Bonalumi, F., Hertwig, R., & Ruggeri, A. (2024). Investigating deliberate ignorance in children and adults. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 46). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5pn6n5nh
Brändle, F., Kessler, S., Ruggeri, A., & Schulz, E. (2024). Uncertainty-driven little alchemists: Differences in exploration strategies between adults and children in an online game. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 46). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4vt92302
Grueneisen, S., Török, G., Wathiyage Don, A., & Ruggeri, A. (2024). Young children's adaptive partner choice in cooperation and competition contexts. Child Development, 95(3), 1023–1031. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14036 -- publisher-version
Hominis, O., & Ruggeri, A. (2024). Motivated Information Search. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 46). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7gn518kz
Musculus-Schönenborn, L., Ruggeri, A., Juppen, L., & Raab, M. (2024). Motor-Cognitive and Motor Training in Climbing Foster Embodied-Planning in Children: Effects of an Eight-Week Randomized-Controlled Intervention Study. In Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie: Menschen, Mitwelt, Medien.
Poli, F., Li, Y. L., Naidu, P., Mars, R. B., Hunnius, S., & Ruggeri, A. (2024). Toddlers strategically adapt their information search. Nature communications, 15(1), 5780. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48855-4
Ransom, A., Ruggeri, A., & Ronfard, S. (2024). When is it appropriate to ask a question? The role of age, social context, and personality. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 245, 105976. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2024.105976
Ruggeri, A., Stanciu, O., Pelz, M., Gopnik, A., & Schulz, E. (2024). Preschoolers search longer when there is more information to be gained. Developmental Science, 27(1), Article e13411. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13411 -- publisher-version
Ruggeri, A., Stanciu, O., & Völter, C. (2024). Selective advantage of climbers in spatial navigation tasks. International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 22(2), 428 445. https://doi.org/10.1080/1612197X.2023.2256763
Stanciu, O., & Ruggeri, A. (2024). Can children leverage consensus and source independence to get better advice?. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 46). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0s04g04x
Stanciu, O., Jones, A., Metzner, N., Fandakova, Y., & Ruggeri, A. (2024). The differential impact of active learning on children’s memory. Developmental Psychology, 60(5), 904–915. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001714
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Török, G., Stanciu, O., & Ruggeri, A. (2024). Children's information-search strategies: Operationalizing efficiency and effectiveness. Child Development Perspectives, 18(2), 57–63. doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12498 -- publisher-version
Chai, K.-X., Xu, F., Swaboda, N., & Ruggeri, A. (2023). Preschoolers' information search strategies: Inefficient but adaptive. Frontiers in Psychology, 13, Article 1080755. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1080755 -- publisher-version
Chai, K. X., Stanciu, O., & Ruggeri, A. (2023). Efficient Detectives in the Sandbox: Children Demonstrate Adaptive Information-Search Strategies in a Novel Spatial Search Game. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 45, No. 45). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5nh4m0v3
Giron, A. P., Ciranka, S., Schulz, E., van den Bos, W., Ruggeri, A., Meder, B., & Wu, C. M. (2023). Developmental changes in exploration resemble stochastic optimization. Nature Human Behaviour, 7, 1955–1967. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-023-01662-1 -- publisher-version
Serko, D., Li, Y. L., Swaboda, N., & Ruggeri, A. (2023). Preschoolers select the relevant information when looking for a hidden present. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 45, No. 45). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6085s468
Serko, D., Vasil, N., & Ruggeri, A. (2023). The Role of Causal Stability in Children's Active Exploration. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 45, No. 45). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8h38n375
Testoni, A., Bernardi, R., & Ruggeri, A. (2023). The efficiency of question-asking strategies in a real-world visual search task. Cognitive Science, 47(12), Article e13396. https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13396 -- publisher-version
Török, G., Swaboda, N., & Ruggeri, A. (2023). Smart or just lucky? Inferring question-asking competence from strategies' efficiency versus effectiveness. Developmental Psychology, 59(6), 1136–1152. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001516
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Bertram, L., Nelson, J. D., & Ruggeri, A. (2022). Emotions, age, and subjective probability in children. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 44, No. 44). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/57n925vv
Bramley, N. R., Jones, A., Gureckis, T. M., & Ruggeri, A. (2022). Children’s failure to control variables may reflect adaptive decision‑making. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 29, 2314–2324. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13423-022-02120-1 -- publisher-version
Bramley, N. R., & Ruggeri, A. (2022). Children's active physical learning is as effective and goal-targeted as adults'. Developmental Psychology, 58(12), 2310–2321.https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001435
De Simone, C., & Ruggeri, A. (2022). Searching for information, from infancy to adolescence. The drive for knowledge: The science of human information-seeking, 77-100.
De Simone, C., Battisti, A., & Ruggeri, A. (2022). Differential impact of web habits and active navigation on adolescents' online learning. Computers in Human Behavior Reports, 8, Article 100246. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbr.2022.10024 -- publisher-version
Meder, B., Mayrhofer, R., & Ruggeri, A. (2022). Developmental trajectories in the understanding of everyday uncertainty terms. Topics in Cognitive Science, 14(2), 258–281. https://doi.org/10.1111/tops.12564 -- publisher-version
Opitz, B., & Ruggeri, A. (2022). Vorteile durch aktives Lernen bei Schülerinnen und Schülern. Lernen und Lernstörungen.
Serko, D., Leonard, J. A., & Ruggeri, A. (2022). Developmental changes in children's training strategies. In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (Vol. 44, No. 44). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5cz5n57d
Swaboda, N., Meder, B., & Ruggeri, A. (2022). Finding the (most efficient) way out of a maze is easier than asking (good) questions. Developmental Psychology, 58(9), 1730–1746. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001386 -- publisher-version
De Simone, C., & Ruggeri, A. (2021). What is a good question asker better at? From unsystematic generalization to adult-like selectivity across childhood. Cognitive Development, 59, Article 101082. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2021.101082 -- post-print
Jones, A., Markant, D. B., Pachur, T., Gopnik, A., & Ruggeri, A. (2021). How is the hypothesis space represented? Evidence from young children’s active search and predictions in a multiple-cue inference task. Developmental Psychology, 57(7), 1080–1093. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001201 -- publisher-version
Meder, B., Wu, C. M., Schulz, E., & Ruggeri, A. (2021). Development of directed and random exploration in children. Developmental Science, 24(4), Article e13095. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13095 -- publisher-version
Musculus, L., Ruggeri, A., & Raab, M. (2021). Movement matters! Understanding the developmental trajectory of embodied planning. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, Article 633100. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.633100 -- publisher-version
Oranç, C., & Ruggeri, A. (2021). "Alexa, let me ask you something different": Children's adaptive information search with voice assistants. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, 3(4), 595–605. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbe2.270 -- publisher-version
Fantasia, V., Markant, D. B., Valeri, G., Perri, N., & Ruggeri, A. (2020). Memory enhancements from active control of learning in children with autism spectrum disorder. Autism, 24(8), 1995–2007. https://doi.org/10.1177/1362361320931244 -- publisher-version
Coenen, A., Ruggeri, A., Bramley, N. R., & Gureckis, T. M. (2019). Testing one or multiple: How beliefs about sparsity affect causal experimentation. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 45(11), 1923–1941. https://doi.org/10.1037/xlm0000680
Meder, B., Nelson, J. D., Jones, M., & Ruggeri, A. (2019). Stepwise versus globally optimal search in children and adults. Cognition, 191, Article 103965. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.05.002
Musculus, L., Ruggeri, A., Raab, M., & Lobinger, B. (2019). A developmental perspective on option generation and selection. Developmental Psychology, 55(4), 745–753. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000665
Ruggeri, A., Markant, D., Gureckis, T. M., Bretzke, M., & Xu, F. (2019). Memory enhancements from active control of learning emerge across development. Cognition, 186, 82–94. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.01.010
Ruggeri, A., Swaboda, N., Sim, Z. L., & Gopnik, A. (2019). Shake it baby, but only when needed: Preschoolers adapt their exploratory strategies to the information structure of the task. Cognition, 193, Article 104013. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2019.104013
Schulz, E., Wu, C. M., Ruggeri, A., & Meder, B. (2019). Searching for rewards like a child means less generalization and more directed exploration. Psychological Science, 30(11), 1561–1572. https://doi.org/10.1177/0956797619863663 -- publisher-version
Ruggeri, A., Luan, S., Keller, M., & Gummerum, M. (2018). The influence of adult and peer role models on children' and adolescents' sharing decisions. Child Development, 89(5), 1589–1598. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12916
Ruggeri, A., Vagharchakian, L., & Xu, F. (2018). Icon arrays help younger children's proportional reasoning. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 36(2), 313–333. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12233
Ruggeri, A., Sim, Z. L., & Xu, F. (2017). "Why is Toma late to school again?" Preschoolers identify the most informative questions. Developmental Psychology, 53(9), 1620–1632. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000340 -- post-print
Horn, S. S., Ruggeri, A., & Pachur, T. (2016). The development of adaptive decision making: Recognition-based inference in children and adolescents. Developmental Psychology, 52(9), 1470–1485. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000181 -- post-print
Markant, D. B., Ruggeri, A., Gureckis, T. M., & Xu, F. (2016). Enhanced memory as a common effect of active learning. Mind, Brain, and Education, 10(3), 142–152. https://doi.org/10.1111/mbe.12117 -- post-print
McMahon, K., Ruggeri, A., Kämmer, J. E., & Katsikopoulos, K. V. (2016). Beyond idea generation: The power of groups in developing ideas. Creativity Research Journal, 28(3), 247–257. https://doi.org/10.1080/10400419.2016.1195637
Ruggeri, A., Lombrozo, T., Griffiths, T. L., & Xu, F. (2016). Sources of developmental change in the efficiency of information search. Developmental Psychology, 52(12), 2159–2173. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000240 -- post-print
Ruggeri, A., & Feufel, M. A. (2015). How basic-level objects facilitate question-asking in a categorization task. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, Article 918.
