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Representative publications are highlighted below.

  1. Lee, Y., Radkani, S., & Saxe, R. (in press). Children learn what is right or wrong selectively from a legitimate authority’s punishment. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. Preprint

  2. Deutchman, P., Sansom, E., Marshall, J., Lee, Y., Warneken, F., & McAuliffe, K. (2026). Descriptive norms influence children's injunctive and moral norm beliefs. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 265, 106468. PDF

  3. Lee, Y., Jung, S., Song, H., & Warneken, F. (2026). US and Korean children prefer equality, but Korean children are more tolerant of ingroup-favoring allocations. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 262, 106375. PDF

  4. Lee, Y., & Solomon, L. H. (2025). Children's and adults' understanding of how punishment shapes social relationships. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 260, 106331. PDF

  5. Gelman, S.A., Nancekivell, S.E., Lee, Y., Schaub, F. (2025). Children’s understanding of digital tracking and digital privacy. In: Christakis, D.A., Hale, L. (eds) Handbook of Children and Screens (pp. 643–649). Springer, Cham. PDF

  6. Lee, Y., & Solomon, L. H. (2025). Not all punishment is equal: The effect of punishment severity on children’s social evaluations. Developmental Psychology, 61, 311–322. PDF

  7. Lee, Y., Dunlea, J. P., & Solomon, L. H. (2024). Why do God and humans punish? Perceived retributivist punishment motives hinge on views of the true self. Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 50, 1167-1181. PDF

  8. Gollwitzer, A., Marshall, J., Lee, Y., Deutchman, P., Warneken, F., & McAuliffe, K.  (2024). Parent and community political orientation predicts children's health behaviours. European Journal of Social Psychology, 54, 843-858. PDF

  9. Lee, Y., He, S., & Warneken, F. (2024). Children’s third-party punishment does not change depending on the prospect of future interaction. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153, 608–620. PDF

  10. Lee, Y., Payir, A., & Solomon, L. H. (2023). Benevolent God concepts and past kind behaviors induce generosity toward outgroups. Social Cognition, 41, 321-339. PDF

  11. Marshall, J., Lee, Y., Deutchman, P., Wang, Z., Horsey, C. D., Warneken, F., & McAuliffe, K. (2023). When not helping is nice: Children’s changing evaluations of helping during COVID-19. Developmental Psychology, 59, 953–962. PDF

  12. Lee, Y., & Gelman, S. A. (2022). The development of digital ownership in children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 224, 105519. PDF

  13. Lee, Y., Marshall, J., Deutchman, P., McAuliffe, K. & Warneken, F. (2022). Children’s judgments of interventions against norm violations: COVID-19 as a naturalistic case study. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 221, 105452. PDF

  14. Lee, Y., & Warneken, F. (2022). The influence of age and experience of (un)fairness on third-party punishment in children. Social Development, 31, 1176-1193. PDF

  15. Lee, Y., & Warneken, F. (2022). Does third-party punishment in children aim for equality? Developmental Psychology, 58, 866-873. PDF

  16. Lee, Y., & Warneken, F. (2020). Children’s evaluations of third-party responses to unfairness: Children prefer helping over punishment. Cognition, 205, 104374. PDF

  17. Lee, Y., Yun, J. E., Kim, E., & Song, H. (2015). The development of infants’ sensitivity to behavioral intentions when inferring others’ social preferences. PLoS ONE, 10, e0135588. PDF

  18. Lee, Y., & Song, H. (2014). Infants’ understanding of intentions underlying agents’ helping and hindering actions. Korean Journal of Cognitive Science, 25, 135-157.