Caren Walker

Assistant Professor

University of California, San Diego

United States

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Caren Walker is an Assistant Professor at the University of California San Diego, USA. Her research interests focus on cognitive development in children, particularly how they perceive constraints, inequality, and uncertainty. Recent articles explore topics such as relational thinking, self-directed learning, and the influence of gender stereotypes on children's problem-solving abilities.

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Stanford University

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University of California, San Diego

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Articles (11)

How barriers become invisible: Children are less sensitive to constraints that are stable over time

Thinking Structurally: A Cognitive Framework for Understanding How People Attribute Inequality to Structural Causes

Ask me why, don't tell me why: Asking children for explanations facilitates relational thinking

You can’t change the past: Children’s recognition of the causal asymmetry between past and future events

Learning to recognize uncertainty vs. recognizing uncertainty to learn: Confidence judgments and exploration decisions in preschoolers

Rethinking the “gap”: Self‐directed learning in cognitive development and scientific reasoning

Children acknowledge physical constraints less when actors behave stereotypically: Gender stereotypes as a case study

Children’s Developing Ability to Resolve Disagreements by Integrating Perspectives

Toddlers learn and flexibly apply multiple possibilities

Can a perceptual task be used to infer conceptual representations?: A reply to Glorioso, Kuznar, Pavlic, & Povinelli

Thinking Counterfactually Supports Children’s Evidence Evaluation in Causal Learning

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