Amanda McCarthy

According to our database, Amanda McCarthy authored at least 7 papers between 2016 and 2024.

Collaborative distances:

• Dijkstra number of five.
• Erdős number of four.

2024

Strong but wrong: Adult's intuitions of functional and mechanistic knowledge.

Amanda McCarthy, Emma Courtney, Frank Keil

Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024

Children's unexpected inferences across knowledge types.

Amanda McCarthy, Emma Courtney, Frank Keil

Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2024

2022

A Right Way to Explain? Function, Mechanism, and the Order of Explanations.

Amanda McCarthy, Frank Keil

Proceedings of the 44th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2022

2021

Adult Intuitions about Mechanistic Content in Elementary School Science Lessons.

Nicole Betz, Amanda McCarthy, Frank Keil

Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021

2020

Jargon Jinx: An Early Bias Toward Opaque Explanations.

Amanda McCarthy, Frank Keil

Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

2019

Children's Unscientific Conceptions Before and After Instruction in Space Science.

Florencia K. Anggoro, Benjamin D. Jee, Amanda McCarthy, Victoria Jackson, Demitria Tsitsopoulos, Ioli Karageorgiou

Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

2016

Using analogical comparison to help children learn the day-night cycle.

Benjamin D. Jee, Florencia K. Anggoro, Natalie Evans, Caitlin Murphy, Jessica Tran, Caroline Morano, Amanda McCarthy, Victoria Jackson

Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2016