Ozgan, E., & Allen, J. W. P. (2025). Motivational whack-a-mole: Foundational boxes cannot be unpacked. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 48. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0140525x24000517

Allen, J. W. P., Baran, H. D., & Esendemir, Y. (2025). Emergence unleashed: An interactivist ontology for implicit versus explicit theory of mind. Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-025-10069-4

Allen, J. W. P., Mirski, R., & Bickhard, M. H. (2024). Beyond the mirror: An action-based model of knowing through reflection. Frontiers in Developmental Psychology, 2. https://doi.org/10.3389/fdpys.2024.1449705

Allen, J. W. P., & Andrews, K. (2024). How not to find over-imitation in Animals. Human Development, 68(2), 77–89. https://doi.org/10.1159/000537938

Çelik, B., Ergut, N., & Allen, J. W. P. (2023). What’s The evidence say? the relation between evidential-trust and theory of mind. Journal of Cognition and Development, 25(3), 303–322. https://doi.org/10.1080/15248372.2023.2260874

Allen, J. W. P., & Kara, D. (2023). Domain‐general or specific: How is children’s understanding of deception socialized? Social Development, 33(1). https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12712

Allen, J. W. P., & Bickhard, M. H. (2022). Emergent constructivism: Theoretical and methodological considerations. Human Development, 66(4–5), 276–294. https://doi.org/10.1159/000526220

Oades‐Sese, G. V., Cahill, A., Allen, J. W. P., Rubic, W., & Mahmood, N. (2021). Effectiveness of Sesame Workshop’s Little Children, big challenges: A digital media SEL intervention for preschool classrooms. Psychology in the Schools, 58(10), 2041–2067. https://doi.org/10.1002/pits.22574

Aydin, E., Ilgaz, H., & Allen, J. W. P. (2021). Preschoolers’ learning of information from fantastical narrative versus expository books. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 209, 105170. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105170

Allen, J. W. P., Sümer, C., & Ilgaz, H. (2021). Cultural affordances: Does model reliability affect over-imitation in preschoolers. Cognitive Development, 57, 100999. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2020.100999

Allen, J. W. P., Çelik, B., & Bickhard, M. H. (2021). Age 4 transitions: Reflection as a domain-general development for explicit reasoning. Cognitive Development, 59, 101091. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2021.101091

Ilgaz, H., & Allen, J. W. P. (2020). (Co-)constructing a theory of mind: From language or through language? Synthese, 198(9), 8463–8484. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-020-02581-8

Allen, J. W. P., & Lewis, M. (2019). Who peeks: Cognitive, emotional, behavioral, socialization, and child correlates of preschoolers’ resistance to temptation. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 17(4), 481–503. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405629.2019.1665014

Allen, J. W. P., & Bickhard, M. H. (2018). Stage fright: Internal reflection as a domain general enabling constraint on the emergence of explicit thought. Cognitive Development, 45, 77–91. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2017.12.005

Allen, J. W. P., & Bickhard, M. H. (2017). Whence Container? Human Development, 60(4), 179–185. https://doi.org/10.1159/000479843

Allen, J. W. P., & Ilgaz, H. (2017). Social Meta-Learning: Learning how to make use of others as a resource for further learning. Studies in the Philosophy of Sociality, 89–113. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53133-5_5

Giray, C., Allen, J. W. P., & Ilgaz, H. (2017). (Dis)harmony in the home: Parental child-rearing disagreement and early-childhood adjustment in Turkey. International Psychology Bulletin, 21, 10-17.

Allen, J. W. P., & Bickhard, M. H. (2015). Stepping back: Reflections on a pedagogical demonstration of reflective abstraction. Human Development, 58(4–5), 245–252. https://doi.org/10.1159/000443713

Allen, J. W. P. (2015). How to help: Can more active behavioral measures help transcend the infant false-belief debate? New Ideas in Psychology, 39, 63–72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.2015.07.008

Allen, J. W. P. (2014). Social Meta-Learning: Learning how to make use of others as a resource for learning. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications. https://doi.org/10.3233/978-1-61499-480-0-63

Oades-Sese, G. V., Cohen, D., & Allen, J. W. P. (2014). Little Children, BIG Challenges: Building  Resilience in Young Children the Sesame Street Way. In S. Prince-Embury & D. Saklofske (Eds.), Resilience Interventions for Youth in Diverse Populations. New York: Springer. 

Allen, J. W. P., & Bickhard, M. H. (2013). Beyond principles and programs: An action framework for modeling development. Human Development, 56(3), 171–177. https://doi.org/10.1159/000351140

Allen, J. W. P., & Bickhard, M. H. (2011). Normativity: A crucial kind of emergence. Human Development, 54(2), 106–112. https://doi.org/10.1159/000327096

Allen, J. W. P., & Bickhard, M. H. (2011). Emergent constructivism. Child Development Perspectives, 5(3), 164–165. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1750-8606.2011.00178.x