Santhanagopalan, R., Risen, J.L., Kinzler, K.D. (forthcoming). What we know about the developmental roots of judgment and decision-making. In P. Ayton, G. Chapman, E. Reutskaja, G. Vallee-Tourangeau (Eds.), Handbook of Judgment and Decision-Making. Cambridge University Press.

Santhanagopalan, R., Echelbarger, M., Risen, J.L., Kinzler, K.D. (2026). Advancing research on the origins of judgment and decision-making (response to commentaries). Psychological Inquiry, 37(2), 157-168. https://doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2026.2724090
 
Santhanagopalan, R., Risen, J.L., & Kinzler, K.D. (2026). The origins of judgment and decision-making in childhood (target article). Psychological Inquiry, 37(2), 93-111. https://doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2026.2677450

Santhanagopalan, R., Risen, J.L., Kinzler, K.D. (2025). Becoming an ostrich: the origins of information avoidance. Psychological Science, 36(7), 528-544. https://doi.org/10.1177/09567976251344551

Santhanagopalan, R., Risen, J.L., Kinzler, K.D. (2025). The development of willful ignorance. Current Opinion in Psychology, 66, 102127. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2025.102127

Santhanagopalan, R., & Bian, L. (2025). Children selectively amend structural inequalities. Developmental Psychology, 61(9), 1698-1706. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001940

Santhanagopalan, R., Hok, H., Shaw, A., & Kinzler, K.D. (2025). The ontogeny of attitudes toward migrants. Developmental Science, 28(2), e13599. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13599
 
Bashyam, S❀., Colomer, M*., Santhanagopalan, R*., Kinzler, K.D., Woodward, A. (2024). Children's language-based pedagogical preferences in a multilingual society. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153(12), 2951–2961. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001497
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Santhanagopalan, R., Jones, E.L❀., Ransom, A., & Kinzler, K.D. (2023). Where does language come from? The development of a naïve biological understanding of language. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 233, 105694. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2023.105694
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Santhanagopalan, R., Keysar, B., & Kinzler, K.D. (2022). Young children enlarge the pie: Antecedents of negotiation skills. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 151(11), 2788-2811. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001220 

DeJesus, J.M., Santhanagopalan, R., & Kinzler, K.D. (2022). Experimental methods to elicit language attitudes among children. In R. Kircher & L. Zipp (Eds.), Research Methods in Language Attitudes (pp. 234-249). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108867788.019

Santhanagopalan, R., Heck, I.A., & Kinzler, K.D. (2022). Leadership, gender, and colorism: Children in India use social group membership to guide leadership cognition. Developmental Science, 25(3), e13212. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13212

Heck, I.A., Santhanagopalan, R., Cimpian, A., & Kinzler, K.D. (2021). An integrative developmental framework for studying gender inequities in politics (response to commentaries). Psychological Inquiry, 32(2), 137-152. https://doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2021.1932984

Heck, I.A., Santhanagopalan, R., Cimpian, A., & Kinzler, K.D. (2021). Understanding the Developmental Roots of Gender Gaps in Politics (target article). Psychological Inquiry, 32(2), 53-71. https://doi.org/10.1080/1047840X.2021.1930741

Santhanagopalan, R., DeJesus, J. M., Moorthy, R. S., & Kinzler, K. D. (2021). Nationality cognition in India: Social category information impacts children’s judgments of people and their national identity. Cognitive Development, 57. 100990. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2020.100990