Dergi Makalesi

Baran, H. D., Ozgan, E., Mirski, R., & Allen, J. W. P. (2026). Tinkering with reflection and normativity: An action-based model for the emergence of complex social systems. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 49, e395. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X26106542

Dergi Makalesi

Önoğlu Yıldırım, E., Çelebi, F. S., Eroğlu, E. E., Memiş, H., & Allen, J. W. P. (2026). Developing minds: A sociodemographic perspective on executive functions development in preschool children. Cogent Psychology, 13(1), 2727473. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311908.2026.2727473

Dergi Makalesi

Önoğlu Yıldırım, E., Ilgaz, H., & Allen, J. W. P. (2026). Out of the shadows: Permissive and overprotective parenting in relation to theory of mind sequencing. Journal of Cognition and Development. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/15248372.2026.2667514

Dergi Makalesi

Allen, J. W. P., & Mirski, R. (2026). When statisticians go hunting: Two dogmas of the ToM scale. Human Development. Letter to the editor.

Konferans

Ozgan, E., & Allen, J. W. P. (2026). Relevance in imitation: More than meets the causal eye. Poster presented at the IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), Kyoto, Japan. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.13600.75527

Konferans

Ozgan, E., & Allen, J. W. P. (2026). Excusing the ‘outsider’: Preschoolers’ use of epistemic reflection to navigate norm-learning. Talk presented at the Jean Piaget Society Conference (JPS), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Konferans

Ozgan, E., & Allen, J. W. P. (2026). Normative robots: Replacing access autonomy with maintenance autonomy in artificial systems. In S. Hammond (Chair), The whole person and the emergence of normativities: The role of norms in survival, social interaction, moral reasoning and robotics. Symposium contribution at the Jean Piaget Society Conference (JPS), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Konferans

Allen, J. W. P., Mirski, R., Baran, H. D., & Ozgan, E. (2026). Normative “umph”: Embedding the interactivist approach to social normativity in development. In S. Hammond (Chair), The whole person and the emergence of normativities: The role of norms in survival, social interaction, moral reasoning and robotics. Symposium contribution at the Jean Piaget Society Conference (JPS), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Konferans

Atak, D., Ozgan, E., & Allen, J. W. P. (2026). The effects of language on overimitation in Turkish preschool children. Poster presented at the Jean Piaget Society Conference (JPS), Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Dergi Makalesi

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

Dergi Makalesi

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

Konferans

Ozgan, E., & Allen, J. W. P. (2025). The theory and reality mismatch in developmental robotics: What do robots miss? Talk presented at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development (BCCD), Budapest, Hungary.

Konferans

Ozgan, E., & Allen, J. W. P. (2025). An evaluation of statistical learning to account for meta-cognitive skills in artificial agents. Poster presented at the IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), Prague, Czechia.

Dergi Makalesi

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

Dergi Makalesi

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

Konferans

Ozgan, E., & Allen, J. W. P. (2024). Robotlar ne zaman düşünür? Bilişsel gelişimin interactivism temelli asgari kriteri [When do robots think? An interactivism-based minimal criterion of cognitive development]. Poster presented at the 4th Developmental Psychology Symposium (Gelişim Psikolojisi Sempozyumu), Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey.

Dergi Makalesi

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

Dergi Makalesi

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

Dergi Makalesi

Ilgaz, H., Allen, J. W. P., & Haskaraca, F. N. (2022). Is cultural variation the norm? A closer look at sequencing of the theory of mind scale. Cognitive Development, 63, 101216. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2022.101216

Dergi Makalesi

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

Dergi Makalesi

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

Dergi Makalesi

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

Dergi Makalesi

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

Dergi Makalesi

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

Dergi Makalesi

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

Dergi Makalesi

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

Dergi Makalesi

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

Dergi Makalesi

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

Kitap Bölümü

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

Dergi Makalesi

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.

Dergi Makalesi

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

Dergi Makalesi

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

Dergi Makalesi

Allen, J. W. P., Bennett, D. S., Carmody, D. P., Wang, Y., & Lewis, M. (2014). Adolescent risk-taking as a function of prenatal cocaine exposure and biological sex. Neurotoxicology and Teratology, 41, 65–70.

Bildiri

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

Kitap Bölümü

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. 

Dergi Makalesi

Allen, J. W. P., & Bickhard, M. H. (2013). Stepping off the pendulum: Why only an action-based approach can transcend the nativist-empiricist debate. Cognitive Development, 28, 96–133.

Dergi Makalesi

Allen, J. W. P., & Bickhard, M. H. (2013). The pendulum still swings. Cognitive Development, 28, 164–174.

Dergi Makalesi

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

Dergi Makalesi

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

Dergi Makalesi

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

Dergi Makalesi

Allen, J. W. P., & Bickhard, M. H. (2011). You can’t get there from here: Foundationalism and development. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 34, 124–125.