Dr Jon Redshaw
Researcher biography
My name is Jon Redshaw and I’m a Research Fellow in the School of Psychology at UQ.
I have several lines of research interests. For example, I study: (1) how children think about and prepare for uncertain future events, (2) how children reflect on past events to experience emotions like regret and make moral judgements, (3) how children to use “thinking tools” like maps and calculators to help themselves solve difficult problems, and (4) how children make predictions and experience high or low confidence about those predictions.
My PhD students Cate MacColl, Ally Jones, Lily Dicken, Jess Crimston, and Zoe Ockerby are currently working on a number of related projects in the ECDC and at the Queensland Museum.
You can read more about my work on UQ Researchers
Publications
Books
Bulley, Adam, Redshaw, Jonathan and Suddendorf, Thomas (2024).Zdolność przewidywania. Jak odczytywanie przyszłości wpływa na nasze życie. Liszki, Poland: Copernicus Center Press.
Suddendorf, Thomas, Redshaw, Jonathan and Bulley, Adam (2022).The invention of tomorrow: a natural history of foresight. 1st ed. New York, NY, United States: Basic Books.
Book Chapters
Suddendorf, Thomas and Redshaw, Jonathan (2022).Anticipation of future events. Encyclopedia of animal cognition and behavior. (pp. 349-358) Cham, Switzerland: Springer Cham. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-55065-7_1082
Bulley, Adam, Redshaw, Jonathan and Suddendorf, Thomas (2020).The future-directed functions of the imagination: from prediction to metaforesight. The Cambridge handbook of the imagination. (pp. 425-444) edited by Anna Abraham. New York, NY, United States: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/9781108580298.026
Redshaw, Jonathan and Bulley, Adam (2018).Future-thinking in animals: capacities and limits. The psychology of thinking about the future. (pp. 31-51) edited by Gabriele Oettingen, A. Timur Sevincer and Peter M. Gollwitzer. New York, United States : Guilford Press.
Suddendorf, Thomas and Redshaw, Jonathan (2017).Anticipation of future events. Encyclopedia of animal cognition and behavior. (pp. 1-9) Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-47829-6_1082-1
Journal Articles
Redshaw, Jonathan (2024).The recursive grammar of mental time travel. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 379 (1913) ARTN 20230412. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2023.0412
Armitage, Kristy L. and Redshaw, Jonathan (2024).Can you help me? Using others to offload cognition. Memory & Cognition. doi: 10.3758/s13421-024-01621-9
Redshaw, Jonathan and Suddendorf, Thomas (2024).Can chimpanzees conceive of mutually exclusive future possibilities? A Comment on: ‘Chimpanzees prepare for alternative possible outcomes’ (2023), by Engelmann et al.. Biology Letters, 20 (6) ARTN 20230409, 20230409. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2023.0409
Jones, Alicia K., Gautam, Shalini and Redshaw, Jonathan (2024).Young children experience both regret and relief in a gain-or-loss context. Cognition and Emotion, 38 (1), 163-170. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2023.2258586
Crimston, Jessica, Redshaw, Jonathan and Suddendorf, Thomas (2023).What are the odds? Preschoolers’ ability to distinguish between possible, impossible, and probabilistically distinct future outcomes. Developmental Psychology, 59 (10), 1881-1891. doi: 10.1037/dev0001587
Gautam, Shalini, Owen Hall, Ruby, Suddendorf, Thomas and Redshaw, Jonathan (2023).Counterfactual choices and moral judgments in children. Child Development, 94 (5), e296-e307. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13943
Armitage, Kristy L., Suddendorf, Thomas, Bulley, Adam, Bastos, Amalia P. M., Taylor, Alex H. and Redshaw, Jonathan (2023).Creativity and flexibility in young children's use of external cognitive strategies. Developmental Psychology, 59 (6), 995-1005. doi: 10.1037/dev0001562
Mulvihill, Aisling, Armstrong, Rebecca, Casey, Charlotte, Redshaw, Jonathan, Scarinci, Nerina and Slaughter, Virginia (2023).Early childhood educators' mental state language and children's theory of mind in the preschool setting. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 41 (3), 227-245. doi: 10.1111/bjdp.12449
Redshaw, Jonathan and Ganea, Patricia A. (2022).Thinking about possibilities: mechanisms, ontogeny, functions and phylogeny. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 377 (1866) 20210333, 1-10. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0333
Gautam, Shalini, Suddendorf, Thomas and Redshaw, Jonathan (2022).Counterfactual thinking elicits emotional change in young children. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 377 (1866) 20210346, 1-8. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0346
Casey, Charlotte G. and Redshaw, Jonathan (2022).Developmental changes in children's choices of practice strategies. Learning and Instruction, 80 101625, 101625. doi: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2022.101625
Cameron, Sophie, Wilks, Matti, Redshaw, Jonathan and Nielsen, Mark (2022).The effect of moral character on children's judgements of transgressions. Cognitive Development, 63 101221, 1-8. doi: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2022.101221
Armitage, Kristy L., Taylor, Alex H., Suddendorf, Thomas and Redshaw, Jonathan (2022).Young children spontaneously devise an optimal external solution to a cognitive problem. Developmental Science, 25 (3) e13204, 1-9. doi: 10.1111/desc.13204
Armitage, Kristy L. and Redshaw, Jonathan (2022).Children boost their cognitive performance with a novel offloading technique. Child Development, 93 (1), 25-38. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13664
Fong, Frankie T. K., Imuta, Kana, Redshaw, Jonathan and Nielsen, Mark (2021).The digital social partner: Preschool children display stronger imitative tendency in screen‐based than live learning. Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies, 3 (4) hbe2.280, 585-594. doi: 10.1002/hbe2.280
Fong, Frankie T.K., Sommer, Kristyn, Redshaw, Jonathan, Kang, Jemima and Nielsen, Mark (2021).The man and the machine: Do children learn from and transmit tool-use knowledge acquired from a robot in ways that are comparable to a human model?. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 208 105148, 1-10. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105148
Sommer, Kristyn, Redshaw, Jonathan, Slaughter, Virginia, Wiles, Janet and Nielsen, Mark (2021).The early ontogeny of infants’ imitation of on screen humans and robots. Infant Behavior and Development, 64 101614, 1-11. doi: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2021.101614
Varley, Deanna, Henry, Julie D., Gibson, Emily, Suddendorf, Thomas, Rendell, Peter G. and Redshaw, Jonathan (2021).An old problem revisited: How sensitive is time-based prospective memory to age-related differences?. Psychology and Aging, 36 (5), 616-625. doi: 10.1037/pag0000625
Fong, Frankie T. K., Imuta, Kana, Redshaw, Jonathan and Nielsen, Mark (2021).When efficiency attenuates imitation in preschool children. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 39 (2), 330-337. doi: 10.1111/bjdp.12366
Brinums, Melissa, Redshaw, Jonathan, Nielsen, Mark, Suddendorf, Thomas and Imuta, Kana (2021).Young children’s capacity to seek information in preparation for a future event. Cognitive Development, 58 101015, 101015. doi: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2021.101015
Fong, Frankie T. K., Redshaw, Jonathan and Nielsen, Mark (2021).A cross-cultural comparison: imitation of inefficient tool use in Australian and Malaysian preschool children. Journal of Cultural Cognitive Science, 5 (1), 37-47. doi: 10.1007/s41809-021-00077-6
Davis, Jacqueline, Redshaw, Jonathan, Suddendorf, Thomas, Nielsen, Mark, Kennedy-Costantini, Siobhan, Oostenbroek, Janine and Slaughter, Virginia (2021).Does neonatal imitation exist? Insights from a meta-analysis of 336 effect sizes. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 16 (6), 1745691620959834-1397. doi: 10.1177/1745691620959834
Gautam, Shalini, Suddendorf, Thomas and Redshaw, Jonathan (2021).When can young children reason about an exclusive disjunction? A follow up to Mody and Carey (2016). Cognition, 207 104507, 104507. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2020.104507
Gautam, Shalini, Suddendorf, Thomas and Redshaw, Jonathan (2021).Do monkeys and young children understand exclusive “or” relations? A commentary on Ferrigno et al. (2021). Psychological Science, 32 (11), 1865-1867. doi: 10.1177/09567976211024641
Suddendorf, Thomas, Kirkland, Kelly, Bulley, Adam, Redshaw, Jonathan and Langley, Michelle C. (2020).It's in the bag: Mobile containers in Human Evolution and Child Development. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2 e48, 1-13. doi: 10.1017/ehs.2020.47
Suddendorf, Thomas, Watson, Kate, Bogaart, Maddison and Redshaw, Jonathan (2020).Preparation for certain and uncertain future outcomes in young children and three species of monkey. Developmental Psychobiology, 62 (2) dev.21898, 191-201. doi: 10.1002/dev.21898
Bulley, Adam, McCarthy, Thomas, Gilbert, Sam J., Suddendorf, Thomas and Redshaw, Jonathan (2020).Children devise and selectively use tools to offload cognition. Current Biology, 30 (17), 3457-3464.e3. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2020.06.035
Armitage, Kristy L., Bulley, Adam and Redshaw, Jonathan (2020).Developmental origins of cognitive offloading. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287 (1928) 20192927, 1-9. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2927
Carey, Susan, Leahy, Brian, Redshaw, Jonathan and Suddendorf, Thomas (2020).Could it be so? The cognitive science of possibility. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 24 (1), 3-4. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2019.11.007
Redshaw, Jonathan and Suddendorf, Thomas (2020).Temporal junctures in the mind. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 24 (1), 52-64. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2019.10.009
Redshaw, Jonathan, Bulley, Adam and Suddendorf, Thomas (2019).Thinking about thinking about time. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42 e273, 46-47. doi: 10.1017/s0140525x19000414
Gautam, Shalini, Suddendorf, Thomas, Henry, Julie D. and Redshaw, Jonathan (2019).A taxonomy of mental time travel and counterfactual thought: Insights from cognitive development. Behavioural Brain Research, 374 112108, 112108. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2019.112108
Sommer, Kristyn, Nielsen, Mark, Draheim, Madeline, Redshaw, Jonathan, Vanman, Eric J. and Wilks, M. (2019).Children's perceptions of the moral worth of live agents, robots, and inanimate objects. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 187 104656, 1-22. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2019.06.009
Wilks, Matti, Redshaw, Jonathan, Mushin, Ilana and Nielsen, Mark (2019).A cross-cultural investigation of children’s willingness to imitate prosocial and antisocial groups. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 185, 164-175. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2019.04.018
Redshaw, Jonathan, Nielsen, Mark, Slaughter, Virginia, Kennedy-Costantini, Siobhan, Oostenbroek, Janine, Crimston, Jessica and Suddendorf, Thomas (2019).Individual differences in neonatal 'imitation' fail to predict early social cognitive behaviour. Developmental Science, 23 (2) e12892, e12892. doi: 10.1111/desc.12892
Redshaw, Jonathan (2019).Re-analysis of data reveals no evidence for neonatal imitation in rhesus macaques. Biology Letters, 15 (7) 20190342, 20190342. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2019.0342
Neldner, Karri, Redshaw, Jonathan, Murphy, Sean, Tomaselli, Keyan, Davis, Jacqueline, Dixson, Barnaby and Nielsen, Mark (2019).Creation across culture: children’s tool innovation is influenced by cultural and developmental factors. Developmental Psychology, 55 (4), 877-889. doi: 10.1037/dev0000672
Redshaw, Jonathan, Vandersee, Johanna, Bulley, Adam and Gilbert, Sam J (2018).Development of children's use of external reminders for hard-to-remember intentions. Child Development, 89 (6), 2099-2108. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13040
Redshaw, Jonathan, Leamy, Talia, Pincus, Phoebe and Suddendorf, Thomas (2018).Young children's capacity to imagine and prepare for certain and uncertain future outcomes. PLoS One, 13 (9) e0202606, e0202606. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0202606
Oostenbroek, Janine, Redshaw, Jonathan, Davis, Jacqueline, Kennedy-Costantini, Siobhan, Nielsen, Mark, Slaughter, Virginia and Suddendorf, Thomas (2018).Re-evaluating the neonatal imitation hypothesis. Developmental Science, 22 (2) e12720, e12720. doi: 10.1111/desc.12720
Redshaw, J., Taylor, A. and Suddendorf, T. (2018).Clarifying animal planning capacities. Science
Neldner, Karri, Crimston, Charlie, Wilks, Matti, Redshaw, Jonathan and Nielsen, Mark (2018).The developmental origins of moral concern: an examination of moral boundary decision making throughout childhood. PLoS One, 13 (5) e0197819, e0197819. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0197819
Redshaw, Jonathan, Suddendorf, Thomas, Neldner, Karri, Wilks, Matti, Tomaselli, Keyan, Mushin, Ilana and Nielsen, Mark (2018).Young children from three diverse cultures spontaneously and consistently prepare for alternative future possibilities. Child Development, 90 (1), 51-61. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13084
Redshaw, Jonathan and Suddendorf, Thomas (2018).Misconceptions about adaptive function. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 41 e28. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X17001480
Redshaw, Jonathan, Taylor, Alex H. and Suddendorf, T. (2017).Flexible planning in ravens?. Trends In Cognitive Sciences, 21 (11), 821-822. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2017.09.001
Suddendorf, Thomas, Crimston, Jessica and Redshaw, Jonathan (2017).Preparatory responses to socially determined, mutually exclusive possibilities in chimpanzees and children. Biology Letters, 13 (6) 20170170, 20170170. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2017.0170
Kennedy-Costantini, Siobhan, Oostenbroek, Janine, Suddendorf, Thomas, Nielsen, Mark, Redshaw, Jonathan, Davis, Jacqueline, Clark, Sally and Slaughter, Virginia (2017).There is no compelling evidence that human neonates imitate. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40 e392, e392. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X16001898
Redshaw, Jonathan, Henry, Julie D. and Suddendorf, Thomas (2016).Disentangling the effect of event-based cues on children's time-based prospective memory performance. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 150, 130-140. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2016.05.008
Redshaw, Jonathan and Suddendorf, Thomas (2016).Children’s and apes’ preparatory responses to two mutually exclusive possibilities. Current Biology, 26 (13), 1758-1762. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.04.062
Oostenbroek, Janine, Suddendorf, Thomas, Nielsen, Mark, Redshaw, Jonathan, Kennedy-Costantini, Siobhan, Davis, Jacqueline, Clark, Sally and Slaughter, Virginia (2016).Comprehensive Longitudinal Study Challenges the Existence of Neonatal Imitation in Humans. Current Biology, 26 (10), 1334-1338. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2016.03.047
Redshaw, Jonathan (2014).Does metarepresentation make human mental time travel unique?. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 5 (5), 519-531. doi: 10.1002/wcs.1308
Redshaw, Jonathan and Suddendorf, Thomas (2013).Foresight beyond the very next event: four-year-olds can link past and deferred future episodes. Frontiers in Psychology, 4 (404) Article 404, 1-6. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00404
Suddendorf, Thomas and Redshaw, Jonathan (2013).The development of mental scenario building and episodic foresight. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1296 (1), 135-153. doi: 10.1111/nyas.12189
Conference Papers
Ockerby, Zoe, Suddendorf, Thomas and Redshaw, Jonathan (2024).Innovating for the future: When do children begin to recognise and manufacture solutions to future problems?. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 24-27 July 2024. Santa Barbara, CA United States: The Regents of the University of California.
Dicken, Lily S., Suddendorf, Thomas, Bulley, Adam, Irish, Muireann and Redshaw, Jonathan (2024).Children’s emerging ability to balance internal and external cognitive resources. Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 24-27 July 2024. Santa Barbara, CA United States: The Regents of the University of California.
Tillman, Katharine A., Zhang, Meng, Monier, Florie, Redshaw, Jonathan and McCormack, Teresa (2017).Time in the mind of a child: perspectives on the development of temporal cognition. 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2017), London, United Kingdom, 26-29 July 2017. Austin, TX USA: The Cognitive Science Society.
Newspaper Article
Suddendorf, Thomas , Redshaw, Jonathan and Bulley, Adam (2022, 10 14).Why the ability to imagine the future is at the heart of human nature – even if we often get it terribly wrong The Globe and Mail
Thesis
Redshaw, Jonathan (2015).The nature, ontogeny, and phylogeny of episodic foresight. PhD Thesis, School of Psychology, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2015.344