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Research Interests
My research investigates the
developmental origins of concepts underlying abstract social reasoning.
One line of research investigates children's reasoning about beliefs
and desires; a second line investigates children's ability to engage in
and recognize pretend play; and a third line investigates
children's and adults' reasoning about ownership of property.
Ori Friedman
Journal Articles
- Baker, S., Friedman, O., & Leslie, A.M. (in press).
The opposites task: Using general rules to test cognitive flexibility
in preschoolers. Journal of Cognition and Development.
- Neary, K.R., Friedman, O., & Burnstein, C.L. (2009).
Preschoolers infer ownership from “control of permission”. Developmental Psychology, 45, 873-876.
- Friedman, O. & Neary, K.R. (2009). First possession
beyond the law: Adults' and young children's intuitions about
ownership. Tulane Law Review, 83, 679-690.
- Friedman, O. & Petrashek, A.R. (2009). Children do not follow the rule ‘ignorance means getting it wrong’. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 102, 114-121.
- Friedman, O. (2008). First possession: An
assumption guiding inferences about who owns what. Psychonomic Bulletin
& Review, 15, 290-295.
- Friedman, O., & Neary, K.R. (2008). Determining who owns what: Do children infer ownership from first possession? Cognition, 107, 829-849.
- Friedman, O., & Leslie, A.M. (2007). The conceptual underpinnings of pretense: Pretending is not 'behaving-as-if'. Cognition, 105, 103-124.
- Bosco, F.M., Friedman, O., & Leslie, A.M. (2006). Recognition
of pretend and real actions in play by one- and two-year-olds: Early
success and why they fail. Cognitive Development, 21, 3-10. PDF
- Griffin, R., Friedman, O., Ween, J., Winner, E., Happé, F.
& Brownell, H. (2006). Theory of Mind and the Right Cerebral
Hemisphere: Refining the scope of impairment. Laterality, 11, 195-225. PDF
- Friedman, O., & Leslie, A.M. (2005). Processing demands in belief-desire reasoning: Inhibition or general difficulty? Developmental Science, 8, 218-225. PDF
- Friedman, O., & Leslie, A.M. (2004). A developmental shift in processes underlying successful belief-desire reasoning. Cognitive Science, 28, 963-977. PDF
- Leslie, A.M., Friedman, O., & German, T. P. (2004). Core mechanisms in 'theory of mind.' Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8, 528-533. PDF
- Friedman, O. & Leslie, A.M. (2004). Mechanisms of belief-desire reasoning: Inhibition and bias. Psychological Science, 15, 547-552. PDF
- Friedman, O., Griffin, R., Brownell, H. & Winner, E. (2003). Problems with the seeing = knowing rule. Developmental Science, 6, 505-513. PDF.
Current Grants
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research
Council, Standard Research Grant (2008-2011). Children’s
reasoning about ownership of property.
- Natural
Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Discovery Grant (2006-2011). Mechanisms of belief-desire reasoning.
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