Susan Birch

Biographic Data

ID4152408
NAMESusan Birch
GIVEN NAMESSusan
FAMILY NAMEBirch
SIGNATUREBIRCH S
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of British Columbia
ORCID0000-0002-0985-6935
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX0

  • Wendy Kline, Exposed the Hidden History of the Pelvic Exam

    Open AccessSusan BirchARTICLESocial History of Medicine2025

  • Parental pathological narcissism and child depression

    Open AccessJackson M A Hewitt, M J Wilson et al.ARTICLECurrent Psychology2024

  • The power of allies

    Open AccessAnthea Pun, Susan Birch et al.ARTICLECognition2021

  • Only Familiar Information is a “Curse”

    Open AccessSiba Ghrear, Klint Fung et al.ARTICLEChild Development2021

    The ability to make inferences about what one’s peers know is critical for social interaction and communication. Three experiments (n = 309) examined the curse of knowledge, the tendency to be biased by one’s knowledge when reasoning about others’ knowledge, in children’s estimates of their peers’ knowledge. Four- to 7-year-olds were taught the answers to factual questions and estimated how many peers would know the answers. When children learned…

  • Machiavellian strategist or cultural learner? Mentalizing and learning over development in a resource-sharing game

    Open AccessAdam Baimel, Myriam Juda et al.ARTICLEEvolutionary Human Sciences2021References: 6

  • Cultural Variations in the Curse of Knowledge

    Siba Ghrear, Maciej Chudek et al.ARTICLEJournal of Cognition and Culture2019References: 3

    We examined the universality of the curse of knowledge (i.e., the tendency to be biased by one’s knowledge when inferring other perspectives) by investigating it in a unique cross-cultural sample; a nomadic Nilo-Saharan pastoralist society in East Africa, the Turkana. Forty Turkana children were asked eight factual questions and asked to predict how widely-known those facts were among their peers. To test the effect of their knowledge, we taught …

  • Do minds switch bodies? Dualist interpretations across ages and societies

    Maciej Chudek, Rita Anne Mcnamara et al.ARTICLEReligion Brain & Behavior2018

    Researchers explain cultural phenomena ranging from cognitive biases to widespread religious beliefs by assuming intuitive dualism: humans imagine minds and bodies as distinct and separable. We examine dualist intuition development across two societies that differ in normative focus on thinking about minds. We use a new method that measures people’s tendency to interpret ambiguous stimuli using mind-body dualist thinking. We recruited 180 Canadia…

  • Coordinating bodies and minds

    Open AccessAdam Baimel, Susan Birch et al.ARTICLEJournal of Experimental Social…2017References: 66

  • Prestige-biased cultural learning

    Open AccessMaciej Chudek, Sarah Randal Heller et al.ARTICLEEvolution and Human Behavior2011