2026 Gail D. Heyman: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	49	5713	5308	3097	2807	173	8864

Overview

Gail D. Heyman is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research predominantly focuses on the fields of psychology and social sciences, with a significant number of publications in both areas. The main topics explored in their work include child and animal learning development, social and intergroup psychology, and the psychology of moral and emotional judgment. Other thematic areas cover cultural differences and values, academic integrity and plagiarism, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, and misinformation and its impacts.

Heyman's frequent co-authors include Brian J. Compton, Kang Lee, Jamie Amemiya, Genyue Fu, and Li Zhao. This collaboration spans multiple studies reflecting broad research interests.

The scientist has published extensively in several academic journals. Notable publication venues include Child Development, the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Developmental Science, the Journal of Experimental Psychology General, and Psychological Science.

Among recent articles authored by Heyman are:

"Academic dishonesty and its relations to peer cheating and culture: A meta-analysis of the perceived peer cheating effect" (2022), published in Educational Research Review
"Testing the Ability of Teachers and Students to Differentiate between Essays Generated by ChatGPT and High School Students" (2023), published in Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies
"Delay of Gratification as Reputation Management" (2020), published in Psychological Science
"Thinking Structurally: A Cognitive Framework for Understanding How People Attribute Inequality to Structural Causes" (2022), published in Perspectives on Psychological Science
"Using environmental nudges to reduce academic cheating in young children" (2021), published in Developmental Science

Heyman's research interests cover several subfields of study, including developmental and educational psychology, sociology and political science, cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, and safety research. Research contributions reflect a multidisciplinary approach with a strong emphasis on understanding development, social behavior, and ethical considerations within educational and social contexts.

Best Publications

Achievement goals and intrinsic motivation : their relation and their role in adaptive motivation

Gail D. Heyman;Carol S. Dweck

628
Citations
Young Children's Vulnerability to Self‐Blame and Helplessness: Relationship to Beliefs about Goodness

Gail D. Heyman;Carol S. Dweck;Kathleen M. Cain

471
Citations
Carrot-Eaters and Creature-Believers: The Effects of Lexicalization on Children's Inferences About Social Categories

Susan A. Gelman;Gail D. Heyman

416
Citations
Children's Thinking about Traits: Implications for Judgments of the Self and Others

Gail D. Heyman;Carol S. Dweck

368
Citations
Young children's beliefs about the relationship between gender and aggressive behavior.

Jessica W. Giles;Gail D. Heyman

287
Citations
The Development of Distrust.

Kimberly E. Vanderbilt;David Liu;Gail D. Heyman

228
Citations
The use of trait labels in making psychological inferences.

Gail D. Heyman;Susan A. Gelman

223
Citations
Preschool Children's Use of Trait Labels to Make Inductive Inferences

Gail D. Heyman;Susan A. Gelman

213
Citations
Cross-Cultural Differences in Children’s Choices, Categorizations, and Evaluations of Truths and Lies

Genyue Fu;Fen Xu;Catherine Ann Cameron;Gail Heyman

209
Citations
Children’s Critical Thinking When Learning From Others

Gail D. Heyman

202
Citations
Developmental changes in the coherence of essentialist beliefs about psychological characteristics.

Susan A. Gelman;Gail D. Heyman;Cristine H. Legare

191
Citations
Preschool Children's Reasoning About Ability

Gail D. Heyman;Caroline L. Gee;Jessica W. Giles

161
Citations
Beliefs about the origins of human psychological traits.

Gail D. Heyman;Susan A. Gelman

156
Citations
Preschoolers' Ability to Make Dispositional Predictions Within and Across Domain.

Kathleen M. Cain;Gail D. Heyman;Michael E. Walker

147
Citations
Children's Reasoning about Lie-telling and Truth-telling in Politeness Contexts.

Gail D. Heyman;Monica A. Sweet;Kang Lee

139
Citations
Young children use motive information to make trait inferences.

Gail D. Heyman;Susan A. Gelman

137
Citations
Children's evaluation of sources of information about traits

Gail D. Heyman;Cristine H. Legare

136
Citations
Children's Beliefs About Gender Differences in the Academic and Social Domains

Gail D. Heyman;Cristine H. Legare

131
Citations
Source Monitoring Reduces the Suggestibility of Preschool Children

Jessica W. Giles;Alison Gopnik;Gail D. Heyman

126
Citations
GENDER AND ACHIEVEMENT-RELATED BELIEFS AMONG ENGINEERING STUDENTS

Gail D. Heyman;Bryn Martyna;Sangeeta Bhatia

126
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Kang Lee University of Toronto

Paul C. Quinn University of Delaware

Susan A. Gelman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Cristine H. Legare The University of Texas at Austin

Carol S. Dweck Stanford University

Piotr Winkielman University of California, San Diego

Olivier Pascalis Grenoble Alpes University

Shoji Itakura Kyoto University

Leslie J. Carver University of California, San Diego

Sangeeta N. Bhatia MIT

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