Metacognitive monitoring in early elementary school-aged children: Task dependency in monitoring judgments, task consistency in monitoring behaviours.

Eberhart, J., Murayama, K., Sakaki, M., & Bryce, D. (2025). Metacognitive monitoring in early elementary school-aged children: Task dependency in monitoring judgments, task consistency in monitoring behaviours. Cognitive Development, 74, 101561.

An explainable artificial intelligence handbook for psychologists: Methods, opportunities, and challenges.

Lavelle-Hill, R., Smith, G., Deininger, H., & Murayama, K. (2025). An explainable artificial intelligence handbook for psychologists: Methods, opportunities, and challenges. Psychological Methods. Online ahead of print.

Curiosity across the adult lifespan: Age-related differences in state and trait curiosity.

Whatley, M. C., Murayama, K., Sakaki, M., & Castel, A. D. (2025). Curiosity across the adult lifespan: Age-related differences in state and trait curiosity. PLOS One, 20(5), e0320600.

The role of rewards in motivation—Beyond dichotomies

Bardach, L., & Murayama, K. (2025). The role of rewards in motivation—Beyond dichotomies. Learning and Instruction, 96, 102056.

How the predictors of math achievement change over time: A longitudinal machine learning approach.

Lavelle-Hill, R., Frenzel, A. C., Goetz, T., Lichtenfeld, S., Marsh, H. W., Pekrun, R., Sakaki, M., Smith, G., & Murayama, K. (2024). How the predictors of math achievement change over time: A longitudinal machine learning approach. Journal of Educational Psychology, 116(8), 1383–1403.

Individual differences in information demand have a low dimensional structure predicted by some curiosity traits.

Jach, H. K., Cools, R., Frisvold, A., Grubb, M. A., Hartley, C. A., Hartmann, J., Hunter, L., Jia, R., de Lange, F. P., Larisch, R., Lavelle-Hill, R., Levy, I., Li, Y., van Lieshout, L. L. F., Nussenbaum, K., Ravaioli, S., Wang, S., Wilson, R., Woodford, M., Murayama, K., & Gottlieb, J.(2024). Individual differences in information demand have a low dimensional structure predicted by some curiosity traits. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 121(45), e2415236121.

The magic, memory, and curiosity fMRI dataset of people viewing magic tricks.

Meliss, S., Pascua-Martin, C., Skipper, J. I., & Murayama, K. (2024). The magic, memory, and curiosity fMRI dataset of people viewing magic tricks. Scientific Data, 11(1), 1063.

Social contagion of challenge-seeking behavior.

Ogulmus, C., Lee, Y., Chakrabarti, B., & Murayama, K. (2024). Social contagion of challenge-seeking behavior. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 153(10), 2573–2587.

Causal inference on human behaviour.

Bailey, D. H., Jung, A. J., Beltz, A. M., Eronen, M. I., Gische, C., Hamaker, E. L., Kording, K. P., Lebel, C., Lindquist, M. A., Moeller, J., Razi, A., Rohrer, J. M., Zhang, B., & Murayama, K. (2024). Causal inference on human behaviour. Nature Human Behaviour, 8(8), 1448–1459.

Using games to understand the mind.

Allen, K., Brändle, F., Botvinick, M., Fan, J. E., Gershman, S. J., Gopnik, A., Griffiths, T. L., Hartshorne, J. K., Hauser, T. U., Ho, M. K., de Leeuw, J. R., Ma, W. J., Murayama, K., Nelson, J. D., van Opheusden, B., Pouncy, T., Rafner, J., Rahwan, I., Rutledge, R. B., Sherson, J., Şimşek, Ö., Spiers, H., Summerfield, C., Thalmann, M., Vélez, N., Watrous, A. J., Tenenbaum, J. B., & Schulz, E. (2024). Using games to understand the mind. Nature Human Behaviour, 8(6), 1035–1043.