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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1984 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

Overview

Henry M. Wellman is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of psychology, with significant contributions in developmental and educational psychology, social psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and experimental and cognitive psychology. The subfields of developmental and educational psychology and social psychology represent a substantial portion of their work.

The scientist's research covers a range of topics related to human development and behavior. Main topics in their work include:

  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Action Observation and Synchronization
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Human-Animal Interaction Studies
  • Social Robot Interaction and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)

Their recent publications reflect ongoing engagement with developmental psychology and related areas:

  • "Robot teachers for children? Young children trust robots depending on their perceived accuracy and agency," 2020, Developmental Psychology
  • "Theory-of-Mind Development in Young Deaf Children With Early Hearing Provisions," 2020, Psychological Science
  • "How Bilingualism Informs Theory of Mind Development," 2021, Child Development Perspectives
  • "Young Children Treat Puppets and Dolls Like Real Persons in Theory of Mind Research: A meta-analysis of false-belief understanding across ages and countries," 2022, Cognitive Development
  • "A meta-analysis of sequences in theory-of-mind understandings: Theory of mind scale findings across different cultural contexts," 2024, Developmental Review

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Henry M. Wellman include:

  • Chi-Lin Yu
  • Rachna B. Reddy
  • Ioulia Kovelman
  • Susan A. Gelman
  • Kimberly A. Brink

Publication venues where the scientist has frequently published include:

  • Developmental Psychology
  • Cognitive Development
  • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders
  • Psychological Science
  • Developmental Review

Henry M. Wellman has been recognized within their professional community through awards such as:

  • Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA), 1984
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2012

Best Publications

  • Meta-analysis of theory-of-mind development: The truth about false belief.

    Henry M. Wellman;David Cross;Julanne Watson

  • The Child's Theory of Mind

    Henry M. Wellman

  • Scaling of Theory-of-Mind Tasks

    Henry M. Wellman;David Liu

  • Children Talk About the Mind

    Karen Bartsch;Henry M. Wellman

  • Cognitive development: Foundational theories of core domains

    Henry M. Wellman;Susan A. Gelman

  • The theory theory.

    Alison Gopnik;Henry M. Wellman

  • Why the Child's Theory of Mind Really Is a Theory

    Alison Gopnik;Henry M. Wellman

  • Insides and essences: Early understandings of the non-obvious

    Susan A. Gelman;Henry M. Wellman

  • From simple desires to ordinary beliefs: The early development of everyday psychology

    Henry M. Wellman;Jacqueline D. Woolley

  • The acquisition of mental verbs: A systematic investigation of the first reference to mental state

    Marilyn Shatz;Henry M. Wellman;Sharon Silber

  • Knowledge acquisition in foundational domains.

    Henry M. Wellman;Susan A. Gelman

  • Young children's attribution of action to beliefs and desires.

    Karen Bartsch;Henry Wellman

  • Reconstructing constructivism: Causal models, Bayesian learning mechanisms, and the theory theory.

    Alison Gopnik;Henry M. Wellman

  • Young children's reasoning about beliefs

    Henry M. Wellman;Karen Bartsch

  • Early understanding of mental entities: a reexamination of childhood realism.

    Henry M. Wellman;David Estes

  • Steps in Theory-of-Mind Development for Children With Deafness or Autism

    Candida C. Peterson;Henry M. Wellman;David Liu

  • Developmental foundations of externalizing problems in young children: the role of effortful control.

    Sheryl L. Olson;Arnold J. Sameroff;David C. R. Kerr;Nestor L. Lopez

  • Theory of mind development in Chinese children: a meta-analysis of false-belief understanding across cultures and languages.

    David Liu;Henry M. Wellman;Twila Tardif;Mark A. Sabbagh

  • Infants' ability to connect gaze and emotional expression to intentional action

    Ann T Phillips;Henry M Wellman;Elizabeth S Spelke

  • Scaling of Theory-of-Mind Understandings in Chinese Children

    Henry M. Wellman;Fuxi Fang;David Liu;Liqi Zhu

Frequent Co-Authors

Susan A. Gelman
Susan A. Gelman University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Candida C. Peterson
Candida C. Peterson University of Queensland
Alison Gopnik
Alison Gopnik University of California, Berkeley
Kristin Hansen Lagattuta
Kristin Hansen Lagattuta University of California, Davis
Twila Tardif
Twila Tardif University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Sheryl L. Olson
Sheryl L. Olson University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Virginia Slaughter
Virginia Slaughter University of Queensland
Mark A. Sabbagh
Mark A. Sabbagh Queen's University
Marjorie Rhodes
Marjorie Rhodes New York University
Andrew N. Meltzoff
Andrew N. Meltzoff University of Washington

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