research

I study how people form beliefs and why they’re sometimes wrong. My research focuses on how children and adults use social and contextual information to guide learning, and how these information sources may be distorted by modern technologies like social media and AI.

output

Orticio, E., Meyer, M., & Kidd, C. (under review). Exposure to detectable inaccuracies makes kids more diligent fact-checkers of novel claims.

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., 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. [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]