Publications

(*) denotes student co-author.

Journal articles

A. Jern, *A. Derrow-Pinion, & *AJ Piergiovanni. (2021). A computational framework for understanding the roles of simplicity and rational support in people’s behavior explanations. Cognition. Blog post. Code, data, and materials.

A. Jern. (2018). People are intuitive economists under the right conditions. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.

A. Jern. (2018). A preliminary study of the educational benefits of conducting replications in the classroom. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology. Data and materials.

A. Jern, C. G. Lucas, & C. Kemp. (2017). People learn other people’s preferences through inverse decision-making. Cognition. Correction. Blog post. Code, data, and materials.

A. Jern & C. Kemp. (2015). A decision network account of reasoning about other people’s choices. Cognition. Video abstract. Code, data, and materials.

C. Kemp & A. Jern. (2014). A taxonomy of inductive problems. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review.

A. Jern, K. K. Chang, & C. Kemp (2014). Belief polarization is not always rational. Psychological Review. Code and data.

A. Jern & C. Kemp. (2013). A probabilistic account of exemplar and category generation. Cognitive Psychology. Code and data.

Conference papers

*S. Payne & A. Jern. (2022). Do people use social information to improve predictions about everyday events?. Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Code, data, and materials.

*AJ Piergiovanni & A. Jern. (2015). Computational principles underlying people’s behavior explanations. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Code and data.

A. Jern & C. Kemp. (2014). Reasoning about social choices and social relationships. Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

A. Jern, C. G. Lucas, & C. Kemp. (2011). Evaluating the inverse decision-making approach to preference learning. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 24.

A. Jern & C. Kemp. (2011). Capturing mental state reasoning with influence diagrams. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

C. Kemp, F. Han, & A. Jern. (2011). Concept learning and modal reasoning. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

A. Jern & C. Kemp. (2011). Decision factors that support preference learning. Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

C. Kemp & A. Jern. (2009). Abstraction and relational learning. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22.

A. Jern, K. K. Chang, & C. Kemp. (2009). Bayesian belief polarization. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22. Supporting material.

C. Kemp, A. Jern, & F. Xu. (2009). Object discovery and identification. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 22.

C. Kemp & A. Jern. (2009). A taxonomy of inductive problems. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.

A. Jern & C. Kemp. (2009). Category generation. Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society.