Selected Publications: Tamsin German

Wertz, A.E. & German, T. (in press). Belief-desire reasoning in the explanation of behavior: Do actions speak louder than words? Cognition.

German, T. & Hehman, J.A. (2006). Representational and executive selection resources in ‘theory of mind’: Evidence from compromised belief-desire reasoning in old age. Cognition, 101, 129-152.

Yazdi, A.A., German, T., Defeyter, M.A., & Siegal, M. (2006). Competence and performance in belief-desire reasoning across two cultures: The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth about false belief? Cognition, 100, 343-368.

Truxaw, D., Krasnow, M., Woods, C., & German, T. (2006) Conditions under which function information attenuates name extension via shape Psychological Science, 17, 367-371.

German, T. & Barrett, H.C. (2005). Functional fixedness in a technologically sparse culture. Psychological Science, 10, 1-5.

German, T., Niehaus, J.L., Roarty, M., Giesbrecht, B., & Miller, M.B. (2004). Neural correlates of detecting pretense: Automatic engagement of the intentional stance under covert conditions. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 10, 1805-1817.

Defeyter, M.A. & German, T. (2003). Acquiring an understanding of design: Evidence from children’s insight problem solving. Cognition, 89, 133-155.

German, T. & Nichols, S. (2003). Children’s counterfactual inferences about long and short causal chains. Developmental Science, 6, 514-523.

German, T. & Johnson, S.A. (2002). Function and the origins of the design stance. Journal of Cognition and Development, 3, 279-300.

German, T. & Defeyter, M.A. (2000). Immunity to functional fixedness in young children. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 7, 707-712.

Bloom, P. & German, T. (2000). Two reasons to abandon the false belief task as a test of theory of mind. Cognition, 77, B25-B32.

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