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*Dunlea, J. P., & Heiphetz, L. (In press). Language shapes children's attitudes: Consequences of internal, behavioral, and societal information in punitive and non-punitive contexts. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. [pdf]
*Dunlea, J. P., *Wolle, R. G., & Heiphetz, L. (In press). The essence of an immigrant identity: Children's pro-social responses to others based on perceived ability and desire to change. In K. Tobia (Ed.), Identity and the Self. New York, NY: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc. [pdf]
*Nakkawita, E., & Heiphetz, L. (In press). The cognitive science of religion: A case for the importance of adolescence. Adolescent Research Review. [pdf]
Heiphetz, L., & Oishi, S. (In press). Viewing development through the lens of culture: Integrating developmental and cultural psychology to better understand cognition and behavior. Perspectives on Psychological Science. [pdf]
*Dunlea, J. P., & Heiphetz, L. (In press). Children's and adults' views of punishment as a path to redemption. Child Development. [pdf]
Heiphetz, L., & Craig, M. A. (In press). Dehumanization and perceptions of immoral intergroup behavior. Oxford Studies in Experimental Philosophy. [pdf]
Heiphetz, L., Landers, C., & Van Leeuwen, N. (In press). Does "think" mean the same thing as "believe"? Linguistic insights into religious cognition. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality. [pdf]
*Martin, J. W., & Heiphetz, L. (2021). "Internally wicked": Investigating how and why essentialism influences punitiveness and moral condemnation. Cognitive Science, 45, 1-28. doi: 10.1111/cogs.12991 [pdf]
*Wolle, R. G., *McLaughlin, A., & Heiphetz, L. (2021). The role of theory of mind and wishful thinking in children's moralizing concepts of the Abrahamic God. Journal of Cognition and Development, 22, 398-417. doi: 10.1080/15248372.2021.1888731 [pdf]
*Dunlea, J. P., & Heiphetz, L. (2021). Moral psychology as a necessary bridge between social cognition and law. Social Cognition, 39, 183-199. doi: 10.1521/soco.2021.39.1.183 [pdf]
*Dunlea, J. P., *Wolle, R. G., & Heiphetz, L. (2020). Enduring positivity: Children of incarcerated parents report more positive than negative emotions when thinking about close others. Journal of Cognition and Development, 21, 494-512. doi: 10.1080/15248372.2020.1797749 [pdf]
*Goldring, M. R., & Heiphetz, L. (2020). Sensitivity to ingroup and outgroup norms in the association between commonality and morality. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 91, 104025. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2020.104025 [pdf]
Heiphetz, L. (2020). The development and consequences of moral essentialism. Advances in Child Development and Behavior, 59, 165-194. doi: 10.1016/bs.acdb.2020.05.006 [pdf]
Theriault, J., Waytz, A., Heiphetz, L., & Young, L. L. (2020). Theory of mind network activity is associated with metaethical judgment: An item analysis. Neuropsychologia, 143, 107475. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107475 [pdf]
*Dunlea, J. P., & Heiphetz, L. (2020). Children's and adults' understanding of punishment and the criminal justice system. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 87, 103913. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2019.103913 [pdf]
Heiphetz, L. (2019). Moral essentialism and generosity among children and adults. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 148, 2077-2090. doi: 10.1037/xge0000587 [pdf]
Heiphetz, L., & Young, L. L. (2019). Children's and adults' affectionate generosity toward members of different religious groups. American Behavioral Scientist, 63, 1910-1937. doi: 10.1177/0002764219850870 [pdf]
Heiphetz, L., Lane, J. D., Waytz, A., & Young, L. L. (2018). My mind, your mind, and God's mind: How children and adults conceive of different agents' moral beliefs. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 36, 467-481. doi: 10.1111/bjdp.12231 [pdf]
Heiphetz, L., Strohminger, N., Gelman, S. A., & Young, L. L. (2018). Who am I? The role of moral beliefs in children's and adults' understanding of identity. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 78, 210-219. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2018.03.007 [pdf]
Heiphetz, L. (2017). The development and importance of shared reality in the domains of opinion, morality, and religion. Current Opinion in Psychology, 23, 1-5. doi: 10.1016/j.copsyc.2017.11.002 [pdf]
Theriault, J., Waytz, A., Heiphetz, L., & Young, L. L. (2017). Examining overlap in behavioral and neural representations of morals, facts, and preferences. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146, 1586-1605. doi: 10.1037/xge0000350 [pdf]
Heiphetz, L., & Young, L. L. (2017). Can only one person be right? The development of objectivism and social preferences regarding widely shared and controversial moral beliefs. Cognition, 167, 78-90. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2016.05.014 [pdf]
Heiphetz, L., Strohminger, N., & Young, L. L. (2017). The role of moral beliefs, memories, and preferences in representations of identity. Cognitive Science, 41, 744-767. doi: 10.1111/cogs.12354 [pdf]
Heiphetz, L., Gelman, S. A., & Young, L. L. (2017). The perceived stability and biological basis of religious beliefs, factual beliefs, and opinions. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 156, 82-98. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2016.11.015 [pdf]
Heiphetz, L., Lane, J. D., Waytz, A., & Young, L. L. (2016). How children and adults represent God's mind. Cognitive Science, 40, 121-144. doi: 10.1111/cogs.12232 [pdf]
Heiphetz, L., Spelke, E. S., & Young, L. L. (2015). In the name of God: How children and adults judge agents who act for religious versus secular reasons. Cognition, 144, 134-149. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2015.07.017 [pdf]
Heiphetz, L. (2014). Combining diverse methods in one research program: The example of social and developmental psychology. In P. Brindle (Ed.), SAGE cases in methodology. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. [pdf]
Heiphetz, L., Spelke, E. S., & Banaji, M. R. (2014). The formation of belief-based social preferences. Social Cognition, 32, 22-47. doi: 10.1521/soco.2014.32.1.22 [pdf]
Heiphetz, L., Spelke, E. S., Harris, P. L., & Banaji, M. R. (2014). What do different beliefs tell us? An examination of factual, opinion-based, and religious beliefs. Cognitive Development, 30, 15-29. doi: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2013.12.002 [pdf]
Heiphetz, L., & Young, L. (2014). A social cognitive developmental perspective on moral judgment. Behaviour, 151, 315-335. doi: 10.1163/1568539X-00003131 [Reprinted in F.B.M. de Waal, P. S. Churchland, T. Pievani, & S. Parmigiani (Eds.), Evolved Morality: The Biology and Philosophy of Human Conscience, 2014, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill Publishers] [pdf]
Lai, C. K., Marini, M., Lehr, S. A., Cerruti, C., Shin, J. L., Joy-Gaba, J. A., Ho, A. K., Teachman, B. A., Wojcik, S. P., Koleva, S. P., Frazier, R. S., Heiphetz, L., Chen, E., Turner, R. N., Haidt, J., Kesebir, S., Hawkins, C. B., Schaefer, H. S., Rubichi, S., Sartori, G., Dial, C. M., Sriram, N., Banaji, M. R., & Nosek, B. A. (2014). Reducing implicit racial preferences: I. A comparative investigation of 17 interventions. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 143, 1765-1785. doi: 10.1037/a0036260 [pdf]
Heiphetz, L., Spelke, E. S., & Banaji, M. R. (2013). Patterns of implicit and explicit attitudes in children and adults: Tests in the domain of religion. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 142, 864-879. doi: 10.1037/a0029714 [pdf]
Heiphetz, L., Spelke, E. S., Harris, P. L., & Banaji, M. R. (2013). The development of reasoning about beliefs: Fact, preference, and ideology. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 49, 559-565. doi: 10.1016/j.jesp.2012.09.005 [pdf]
Banaji, M. R., & Heiphetz, L. (2010). Attitudes. In D. T. Gilbert & S. T. Fiske (Eds.), Handbook of social psychology (pp. 353-393). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons. [pdf]
Vescio, T. K., Gervais, S. J., Heiphetz, L., & Bloodhart, B. (2009). The stereotypic behaviors of the powerful and their effect on the relatively powerless. In T. Nelson (Ed.), The handbook of prejudice (pp. 247-266). New York, NY: Psychology Press. [pdf]
Heiphetz, L., & Vescio, T. K. (2008). Discrimination. In N. Salkind (Ed.), The encyclopedia of educational psychology (pp. 258-261). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. [pdf]
