Publications
Vasil, N., Srinivasan, M., Ellwood-Lowe, M.E., Delaney, S., Gopnik, A., & Lombrozo, T. Structural explanations lead young children and adults to rectify resource inequalities. (under review)
Vasil, N., & Lombrozo, T. (2022). Explanations and causal judgments are differentially sensitive to covariation and mechanism information. Frontiers in Psychology, 13: 911177. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.911177
Baharloo, R., Vasil, N., Ellwood-Lowe, M.E., & Srinivasan, M. (2022). Children’s use of pragmatic inference to learn about the social world. Developmental Science, e1333.
Vasil, N., Ruggeri, A., & Lombrozo, T. (2022). When and how children use explanations to guide generalizations. Cognitive Development, 61, 101144.
Lewry, C., Curtis, K., Vasilyeva, N., Xu, F., & Griffiths, T. L. (2021). Intuitions about magic track the development of intuitive physics. Cognition.
Vasilyeva, N., & Lombrozo, T. (2020). Structural thinking about social categories: Evidence from formal explanation, generics, and generalization. Cognition.
Vasilyeva, N., Ruggeri, A., & Lombrozo, T. (Under review). Development of coordination between explanation and generalization.
Vasilyeva, N. & Ayala, S. (2019). Structural thinking and epistemic injustice. In B.R. Sherman & S. Goguen (Eds.) Overcoming epistemic injustice: Social and psychological perspectives. Rowman & Littlefield International.
Vasilyeva, N., Gopnik, A., & Lombrozo, T. (2018). The development of structural thinking about social categories. Developmental Psychology, 54(9), 1735-1744.
Vasilyeva*, N., Blanchard*, T.J., & Lombrozo, T. (2018). Stable causal relations are better causal relations. Cognitive Science, 42(4), 1265-1296. *Equal contributions
Vasil, N., & Lombrozo, T. (2022). Explanations and causal judgments are differentially sensitive to covariation and mechanism information. Frontiers in Psychology, 13: 911177. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.911177
Baharloo, R., Vasil, N., Ellwood-Lowe, M.E., & Srinivasan, M. (2022). Children’s use of pragmatic inference to learn about the social world. Developmental Science, e1333.
Vasil, N., Ruggeri, A., & Lombrozo, T. (2022). When and how children use explanations to guide generalizations. Cognitive Development, 61, 101144.
Lewry, C., Curtis, K., Vasilyeva, N., Xu, F., & Griffiths, T. L. (2021). Intuitions about magic track the development of intuitive physics. Cognition.
Vasilyeva, N., & Lombrozo, T. (2020). Structural thinking about social categories: Evidence from formal explanation, generics, and generalization. Cognition.
Vasilyeva, N., Ruggeri, A., & Lombrozo, T. (Under review). Development of coordination between explanation and generalization.
Vasilyeva, N. & Ayala, S. (2019). Structural thinking and epistemic injustice. In B.R. Sherman & S. Goguen (Eds.) Overcoming epistemic injustice: Social and psychological perspectives. Rowman & Littlefield International.
Vasilyeva, N., Gopnik, A., & Lombrozo, T. (2018). The development of structural thinking about social categories. Developmental Psychology, 54(9), 1735-1744.
Vasilyeva*, N., Blanchard*, T.J., & Lombrozo, T. (2018). Stable causal relations are better causal relations. Cognitive Science, 42(4), 1265-1296. *Equal contributions
Blanchard, T.J., Vasilyeva, N., & Lombrozo, T. (2018). Stability, breadth and guidance. Philosophical Studies, 175(9), 2263-2283.
Vasilyeva, N., Wilkenfeld, D.A., & Lombrozo, T. (2017). Contextual utility affects the perceived quality of explanations. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 1436 - 1450. doi: 10.3758/s13423-017-1275-y
Lombrozo, T. & Vasilyeva, N.Y. (2017). Causal explanation. In M.R. Waldmann (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook in Causal Reasoning (pp. 415-432). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.
Ayala, S., & Vasilyeva, N. (2016). Responsibility for silence. Journal of Social Philosophy, 47(3), 256-272.
Ayala, S. & Vasilyeva, N.Y. (2015) Sex extended: An account of sex for a more just society. Hypatia, 30(4).
Kutchukian, P.S., Vasilyeva, N.Y., Xu, J., Lindvall, M.K., Dillon, M.P., Glick, M., Coley, J.D., Brooijmans, N. (2012). Inside the mind of a medicinal chemist: The role of human bias in compound prioritization during drug discovery. PLoS ONE, 7(11) e48476. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0048476.
Caldwell-Harris, C.L., Staroselsky, M., Smashnaya, S., Vasilyeva, N. (2012). Emotional resonances of bilinguals' two languages vary with the age of arrival: The Russian-English bilingual experience in the U.S. In P. Wilson (Ed.), Perspectives on Emotion [Łódź Studies in Language 20] , Frankfurt am Main: Pete.
Coley, J.D. & Vasilyeva, N.Y. (2010). Generating inductive inferences: premise relations and property effects. In Ross, B. (Ed.) The Psychology of Learning and Motivation, 53, pp.183-226. Burlington: Academic Press. DOI: 10.1016/S0079-7421(10)53005-6.
Peer-reviewed conference proceedings
Vasilyeva, N., Smith, K., Barr, K., Kiper, J., Stich, S., Machery, E., & Barrett, H. C. (2021). Evaluating information and misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence for epistemic vigilance. Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 583-589). Cognitive Science Society.
Vasilyeva, N., Gopnik, A., & Lombrozo, T. (2020). When generic language does not promote essentialism. In S. Denison, M. Mack, & B.C. Armstrong (Eds.) Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 688-694). Cognitive Science Society.
Vasilyeva, N., Gopnik, A., & Lombrozo, T. (2020). When generic language does not promote essentialism. In S. Denison, M. Mack, & B.C. Armstrong (Eds.) Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 688-694). Cognitive Science Society.
Vasilyeva, N. & Lombrozo, T. (2019). Structural thinking about social categories: Evidence from formal explanations, generics, and generalization. In A.K. Goel, C.M. Seifert, & C. Freksa (Eds.) Proceedings of the 41st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1164-1170). Montreal, QB: Cognitive Science Society.
Vasilyeva, N., Ruggeri, A., & Lombrozo, T. (2018). When and how children use explanations to guide generalizations. In T. T. Rogers, M. Rau, X. Zhu, & C. W. Kalis (Eds.), Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2609-2614). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Vasilyeva, N., Gopnik, A., & Lombrozo, T. (2017). The development of structural thinking about social categories. In G. Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink, & E. J. Davelaar (Eds.). Proceedings of the 39th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1266-1271). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Vasilyeva*, N., Blanchard*, T.J., & Lombrozo, T. (2016). Stable causal relations are better causal relations. In A. Papafragou, D. Grodner, D. Mirman, & J.C. Trueswell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp.2663-2668). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. (*equal contributions)
Vasilyeva*, N., Blanchard*, T.J., & Lombrozo, T. (2016). Stable causal relations are better causal relations. In A. Papafragou, D. Grodner, D. Mirman, & J.C. Trueswell (Eds.), Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp.2663-2668). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. (*equal contributions)
Vasilyeva, N.Y., & Lombrozo, T. (2015). Explanations and causal judgments are differentially sensitive to covariation and mechanism information. In D.C. Noelle, R. Dale, A. S. Warlaumont, J. Yoshimi, T. Matlock, C. D. Jennings, & P. P. Maglio (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 2475-2480). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Vasilyeva, N.Y., Wilkenfeld, D.A., & Lombrozo, T. (2015). Goals affect the perceived quality of explanations. In D.C. Noelle, R. Dale, A. S. Warlaumont, J. Yoshimi, T. Matlock, C. D. Jennings, & P. P. Maglio (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (p. 2469-2474). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Ayala, S. & Vasilyeva, N. (2015). Explaining Injustice in Speech: Individualistic or structural explanation? In D.C. Noelle, R. Dale, A.S. Warlaumont, J. Yoshimi, T. Matlock, C.D. Jennings, and P.P. Maglio (eds.)Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Vasilyeva, N.Y.& Coley, J.D. (2013). Evaluating two mechanisms of flexible induction: Selective memory retrieval and evidence explanation. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth (Eds.), Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 3654-3651). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Vasilyeva, N. & Coley, J.D. & Muratore, T.M. (2009). Interaction of taxonomic and contextual knowledge in categorization of cross-classified instances. In N.A. Taatgen & H. Van Rijn (Eds.), Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 721-727). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society.
Outreach
One of the many problems with the science of sex differences: surplus of descriptions, shortage of explanations. The Conversation, Science + Technology, 2004; co-authored with Saray Ayala.
Publications in foreign sources
Vasilyeva, N. (2005). Pragmatic adaptation of discourse in conflict situations during interpreting. In Theoretical and Applied Aspects of Cross-Cultural Communication. Krasnoyarsk: Krasnoyarsk State University Press.
Vasilyeva, N. (2004). The concept of game in advertising discourse. In Translator's Profession: Modern Conceptions and Experience. Krasnoyarsk: Krasnoyarsk State University Press.
Guseva O.V., & Vasilyeva, N. (2003). Advertising and pleasure. In Philosophy of Pleasure. Saint Petersburg.
Vasilyeva, N. (2002). Pragmatics of manipulation. In Youth and Science in the Third Millenium, Krasnoyarsk: Krasnoyarsk State University Press.
Vasilyeva, N. (2001). Pragmatics of advertising: Language as a means of manipulation. In Cross-Cultural Communication, Krasnoyarsk: Krasnoyarsk State University Press.
Vasilyeva, N., & Ten V. (1998). Neuroinformational approaches to automatic character recognition: the case of Chinese characters. A brief communication in Current Issues in Radioelectronics, Krasnoyarsk: Krasnoyarsk State Technical University Press.
Vasilyeva, N. (2004). The concept of game in advertising discourse. In Translator's Profession: Modern Conceptions and Experience. Krasnoyarsk: Krasnoyarsk State University Press.
Guseva O.V., & Vasilyeva, N. (2003). Advertising and pleasure. In Philosophy of Pleasure. Saint Petersburg.
Vasilyeva, N. (2002). Pragmatics of manipulation. In Youth and Science in the Third Millenium, Krasnoyarsk: Krasnoyarsk State University Press.
Vasilyeva, N. (2001). Pragmatics of advertising: Language as a means of manipulation. In Cross-Cultural Communication, Krasnoyarsk: Krasnoyarsk State University Press.
Vasilyeva, N., & Ten V. (1998). Neuroinformational approaches to automatic character recognition: the case of Chinese characters. A brief communication in Current Issues in Radioelectronics, Krasnoyarsk: Krasnoyarsk State Technical University Press.
Manuscripts in preparation
Vasil, N., Smith, K.M., Barr, K., Kiper, J., Stich, S., Machery, E., & Barrett, H.C. Evaluating information and misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence for epistemic vigilance. (in pre-submission)
Vasil, N., Smith, K.M., Barr, K., Kiper, J., Stich, S., Machery, E., & Barrett, H.C. Evaluating information and misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence for epistemic vigilance. (in pre-submission)