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.
A defense of back-end doxastic voluntarism.
Soter, L.K. (2025). Nous.
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.
Reframing epistemic partiality: A case for acceptance.
Soter, L.K., (Forthcoming). Journal of Ethics and Social Philosophy.
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.