{"id":2904,"date":"2016-08-16T17:44:35","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T14:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.psy.bilkent.edu.tr\/?page_id=2904"},"modified":"2026-03-13T17:22:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T17:22:14","slug":"jedediah-allen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/psy.bilkent.edu.tr\/?page_id=2904","title":{"rendered":"Jedediah Allen, Ph.D."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Jedediah Allen<\/strong><br><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Associate Professor, Department of Psychology<\/span>\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Education<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">PhD in Developmental Psychology &amp; Cognitive Science, Lehigh University, 2012<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">MS in Cognitive Psychology, Lehigh University<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">BS in Cognitive Science, Simon Fraser University<\/span><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Former Affiliations: Post-doctoral researcher at Rutgers, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 2013<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Research<\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Most broadly, I am interested in the nature, learning, and&nbsp;development of knowledge within the specific domains of socio-cognitive and cognitive development in infancy and early childhood.&nbsp;Areas of interest include: cultural evolution, imitation,&nbsp;theory of mind, infant research methodology,&nbsp;the nativist-empiricist debate and the emergence of new knowledge.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Selected <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Publications<\/span><\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Allen, J. W. P.<\/strong>, Hasan, D. B., &amp; Esendemir, Y. (<strong>2025<\/strong>). Emergence unleashed: An interactivistontology for implicit versus explicit theory of mind. <em>Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Allen, J. W. P.<\/strong> &amp; Andrews, K. (<strong>2024<\/strong>). How Not to Find Over-imitation in Animals. <em>Human Development, <\/em>68, 77-89.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Allen, J. W. P.<\/strong>, S\u00fcmer, C., &amp; Ilgaz, H. (<strong>2021<\/strong>). Cultural affordances: Does model reliability&nbsp;effect over-imitation,&nbsp;<em>Cognitive Development,<\/em> 57, 1-12. <span style=\"color: #545454;\"><a style=\"color: #545454;\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cogdev.2020.100999\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cogdev.2020.100999<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Ilgaz, H., &amp; <strong>Allen, J. W. P.<\/strong> (<strong>2020<\/strong>). (Co-)Constructing a theory of mind: From language or&nbsp;through language?, <em>Synthese, <\/em>1-22. <span style=\"color: #545454;\"><a style=\"color: #545454;\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s11229-020-02581-8\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s11229-020-02581-8<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Allen, J. W. P.<\/strong> &amp; Bickhard, M. H. (<strong>2018<\/strong>). Stage fright: Internal reflection as a domain-general&nbsp;enabling constraint on the emergence of explicit thought. <em>Cognitive Development, 45,<\/em> 77-91. <span style=\"color: #545454;\"><a style=\"color: #545454;\" href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cogdev.2017.12.005\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cogdev.2017.12.005<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Allen, J. W. P.<\/strong> (<strong>2015<\/strong>). How to help: Can more active behavioral measure help transcend the&nbsp;infant false-belief debate? <em>New Ideas in Psychology, 39,<\/em> 63-72. <span style=\"color: #545454;\"><a style=\"color: #545454;\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.newideapsych.2015.07.008\">http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.newideapsych.2015.07.008<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Allen, J. W. P.<\/strong> &amp; Bickhard, M. H. (<strong>2013a<\/strong>, this paper is a target article with commentary and&nbsp;response). Stepping off the pendulum: Why only an action-based approach can transcend the nativist-empiricist debate. <em>Cognitive Development, 28,<\/em> 96-133. <span style=\"color: #545454;\"><a style=\"color: #545454;\" href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cogdev.2013.01.002\">http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cogdev.2013.01.002<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jedediah AllenAssociate Professor, Department of Psychology\u00a0 Education Research Most broadly, I am interested in the nature, learning, and&nbsp;development of knowledge within the specific domains of socio-cognitive and cognitive development in infancy and early childhood.&nbsp;Areas of interest include: cultural evolution, imitation,&nbsp;theory of mind, infant research methodology,&nbsp;the nativist-empiricist debate and the emergence of new knowledge. 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