Elizabeth Bonawitz

Elizabeth Bonawitz's research bridges two research traditions: cognitive development and computational modeling. By bridging these methods, she seeks to understand the structure of children's early causal beliefs, how evidence and prior beliefs interact to affect children's learning, and the developmental processes that influence children's belief revision. Bonawitz's research is funded by several grants from the National Science Foundation, the Jacobs Foundation, and the McDonnell Foundation.

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Elizabeth Bonawitz

When You Do It Right, It Looks Like You’re Overreacting: Intuitive Judgments of Covid-19 Public Health Measures

Mobilizing social science for the public good.

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