to deploy effort. Nature Human Behavior.

Lucca, K., Horton, R., & Sommerville, J. (2019) Keep Trying!: Parental language predicts infants’ persistence. Cognition.

Lucca, K. & Sommerville, J. (2018) The little engine that can: Infants’ persistence matters. Trends in Cognitive Science.

Social Cognition

Lucca, K. and the ManyBabies Consortium (accepted in-principle 2021, Developmental Science). Infants’ social evaluation of helpers and hinderers: A large-scale, multi-lab, coordinated replication study.

Lucca, K.,  Popisil, J, & Sommerville, J. (2018). Fairness informs social decision making in infancy. PLOS ONE.

Sommerville, J., Enright, E., Horton, R., Lucca, K., Sitch, M., & Kirchner-Adelhardt, S. (2018) Infants’ prosocial behavior is governed by cost-benefit analyses. Cognition.

Lucca, K., Hamlin, K., & Sommerville, J. (2019) Early moral cognition and behavior: Editorial. Frontiers in Psychology. (Complete eBook can be found here)

Methods in Infant Cognition and Development

Kominksy, J., Lucca, K., Thomas, A., Frank, M., & Hamlin, K. (2022). Simplicity and validity in infant research. Cognitive Development.

Lucca, K., Gire, D., Horton, R., & Sommerville, J. (2020). Automated measures of force and motion can improve our understanding of infants’ motor persistence. Journal of Motor Development and Learning.

Communication and Cognitive Development

Langley, M., Van Houghton, K., McBeath, M., & Lucca, K. (2023) Children and adults exhibit a common vertical attention bias for object tops and scene bottoms. Developmental Psychology. doi: 10.1037/dev0001553

Lucca, K., MacLean, E., & Hare, B. (2017). The development and flexibility of gaze alternations in bonobos and chimpanzees. Developmental Science. doi: 10.1111/desc.12598

Verdine, B.N., Lucca, K., Chang, A., Golinkoff, R. M., Newcombe, N.S., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2015). The shape of things: The origin of young children’s knowledge of the names and properties of geometric forms. Journal of Cognition and Development. 17(1): 142-161. doi: 10.1080/15248372.2015.1016610

Social Influences on Development

Clifford, B., Eggumm, N., Rogers, A., Porter, C., Gale, M., Sheppard, J., Lucca, K., Rainey, V., Bradley, R., Holmgren, H., & Jones, B. (2024). Mothers’ and Fathers’ Depressive Symptoms across Four Years Postpartum: An examination of between- and bidirectional within-person relations. Journal of Affective Disorders.