Publications
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Harvey, T. & Blake, P.R. (2022). Developmental risk sensitivity theory: The effects of SES on children’s risky gain and loss decisions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 289(1983), 20220712.
Peretz-Lange, R.**, Harvey, T.*, & Blake, P.R. (2022). From “haves” to “have nots”: Developmental declines in subjective social status reflect children’s growingconsideration of what they do not have. Cognition, 223, 105027.
Peretz-Lange, R.**, Harvey, T.* & Blake, P.R. (2022). Socioeconomic status predicts children’s moral judgments of novel resource distributions. Developmental Science, e13230.
Gerdemann, S.*, McAuliffe, K., Blake, P.R., Haun, D.B.M., & Hepach, R. (2022). The ontogeny of children’s social emotions in response to (un)fairness. Royal Society Open Science, 9 (8), 191456.
Stowe, L.+, Peretz-Lange, R.** & Blake, P.R. (2022). Children consider procedures, outcomesand emotions when judging the fairness of inequality. Frontiers, 13, 815901.
Fenley, A. R.*, Langer, D. A., Blake, P. R., & Pincus, D. B. (2021). The Relation between Risk Perception and Anxiety in Youth: an Investigation Using a Novel Developmentally Tailored Measure. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 1-14.
Smith-Flores, A. S.+, Applin, J. B.*, Blake, P. R., & Kibbe, M. M. (2021). Children’s understanding of economic demand: A dissociation between inference and choice. Cognition, 214, 104747.
Davoodi, T.*, Nelson, L.J., & Blake, P.R. (2020). Children’s conceptions of ownership for self and other: Categorical ownership versus strength of claim. Child Development, 91, 163-178.
Davoodi, T.*, Soley, G., Harris, P.L., & Blake, P.R. (2020). Essentialization of social categories in two cultures. Child Development, 91, 289-306.
Rottman, J., Zizik, V., Minard, K., Young, L., Blake, P. R., & Kelemen, D. (2020). The moral or the story? Changing children’s distributive justice preferences through social communication. Cognition, 205, 104441.
McAuliffe, K., Warneken, F., & Blake, P.R. (2019). Children’s sense of fairness: Respect isn’t everything. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 23(9), 715.
Chernyak, N.**, Leimgruber, K.L., Hu, J.V.+, Dunham, Y., & Blake, P.R. (2019). Paying back people who harmed us but not people who helped us: Direct negative reciprocity precedes direct positive reciprocity in early development. Psychological Science. 30(9), 1273-1286.
Ronfard, S.*, Nelson, L.J., Dunham, Y., & Blake, P.R. (2019). Young children recognize the value of information and reward informants according to their testimony. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 177, 100-118.
Kajanus, A.E.**, McAuliffe, K., Warneken, F., & Blake, P.R. (2019). A comparison of inequity aversion in two Chinese schools. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 177, 282-296.
Blake, P.R. (2018). Giving what one should: Explanations for the knowledge-behavior gap for altruistic giving. Current Opinion in Psychology, 20, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2017.07.041
Harvey, T.*, Davoodi, T.* & Blake, P.R. (2018). Young children will lie to prevent a moral transgression. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 165, 51-65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2017.06.004
Ronfard, S., Nelson, L., Dunham, L., Blake, P. R. (2018). How children use accuracy information to infer informant intentions and to make reward decisions. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 177 (2019) 100–118. PDF
Schroeder, K. B., Asherson, P., Blake, P. R., Fenstermacher, S. K., & Saudino, K. J. (2016). Variant at serotonin transporter gene predicts increased imitation in toddlers: relevance to the human capacity for cumulative culture. Biology letters, 12(4), 20160106. PDF
Blake, P.R., Corbit, J., Callaghan, T.C. & Warneken, D. (2016) Give as I give: Adult influence on children’s giving in two cultures. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.
Blake, P.R., McAuliffe, K., Corbit, J., Callaghan, T.C., Barry, O., Bowie, A., Kleutsch, L., Kramer, K.L., Ross, E., Vongsachang, H., Wrangham, R., & Warneken, F., (2015) The ontogeny of fairness in seven societies. Nature PDF
Blake, P. R., Rand, D. G., Tingley, D., & Warneken, F. (2015). The shadow of the future promotes cooperation in a repeated prisoner’s dilemma for children.Scientific reports, 5. PDF
Blake, P. R., Piovesan, M., Montinari, N., Warneken, F., & Gino, F. (2015). Prosocial norms in the classroom: The role of self-regulation in following norms of giving. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. PDF
McAuliffe, K., Blake, P. R., & Warneken, F. (2014). Children reject inequity out of spite. Biology Letters, 10: 20140743. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2014.0743 PDF
Blake, P. R., McAuliffe, K., & Warneken, F. (2014). The developmental origins of fairness: the knowledge-behavior gap. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. PDF
McAuliffe, K., Blake, P. R., Kim, G., Wrangham, R. W. & Warneken, F. (2013). Social Influences on Inequity Aversion in Children. PLoS ONE 8(12): e80966. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0080966. PDF
Smith, C. E., Blake, P. R. & Harris, P. L. (2013). I Should but I Won’t: Why Young Children Endorse Norms of Fair Sharing but Do Not Follow them. PLoS ONE 8(3): e59510. PDF
Blake, P. R, Ganea, P. A. & Harris, P. L. Possession is not always the law: With age, preschoolers increasingly use verbal information to identify who owns what. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology (2012), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2012.06.008. PDF
Blake, P. R. & McAuliffe, K. (2011). “ I had so much it didn’t seem fair”: Eight- year-olds reject two forms of inequity. Cognition, doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2011.04.006. PDF
Blake, P. R. & Harris, P. L. (2011). Early representations of ownership. In H.S. Ross, & O. Friedman (Eds.), The Developmental Origins of Ownership of Property. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development. 39–51. doi: 10.1002/cd.295. PDF
Blake, P. R. & Rand, D. G. (2010). Currency value moderates equity preference among young children. Evolution and Human Behavior, 31, 210–218. PDF
Hauser, M. D., McAuliffe, K. & Blake, P. R. (2009). Evolving the ingredients for reciprocity and spite. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 364, 3255–3266. PDF
Blake, P. R. & Harris, P. L. (2009). Children’s understanding of ownership transfers. Cognitive Development, 24, 133–145. PDF
Blake, P. R. & Gardner, H. (2007). A first course in Mind, Brain and Education. Mind, Brain and Education, Vol. 1(2), 61–65. PDF