Gelpí, R. A., León-Villagrá, P., Buchsbaum, D., & Denison, S. (under revision). An introduction to rational constructivism in cognitive development. DOI

Gelpí, R. A., León-Villagrá, P., Cunningham, W. A., Lucas, C. G. & Buchsbaum, D. (2025). Resource-rational belief revision can mitigate as well as amplify polarization. In Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. DOI PDF

Zhou, C., Gelpí, R. A., Iorini, M., Lucas, C. G. & Buchsbaum, D. (2025). Preschool children's learning and generalization of continuous causal functions. In Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. PDF

Gelpí, R. A., Xue, E., & Cunningham, W. A. (2025). Towards machine theory of mind with LLM-augmented inverse planning. arXiv:2507.03682 [cs.AI] DOI PDF

Gelpí, R. A., Ju, Y., Jackson, E. C., Tang, Y., Verch, S., Voelcker, C., & Cunningham, W. A. (2025). Sorrel: A simple and flexible framework for multi-agent reinforcement learning. arXiv:2506.00228 [cs.MA] DOI PDF

Gelpí, R. A., Tang, Y., Jackson, E. C., & Cunningham, W. A. (2025). Stereotypic expectations entrench unequal conventions across generations in deep multi-agent reinforcement learning. PNAS Nexus, 4(3), pgaf076. DOI PDF

Gelpí, R. A., Whalen, A., Griffiths, T. L., Xu, F., & Buchsbaum, D. (2025). Can children and adults balance majority size with information quality in learning from preferences? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. DOI PDF

Gelpí, R. A., Otsubo, K., Whalen, A., & Buchsbaum, D. (2025). Investigating sensitivity to shared information and personal experience in children’s use of majority information. Open Mind, 9, 240–265. DOI PDF

Zhou, C., Gelpí, R. A., Lucas, C. G. & Buchsbaum, D. (2024). Can children learn functional relations through active information sampling? In Proceedings of the 46th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 229–236). PDF

Gelpí, R. A., & Buchsbaum, D. (2024). Children as cultural explorers: How imitation, pedagogy, and selective trust prepare children for learning in the cultural niche. In R. Kendal, J. Tehrani, & J. Kendal (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Cultural Evolution. DOI PDF

Blackburn, A. M., Han, H., Jeftić, A., Stöckli, S., Gelpí, R. A., Acosta-Ortiz, A. M., Travaglino, G. A., Alvarado, R., Lacko, D., Milfont, T. L., Chrona, S., Griffin, S. M., Tamayo-Aguledo, W., Lee, Y., & Vestergren, S. (2024). Predictors of compliance with COVID-19 guidelines across countries: The role of social norms, trust, stress, demographic factors, and moral values. Current Psychology, 43, 17939–17955. DOI PDF

Blackburn, A. N.*, Han, H.*, Gelpí, R. A., Stöckli, S., Jeftic, A., Ch'ng, B., Koszałkowska, K., Lacko, D., Milfont, T. L., Lee, Y., The COVIDiSTRESS II Consortium, & Vestergren, S. (2023). Mediation analysis of conspiratorial thinking and anti-expert sentiments on vaccine willingness. Health Psychology, 42(4), 235–246. DOI PDF

Tang, Y.*, Gelpí, R. A.*, & Cunningham, W. A. (2023). Unequal norms emerge under coordination uncertainty in multi-agent deep reinforcement learning. In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 555–561). PDF

Gelpí, R. A., Zhou, C., Lucas, C. G., & Buchsbaum, D. (2023). Characterizing shifts in strategy in active function learning. In Proceedings of the 45th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2377–2383). PDF

Gelpí, R. A., Allidina, S., Hoyer, D., & Cunningham, W. A. (2022). The labelled container: Conceptual development of social group representations. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 45, e108. DOI

Blackburn, A. M., Vestergren, S., & The COVIDiSTRESS II Consortium (including Gelpí, R. A.). (2022). COVIDiSTRESS diverse dataset on psychological and behavioural outcomes one year into the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientific Data, 9, 331. DOI

Rachev, N. R.*, Han, H.*, Lacko, D.*, Gelpí, R. A.*, Yamada, Y., & Lieberoth, A. (2021). Replicating the “Disease” framing paradigm during the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic: A study of stress, worry, trust, and choice under risk. PLOS ONE. DOI PDF

Prystawski, B., Gelpí, R. A., Lucas, C. G., & Buchsbaum, D. (2021). Modelling recognition in human puzzle solving. In Proceedings of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1907–1913). PDF

Gelpí, R. A., Saxena, N., Lifchits, G., Buchsbaum, D. & Lucas, C. G. (2021). Sampling heuristics for active function learning. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (pp. 80–86). PDF

Lieberoth, A., Lin, S.-Y., Stöckli, S., Han, H., Kowal, M., Gelpí, R. A., Chrona, S., Tran, T. P., Jeftic, A., Rasmussen, J., Cakal, H., Milfont, T. L., & The COVIDiSTRESS Global Survey Consortium (2021). Stress and worry in the 2020 coronavirus pandemic: Relationships to trust and compliance with preventive measures across 48 countries. Royal Society Open Science, 8, 200589. DOI PDF

Yamada, Y., Ćepulić, D. B., Coll-Martín, T., Debove, S., Gautreau, G., Han, H., Rasmussen, J., Tran, T. P., Travaglino, G. A., The COVIDiSTRESS Global Survey Consortium (including Gelpí, R. A.), & Lieberoth, A. (2021). COVIDiSTRESS Global Survey dataset on psychological and behavioural consequences of the COVID-19 outbreak. Scientific Data, 8, 3. DOI

Gelpí, R. A., Cunningham, W. A., & Buchsbaum, D. (2020). Belief as a non-epistemic adaptive benefit. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 43, e36. DOI PDF

Gelpí, R. A., Prystawski, B., Lucas, C. G., & Buchsbaum, D. (2020). Incremental hypothesis revision in causal reasoning across development. In Proceedings of the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 974–980). PDF

Durgin, F. H., & Gelpí, R. A. (2017). When do vehicles of similes become figurative? Gaze patterns show that similes and metaphors are initially processed differently. In Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 1967–1972). PDF