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phone:	01524 593832
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email:	e.subbotsky@lancaster.ac.uk

Research Interests

Magical thinking</LI>
Moral behaviour and moral understanding
Childrens' understanding of metaphysical issues

My own homepage is here.

Publications

	Subbotsky, E., & Matthews, J. (2011). Magical thinking and memory: Distinctiveness effect for TV commercials with magical content. Psychological Reports, 109, 1-11.
	Subbotsky, E., & Slater, E. (2011). Children discrimination of fantastic vs realistic visual displays after watching a film with magical content. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 112, 603-609.
	Subbotsky, E., Hysted, C., & Jones, N. (2010). Watching films with magical content facilitates creativity in children Perceptual and Motor Skills, 111, 261-277.
	Subbotsky, E. (2009). Can magical intervention affect subjective experiences? Adults reactions to magical suggestion The British Journal of Psychology, 100, 517-537.
	Eugene Subbotsky (2007). Children's and adults' reactions to magical and ordinary suggestion: Are suggestibility and magical thinking psychologically close relatives? The British Journal of Psychology, 98, 547-574.
	Subbotsky, E (2005). The permanence of mental objects: testing magical thinking on perceived and imaginary realities Developmental Psychology, 41(2), 301-318.
	Subbotsky E. (2004). Magical thinking -- Reality or illusion? The Psychologist, 17(6), 336-339.
	Subbotsky, E (2004). Permanence of mental objects: testing magical causation on physical and imaginary realities: 18th Biennnial Meeting of the International Sosiety for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD). Ghent, Belgium, July 11-15, 2004.
	Subbotsky, E.V. (2004). Magical thinking in judgements of causation: can anomalous phenomena affect ontological causal beliefs in children and adults? British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 1, 45-56.
	Subbotsky Eugene (2003). Good-Bye to the magical world: Do children really part with magical beliefs when they become adults?: Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development. 2003, April 24-27, Tampa, Florida.
	Subbotsky Eugene (2002). Curiosity and exploratory behaviour towards possible and impossible events in children and adults: 17th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD). 2002, Ottawa, Canada.
	Subbotsky, E., and Quinteros, G. (2002). Do cultural factors affect causal beliefs? Rational and magical thinking in Britain and Mexico British Journal of Psychology, 93, 519-543.
	Subbotsky, E.V. (2001). Causal explanations of events by children and adults: Can alternative causal models coexist in one mind? British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 19, 23-46.
	E.V. Subbotsky (2000). Causal reasonings and behaviour in children and adults in a technologically advanced society: Are we still prepared to believe in magic and animism? Chapter in P.Mitchell (Ed.): Children's reasoning and the mind. Psychology Press.
	E.V. Subbotsky (2000). Phenomenalistic perception and rational understanding in the mind of an individual: The fight for dominance. Chapter in K. Rosengren, C.N. Johnson, & P.L. Harris (Eds.): Imagining the impossible: Magical, scientific, and religious thinking in children.. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press..
	Subbotsky, E.S. (2000). Phenomenalistic reality: The developmental perspective Developmental Review, 20, 438-474.
	Subbotsky, E.S. (1999). The individual consciousness as a system of realities. Chapter in A.E. Voyskunsky, A.N. Zhdan & O.K. Tikhomirov (eds): Traditions and perspectives of the activity approach in psychology. . Moscow: Smysl publ.
	Subbotsky, E.V. (1997). Explanations of unusual events: phenomenalistic causal judgements in children and adults. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 15, 13-36.
	Subbotsky, E.V. (1997). Understanding the distinction betweensensations and physical properties of objects by children and adults. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 20(2), 321-47.
	Subbotsky, E.V. (1996). The child as a Cartesian thinker. Children's reasonings about metaphysical aspects of reality. Hove, East Sussex: Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis..
	Subbotsky, E.V. (1996). Explaining impossible phenomena: object permanence beliefs and memory failures in adults. Memory, 4(2), 199-233.
	Subbotsky, E.V. (1995). The development of pragmatic and nonpragmatic motivation. Human Development, 38, 217-34.
	Subbotsky, E.V. (1993). Foundations of the mind. Children's understanding of reality. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press.
	Subbotsky, E.V. (1993). The birth of personality. The development of independent and moral behaviour in preschool children. London: Harvester Wheatsheaf.

Grants

1997 (for one year) from Royal Society, British Academy.
The development of object permanence beliefs and memory in children and adults
with Dr. Olga Chesnokova, Moscow University.

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