Derek Powell

According to our database, Derek Powell authored at least 25 papers between 2007 and 2025.

Collaborative distances:

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

2025

Can Large Language Models Predict Associations Among Human Attitudes?

Ana Yutong Ma, Derek Powell

CoRR, March, 2025

Evaluating Large Language Models for Belief Inference: Mapping Belief Networks at Scale.

Trisevgeni Papakonstantinou, Antonina Zhiteneva, Ana Yutong Ma, Derek Powell, Zachary Horne

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2025, 2025

Recovering belief structures using a language model on a naturalistic dataset of attitude change.

Trisevgeni Papakonstantinou, Antonina Zhiteneva, Ana Yutong Ma, Derek Powell, Zachary Horne

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Can Large Language Models Predict Associations Among Human Attitudes?

Ana Ma, Derek Powell

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

Mental Sampling in Social Judgment: Examining Variability in Judgments for the Self, Close, and Distant Others.

Tingyue Li, Derek Powell

Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2025

2024

Individually-optimal causal structure judgments in a descriptive Bayesian model.

Derek Powell

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

TAXI: Evaluating Categorical Knowledge Editing for Language Models.

Derek Powell, Walter Gerych, Thomas Hartvigsen

Proceedings of the Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2024

2023

Bayesian confirmation and commonsense notions of evidential strength.

Derek Powell, Shyam Nair

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

Influencing Perceptions of Climate Scientist Credibility.

Reed Orchinik, Rachit Dubey, Derek Powell, Rahul Bhui

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

Learning About Scientists from Climate Consensus Messaging.

Reed Orchinik, Rachit Dubey, Samuel Gershman, Derek Powell, Rahul Bhui

Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2023

2022

Understanding intuitive theories of climate change.

Brittany Schotsch, Derek Powell

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

Expectations bias moral judgments.

Derek Powell, Brittany Schotsch, Justin Mikell, Zachary Horne

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

A descriptive Bayesian account of optimism in belief revision.

Derek Powell

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

Does mere exposure to ideas encourage belief in them?

Justin Mikell, Derek Powell

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

2018

Articulating lay theories through graphical models: A study of beliefs surrounding vaccination decisions.

Derek Powell, Kara Weisman, Ellen M. Markman

Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

Expectations bias judgments of harm against others.

Derek Powell, Zachary Horne

Proceedings of the 40th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2018

2017

Encouraging Fruit and Vegetable Consumption Through Intuitive Theory Building.

Derek Powell, Ellen M. Markman

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

2016

How should autonomous vehicles behave in moral dilemmas? Human judgments reflect abstract moral principles.

Derek Powell, Patricia W. Cheng, Michael R. Waldmann

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

2015

A Single Counterexample Leads to Moral Belief Revision.

Zachary Horne, Derek Powell, John E. Hummel

Cogn. Sci., 2015

2014

Generic Priors Yield Competition Between Independently-Occurring Preventive Causes.

Derek Powell, Alice Merrick, Hongjing Lu, Keith J. Holyoak

Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2014

2013

Generic Priors Yield Competition Between Independently-Occurring Causes.

Derek Powell, Alice Merrick, Hongjing Lu, Keith J. Holyoak

Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

Justified True Belief Triggers False Recall of "Knowing".

Derek Powell, Zachary Horne, N. Ángel Pinillos, Keith J. Holyoak

Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

Belief Updating in Moral Dilemmas.

Zachary Horne, Derek Powell, Joseph Spino

Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

More than a feeling: When emotional reactions don't predict moral judgments.

Zachary Horne, Derek Powell

Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

2007

Micro devices assembly using virtual environments.

N. Gobinath, Joe Cecil, Derek Powell

J. Intell. Manuf., 2007