Jonathan Redshaw
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3072058 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Jonathan Redshaw |
| PRENOMES | Jonathan |
| SOBRENOME | Redshaw |
| ASSINATURA | REDSHAW J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7729-1577 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 17 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 17 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2019 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Young children’s understanding of future utility
Recognition of future utility is a critical step in elevating a mere problem-solution into an innovation. It motivates us to engage in behaviors like keeping useful tools for repeated use, sharing them with others who need them, and refining their design—for instance—to maximize efficiency or durability. While previous research has assessed children’s capacity to use and create solutions to novel problems, we do not know when they become able to …
The role of foresight in the emergence of innovation
In the developmental and comparative literatures, innovation is generally defined as the capacity to generate novel problem-solutions. When conceived in this way, children demonstrate some competencies by the late preschool years and are increasingly capable from middle childhood onwards. Evidence of novel problem-solving is also seen in a variety of non-human animals. But when we instead consider innovation to be predicated on recognising the fu…
A key to innovation
Innovation in children is typically studied by examining their capacity to independently create tools to solve problems. However, it has been argued that innovating requires more than creative problem-solving; it is essential that the future utility of a solution is recognized. Here, we examined children's capacity to recognize and construct a tool for future uses. Experiment 1 presented fifty-five 3- to 5-year-olds (28 girls) with a future-direc…
Costly ritualized actions induce trust in young children
The Role of Controllability and Foreseeability in Children's Counterfactual Emotions
Counterfactual emotions such as regret may aid future decision-making by encouraging people to focus on controllable features of personal past events. However, it remains unclear when children begin to preferentially focus on controllable features of such events. Across two studies, Australian 4–9-year-olds (N = 336, 168 females; data collected during 2021–2022) completed tasks that led to positive or negative personal outcomes, and then reported…
Children Show More Selective Cognitive Offloading After First Being Compelled to Offload Indiscriminately
With the rise of wearable technologies, mobile devices and artificial intelligence comes a growing pressure to understand downstream effects of cognitive offloading on children's future thinking and behavior. Here, we explored whether compelling children to use an indiscriminate cognitive offloading strategy affects their subsequent strategy selection. Six‐ to 9‐year‐olds ( N = 128) completed a task where manual rotation of stimuli sometimes offl…
Children's emerging ability to balance internal and external cognitive resources
Australian children aged 6–9 years (N = 120, 71 females; data collected in 2021-2022) were tasked with remembering the locations of 1, 3, 5, and 7 targets hidden under 25 cups on different trials. In the critical test phase, children were provided with a limited number of tokens to allocate across trials, which they could use to mark target locations and assist future memory performance. Following the search period, children were invited to adjus…
Young children experience both regret and relief in a gain-or-loss context
Recent research has provided compelling evidence that children experience the negative counterfactual emotion of regret, by manipulating the presence of a counterfactual action that would have led to participants receiving a better outcome.However, it remains unclear if children similarly experience regret's positive counterpart, relief.The current study examined children's negative and positive counterfactual emotions in a novel gain-or-loss con…
Counterfactual choices and moral judgments in children
When making moral judgments of past actions, adults often think counterfactually about what could have been done differently. Considerable evidence suggests that counterfactual thinking emerges around age 6, but it remains unknown how this development influences children's moral judgments. Across two studies, Australian children aged 4–9 (N = 236, 142 Females) were told stories about two characters who had a choice that led to a good or bad outco…
Creativity and flexibility in young children's use of external cognitive strategies
A cardinal feature of adult cognition is the awareness of our own cognitive struggles and the capacity to draw upon this awareness to offload internal demand into the environment. In this preregistered study conducted in Australia, we investigated whether 3-8-year-olds ( N = 72, 36 male, 36 female, mostly White) could self-initiate such an external metacognitive strategy and transfer it across contexts. Children watched as an experimenter demonst…
What are the odds? Preschoolers’ ability to distinguish between possible, impossible, and probabilistically distinct future outcomes
Previous research has suggested that infants are able to distinguish between possible and impossible events and make basic probabilistic inferences. However, much of this research has focused on children's intuitions about past events for which the outcome is already determined but unknown. Here, we investigated children's ability to use probabilistic information to guide their choices and actively shape future events. In two experiments, we exam…
Children boost their cognitive performance with a novel offloading technique
Ninety-seven children aged 4–11 (49 males, 48 females, mostly White) were given the opportunity to improve their problem-solving performance by devising and implementing a novel cognitive offloading strategy. Across two phases, they searched for hidden rewards using maps that were either aligned or misaligned with the search space. In the second phase, maps were presented on rotatable turntables, thus allowing children to manually align all maps …
Does Neonatal Imitation Exist? Insights From a Meta-Analysis of 336 Effect Sizes
Neonatal imitation is a cornerstone in many theoretical accounts of human development and social behavior, yet its existence has been debated for the past 40 years. To examine possible explanations for the inconsistent findings in this body of research, we conducted a multilevel meta-analysis synthesizing 336 effect sizes from 33 independent samples of human newborns, reported in 26 articles. The meta-analysis found significant evidence for neona…
The digital social partner
We report on a study in which 4- to 6-year-olds were presented with a sticker-retrieval task and asked to choose between one of two tools they could use to complete it. One of the tools was efficient but verbally identified to be the one that “nobody” uses; the other option was less efficient, but children were told it was the tool that “everybody” uses. Children learned about the level of efficiency and normative-use of each tool option through …
A cross-cultural comparison
It's in the bag
Creation across culture
Prior research suggests that human children lack an aptitude for tool innovation. However, children's tool making must be explored across a broader range of tasks and across diverse cultural contexts before we can conclude that they are genuinely poor tool innovators. To this end, we investigated children's ability to independently construct 3 new tools using distinct actions: adding, subtracting, and reshaping. We tested 422 children across a br…
It's in the bag
Creation across culture
Prior research suggests that human children lack an aptitude for tool innovation. However, children's tool making must be explored across a broader range of tasks and across diverse cultural contexts before we can conclude that they are genuinely poor tool innovators. To this end, we investigated children's ability to independently construct 3 new tools using distinct actions: adding, subtracting, and reshaping. We tested 422 children across a br…
Children's emerging ability to balance internal and external cognitive resources
Australian children aged 6–9 years (N = 120, 71 females; data collected in 2021-2022) were tasked with remembering the locations of 1, 3, 5, and 7 targets hidden under 25 cups on different trials. In the critical test phase, children were provided with a limited number of tokens to allocate across trials, which they could use to mark target locations and assist future memory performance. Following the search period, children were invited to adjus…
Creativity and flexibility in young children's use of external cognitive strategies
A cardinal feature of adult cognition is the awareness of our own cognitive struggles and the capacity to draw upon this awareness to offload internal demand into the environment. In this preregistered study conducted in Australia, we investigated whether 3-8-year-olds ( N = 72, 36 male, 36 female, mostly White) could self-initiate such an external metacognitive strategy and transfer it across contexts. Children watched as an experimenter demonst…
What are the odds? Preschoolers’ ability to distinguish between possible, impossible, and probabilistically distinct future outcomes
Previous research has suggested that infants are able to distinguish between possible and impossible events and make basic probabilistic inferences. However, much of this research has focused on children's intuitions about past events for which the outcome is already determined but unknown. Here, we investigated children's ability to use probabilistic information to guide their choices and actively shape future events. In two experiments, we exam…
Creation across culture
Prior research suggests that human children lack an aptitude for tool innovation. However, children's tool making must be explored across a broader range of tasks and across diverse cultural contexts before we can conclude that they are genuinely poor tool innovators. To this end, we investigated children's ability to independently construct 3 new tools using distinct actions: adding, subtracting, and reshaping. We tested 422 children across a br…
It's in the bag
Does Neonatal Imitation Exist? Insights From a Meta-Analysis of 336 Effect Sizes
Neonatal imitation is a cornerstone in many theoretical accounts of human development and social behavior, yet its existence has been debated for the past 40 years. To examine possible explanations for the inconsistent findings in this body of research, we conducted a multilevel meta-analysis synthesizing 336 effect sizes from 33 independent samples of human newborns, reported in 26 articles. The meta-analysis found significant evidence for neona…
The digital social partner
We report on a study in which 4- to 6-year-olds were presented with a sticker-retrieval task and asked to choose between one of two tools they could use to complete it. One of the tools was efficient but verbally identified to be the one that “nobody” uses; the other option was less efficient, but children were told it was the tool that “everybody” uses. Children learned about the level of efficiency and normative-use of each tool option through …
A cross-cultural comparison
Children boost their cognitive performance with a novel offloading technique
Ninety-seven children aged 4–11 (49 males, 48 females, mostly White) were given the opportunity to improve their problem-solving performance by devising and implementing a novel cognitive offloading strategy. Across two phases, they searched for hidden rewards using maps that were either aligned or misaligned with the search space. In the second phase, maps were presented on rotatable turntables, thus allowing children to manually align all maps …
Counterfactual choices and moral judgments in children
When making moral judgments of past actions, adults often think counterfactually about what could have been done differently. Considerable evidence suggests that counterfactual thinking emerges around age 6, but it remains unknown how this development influences children's moral judgments. Across two studies, Australian children aged 4–9 (N = 236, 142 Females) were told stories about two characters who had a choice that led to a good or bad outco…
Creativity and flexibility in young children's use of external cognitive strategies
A cardinal feature of adult cognition is the awareness of our own cognitive struggles and the capacity to draw upon this awareness to offload internal demand into the environment. In this preregistered study conducted in Australia, we investigated whether 3-8-year-olds ( N = 72, 36 male, 36 female, mostly White) could self-initiate such an external metacognitive strategy and transfer it across contexts. Children watched as an experimenter demonst…
What are the odds? Preschoolers’ ability to distinguish between possible, impossible, and probabilistically distinct future outcomes
Previous research has suggested that infants are able to distinguish between possible and impossible events and make basic probabilistic inferences. However, much of this research has focused on children's intuitions about past events for which the outcome is already determined but unknown. Here, we investigated children's ability to use probabilistic information to guide their choices and actively shape future events. In two experiments, we exam…
Young children experience both regret and relief in a gain-or-loss context
Recent research has provided compelling evidence that children experience the negative counterfactual emotion of regret, by manipulating the presence of a counterfactual action that would have led to participants receiving a better outcome.However, it remains unclear if children similarly experience regret's positive counterpart, relief.The current study examined children's negative and positive counterfactual emotions in a novel gain-or-loss con…
Costly ritualized actions induce trust in young children
The Role of Controllability and Foreseeability in Children's Counterfactual Emotions
Counterfactual emotions such as regret may aid future decision-making by encouraging people to focus on controllable features of personal past events. However, it remains unclear when children begin to preferentially focus on controllable features of such events. Across two studies, Australian 4–9-year-olds (N = 336, 168 females; data collected during 2021–2022) completed tasks that led to positive or negative personal outcomes, and then reported…
Children Show More Selective Cognitive Offloading After First Being Compelled to Offload Indiscriminately
With the rise of wearable technologies, mobile devices and artificial intelligence comes a growing pressure to understand downstream effects of cognitive offloading on children's future thinking and behavior. Here, we explored whether compelling children to use an indiscriminate cognitive offloading strategy affects their subsequent strategy selection. Six‐ to 9‐year‐olds ( N = 128) completed a task where manual rotation of stimuli sometimes offl…
Children's emerging ability to balance internal and external cognitive resources
Australian children aged 6–9 years (N = 120, 71 females; data collected in 2021-2022) were tasked with remembering the locations of 1, 3, 5, and 7 targets hidden under 25 cups on different trials. In the critical test phase, children were provided with a limited number of tokens to allocate across trials, which they could use to mark target locations and assist future memory performance. Following the search period, children were invited to adjus…
Young children’s understanding of future utility
Recognition of future utility is a critical step in elevating a mere problem-solution into an innovation. It motivates us to engage in behaviors like keeping useful tools for repeated use, sharing them with others who need them, and refining their design—for instance—to maximize efficiency or durability. While previous research has assessed children’s capacity to use and create solutions to novel problems, we do not know when they become able to …
The role of foresight in the emergence of innovation
In the developmental and comparative literatures, innovation is generally defined as the capacity to generate novel problem-solutions. When conceived in this way, children demonstrate some competencies by the late preschool years and are increasingly capable from middle childhood onwards. Evidence of novel problem-solving is also seen in a variety of non-human animals. But when we instead consider innovation to be predicated on recognising the fu…
A key to innovation
Innovation in children is typically studied by examining their capacity to independently create tools to solve problems. However, it has been argued that innovating requires more than creative problem-solving; it is essential that the future utility of a solution is recognized. Here, we examined children's capacity to recognize and construct a tool for future uses. Experiment 1 presented fifty-five 3- to 5-year-olds (28 girls) with a future-direc…
Psychology (14 obras) · Child and Animal Learning Development (12 obras) · Developmental psychology (12 obras) · Computer Science (8 obras) · Social Psychology (8 obras) · Cognition (6 obras) · Cognitive psychology (6 obras) · Cognitive development (4 obras) · Counterfactual thinking (3 obras) · Cultural Differences and Values (3 obras)