Sample Publications
Topics:
Belief & Belief-Adjacent; Communicative Cognition; Episodic Imagination & Construction; Episodic Memory; Moral Psychology
Belief & Belief-Adjacent
Belief’s guidance function: Mechanisms, control, and categorization on the output-side of belief.
Soter, L.K. (Forthcoming). The Oxford Handbook of the Cognitive Science of Belief, Eds. Neil van Leeuwen and Tania Lombrozo.
Children expect prior belief strength to constrain belief revision.
Li, P. H., Soter, L.K., & Kushnir, T. (2026). Cognition,
A defense of back-end doxastic voluntarism.
Soter, L.K. (2025). Nous.
Reframing epistemic partiality: A case for acceptance.
Soter, L.K. (2025). Philosophical Studies.
Acceptance and the ethics of belief.
Soter, L.K. (2023). Philosophical Studies.
Cultural schemas: What they are, how to find them, and what to do once you’ve caught one.
Boutyline, A. & Soter, L.K. (2021). American Sociological Review.
Communicative Cognition
Mnemicity vs. Temporality: Distinguishing between components of episodic representations.
Mahr, J. B. & Schacter, D. (2022). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
The effect of source claims on statement believability and speaker accountability.
Mahr, J. B. & Csibra, G. (2021). Memory & Cognition.
The effect of disagreement on children's source memory performance.
Mahr, J. B., Mascaro, O., Mercier, H., & Csibra, G. (2021). PLoS ONE.
Beyond the explicit/implicit dichotomy: The pragmatics of plausible deniability.
Bonalumi, F.*, Mahr, J. B.*, Paul, M., & Pouscoulos, N. (2023). Review of Philosophy and Psychology. *indicates equal contribution
Episodic Imagination & Construction
Mnemicity vs. Temporality: Distinguishing between components of episodic representations.
Mahr, J. B. & Schacter, D. (2022). Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
The dimensions of episodic simulation.
Mahr, J. B. (2020). Cognition.
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away: How temporal are episodic contents?
Mahr, J. B., Greene, J., & Schacter, D. (2021).Consciousness & Cognition.
Episodic recombination and the role of time in mental travel.
Mahr, J.B. & Schacter, D. (2024). Philosophical Proceedings of the Royal Society: B.
A language of episodic thought?
Mahr, J. B. & Schacter, D. L. (2023). Behavioral and Brain Sciences. (commentary on Quilty-Dunn et al., 2023)
Episodic Memory
Mnemicity - A cognitive gadget?
Mahr, J. B., Van Bergen, P., Sutton, J., Schacter, D., & Heyes, C. (2023). Perspectives on Psychological Science.
Why do we remember? The communicative function of episodic memory.
Mahr, J. B. & Csibra, G. (2018). Behavioral and Brain Sciences. (target article)
Witnessing, remembering, and testifying: Why the past is special for human beings.
Mahr, J. B. & Csibra, G. (2020). Perspectives on Psychological Science.
What is the folk concept of remembering?
Mahr, J. B., Porter, B., Barr, K., ..., Machery, E. (2025). OSF Preprint.
How to become a memory: Individual and collective aspects of mnemicity.
Mahr, J. B. (2023). Topics in Cognitive Science.
Moral Psychology
What we owe ourselves: Investigating people’s evaluations of obligations to the self.
Soter, L.K., Gelman, S.A., & Yang. F. (2025). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
How peer relationships shape adolescents’ reasoning about theft-based moral transgressions.
Soter, L.K., Berg, M., Kross, E., & Gelman, S. A., (2025). Developmental Psychology.
Soter, L.K., Ramirez, V., & Sinnott-Armstrong, W. (2025). Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
Soter, L.K., Berg, M., Gelman, S. A., & Kross, E. (2021). Cognition.