Elizabeth Bonawitz

Elizabeth Bonawitz

Harvard University

H-index: 31

North America-United States

About Elizabeth Bonawitz

Elizabeth Bonawitz, With an exceptional h-index of 31 and a recent h-index of 24 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Harvard University, specializes in the field of Cognitive Development, Computational models of learning, Learning from play, Causal Reasoning, Inductive Inference.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Do reflection prompts promote children's conflict monitoring and revision of misconceptions?

Reflections on the past two decades of Mind, Brain, and Education.

Bayesian models of cognitive development

Children Use Teachers' Beliefs About Their Abilities to Calibrate Explore–Exploit Decisions

Rote/Reflective Teaching

How Children Develop Healthy Behavioral Choices to Promote Illness Prevention

Understanding learning from controlled and confounded experiments

Talk of the Town mobile app platform: New method for engaging family in STEM learning and research in homes and communities

Elizabeth Bonawitz Information

University

Position

Associate Faculty Graduate School of Education

Citations(all)

4807

Citations(since 2020)

2654

Cited By

3159

hIndex(all)

31

hIndex(since 2020)

24

i10Index(all)

54

i10Index(since 2020)

41

Email

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Harvard University

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Elizabeth Bonawitz Skills & Research Interests

Cognitive Development

Computational models of learning

Learning from play

Causal Reasoning

Inductive Inference

Top articles of Elizabeth Bonawitz

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Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Do reflection prompts promote children's conflict monitoring and revision of misconceptions?

Child Development

Maria Theobald

Joseph Colantonio

Igor Bascandziev

Elizabeth Bonawitz

Garvin Brod

2024/2/17

Reflections on the past two decades of Mind, Brain, and Education.

Mind, Brain, and Education

Ola Ozernov‐Palchik

Courtney Pollack

Elizabeth Bonawitz

Joanna A Christodoulou

Nadine Gaab

...

2024/2

Bayesian models of cognitive development

Bayesian Models of Cognition: Reverse Engineering the Mind

Elizabeth Bonawitz

Tomer Ullman

2024

Children Use Teachers' Beliefs About Their Abilities to Calibrate Explore–Exploit Decisions

Topics in Cognitive Science

Ilona Bass

Elise Mahaffey

Elizabeth Bonawitz

2023/2/9

Rote/Reflective Teaching

Ilona Bass

Cristian Espinoza

Elizabeth Bonawitz

Tomer Ullman

2023/10/18

How Children Develop Healthy Behavioral Choices to Promote Illness Prevention

Current Directions in Psychological Science

Vanessa LoBue

Elizabeth Bonawitz

Lauren Leotti

Nina Fefferman

2023/2

Understanding learning from controlled and confounded experiments

Lucas Lörch

Garvin Brod

Elizabeth Bonawitz

2023/8/2

Talk of the Town mobile app platform: New method for engaging family in STEM learning and research in homes and communities

Jonathan F Kominsky

Igor Bascandziev

Patrick Shafto

Elizabeth Bonawitz

2023/1/26

Predicting Learning: Understanding the Role of Executive Functions in Children's Belief Revision Using Bayesian Models

Joseph Colantonio II

Maria Theobald

Igor Bascandziev

Garvin Brod

Elizabeth Bonawitz

2023/7/20

Seeing the Error in My “Bayes”: A Quantified Degree of Belief Change Correlates with Children’s Pupillary Surprise Responses Following Explicit Predictions

Entropy

Joseph Colantonio

Igor Bascandziev

Maria Theobald

Garvin Brod

Elizabeth Bonawitz

2023/1/21

Fun isn’t easy: Children choose more difficult options when “playing for fun” vs.“trying to win”

Joshua Rule

Mariel Goddu

Junyi Chu

Verity Pinter

Emily Rose Reagan

...

2023/7/9

Children’s sensitivity to difficulty and reward probability when deciding to take on a task

Journal of cognition and development

Jinjing Wang

Elizabeth Bonawitz

2023/5/27

What’s in the Box? Preschoolers Consider Ambiguity, Expected Value, and Information for Future Decisions in Explore-Exploit Tasks

Open Mind

Elizabeth Lapidow

Elizabeth Bonawitz

2023/10/27

Dissociating the Impact of Object-Color Expectations and Object-Color Violations on Visual Feature Memory

Journal of Vision

Kimele Persaud

Elizabeth Bonawitz

2022/12/5

The effects of information utility and teachers’ knowledge on evaluations of under-informative pedagogy across development

Cognition

Ilona Bass

Elizabeth Bonawitz

Daniel Hawthorne-Madell

Wai Keen Vong

Noah D Goodman

...

2022/5/1

Adults' Evaluations of Rote and Reflective Teachers

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Ilona Bass

Elizabeth Bonawitz

Tomer D Ullman

2022

Teaching Without Thinking: Negative Evaluations of Rote Pedagogy

Ilona Bass

Cristian Espinoza

Elizabeth Bonawitz

Tomer Ullman

2022/11/10

Can children recognize pedagogical intent in the prosody of speech?

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Igor Bascandziev

Michael LaSorsa

Patrick Shafto

Elizabeth Bonawitz

2022

Priors, Progressions, and Predictions in Science Learning: Theory-Based Bayesian Models of Children’s Revising Beliefs of Water Displacement

IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems

Joseph A Colantonio

Igor Bascandziev

Maria Theobald

Garvin Brod

Elizabeth Bonawitz

2022/11/9

Question asking fosters curiosity and learning in children

Anne Park

Joseph Colantonio II

Lourdes Delgado Reyes

Sophie Sharp

Elizabeth Bonawitz

...

2022/7

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Co-Authors

H-index: 137
Joshua B. Tenenbaum

Joshua B. Tenenbaum

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

H-index: 122
Elizabeth Spelke

Elizabeth Spelke

Harvard University

H-index: 110
Thomas L. Griffiths

Thomas L. Griffiths

Princeton University

H-index: 105
Henry M Wellman

Henry M Wellman

University of Michigan-Dearborn

H-index: 92
Alison GOPNIK

Alison GOPNIK

University of California, Berkeley

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