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Emily J. Hopkins

EJ

12

Publications

613

Citations

12

H-Index

2014

Active since

Affiliations

University of Scranton(Current)

University of Virginia

Villanova University

California University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania

Emily J. Hopkins is an author at University of Scranton specializing in cognitive science, education, and social sciences.

Top concepts

Cognitive ScienceEducationSocial SciencesEpistemologyCognitionPsychologyChild DevelopmentDigital StorytellingCognitive DevelopmentEarly Childhood Education

Publications per year

2014–2022

12

Publications

12

The seductive allure is a reductive allure: People prefer scientific explanations that contain logically irrelevant reductive information

Emily J. Hopkins, Deena Skolnick Weisberg, Jordan Taylor · Cognition · 2016 · 146 citations

Irrelevant Reductive Information, Cognitive Science, Abductive Reasoning +7

Deconstructing the seductive allure of neuroscience explanations

Deena Skolnick Weisberg, Jordan Taylor, Emily J. Hopkins · Judgment and Decision Making · 2015 · 120 citations · Full text

Brain Mechanism, Affective Neuroscience, Cognition +21

Education in the app store: using a mobile game to support U.S. preschoolers’ vocabulary learning

Rebecca A. Dore, Marcia Shirilla, Emily J. Hopkins et al. · Journal of Children and Media · 2019 · 89 citations

The Development of Substitute Object Pretense: The Differential Importance of Form and Function

Emily J. Hopkins, Eric Smith, Deena Skolnick Weisberg et al. · Journal of Cognition and Development · 2016 · 66 citations

People’s explanatory preferences for scientific phenomena

Deena Skolnick Weisberg, Emily J. Hopkins, Jordan Taylor · Cognitive Research Principles and Implications · 2018 · 38 citations · Full text

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