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Overview

J. Kiley Hamlin is affiliated with the University of British Columbia in Canada and works primarily within the field of psychology, with a focus on developmental and educational psychology. Their research has addressed various topics related to child development, social and moral cognition, and neuroendocrine regulation.

Among their main areas of study are:

  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior
  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Infant Health and Development
  • Early Childhood Education and Development

Hamlin has contributed to numerous papers, some of which have been influential in developmental and psychological science. Selected recent publications include:

  • "Quantifying Sources of Variability in Infancy Research Using the Infant-Directed-Speech Preference" (2020), published in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
  • "Building a collaborative psychological science: Lessons learned from ManyBabies 1." (2020), published in Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne
  • "Build up big-team science" (2022), published in Nature
  • "A Multilab Study of Bilingual Infants: Exploring the Preference for Infant-Directed Speech" (2021), published in Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
  • "Human Morality Is Based on an Early-Emerging Moral Core" (2022), published in Annual Review of Developmental Psychology

The venues where Hamlin frequently publishes highlight a multidisciplinary approach linking psychology with developmental science. These publication venues include:

  • Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science
  • Developmental Science
  • Canadian Psychology/Psychologie canadienne

Collaborations are an important aspect of Hamlin's work. Frequent co-authors include Michael C. Frank, Krista Byers-Heinlein, Mélanie Söderström, Casey Lew-Williams, and Christina Bergmann, reflecting a focus on social and cognitive developmental research networks.

Best Publications

  • Social Evaluation by Preverbal Infants

    J Kiley Hamlin;Karen Wynn;Paul Bloom

  • Young infants prefer prosocial to antisocial others.

    J. Kiley Hamlin;Karen Wynn

  • Three-month-olds show a negativity bias in their social evaluations.

    J. Kiley Hamlin;Karen Wynn;Paul Bloom

  • How infants and toddlers react to antisocial others

    J. Kiley Hamlin;Karen Wynn;Paul J. Bloom;Neha Mahajan

  • Moral Judgment and Action in Preverbal Infants and Toddlers Evidence for an Innate Moral Core

    J. Kiley Hamlin

  • Giving Leads to Happiness in Young Children

    Lara B. Aknin;J. Kiley Hamlin;Elizabeth W. Dunn

  • Not Like Me = Bad Infants Prefer Those Who Harm Dissimilar Others

    J. Kiley Hamlin;Neha Mahajan;Zoe Liberman;Karen Wynn

  • A Collaborative Approach to Infant Research : Promoting Reproducibility, Best Practices, and Theory-Building

    Michael C. Frank;Elika Bergelson;Christina Bergmann;Alejandrina Cristia

  • Positive feelings reward and promote prosocial behavior.

    Lara B Aknin;Julia W Van de Vondervoort;J Kiley Hamlin

  • Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed-speech preference

    Michael C. Frank;Katherine Jane Alcock;Natalia Arias-Trejo;Gisa Aschersleben

  • Failed attempts to help and harm: intention versus outcome in preverbal infants' social evaluations.

    J. Kiley Hamlin

  • Prosocial behavior leads to happiness in a small-scale rural society.

    Lara B. Aknin;Tanya Broesch;J. Kiley Hamlin;Julia W. Van de Vondervoort

  • The mentalistic basis of core social cognition: experiments in preverbal infants and a computational model.

    J. Kiley Hamlin;Tomer Ullman;Josh Tenenbaum;Noah Goodman

  • Do as I do: 7-month-old infants selectively reproduce others' goals.

    J. Kiley Hamlin;Elizabeth V. Hallinan;Amanda L. Woodward

  • Who knows what's good to eat? Infants fail to match the food preferences of antisocial others

    J. Kiley Hamlin;Karen Wynn

  • Social Evaluation of Intentional, Truly Accidental, and Negligently Accidental Helpers and Harmers by 10-month-old Infants

    Brandon M. Woo;Conor M. Steckler;Doan T. Le;J. Kiley Hamlin

  • Context-dependent social evaluation in 4.5-month-old human infants: the role of domain-general versus domain-specific processes in the development of social evaluation

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  • The case for social evaluation in preverbal infants: gazing toward one’s goal drives infants’ preferences for Helpers over Hinderers in the hill paradigm

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  • Out, Damned Spot: Can the “Macbeth Effect” Be Replicated?

    Brian D. Earp;Jim A. C. Everett;Elizabeth N. Madva;J. Kiley Hamlin

  • Foundations of infants' social group evaluations

    Anthea Pun;Matar Ferera;Gil Diesendruck;J. Kiley Hamlin

  • The Origins of Human Morality: Complex Socio-moral Evaluations by Preverbal Infants

    J. Kiley Hamlin

  • Building a Collaborative Psychological Science: Lessons Learned From ManyBabies 1

    Krista Byers-Heinlein;Christina Bergmann;Catherine Davies;Michael C. Frank

  • The mentalistic basis of core social cognition: experiments in preverbal infants and a computational model

    J. Kiley Hamlin;Noah Goodman;Tomer David Ullman;Joshua B Tenenbaum

Frequent Co-Authors

Karen Wynn
Karen Wynn Yale University
Michael C. Frank
Michael C. Frank Stanford University
Krista Byers-Heinlein
Krista Byers-Heinlein Concordia University
Lara B. Aknin
Lara B. Aknin Simon Fraser University
Paul Bloom
Paul Bloom Columbia University
Jessica A. Sommerville
Jessica A. Sommerville University of Toronto
Leher Singh
Leher Singh University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Sandra R. Waxman
Sandra R. Waxman Northwestern University
Janet F. Werker
Janet F. Werker University of British Columbia
Linda Polka
Linda Polka McGill University

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