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Amrisha Vaish is a researcher affiliated with the University of Virginia in the United States, specializing in the field of psychology. Their scholarly work primarily focuses on areas within social psychology, developmental and educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, clinical psychology, as well as sociology and political science.

Their research topics encompass a range of themes including child and animal learning development, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, social and intergroup psychology, emotions and moral behavior, forgiveness and related behaviors, cultural differences and values, and neuroendocrine regulation and behavior.

Vaish's publication record includes contributions to several journals, with frequent publications in the following venues:

  • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Cognitive Development
  • Journal of Experimental Psychology General

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by Vaish are:

  • "Paying it forward: The development and underlying mechanisms of upstream reciprocity," 2020, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • "Young Children and Adults Show Differential Arousal to Moral and Conventional Transgressions," 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
  • "Young children value recipients who display gratitude," 2022, Developmental Psychology
  • "Young children do not perceive distributional fairness as a moral norm," 2022, Developmental Psychology
  • "Beyond accidents: Young children's forgiveness of third-party intentional transgressors," 2022, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Vaish has collaborated regularly with a number of coauthors, with frequent collaborators including Meltem Yucel, Tobias Großmann, Stefen Beeler-Duden, Robert Hepach, and Caroline Kelsey.

Best Publications

  • Not All Emotions Are Created Equal: The Negativity Bias in Social-Emotional Development

    Arnrisha Vaish;Tobias Grossmann;Amanda L. Woodward

  • Origins of Human Cooperation and Morality

    Michael Tomasello;Amrisha Vaish

  • Sympathy through affective perspective taking and its relation to prosocial behavior in toddlers.

    Amrisha Vaish;Malinda Carpenter;Michael Tomasello

  • Young Children Selectively Avoid Helping People With Harmful Intentions

    Amrisha Vaish;Malinda Carpenter;Michael Tomasello

  • Young Children Are Intrinsically Motivated to See Others Helped

    Robert Hepach;Amrisha Vaish;Michael Tomasello

  • Three-year-old children intervene in third-party moral transgressions.

    Amrisha Vaish;Manuela Missana;Michael Tomasello

  • Is visual reference necessary? Contributions of facial versus vocal cues in 12‐month‐olds’ social referencing behavior

    Amrisha Vaish;Tricia Striano

  • The Early Emergence of Guilt-Motivated Prosocial Behavior

    Amrisha Vaish;Malinda Carpenter;Michael Tomasello

  • A New Look at Children’s Prosocial Motivation

    Robert Hepach;Amrisha Vaish;Michael Tomasello

  • The emergence of human prosociality : aligning with others through feelings, concerns, and norms

    Keith Jensen;Amrisha Vaish;Marco F. H. Schmidt

  • The Motivational Foundations of Prosocial Behavior From A Developmental Perspective–Evolutionary Roots and Key Psychological Mechanisms: Introduction to the Special Section

    Maayan Davidov;Amrisha Vaish;Ariel Knafo-Noam;Paul D. Hastings

  • Genetic and neural dissociation of individual responses to emotional expressions in human infants

    Tobias Grossmann;Tobias Grossmann;Mark H. Johnson;Amrisha Vaish;David A. Hughes

  • Direct and indirect reputation formation in nonhuman great apes (Pan paniscus, Pan troglodytes, Gorilla gorilla, Pongo pygmaeus) and human children (Homo sapiens).

    Esther Herrmann;Stefanie Keupp;Brian Hare;Amrisha Vaish

  • Young children sympathize less in response to unjustified emotional distress.

    Robert Hepach;Amrisha Vaish;Michael Tomasello

  • Young Children Want to See Others Get the Help They Need

    Robert Hepach;Amrisha Vaish;Tobias Grossmann;Michael Tomasello

  • Young Children's Responses to Guilt Displays.

    Amrisha Vaish;Malinda Carpenter;Michael Tomasello

  • The early ontogeny of human cooperation and morality

    Amrisha Vaish;Michael Tomasello

  • Signs of Pretense Across Age and Scenario.

    Angeline Lillard;Tracy Nishida;Davide Massaro;Amrisha Vaish

  • Seven- to 9-month-old infants use facial expressions to interpret others' actions

    Tricia Striano;Amrisha Vaish

  • Thirteen- and 18-month-old Infants Recognize When They Need Referential Information

    Amrisha Vaish;Özlem Ece Demir;Dare Baldwin

  • Social-Cognitive Contributors to Young Children's Empathic and Prosocial Behavior

    Amrisha Vaish;Felix Warneken

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Tomasello
Michael Tomasello Duke University
Tobias Grossmann
Tobias Grossmann University of Virginia
Tricia Striano
Tricia Striano Hunter College
Malinda Carpenter
Malinda Carpenter University of St Andrews
Amanda L. Woodward
Amanda L. Woodward University of Chicago
Esther Herrmann
Esther Herrmann University of Portsmouth
Brian Hare
Brian Hare Duke University
Angela D. Friederici
Angela D. Friederici Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
Daniel B. M. Haun
Daniel B. M. Haun Max Planck Society
Mark Stoneking
Mark Stoneking Max Planck Society

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