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Gil Diesendruck

Gil Diesendruck

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Psychology

D-Index
35
Citations
5693
World Ranking
9819
National Ranking
116

Overview

Gil Diesendruck is affiliated with Bar-Ilan University in Israel. Their research primarily focuses on psychology and social sciences, with significant contributions to subfields such as sociology and political science, social psychology, developmental and educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

The main topics explored in their work include social and intergroup psychology, child and animal learning development, cultural differences and values, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, racial and ethnic identity research, and the intersection of religion, spirituality, and psychology.

Diesendruck has published in several notable academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include Child Development, PLoS ONE, Developmental Psychology, Current Directions in Psychological Science, and Group Processes & Intergroup Relations.

Some recent papers authored or co-authored by Diesendruck are:

  • A Motivational Perspective on the Development of Social Essentialism, 2021, Current Directions in Psychological Science
  • Children Hold Leaders Primarily Responsible, Not Entitled, 2020, Child Development
  • Promoting positive intergroup attitudes using persona dolls: A vicarious contact intervention program in Israeli kindergartens, 2021, Group Processes & Intergroup Relations
  • The Development of a Scarcity Bias, 2020, Child Development
  • Children explain in- and out-group behavior differently, 2020, Social Development

Frequent co-authors associated with Diesendruck's research include:

  • Hannes Rakoczy
  • Matar Ferera
  • Meytal Nasie
  • Kara Weisman
  • Maliki E. Ghossainy

Best Publications

  • Children's avoidance of lexical overlap: a pragmatic account.

    Gil Diesendruck;Lori Markson

  • Celebrity Contagion and the Value of Objects

    George E. Newman;Gil Diesendruck;Paul Bloom

  • The Role of Language, Appearance, and Culture in Children's Social Category-Based Induction

    Gil Diesendruck;Heidi HaLevi

  • Children's Reliance on Creator's Intent in Extending Names for Artifacts:

    Gil Diesendruck;Lori Markson;Paul Bloom

  • How specific is the shape bias

    Gil Diesendruck;Paul Bloom

  • The principles of conventionality and contrast in word learning: an empirical examination.

    Gil Diesendruck

  • The Development of Social Essentialism: The Case of Israeli Children's Inferences About Jews and Arabs

    Dana Birnbaum;Inas Deeb;Gili Segall;Adar Ben-Eliyahu

  • The influence of language and socioeconomic status on children's understanding of false belief.

    Marilyn Shatz;Gil Diesendruck;Ivelisse Martinez-Beck;Didar Akar

  • Domain differences in absolute judgments of category membership: Evidence for an essentialist account of categorization

    Gil Diesendruck;Susan A. Gelman

  • The evolution of intergroup bias: perceptions and attitudes in rhesus macaques.

    Neha Mahajan;Margaret A. Martinez;Natashya L. Gutierrez;Gil Diesendruck

  • Cross-Cultural Differences in Children's Beliefs about the Objectivity of Social Categories.

    Gil Diesendruck;Rebecca Goldfein-Elbaz;Marjorie Rhodes;Susan A. Gelman

  • How Writing System and Age Influence Spatial Representations of Actions A Developmental, Cross-Linguistic Study

    Christian Dobel;Gil Diesendruck;Jens Bölte

  • Two-year-olds' sensitivity to speakers' intent: an alternative account of Samuelson and Smith.

    Gil Diesendruck;Lori Markson;Nameera Akhtar;Ayelet Reudor

  • The intergenerational transmission of ethnic essentialism: how parents talk counts the most

    Gili Segall;Dana Birnbaum;Inas Deeb;Gil Diesendruck

  • Seeing isn't believing: The effect of intergroup exposure on children's essentialist beliefs about ethnic categories.

    Inas Deeb;Gili Segall;Dana Birnbaum;Adar Ben-Eliyahu

  • God’s categories: The effect of religiosity on children’s teleological and essentialist beliefs about categories

    Gil Diesendruck;Lital Haber

  • The development of category learning strategies: What makes the difference?

    Rubi Hammer;Gil Diesendruck;Daphna Weinshall;Daphna Weinshall;Shaul Hochstein;Shaul Hochstein

  • Conceptual and Linguistic Biases in Children's Word Learning.

    Gil Diesendruck;Susan A. Gelman;Kim Lebowitz

  • Children’s Assumption of the Conventionality of Culture

    Gil Diesendruck;Lori Markson

  • Children’s Sensitivity to the Conventionality of Sources

    Gil Diesendruck;Nurit Carmel;Lori Markson

  • The shape of thought.

    Lori Markson;Gil Diesendruck;Paul Bloom

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Bloom
Paul Bloom Columbia University
Doron Gothelf
Doron Gothelf Tel Aviv University
Susan A. Graham
Susan A. Graham University of Calgary
Susan A. Gelman
Susan A. Gelman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Hannes Rakoczy
Hannes Rakoczy University of Göttingen
Ruth Feldman
Ruth Feldman Reichman University
Mahzarin R. Banaji
Mahzarin R. Banaji Harvard University
Laurie R. Santos
Laurie R. Santos Yale University
Natalie Sebanz
Natalie Sebanz Central European University
Marjorie Rhodes
Marjorie Rhodes New York University

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