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Hannes Rakoczy 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 Hannes Rakoczy sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 169 publications — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Hannes Rakoczy 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 Hannes Rakoczy sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 54 D-Index — 61st percentile

61% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Hannes Rakoczy is affiliated with the University of Göttingen in Germany and specializes in psychology with a focus on developmental and educational psychology. Their research primarily explores child and animal learning development, with additional interests in social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and the psychology of moral and emotional judgment.

Their work covers a range of topics including:

  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Memory and Neural Mechanisms
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior

Rakoczy's recent publications include:

  • Foundations of theory of mind and its development in early childhood, 2022, Nature Reviews Psychology
  • Online Testing Yields the Same Results as Lab Testing: A Validation Study With the False Belief Task, 2021, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Why Do Young Children Look so Smart and Older Children Look so Dumb on True Belief Control Tasks? An Investigation of Pragmatic Performance Factors, 2020, Journal of Cognition and Development
  • Dogs distinguish human intentional and unintentional action, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Chimpanzees consider alternative possibilities, 2021, Current Biology

The venues where Rakoczy frequently publishes reflect the scope of their expertise and include:

  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Royal Society Open Science
  • Journal of Cognition and Development
  • Cognitive Development
  • Biology Letters

Frequent collaborators in Rakoczy's research network consist of:

  • Marina Proft
  • Lydia Paulin Schidelko
  • Esther Herrmann
  • Julia Fischer
  • Britta Schünemann

The body of work conducted by Rakoczy integrates developmental psychology with comparative cognition, involving both human and non-human subjects. Their research addresses theory of mind development, pragmatic factors affecting reasoning in children, and intentionality in animals, indicating an interdisciplinary approach spanning cognitive, social, and biological dimensions of psychology.

Best Publications

  • What Makes Human Cognition Unique? From Individual to Shared to Collective Intentionality

    Michael Tomasello;Hannes Rakoczy

  • The sources of normativity: Young children's awareness of the normative structure of games.

    Hannes Rakoczy;Felix Warneken;Michael Tomasello

  • How to Construct a Minimal Theory of Mind

    Stephen A. Butterfill;Ian A. Apperly

  • Young children enforce social norms selectively depending on the violator's group affiliation

    Marco F. H. Schmidt;Hannes Rakoczy;Michael Tomasello

  • Early Social Cognition in Three Cultural Contexts

    Tara Callaghan;Henrike Moll;Hannes Rakoczy;Felix Warneken

  • The Early Ontogeny of Social Norms

    Hannes Rakoczy;Marco F. H. Schmidt

  • Young children’s understanding of violations of property rights

    Federico Rossano;Hannes Rakoczy;Michael Tomasello

  • Young children attribute normativity to novel actions without pedagogy or normative language

    Marco F. H. Schmidt;Hannes Rakoczy;Michael Tomasello

  • Why do children overimitate? Normativity is crucial.

    Stefanie Keupp;Tanya Behne;Hannes Rakoczy

  • Young children know that trying is not pretending: a test of the "behaving-as-if" construal of children's early concept of pretense.

    Hannes Rakoczy;Michael Tomasello;Tricia Striano

  • Normativity and context in young children's pretend play

    Emily Wyman;Hannes Rakoczy;Michael Tomasello

  • Young children's selective learning of rule games from reliable and unreliable models

    Hannes Rakoczy;Felix Warneken;Michael Tomasello

  • Is implicit theory of mind a real and robust phenomenon? Results from a systematic replication study.

    Louisa Kulke;Britta von Duhn;Dana Schneider;Hannes Rakoczy

  • Taking fiction seriously: young children understand the normative structure of joint pretence games.

    Hannes Rakoczy

  • How (not) to measure infant Theory of Mind: Testing the replicability and validity of four non-verbal measures

    Sebastian Dörrenberg;Sebastian Dörrenberg;Hannes Rakoczy;Ulf Liszkowski

  • Explicit Theory of Mind Is Even More Unified Than Previously Assumed: Belief Ascription and Understanding Aspectuality Emerge Together in Development

    Hannes Rakoczy;Delia Bergfeld;Ina Schwarz;Ella Fizke

  • Bigger knows better: Young children selectively learn rule games from adults rather than from peers

    Hannes. Rakoczy;Katharina. Hamann;Felix. Warneken;Michael. Tomasello

  • The Ontogeny of Social Ontology: Steps to Shared Intentionality and Status Functions

    Hannes Rakoczy;Michael Tomasello

  • How robust are anticipatory looking measures of Theory of Mind? Replication attempts across the life span

    Louisa Kulke;Mirjam Reiß;Horst Krist;Hannes Rakoczy

  • Pretence as Individual and Collective Intentionality

    Hannes Rakoczy

  • Cognitive Architecture of Belief Reasoning in Children and Adults: A Primer on the Two-Systems Account

    Jason Low;Ian A. Apperly;Stephen A. Butterfill;Hannes Rakoczy

  • In defense of a developmental dogma: children acquire propositional attitude folk psychology around age 4

    Hannes Rakoczy

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Tomasello
Michael Tomasello Duke University
Josep Call
Josep Call University of St Andrews
Felix Warneken
Felix Warneken University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Tricia Striano
Tricia Striano Hunter College
Anna Abraham
Anna Abraham University of Georgia
Daniel B. M. Haun
Daniel B. M. Haun Max Planck Society
Esther Herrmann
Esther Herrmann University of Portsmouth
Gil Diesendruck
Gil Diesendruck Bar-Ilan University
Ian A. Apperly
Ian A. Apperly University of Birmingham
Ricarda Ines Schubotz
Ricarda Ines Schubotz University of Münster

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