Peer-reviewed publications

Social cognitive development

Hok, H., Morris, B, & Shaw, A., (Under Review at Psych Science). Children believe fair rules are unfair when they are used inconsistently.

Hok, H. & Thomas, A.J. (Commentary Accepted). Relationship-bound roles and the Institutional Stance: The question of role-filler independence in social cognition. Brain & Behavioral Sciences.

Hok, H., Gerdin, E., Zhao, X., & Shaw, A. (2025). When should the majority rule?: Children's developing intuitions about majority rules voting. Cognition, 260, 106128. [pdf]

Hok, H., Silva, G., Shaw, A., & Yang, F. (2025). Who should have a voice? Children’s evaluations of universalist versus exclusive voting. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. [pdf]

Richardson, E., Hok, H., Shaw, A., & Keil, F.C. (2025). Herding cats: Children and adults infer collective decision speed from team size and diversity, but disagree about whether consensus strength matters more than team size. Cognition, 263, 106211. [pdf]

Santhanagopalan, R., Hok, H., Shaw, A., & Kinzler, K.D. (2025). The ontogeny of attitudes toward migrants. Developmental Science, 28(2), e13599. [pdf]

Hok, H.*, Vasquez, K.*, Barakzai, A., & Shaw, A. (2024). The nonmeek inherit the earth: Children generalize dominance, but not submissiveness. Developmental Psychology, 60(7), 1187. [pdf]

Ayalon, O., Hok, H., Shaw, A., & Gordon, G. (2023). When it is ok to give the robot less: Children’s fairness intuitions towards robots. International Journal of Social Robotics, 15(9), 1581–1601. [pdf]

Hok, H., Martin, A., Trail, Z., & Shaw, A. (2020). When children treat condemnation as a signal: The costs and benefits of condemnation. Child Development, 91(5), 1439–1455. [pdf]

Digital scholarship, digital ecosystems & meta-science

Wang, Y., Abdellatif, A., Deligianni, A., Hok, H., Cetinkaya, Y. M., & Elmas, T. (2026). Grievance Politics vs. Policy Debates: A Cross-Platform Analysis of Conservative Discourse on Truth Social and Reddit. arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.17901

Cook, M., Hok, H., He, H., & Lischer-Katz, Z. (2026). Immersive quality control for 3D data curation. Information Research an international electronic journal, 31(iConf), 900-921 (Nominated as a finalist as best full research paper)

Thomas, A.J., Hok, H., Bourg, C., & Saxe, R. (2026). Support for Open Science is Equally High in Opt-In versus Representative Samples of Scientists from a Research-Focused U.S. University. Quantitative Social Studies (2026)

Mills, N., Hok, H., Dressen, A., & Veillas, Q. (2025). The design and evaluation of an interactive AI companion for foreign language writing. Foreign Language Annals, 58(1), 40–69. [pdf]

Peer-reviewed conference proceedings

Hok, H., Thomas, A.J., & Saxe, R., (2025). Written in stone: Lay intuitions about the emergence of formal rules. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (47).

Richardson, E., Hok, H., Shaw, A., & Keil, F. (2023). Herding cats: Children’s intuitive theories of persuasion predict slower collective decisions in larger and more diverse groups, but disregard factional power. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 45(45).