publications

Ronfard, S., Goulding, B.W., & Lane, J. D. (in press). Possibility Judgments in Childhood: Is Uncertainty Monitoring the Missing Link? Child Development Perspectives.

Goulding, B.W., Stonehouse E. E. & Friedman, O. (2025). Time from structure: Children infer the temporal order of past events from visual arrays. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. Advance online publication.

De la Viña, L., Goulding, B. W., Ronfard, S. (2024). When intensity matters: Children's and adults' beliefs about the utility of emotions of varying intensities on cognitive performance. Developmental Psychology. Advance online publication.

Shtulman, A., Goulding, B., & Friedman, O. (2024). Improbable but possible: Training children to accept the possibility of unusual events. Developmental Psychology, 60(1), 17–27. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001670.

Goulding, B. W., Khan, F., Fukuda, K., Lane, J. D., & Ronfard, S. (2024). The development of modal intuitions: A test of two accounts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153(1), 184–199. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001494.

Goulding, B. W., & Friedman, O. (2023). Perceived similarity explains beliefs about possibility. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 152(10), 2830–2841. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001422.

Goulding, B. W., Stonehouse E. E. & Friedman, O. (2022). Anchored in the present: Preschoolers more accurately infer their futures when confronted with their pasts. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 377, 20210344. 

Goulding, B. W., Stonehouse E. E. & Friedman, O. (2022). Causal knowledge and children’s possibility judgments. Child Development, 93(3), 794-803. 

Dunk, R. J., Goulding, B. W., Fugelsang, J. A. & Friedman, O. (2021). Butt-dialing the devil: Evil agents are expected to disregard intentions behind requests. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 96, 104188. 

Goulding, B. W. & Friedman, O. (2021). A similarity heuristic in children’s possibility judgments. Child Development, 92(2), 662-671.

Goulding, B. W. & Friedman, O. (2020). Children’s beliefs about possibility differ across dreams, stories, and reality. ​Child Development​, 91(6),1843-1835.

Goulding, B. W., Atance, C. M., & Friedman, O. (2019). An advantage for ownership over preferences in children’s future thinking. ​Developmental Psychology​, ​55​, 1702-1708.

Boman-Smith, C. K., Goulding, B. W., & Friedman, O. (2018). Children hold owners responsible when property causes harm. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 147(8), 1191-1199. 

Goulding, B. W., & Friedman, O. (2018). The development of territory-based inferences of ownership. Cognition, 177, 142-149.