Fransisca Ting

PUBLICATIONS

Ting, F., He, Z., & Baillargeon, R. (invited revision, Nature Communications). How many eyes for an eye? Infants expect less retaliation for ingroup wrongdoers. 

Ting, F., & Baillargeon, R. (2021). Toddlers Draw Broad Negative Inferences from Wrongdoers' Moral Violations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(39), e2109045118.

Ting, F., He, Z., & Baillargeon, R. Five-month-old infants attribute inferences based on general knowledge to agents. (2021). Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 208, 105126.

Ting, F., Buyukozer Dawkins, M., Stavans, M., & Baillargeon, R. Principles and concepts in early moral cognition (2020). In J. Decety (Ed.), The Social Brain: A Developmental Perspective. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Ting, F., He, Z., & Baillargeon, R. (2019). Toddlers and infants expect individuals to refrain from helping an ingroup victim’s aggressor. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 116(13), 6025-6034.

Buyukozer Dawkins, M., Ting, F., Stavans, M., & Baillargeon, R. (2019). Early Moral Cognition: A Principle-Based Approach. In D. Poeppel, G. R. Mangun, M.S. Gazzaniga (Eds.-in-chief), The Cognitive Neurosciences. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Hyde, D. C., Simon, C. E., Ting, F., & Nikolaeva, J. (2018). Functional organization of the temporal-parietal junction for theory of mind in preverbal infants: A near-infrared spectroscopy study. The Journal of Neuroscience, 38(18), 4264-4274.

Christina, H**., Ting, F., & Aditya, Y. (2017). Pengaruh orientasi religiusitas terhadap forgiveness. Jurnal Psikologi Klinis Indonesia, 1(1), 40-52.

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MANUSCRIPTS IN PREPARATION

Ting, F., Setoh, P., & Baillargeon, R. Early expectations about social pretense within the group context.

Ting, F., Wu, D., & Baillargeon, R. Infants’ conceptualization of inert agents. 

Hyde, D. C., Sanchez Hernandez, F., Liu, Y., & Ting, F. Comparing analytic choices in analyzing infant functional near-infrared spectroscopy brain data. 

Jin, K. J., Ting, F., & Baillargeon, R. Infants' expectations about reciprocity. 

ONGOING PROJECTS

MORALITY

Ting, F., & Baillargeon, R. Infants’ perception of the moral standing of an irrational agent.

Ting, F., & Baillargeon, R. The obligatory nature of early moral expectations.

Ting, F., & Baillargeon, R. Who deserves to be treated fairly? Infants’ perception of the moral rights of novel entities.

Ting, F., & Kelemen, D. Children’s social and moral evaluations of people with disability.

Ting, F., Setoh, P., Buyukozer-Dawkins, M., & Baillargeon, R. Infants generate group-based inferences based on a wrongdoer’s action.

Sanchez-Hernandez, F., Ting, F., Enright, E. An online replication of infant fairness studies. 


BIOLOGICAL REASONING

Ting, F., Ronfard, S., & Kelemen, D. Is it the same as medicine? Children’s understanding and attitudes about vaccines.

Ting, F., Setoh, P., Kominsky, J., Carey, S., Gelman, R. Baillargeon, R. Eight-month-old infants expect the insides of an animate to drive its functions. 

INVITED TALKS

Developmental Psychology Brownbag, University of Missouri (September 2022). Early biological and moral reasoning about animates.

Cognitive Science Graduate Student Organization Talk Series, Rutgers University (April 2021). Infants’ perception of the moral rights of animates.

Cognition Area Meeting, Northeastern University (March 2021). Infants’ expectations about animates.

Cooperation Lab, Boston College (March 2021). Infants’ use of animacy cues as determinants of moral rights.  

Social Learning Lab, Stanford University (July 2020). Early reasoning about moral rights and moral obligations.

Developmental Psychology Brownbag, University of Chicago (March 2018). To whom do infants attribute moral rights?

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Ting, F. & Baillargeon, R. (February 2021). Infants’ perception of the moral status of irrational individuals. Paper presented at the Justice and Morality preconference at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention.

Ting, F. & Baillargeon, R. (February 2021). Infants distinguish supererogatory from obligatory actions. Paper presented at the Origins of the Social Mind preconference at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology Annual Convention.

Ting, F. & Baillargeon, R. (July 2020). 16-month-old infants perceive irrational individuals as having reduced moral rights. Paper presented at the International Congress of Infant Studies.

Ting, F. & Baillargeon, R. (July 2020 – Retracted due to Covid-19). Five-month-old infants attribute inference-based knowledge states to agents. Poster to be presented at the International Congress of Infant Studies, Glasgow, UK.

Ting, F. & Baillargeon, R. (October, 2019). Infants’ perception of the moral status of irrational individuals. Poster presented at the Cognitive Development Society Biennial Conference, Louisville, Kentucky.

Ting, F., Setoh, P., Gelman, R., & Baillargeon, R. (October, 2019). Young infants expect an animate’s insides to drive its functions. Poster presented at the Cognitive Development Society Biennial Conference, Louisville, Kentucky.

Ting, F. & Baillargeon, R. (March 2019). Group membership modulates early expectations about retaliatory harm. Paper presented at the Society of Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Baltimore, Maryland.

Hyde, D. C., Ting, F., & Sanchez Hernandez, F. (October 2018). A comparison of fixed array and functionally defined channel of interest approaches to analysis of infant NIRS data. Poster presented at the Society for fNIRS Biennial Meeting, Tokyo, Japan.

Ting, F. & Baillargeon, R. (July 2018). 14-month-olds use animacy cues to determine who has moral rights. Poster presented at the Society for Philosophy and Psychology Annual Meeting, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Ting, F. & Baillargeon, R. (July 2018). How do infants identify novel moral individuals? Self-propulsion or agency alone is not a sufficient cue. Poster presented at the Biennial International Congress on Infant Studies, Philadelphia, PA.

Ting, F. & Baillargeon, R. (July 2018). Do infants understand moral obligations? Poster presented at the Biennial International Congress on Infant Studies, Philadelphia, PA.

Ting, F. & Baillargeon, R. (July 2018). 2-year-old toddlers make broad inferences about moral characters. Paper presented at the Biennial International Congress on Infant Studies, Philadelphia, PA.

Ting, F. & Baillargeon, R. (January 2018). What entities do infants endow with moral rights? Paper presented at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary.

Hyde, D. C., Simon, C. E., Ting, F., & Nikolaeva, J. (January 2018). Functional organization for theory of mind in preverbal infants: A near-infrared spectroscopy study. Paper presented at the Budapest CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary.

Ting, F. & Baillargeon, R. (2017). Two-year-old toddler’s reasoning about moral character. Poster presented at the Dartmouth Center for Cognitive Neuroscience Workshop, Hanover, NH.

Ting, F. & Baillargeon, R. (May 2017). From harm to unfairness: Two-year-old toddlers attribute broad deficiencies in moral character. Poster presented at the Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science, Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Ting, F., He, Z., & Baillargeon, R. (May 2017). Group membership modulates toddlers’ expectations about punishment and affiliative preferences following moral transgressions. Poster presented at the Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science, Dubrovnik, Croatia.

Ting, F. & Baillargeon, R. (April, 2017). Toddlers' expectations about moral character. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Austin, TX.

Setoh, P., Ting, F., & Baillargeon, R. (April, 2017). 2.5-year-old toddlers understand social pretense in ingroup life. Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Austin, TX.

Ting, F., He, Z., & Baillargeon, R. (May, 2016). Two eyes for an eye? Group membership modulates infants’ expectations about retaliation. Poster presented at the Biennial International Congress on Infant Studies, New Orleans, LA.

Ting, F., He, Z., & Baillargeon, R. (October, 2015). Toddlers’ expectations about third-party punishment. Paper presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Columbus, OH.

Christina, H.**, Ting, F., & Goei, Y. (2015). Religious orientation and forgiveness. Paper presented at the National Symposium of Psychology at Maranatha University, Bandung, Indonesia.

Citraningtyas, C. E., Tangkilisan, H. R., Pramono, R., & Ting, F. (November, 2012). Malin Kundang, national identity, and the need for a reconstruction (Malin Kundang, identitas nasional, dan kebutuhan rekonstruksi). Paper presented at the International Conference on Literature.

Ting, F., Wati, L.**, & Fatwan, W.** (November, 2012). College students’ perception of the elderlies: A peek into ageism in Indonesia. Paper presented at the Indonesian Developmental Psychology Association Conference, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

Tjhatra, P.**, Goei, Y. A., & Ting, F. (September, 2012). Self-esteem in married and unmarried women in Indonesia. Paper presented at the Asian Psychological Association Convention, Jakarta, Indonesia.

Widger, C., Fallon, D., & Ting, F. (August, 2009). Engaging in virtuous behavior: Attachment and moral identity in marriage. Poster presented at the Annual American Psychological Association Convention, Toronto, Canada.

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