If you were to see someone hurl a coffee mug across the room, you could picture where it will land, whether it will smash, and how the bits of ceramic and coffee might scatter. This is intuitive physics. You would probably also wonder why that person decided to do hurl a mug in the first place. This is intuitive psychology. My lab studies people’s ability to reason about the everyday behavior of persons and things. I’m interested in how children and adults come to form intuitive theories of the world, and work to provide both a functional and algorithmic account of how such knowledge is built. Such an account would go a long way towards explaining the basics cogs and springs of human intelligence, and support the building of more human-like artificial intelligence. In my work, I use a combination of behavioral, neural, computational, and developmental approaches.