Publications

Curiosity-Driven Learning

Galusca, C & Lucca, K (Registered Report in-principle accepted, 2024, Communications Psychology). Learning about Individuals: The Role of Social Influence, Status, and Utility on Early Curiosity.

Vaisarova, J., Kiefer, S., Şen, H. H., Todd, P., & Lucca, K. (2024). Where should I search next? Messages embedded in storybooks influence children’s strategic exploration in Turkey and the United States. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

Şen, H. H., Kiefer, S., Aksu, E., & Lucca, K. (2024) Developmental differences in children and adults’ enforcement of explore versus exploit search strategies in the United States and Turkey. Developmental Science.

Vaisarova, J. & Lucca, K. (2024) A developmental account of curiosity and creativity. A commentary on Ivancovsky et al. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X23003485.

Sexton, C. L., & Lucca, K. R. (2023). Canine Curiosity: What we do and don’t know, and what human infants could teach us. Animal Behavior and Cognition, 10(4), 355-365. doi:10.26451/abc.10.04.04.2023

Lee, N., Lazaro, V., Wang, J. J., Şen, H., & Lucca, K. (2023). Exploring Individual Differences in Infants’ Looking Preferences for Impossible Events: The Early Multidimensional Curiosity Scale. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 8505.

Mattos, O., Galusca, C., & Lucca, K. (2022) I want to know about my train! Factors driving children’s motivation to learn about individuals. Journal of Cognition & Development.

Lucca, K. The development of information-requesting gestures in infancy and their role in shaping learning outcomes. (2020). The Questioning Child: Insights from Psychology and Education. Butler, L., Ronfard., S., & Corriveau, K. (Eds.). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Lucca, K., & Wilbourn, M.P. (2018). The what and the how: Information-seeking pointing gestures facilitate learning object labels and functions in 18-month-olds. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.

Lucca, K., & Wilbourn, M.P. (2016). Communicating to learn: Infants’ pointing gestures reflect an optimal state for learning. Child Development.

Persistence

Mahaffey, E. & Lucca, K. (Registered Report in-principle accepted, 2024, Child Development). Children’s Inferences About Optimal Challenges When Learning From Others.

Kiefer, S., Caballero, A., & Lucca, K. (2023). The role of effort type and intensity in children’s decisions about effort-based outcomes. Infant and Child Development

Lucca, K., Horton, R., & Sommerville, J. (2020). Infants rationally decide when and how to deploy effort. Nature Human Behavior.

Lucca, K., Horton, R., & Sommerville, J. (2019) Keep Trying!: Parental language predicts infants’ persistence. Cognition.

Lucca, K. & Sommerville, J. (2018) The little engine that can: Infants’ persistence matters. Trends in Cognitive Science.

Social Cognition

Lucca, K., Yuen, F., and the ManyBabies4 Consortium (2024). Infants’ social evaluation of helpers and hinderers: A large-scale, multi-lab, coordinated replication study. Developmental Science.

Lucca, K.,  Popisil, J, & Sommerville, J. (2018). Fairness informs social decision making in infancy. PLOS ONE.

Sommerville, J., Enright, E., Horton, R., Lucca, K., Sitch, M., & Kirchner-Adelhardt, S. (2018) Infants’ prosocial behavior is governed by cost-benefit analyses. Cognition.

Lucca, K., Hamlin, K., & Sommerville, J. (2019) Early moral cognition and behavior: Editorial. Frontiers in Psychology. (Complete eBook can be found here)

Methods in Infant Cognition and Development

Kominksy, J., Lucca, K., Thomas, A., Frank, M., & Hamlin, K. (2022). Simplicity and validity in infant research. Cognitive Development.

Lucca, K., Gire, D., Horton, R., & Sommerville, J. (2020). Automated measures of force and motion can improve our understanding of infants’ motor persistence. Journal of Motor Development and Learning.

Communication and Cognitive Development

Vaisarova, J., Saguid, L., Kupfer, A. S., Goldbaum, H. S., & Lucca, K. (2024). Exploring the creativity-curiosity link in early childhood. Journal of Creativity, 34(3).

Romano, M., Lloyd, B. P., Lucca, K., & Eugenio, J. (2024). Getting to the point: examining associations between adult interactional strategies and infant gestures. Infancy, 30(1).

Langley, M., Van Houghton, K., McBeath, M., & Lucca, K. (2023) Children and adults exhibit a common vertical attention bias for object tops and scene bottoms. Developmental Psychology.

Lucca, K., MacLean, E., & Hare, B. (2017). The development and flexibility of gaze alternations in bonobos and chimpanzees. Developmental Science.

Verdine, B.N., Lucca, K., Chang, A., Golinkoff, R. M., Newcombe, N.S., & Hirsh-Pasek, K. (2015). The shape of things: The origin of young children’s knowledge of the names and properties of geometric forms. Journal of Cognition and Development. 17(1): 142-161.

Social Influences on Development

Clifford, B., Eggumm, N., Rogers, A., Porter, C., Gale, M., Sheppard, J., Lucca, K., Rainey, V., Bradley, R., Holmgren, H., & Jones, B. (2024). Mothers’ and Fathers’ Depressive Symptoms across Four Years Postpartum: An examination of between- and bidirectional within-person relations. Journal of Affective Disorders.