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2025

Journal Article

Children infer counterfactual information from others’ facial expressions

Jones, Alicia K., Nelson, Nicole L., Gautam, Shalini and Redshaw, Jonathan (2025). Children infer counterfactual information from others’ facial expressions. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 259 106306, 106306. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2025.106306

Children infer counterfactual information from others’ facial expressions

2025

Conference Publication

Cost and choice in children’s social judgments

Gautam, Shalini, Commens, J., Ratcliffe, M., Redshaw, J., Suddendorf, T. and McAuliffe, K. (2025). Cost and choice in children’s social judgments. Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN USA, 1-3 May 2025.

Cost and choice in children’s social judgments

2025

Journal Article

The role of controllability and foreseeability in children's counterfactual emotions

Jones, Alicia K., Gautam, Shalini and Redshaw, Jonathan (2025). The role of controllability and foreseeability in children's counterfactual emotions. Child Development, 96 (3), 1098-1111. doi: 10.1111/cdev.14224

The role of controllability and foreseeability in children's counterfactual emotions

2024

Journal Article

Does the tendency to overestimate future emotions motivate practice in young children?

Gautam, Shalini, Nguyen, Giang, Redshaw, Jonathan and Suddendorf, Thomas (2024). Does the tendency to overestimate future emotions motivate practice in young children?. Cognitive Development, 72 101515. doi: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2024.101515

Does the tendency to overestimate future emotions motivate practice in young children?

2024

Journal Article

Why imagining what could have happened matters for children's social cognition

Gautam, Shalini and McAuliffe, Katherine (2024). Why imagining what could have happened matters for children's social cognition. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 15 (1) e1663, e1663. doi: 10.1002/wcs.1663

Why imagining what could have happened matters for children's social cognition

2024

Journal Article

Young children experience both regret and relief in a gain-or-loss context

Jones, Alicia K., Gautam, Shalini and Redshaw, Jonathan (2024). Young children experience both regret and relief in a gain-or-loss context. Cognition and Emotion, 38 (1), 163-170. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2023.2258586

Young children experience both regret and relief in a gain-or-loss context

2023

Journal Article

Counterfactual choices and moral judgments in children

Gautam, Shalini, Owen Hall, Ruby, Suddendorf, Thomas and Redshaw, Jonathan (2023). Counterfactual choices and moral judgments in children. Child Development, 94 (5), e296-e307. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13943

Counterfactual choices and moral judgments in children

2022

Journal Article

Counterfactual thinking elicits emotional change in young children

Gautam, Shalini, Suddendorf, Thomas and Redshaw, Jonathan (2022). Counterfactual thinking elicits emotional change in young children. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 377 (1866) 20210346, 1-8. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0346

Counterfactual thinking elicits emotional change in young children

2022

Other Outputs

Imagining past, present and future possibilities: a developmental perspective

Gautam, Shalini (2022). Imagining past, present and future possibilities: a developmental perspective. PhD Thesis, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/b49b57e

Imagining past, present and future possibilities: a developmental perspective

2021

Journal Article

When can young children reason about an exclusive disjunction? A follow up to Mody and Carey (2016)

Gautam, Shalini, Suddendorf, Thomas and Redshaw, Jonathan (2021). When can young children reason about an exclusive disjunction? A follow up to Mody and Carey (2016). Cognition, 207 104507, 104507. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104507

When can young children reason about an exclusive disjunction? A follow up to Mody and Carey (2016)

2021

Journal Article

Do monkeys and young children understand exclusive “or” relations? A commentary on Ferrigno et al. (2021)

Gautam, Shalini, Suddendorf, Thomas and Redshaw, Jonathan (2021). Do monkeys and young children understand exclusive “or” relations? A commentary on Ferrigno et al. (2021). Psychological Science, 32 (11), 1865-1867. doi: 10.1177/09567976211024641

Do monkeys and young children understand exclusive “or” relations? A commentary on Ferrigno et al. (2021)

2019

Journal Article

A taxonomy of mental time travel and counterfactual thought: Insights from cognitive development

Gautam, Shalini, Suddendorf, Thomas, Henry, Julie D. and Redshaw, Jonathan (2019). A taxonomy of mental time travel and counterfactual thought: Insights from cognitive development. Behavioural Brain Research, 374 112108, 112108. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2019.112108

A taxonomy of mental time travel and counterfactual thought: Insights from cognitive development

2017

Journal Article

Affective forecasting bias in preschool children

Gautam, Shalini, Bulley, Adam, von Hippel, William and Suddendorf, Thomas (2017). Affective forecasting bias in preschool children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 159, 175-184. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2017.02.005

Affective forecasting bias in preschool children

2015

Other Outputs

Affective forecasting in children

Gautam, Shalini (2015). Affective forecasting in children. Honours Thesis, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland.

Affective forecasting in children