Isaac M. Davis
Journal Articles
(In Revision) Davis, I. Rational representations of uncertainty: a pluralistic approach to bounded rationality.
(2023) Davis, I., Carlson, R., Dunham, Y., & Jara-Ettinger, J. Identifying social partners through indirect prosociality: a computational account. Cognition, 240, 105580.
Journal, PDF
(2023) Danks, D., & Davis, I. (2023). Causal inference in cognitive neuroscience. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, e1650.
(2021) Davis, I. How do we know what babies know? The limits of inferring cognitive representations from visual fixation data. Philosophical Psychology 34(2), 1-28.
(2020) Davis, I. A Framework for Pragmatic Reliability. Philosophy of Science 87(4), 704-726.
Peer-Reviewed Conference Proceedings
(2023) Asaba, M., Davis, I., Leonard, J. A., & Jara-Ettinger, J. Detecting social biases via mental state inference. In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
(2023) Richardson, E., Davis, I., & Keil, F. Agenda setting and The Emperor’s New Clothes: people infer that letting powerful agents make their opinion known early can trigger information cascades and pluralistic ignorance. In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.
(2022) Davis, I., Dunham, Y., & Jara-Ettinger, J. Inferring the internal structure of social collectives. Proceedings of the 44th annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society
(2022) Davis, I., & Jara-Ettinger, J. Hierarchical task knowledge constrains and simplifies action understanding. Proceedings of the 44th annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society
(2021) Davis, I., Carlson, R., Dunham, Y., & Jara-Ettinger, J. Reasoning about social attitudes with uncertain beliefs. Proceedings of the 43rd annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society
(2021) Aboody, R., Davis, I., Dunham, Y., & Jara-Ettinger, J. I can tell you know a lot, although I’m not sure what: Modeling broad epistemic inference from minimal action. Proceedings of the 43rd annual conference of the Cognitive Science Society
(2017) Davis, I. Understanding the Role of Perception in the Evolution of Human Language. Proceedings of the 39th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society.