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Beate Sodian is a researcher affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany. Their work primarily focuses on the field of Psychology, with notable contributions to subfields such as Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Social Psychology, Education, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The scientist's recent publications include:

  • "How Does Children's Theory of Mind Become Explicit? A Review of Longitudinal Findings" (2020) published in Child Development Perspectives
  • "The Science-P Reasoning Inventory (SPR-I): measuring emerging scientific-reasoning skills in primary school" (2020) published in International Journal of Science Education
  • "Does syntax play a role in Theory of Mind development before the age of 3 years?" (2021) published in Infant Behavior and Development
  • "12- and 24-Month-Old Infants' Search Behavior Under Informational Uncertainty" (2020) published in Frontiers in Psychology
  • "Young children's metacognitive awareness of confounded evidence" (2021) published in Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Beate Sodian include:

  • Susanne Kristen
  • Daniela Kloo
  • Tobias Schuwerk
  • Sunae Kim
  • Markus Paulus

Regular publication venues for the scientist encompass:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Infant Behavior and Development
  • Infant and Child Development
  • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • British Journal of Developmental Psychology

Their research concentrates on various topics, including:

  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Educational Strategies and Epistemologies
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Science Education and Pedagogy
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Memory Processes and Influences
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

Best Publications

  • Children's understanding of moral emotions.

    Gertrud Nunner-Winkler;Beate Sodian

  • Young Children's Differentiation of Hypothetical Beliefs from Evidence.

    Beate Sodian;Deborah Zaitchik;Susan Carey

  • Deception and sabotage in autistic, retarded and normal children.

    Beate Sodian;Uta Frith

  • The development of deception in young children

    Beate Sodian

  • Early Deception and the Child's Theory of Mind: False Trails and Genuine Markers

    Beate Sodian;Catherine Taylor;Paul L. Harris;Josef Perner

  • Children's Understanding of Inference As a Source of Knowledge.

    Beate Sodian;Heinz Wimmer

  • Neural correlates of true and false belief reasoning.

    Monika Sommer;Katrin Döhnel;Beate Sodian;Jörg Meinhardt

  • Scientific Reasoning and Argumentation: Advancing an Interdisciplinary Research Agenda in Education

    Frank Fischer;Ingo Kollar;Stefan Ufer;Beate Sodian

  • Now I see it but you don't: 14-month-olds can represent another person's visual perspective.

    Beate Sodian;Claudia Thoermer;Ulrike Metz

  • Scientific Reasoning in Young Children: Preschoolers’ Ability to Evaluate Covariation Evidence

    Susanne Koerber;Beate Sodian;Claudia Thoermer;Ulrike Nett

  • Infants' Understanding of Looking, Pointing, and Reaching as Cues to Goal-Directed Action.

    Beate Sodian;Claudia Thoermer

  • Continuity from an implicit to an explicit understanding of false belief from infancy to preschool age

    Claudia Thoermer;Beate Sodian;Maria Vuori;Hannah Perst

  • Implicit and explicit Theory of Mind reasoning in autism spectrum disorders: the impact of experience.

    Tobias Schuwerk;Maria Vuori;Beate Sodian

  • Theory of Mind in Infancy

    Beate Sodian

  • Neural correlates of prosocial behavior in infancy: different neurophysiological mechanisms support the emergence of helping and comforting.

    Markus Paulus;Nina Kühn-Popp;Maria Licata;Beate Sodian

  • Common and distinct neural networks for false-belief reasoning and inhibitory control.

    Christoph Rothmayr;Beate Sodian;Göran Hajak;Katrin Döhnel

  • Scaling of Advanced Theory-of-Mind Tasks

    Christopher Osterhaus;Susanne Koerber;Beate Sodian

  • Scientific reasoning in elementary school children: Assessment and relations with cognitive abilities

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  • Recall, Clustering, and Metamemory in Young Children

    Beate Sodian;Wolfgang Schneider;Marion Perlmutter

  • Young children's cognitive development : interrelationships among executive functioning, working memory, verbal ability, and theory of mind

    Wolfgang Schneider;Ruth Schumann-Hengsteler;Beate Sodian

  • The Development of Scientific Thinking in Elementary School: A Comprehensive Inventory

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  • Do infants apply the principle of rational action to human agents

    Beate Sodian;Barbara Schoeppner;Ulrike Metz

Frequent Co-Authors

Markus Paulus
Markus Paulus Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Wolfgang Schneider
Wolfgang Schneider University of Würzburg
Amanda L. Woodward
Amanda L. Woodward University of Chicago
Josef Perner
Josef Perner University of Salzburg
Diane Poulin-Dubois
Diane Poulin-Dubois Concordia University
Atsushi Senju
Atsushi Senju Birkbeck, University of London
Shoji Itakura
Shoji Itakura Kyoto University
Uta Frith
Uta Frith University College London
Martha W. Alibali
Martha W. Alibali University of Wisconsin–Madison
Paul L. Harris
Paul L. Harris Harvard University

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