Trisha Katz

Trisha Katz is a third-year PhD student working with Dr. Michael Tomasello and Dr. Tamar Kushnir. Trisha is interested primarily in reputation management, tattling, and gossip. She is also interested in reciprocity, more specifically at what age children can reciprocate the symbolic value of an object.

Current Appointments & Affiliations

Student Psychology & Neuroscience, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences

Recent Publications

Children are eager to take credit for prosocial acts, and cost affects this tendency.

Journal Article Journal of experimental child psychology · January 2024 We report two experiments on children's tendency to enhance their reputations through communicative acts. In the experiments, 4-year-olds (N = 120) had the opportunity to inform a social partner that they had helped him in his absence. In a first experimen ... Full text Cite

What else could happen? Two-, three-, and four-year-olds use variability information to infer novel causal outcomes

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