2026 Gergely Csibra: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	83	1257	1110	2	2	224	31103

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Psychology in Hungary Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Psychology in Hungary Leader Award
2023 - Research.com Psychology in Hungary Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Psychology in Hungary Leader Award
2017 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

Overview

Gergely Csibra is affiliated with the Central European University in Hungary. The primary fields of their research are Psychology and Social Sciences, with a focus on several subfields such as Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Cultural Studies.

The main topics of Csibra's work include Child and Animal Learning Development, Language and Cultural Evolution, Language Development and Disorders, Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation, Action Observation and Synchronization, Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior, and Autism Spectrum Disorder Research.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Csibra encompass diverse subjects and have been published across various academic venues. These include:

Do 15-month-old infants prefer helpers? A replication of Hamlin et al. (2007), 2020, Royal Society Open Science
A two-lab direct replication attempt of Southgate, Senju and Csibra (2007), 2021, Royal Society Open Science
Twelve-month-olds disambiguate new words using mutual-exclusivity inferences, 2021, Cognition
Witnessing, Remembering, and Testifying: Why the Past Is Special for Human Beings, 2020, Perspectives on Psychological Science
Computing Joint Action Costs: Co-Actors Minimize the Aggregate Individual Costs in an Action Sequence, 2021, Open Mind

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Csibra include:

Denis Tatone
Johannes Mahr
Barbu Revencu
Laura Schlingloff
Barbara Pomiechowska

The scientist has published notably in journals such as Open Mind, Royal Society Open Science, Cognition, Memory & Cognition, and Scientific Reports.

Among the awards received, Gergely Csibra was made a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2017.

Best Publications

Taking the intentional stance at 12 months of age

György Gergely;Zoltán Nádasdy;Gergely Csibra;Szilvia Bíró

2002
Citations
Eye contact detection in humans from birth

Teresa Farroni;Gergely Csibra;Francesca Simion;Mark H. Johnson

1918
Citations
Natural pedagogy

Unknown

1528
Citations
Teleological reasoning in infancy: the naı̈ve theory of rational action

György Gergely;Gergely Csibra

1432
Citations
Action Anticipation Through Attribution of False Belief by 2-Year-Olds

Victoria Southgate;Atsushi Senju;Gergely Csibra

1274
Citations
Natural pedagogy as evolutionary adaptation

Gergely Csibra;György Gergely

1167
Citations
Goal attribution without agency cues: the perception of ‘pure reason’ in infancy

Gergely Csibra;György Gergely;György Gergely;Szilvia Bı́ró;Szilvia Bı́ró;Orsolya Koós

919
Citations
Gaze Following in Human Infants Depends on Communicative Signals

Atsushi Senju;Gergely Csibra

911
Citations
Social learning and social cognition: The case for pedagogy

Gergely Csibra;György Gergely

625
Citations
Sylvia's recipe: The role of imitation and pedagogy in the transmission of cultural knowledge

György Gergely;Gergely Csibra

604
Citations
Newborns' preference for face-relevant stimuli: Effects of contrast polarity

Teresa Farroni;Mark H. Johnson;Enrica Menon;Luisa Zulian

597
Citations
'Obsessed with goals': functions and mechanisms of teleological interpretation of actions in humans.

Gergely Csibra;György Gergely

591
Citations
Recognizing Communicative Intentions in Infancy

Gergely Csibra

554
Citations
One-year-old infants use teleological representations of actions productively

Gergely Csibra;Szilvia Bíró;Orsolya Koós;György Gergely

548
Citations
Seventeen‐month‐olds appeal to false beliefs to interpret others’ referential communication

Victoria Southgate;Coralie Chevallier;Gergely Csibra;Gergely Csibra

487
Citations
Disordered visual processing and oscillatory brain activity in autism and Williams syndrome.

Sarah J. Grice;Michael W. Spratling;Annette Karmiloff-Smith;Hanife Halit

486
Citations
Goal Attribution to Inanimate Agents by 6.5-Month-Old Infants.

Gergely Csibra

477
Citations
Action mirroring and action understanding: an alternative account

Gergely Csibra

459
Citations
The emergence of the social brain network: Evidence from typical and atypical development

Mark H Johnson;Richard Griffin;Gergely Csibra;Hanife Halit

454
Citations
Why do we remember? the communicative function of episodic memory

Johannes B. Mahr;Gergely Csibra

373
Citations
The social construction of the cultural mind: Imitative learning as a mechanism of human pedagogy

György Gergely;Gergely Csibra

364
Citations
Action Anticipation Through Attribution of False Belief by

Year-Olds Southgate;A. Senju;G. Csibra

15
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

György Gergely Central European University

Victoria Southgate University of Copenhagen

István Czigler Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Atsushi Senju Birkbeck, University of London

Teresa Farroni University of Padua

Tobias Grossmann University of Virginia

Teodora Gliga University of East Anglia

Annette Karmiloff-Smith Birkbeck, University of London

Denis Mareschal Birkbeck, University of London

Ádám Miklósi Eötvös Loránd University

External Links

Personal website of Gergely Csibra

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