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David M. Sobel publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David M. Sobel sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 121 publications — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

David M. Sobel D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where David M. Sobel sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2021 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

David M. Sobel is affiliated with Brown University in the United States and works primarily in the fields of Psychology and Social Sciences. Their research spans several subfields, including Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education, Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The scientist's work focuses on topics such as Child and Animal Learning Development, Early Childhood Education and Development, Child Development and Digital Technology, Language Development and Disorders, Reading and Literacy Development, Children's Rights and Participation, and Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills.

Recent papers authored by David M. Sobel include the following:

  • How Children Learn From Others: An Analysis of Selective Word Learning, 2020, Child Development
  • Relations between parent-child interaction and children's engagement and learning at a museum exhibit about electric circuits, 2020, Developmental Science
  • Relations between children's exploration in a children's museum and their reflections about their exploration, 2022, Child Development

The research published by Sobel appears in a number of scholarly venues, with frequent publications in Frontiers in Psychology, Child Development, Developmental Science, Cognitive Development, and the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology.

Co-authorship is a consistent aspect of their research, collaborating frequently with Deena Skolnick Weisberg, Susan M. Letourneau, Zoe Finiasz, Laura W. Stricker, and David G. Kamper.

In addition to articles, Sobel has contributed to book publishing, with at least one book titled Constructing Science published by The MIT Press in 2022.

David M. Sobel is recognized as a Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), an award received in 2021.

Best Publications

  • A Theory of Causal Learning in Children: Causal Maps and Bayes Nets.

    Alison Gopnik;Clark Glymour;David M. Sobel;Laura E. Schulz

  • Causal learning mechanisms in very young children: two-, three-, and four-year-olds infer causal relations from patterns of variation and covariation.

    Alison Gopnik;David M. Sobel;Laura E. Schulz;Clark Glymour

  • Detecting Blickets: How Young Children Use Information about Novel Causal Powers in Categorization and Induction

    Alison Gopnik;David M. Sobel

  • Children’s causal inferences from indirect evidence: Backwards blocking and Bayesian reasoning in preschoolers

    David M. Sobel;Joshua B. Tenenbaum;Alison Gopnik

  • Blickets and babies: The development of causal reasoning in toddlers and infants.

    David M. Sobel;Natasha Z. Kirkham

  • Knowledge matters: how children evaluate the reliability of testimony as a process of rational inference.

    David M. Sobel;Tamar Kushnir

  • Children Monitor Individuals’ Expertise for Word Learning

    David M. Sobel;Kathleen H. Corriveau

  • Action Understanding in the Superior Temporal Sulcus Region

    Brent C. Vander Wyk;Caitlin M. Hudac;Elizabeth J. Carter;David M. Sobel

  • Children's beliefs about the fantasy/reality status of hypothesized machines.

    Claire Cook;David M. Sobel

  • Explain This, Explore That: A Study of Parent–Child Interaction in a Children's Museum

    Aiyana K. Willard;Justin T.A. Busch;Katherine A. Cullum;Susan M. Letourneau

  • Attention to the mouth and gaze following in infancy predict language development.

    Elena J Tenenbaum;David M Sobel;Stephen J Sheinkopf;Rajesh J Shah

  • The Blicket Within: Preschoolers' Inferences About Insides and Causes.

    David M. Sobel;Caroline M. Yoachim;Alison Gopnik;Andrew N. Meltzoff

  • Bayes and Blickets: Effects of Knowledge on Causal Induction in Children and Adults

    Thomas L. Griffiths;David M. Sobel;Joshua B. Tenenbaum;Alison Gopnik

  • Exploration, Explanation, and Parent-Child Interaction in Museums.

    Maureen A. Callanan;Cristine H. Legare;David M. Sobel;Garrett J. Jaeger

  • Increased Focus on the Mouth among Infants in the First Year of Life: A Longitudinal Eye-Tracking Study.

    Elena J. Tenenbaum;Rajesh J. Shah;David M. Sobel;Bertram F. Malle

  • The importance of decision making in causal learning from interventions

    David M. Sobel;Tamar Kushnir

  • Infants Track the Reliability of Potential Informants

    Kristen Swan Tummeltshammer;Rachel Wu;David M. Sobel;Natasha Z. Kirkham

  • Bayes nets and babies: infants' developing statistical reasoning abilities and their representation of causal knowledge.

    David M. Sobel;Natasha Z. Kirkham

  • Exploring the coherence of young children' s explanatory abilities: Evidence from generating counterfactuals

    David M. Sobel

  • Young Children are Reality-Prone When Thinking about Stories

    Deena Skolnick Weisberg;David M. Sobel;Joshua Goodstein;Paul Bloom

Frequent Co-Authors

Alison Gopnik
Alison Gopnik University of California, Berkeley
James L. Morgan
James L. Morgan Brown University
Natasha Z. Kirkham
Natasha Z. Kirkham Birkbeck, University of London
Cristine H. Legare
Cristine H. Legare The University of Texas at Austin
Angeline S. Lillard
Angeline S. Lillard University of Virginia
Kathleen H. Corriveau
Kathleen H. Corriveau Boston University
Jessica A. Sommerville
Jessica A. Sommerville University of Toronto
Maureen A. Callanan
Maureen A. Callanan University of California, Santa Cruz
Bertram F. Malle
Bertram F. Malle Brown University

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