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Overview

Dana Samson is affiliated with the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. Their research primarily focuses on various aspects of psychology, with an emphasis on personality and clinical fields.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Psychology

Within psychology, Samson's subfields of concentration consist of:

  • Clinical Psychology
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

The core topics in Samson's work encompass:

  • Personality Traits and Psychology
  • Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior

Their recent paper is titled "Automatic imitation is reduced in narcissists but only in egocentric perspective-takers" published in 2020 in the journal Acta Psychologica. This publication has garnered citations and reflects their engagement with personality psychology and behavioral studies.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Samson include:

  • Henryk Bukowski

Samson's publications have appeared notably in the venue:

  • Acta Psychologica

Best Publications

  • Seeing it their way : evidence for rapid and involuntary computation of what other people see

    Dana Samson;Ian A. Apperly;Jason J. Braithwaite;Benjamin J. Andrews

  • Left temporoparietal junction is necessary for representing someone else's belief

    Dana Samson;Ian A Apperly;Claudia Chiavarino;Glyn W Humphreys

  • Executive function is necessary for perspective selection, not Level-1 visual perspective calculation: Evidence from a dual-task study of adults

    Adam W. Qureshi;Ian A. Apperly;Dana Samson

  • Frontal and Temporo-Parietal Lobe Contributions to Theory of Mind: Neuropsychological Evidence from a False-Belief Task with Reduced Language and Executive Demands

    Ian A. Apperly;Dana Samson;Claudia Chiavarino;Glyn W. Humphreys

  • Seeing it my way: a case of a selective deficit in inhibiting self-perspective

    Dana Samson;Ian A. Apperly;Umalini Kathirgamanathan;Glyn W. Humphreys

  • Studies of adults can inform accounts of theory of mind development

    Ian A. Apperly;Dana Samson;Glyn W. Humphreys

  • Mental calculation in a prodigy is sustained by right prefrontal and medial temporal areas

    Mauro Pesenti;Laure Zago;Fabrice Crivello;Emmanuel Mellet

  • Is Belief Reasoning Automatic

    Ian A. Apperly;Kevin J. Riggs;Andrew Simpson;Claudia Chiavarino

  • The cost of thinking about false beliefs: Evidence from adults’ performance on a non-inferential theory of mind task

    Ian A. Apperly;Elisa Back;Dana Samson

  • Separating forms of neglect using the Apples Test : validation and functional prediction in chronic and acute stroke

    Wai Ling Bickerton;Dana Samson;Jonathan Williamson;Glyn W. Humphreys

  • Domain-specificity and theory of mind: evaluating neuropsychological evidence.

    Ian A. Apperly;Dana Samson;Glyn W. Humphreys

  • Why are there limits on theory of mind use? Evidence from adults’ ability to follow instructions from an ignorant speaker:

    Ian A. Apperly;Daniel J. Carroll;Dana Samson;Glyn W. Humphreys

  • Altercentric interference in level 1 visual perspective taking reflects the ascription of mental states, not submentalizing.

    Tiziano Vincenzo Furlanetto;Cristina Becchio;Dana Samson;Ian Apperly

  • Similarities and differences in visual and spatial perspective-taking processes

    Andrew David Surtees;Ian Apperly;Dana Samson

  • Unintentional perspective-taking calculates whether something is seen, but not how it is seen

    Andrew Surtees;Andrew Surtees;Dana Samson;Ian Apperly

  • The use of embodied self-rotation for visual and spatial perspective-taking.

    Andrew David Ridley Surtees;Ian A Apperly;Dana Samson

  • Intact first- and second-order false belief reasoning in a patient with severely impaired grammar.

    Ian A. Apperly;Dana Samson;Naomi Carroll;Shazia Hussain

  • Systematic assessment of apraxia and functional predictions from the Birmingham Cognitive Screen

    Wai-Ling Bickerton;Margaret Riddoch;Dana Samson;AB Balani

  • Clarifying the role of theory of mind areas during visual perspective taking: Issues of spontaneity and domain-specificity.

    Matthias Schurz;Martin Kronbichler;Martin Kronbichler;Sebastian Weissengruber;Andrew David Surtees

  • Seeing it my way or your way: Frontoparietal brain areas sustain viewpoint-independent perspective selection processes

    Richard Ramsey;Peter Hansen;Ian Apperly;Dana Samson

  • Impaired knowledge of visual and non-visual attributes in a patient with a semantic impairment for living entities: A case of a true category-specific deficit

    Dana Samson;Agnesa Pillon;De Wilde

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian A. Apperly
Ian A. Apperly University of Birmingham
Glyn W. Humphreys
Glyn W. Humphreys University of Oxford
Mauro Pesenti
Mauro Pesenti Université Catholique de Louvain
Philippe de Timary
Philippe de Timary Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc
M. Jane Riddoch
M. Jane Riddoch University of Oxford
Moïra Mikolajczak
Moïra Mikolajczak Université Catholique de Louvain
Olivier Luminet
Olivier Luminet Université Catholique de Louvain
Olivier Corneille
Olivier Corneille Université Catholique de Louvain
Xavier Seron
Xavier Seron Université Catholique de Louvain
Jari K. Hietanen
Jari K. Hietanen Tampere University

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