research

People form beliefs in a world where evidence is often indirect, ambiguous, or inaccessible. I’m interested in how we learn to leverage our social and informational environments to learn efficiently and form accurate beliefs. I study the cognitive building blocks that we use to learn from socially mediated information, and how they’re adaptive (or maladaptive) in modern, digital contexts.

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Orticio, E., Gao, S., & Kidd, C. (2025). Children learn the meaning of ambiguous evidence from third-party belief revision. Forthcoming in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.

Orticio, E., Meyer, M., & Kidd, C. (2024). Exposure to detectable inaccuracies makes children more diligent fact-checkers of novel claims. In Nature Human Behaviour. [pdf] [journal link] [press release] [scientific american]

Orticio, E., Martí, L., Bi, B., O’Shaughnessy, D., & Kidd, C. (in revision). Judgments and endorsements of political statements are influenced by speaker identity.

Orticio, E. & Kidd, C. (2024). Shifting your opinion makes you change your factual beliefs without evidence. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]

Orticio, E., Meyer, M., & Kidd, C. (2023). Children adapt their evidentiary standards to their informational environment. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]

Orticio, E., Martí, L., & Kidd, C. (2022). Social prevalence is rationally integrated in belief updating. In Open Mind. [open access link] [press release]

Orticio, E., Martí, L., & Kidd, C. (2021). Beliefs are most swayed by social prevalence under uncertainty. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]

Orticio, E., & Christie, S. (2020). Object bias disrupts rule-based generalization in adults across domains. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. [pdf]