Caren Walker

Title(s)	Associate Professor, Psychology
School	Vc-academic Affairs
Address	9500 Gilman Drive # La Jolla CA 92093
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Biography

Education and Training

University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

Ph.D.

08/2015

Psychology

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Publications

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Learners' causal intuitions explain behavior in control of variables tasks. Dev Psychol. 2024 Apr 04. Lapidow E, Walker CM. PMID: 38573658.

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Ped Pediatrics Psy Psychology
How barriers become invisible: Children are less sensitive to constraints that are stable over time. Dev Sci. 2024 Mar 17; e13496. Amemiya J, Heyman GD, Walker CM. PMID: 38494598.

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Calculated Comparisons: Manufacturing Societal Causal Judgments by Implying Different Counterfactual Outcomes. Cogn Sci. 2024 Feb; 48(2):e13408. Amemiya J, Heyman GD, Walker CM. PMID: 38323743.

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Emphasizing others' persistence can promote unwarranted social inferences in children and adults. J Exp Psychol Gen. 2023 Oct; 152(10):2977-2988. Amemiya J, Heyman GD, Walker CM. PMID: 37199969; PMCID: PMC10593100.

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Visual explanations prioritize functional properties at the expense of visual fidelity. Cognition. 2023 07; 236:105414. Huey H, Lu X, Walker CM, Fan JE. PMID: 36870147.

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Thinking Structurally: A Cognitive Framework for Understanding How People Attribute Inequality to Structural Causes. Perspect Psychol Sci. 2023 03; 18(2):259-274. Amemiya J, Mortenson E, Heyman GD, Walker CM. PMID: 35981099; PMCID: PMC9938098.

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Ask me why, don't tell me why: Asking children for explanations facilitates relational thinking. Dev Sci. 2023 01; 26(1):e13274. Brockbank E, Lombrozo T, Gopnik A, Walker CM. PMID: 35500137.

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You can't change the past: Children's recognition of the causal asymmetry between past and future events. Child Dev. 2022 09; 93(5):1270-1283. Tillman KA, Walker CM. PMID: 35353375.

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Ped Pediatrics
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Explanation impacts hypothesis generation, but not evaluation, during learning. Cognition. 2022 08; 225:105100. Brockbank E, Walker CM. PMID: 35344899.

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A Tale of Three Platforms: Investigating Preschoolers' Second-Order Inferences Using In-Person, Zoom, and Lookit Methodologies. Front Psychol. 2021; 12:731404. Lapidow E, Tandon T, Goddu M, Walker CM. PMID: 34721195; PMCID: PMC8548456.

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Learning to recognize uncertainty vs. recognizing uncertainty to learn: Confidence judgments and exploration decisions in preschoolers. Dev Sci. 2022 03; 25(2):e13178. Lapidow E, Killeen I, Walker CM. PMID: 34596300.

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Rethinking the "gap": Self-directed learning in cognitive development and scientific reasoning. Wiley Interdiscip Rev Cogn Sci. 2022 Mar; 13(2):e1580. Lapidow E, Walker CM. PMID: 34619809.

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Toddlers learn and flexibly apply multiple possibilities. Child Dev. 2021 11; 92(6):2244-2251. Goddu MK, Sullivan JN, Walker CM. PMID: 34490618.

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Ped Pediatrics
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Children acknowledge physical constraints less when actors behave stereotypically: Gender stereotypes as a case study. Child Dev. 2022 01; 93(1):72-83. Amemiya J, Mortenson E, Ahn S, Walker CM, Heyman GD. PMID: 34411288.

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Children's Developing Ability to Resolve Disagreements by Integrating Perspectives. Child Dev. 2021 11; 92(6):e1228-e1241. Amemiya J, Walker CM, Heyman GD. PMID: 34109611.

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How to Help Young Children Ask Better Questions? Front Psychol. 2020; 11:586819. Ruggeri A, Walker CM, Lombrozo T, Gopnik A. PMID: 33584420; PMCID: PMC7874179.

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Thinking Counterfactually Supports Children's Evidence Evaluation in Causal Learning. Child Dev. 2021 07; 92(4):1636-1651. Engle J, Walker CM. PMID: 33421103.

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Can a perceptual task be used to infer conceptual representations?: A reply to Glorioso, Kuznar, Pavlic, & Povinelli. Cognition. 2021 09; 214:104414. Walker CM, Gopnik A. PMID: 32773152.

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Informative experimentation in intuitive science: Children select and learn from their own causal interventions. Cognition. 2020 08; 201:104315. Lapidow E, Walker CM. PMID: 32434037.

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Design Drives Discovery in Causal Learning. Psychol Sci. 2020 02; 31(2):129-138. Walker CM, Rett A, Bonawitz E. PMID: 31961779.

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Context shapes early diversity in abstract thought. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2019 07 09; 116(28):13891-13896. Carstensen A, Zhang J, Heyman GD, Fu G, Lee K, Walker CM. PMID: 31235570; PMCID: PMC6628784.

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Sci Science
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Achieving abstraction: Generating far analogies promotes relational reasoning in children. Dev Psychol. 2018 Oct; 54(10):1833-1841. Walker CM, Hubachek SQ, Vendetti MS. PMID: 30234337.

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Effects of explaining on children's preference for simpler hypotheses. Psychon Bull Rev. 2017 10; 24(5):1538-1547. Walker CM, Bonawitz E, Lombrozo T. PMID: 28176290.

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Causal Learning Across Culture and Socioeconomic Status. Child Dev. 2019 05; 90(3):859-875. Wente AO, Kimura K, Walker CM, Banerjee N, Fernández Flecha M, MacDonald B, Lucas C, Gopnik A. PMID: 28834544.

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Discriminating relational and perceptual judgments: Evidence from human toddlers. Cognition. 2017 09; 166:23-27. Walker CM, Gopnik A. PMID: 28554082.

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Explaining the moral of the story. Cognition. 2017 10; 167:266-281. Walker CM, Lombrozo T. PMID: 28010879.

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The early emergence and puzzling decline of relational reasoning: Effects of knowledge and search on inferring abstract concepts. Cognition. 2016 11; 156:30-40. Walker CM, Bridgers S, Gopnik A. PMID: 27472036.

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Explaining Constrains Causal Learning in Childhood. Child Dev. 2017 01; 88(1):229-246. Walker CM, Lombrozo T, Williams JJ, Rafferty AN, Gopnik A. PMID: 27387269.

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Learning to learn from stories: children's developing sensitivity to the causal structure of fictional worlds. Child Dev. 2015 Jan-Feb; 86(1):310-8. Walker CM, Gopnik A, Ganea PA. PMID: 25156667.

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Explaining prompts children to privilege inductively rich properties. Cognition. 2014 Nov; 133(2):343-57. Walker CM, Lombrozo T, Legare CH, Gopnik A. PMID: 25128793.

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Toddlers infer higher-order relational principles in causal learning. Psychol Sci. 2014 Jan; 25(1):161-9. Walker CM, Gopnik A. PMID: 24270464.

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Pretense and possibility--a theoretical proposal about the effects of pretend play on development: comment on Lillard et al. (2013). Psychol Bull. 2013 Jan; 139(1):40-4. Walker CM, Gopnik A. PMID: 23294089.

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Engagement in philosophical dialogue facilitates children's reasoning about subjectivity. Dev Psychol. 2013 Jul; 49(7):1338-47. Walker CM, Wartenberg TE, Winner E. PMID: 22946436.

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Ped Pediatrics Psy Psychology
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The role of symbol-based experience in early learning and transfer from pictures: evidence from Tanzania. Dev Psychol. 2013 Jul; 49(7):1315-24. Walker CM, Walker LB, Ganea PA. PMID: 22822932.

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