Peer-reviewed publications

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]

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]

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. (2023). When children treat condemnation as a signal: The costs and benefits of condemnation. Child Development, 91(5), 1439–1455. [pdf]

Submitted or Under Review

Conference proceedings

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

Ayalon, O., Hok, H., Shaw, A., & Gordon, G. From Children to Toy Truck, and Robots Too: Exploring Children’s Fairness Perceptions. (Submitted to International Journal of Human - Computer Studies)

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, (forthcoming).

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).

In prep

Hok, H., Aulea-Toomey, S. L., Altman, M., & Bourg, C., Epistemological beliefs of scholars affects open science practice. (In prep)

Hok, H., Morris, B, & Shaw, A., Children believe fair rules are unfair when they are used inconsistently. (In prep)

Hok, H., Thomas, A.J., & Saxe, F., Adult & children's lay intuitions about the emergence of formal rules. (In prep)

Hok, H., Thomas, A.J., & Saxe, F., Formal rules leak information about previous rule-breaking (In prep)