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Jessica A. Sommerville

Jessica A. Sommerville

D-Index & Metrics

Psychology

D-Index
36
Citations
8798
World Ranking
9359
National Ranking
635

Jessica A. Sommerville 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 Jessica A. Sommerville sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 94 publications — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Jessica A. Sommerville 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 Jessica A. Sommerville sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 36 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Jessica A. Sommerville is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and specializes in the field of psychology, focusing primarily on developmental and educational psychology. Their body of research spans several interconnected subfields including social psychology, clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, and education.

Their work extensively covers topics related to child and animal learning development, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, early childhood education and development, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, evolutionary game theory and cooperation, and the psychology of moral and emotional judgment.

Jessica A. Sommerville has published research in a range of respected academic venues. Frequent publication venues include Frontiers in Psychology, Developmental Science, Cognition, Developmental Psychology, and the Journal of Experimental Psychology General.

Recent research contributions include:

  • Infants rationally decide when and how to deploy effort (2020, Nature Human Behaviour)
  • Toddlers' interventions toward fair and unfair individuals (2021, Cognition)
  • Infants' Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large-Scale, Multi-Lab, Coordinated Replication Study (2024, Developmental Science)
  • A New Look at Infant Problem-Solving: Using DeepLabCut to Investigate Exploratory Problem-Solving Approaches (2021, Frontiers in Psychology)
  • Generalizing across moral sub-domains: infants bidirectionally link fairness and unfairness to helping and hindering (2023, Frontiers in Psychology)

The scientist frequently collaborates with a network of co-authors across multiple studies. Notable collaborators include Mia Radovanovic, Rachel Horton, Kelsey Lucca, Mark A. Schmuckler, and Talee Ziv.

Best Publications

  • Shared representations between self and other: a social cognitive neuroscience view.

    Jean Decety;Jessica A. Sommerville

  • Action experience alters 3-month-old infants' perception of others' actions

    Jessica A. Sommerville;Amanda L. Woodward;Amy Needham

  • The neural bases of cooperation and competition: an fMRI investigation

    Jean Decety;Philip L. Jackson;Jessica A. Sommerville;Thierry Chaminade

  • Fairness Expectations and Altruistic Sharing in 15-Month-Old Human Infants

    Marco F. H. Schmidt;Jessica A. Sommerville

  • Pulling out the intentional structure of action: the relation between action processing and action production in infancy.

    Jessica A. Sommerville;Amanda L. Woodward

  • Twelve-Month-Old Infants Interpret Action in Context

    Amanda L. Woodward;Jessica A. Sommerville

  • How infants make sense of intentional action.

    Amanda L. Woodward;Jessica A. Sommerville;Jose J. Guajardo

  • The Development of Fairness Expectations and Prosocial Behavior in the Second Year of Life

    Jessica A. Sommerville;Marco F H Schmidt;Jung Eun Yun;Monica Burns

  • Experience matters: The impact of doing versus watching on infants' subsequent perception of tool-use events.

    Jessica A. Sommerville;Elina A. Hildebrand;Catharyn C. Crane

  • Weaving the fabric of social interaction: Articulating developmental psychology and cognitive neuroscience in the domain of motor cognition

    Jessica A. Sommerville;Jean Decety

  • Theory of mind through the ages: older and middle-aged adults exhibit more errors than do younger adults on a continuous false belief task.

    Daniel M. Bernstein;Wendy Loken Thornton;Jessica A. Sommerville

  • Developmental Differences in Infants’ Fairness Expectations From 6 to 15 Months of Age

    Talee Ziv;Jessica A. Sommerville

  • The emergence of intention attribution in infancy

    Amanda L Woodward;Jessica A Sommerville;Sarah Gerson;Annette M E Henderson

  • "I pick you": the impact of fairness and race on infants' selection of social partners.

    Monica Patricia Burns;Jessica Sommerville

  • God Does Not Play Dice: Causal Determinism and Preschoolers' Causal Inferences

    Laura E. Schulz;Jessica Sommerville

  • Cognitive control factors in speech perception at 11 months.

    Barbara T. Conboy;Jessica A. Sommerville;Patricia K. Kuhl

  • 'To the victor go the spoils': Infants expect resources to align with dominance structures.

    Elizabeth A. Enright;Hyowon Gweon;Jessica A. Sommerville

  • Fairness informs social decision making in infancy

    Kelsey Lucca;Jacqueline Pospisil;Jessica A. Sommerville

  • Age-related changes in children's use of external representations.

    Philip David Zelazo;Jessica A. Sommerville;Shana Nichols

  • Infants Associate Praise and Admonishment with Fair and Unfair Individuals.

    Trent D. DesChamps;Arianne E. Eason;Jessica A. Sommerville

Frequent Co-Authors

Amanda L. Woodward
Amanda L. Woodward University of Chicago
Jean Decety
Jean Decety University of Chicago
Daniel M. Bernstein
Daniel M. Bernstein Kwantlen Polytechnic University
David M. Sobel
David M. Sobel Brown University
Philip David Zelazo
Philip David Zelazo University of Minnesota
J. Kiley Hamlin
J. Kiley Hamlin University of British Columbia
Patricia K. Kuhl
Patricia K. Kuhl University of Washington
Cheryl R. Kaiser
Cheryl R. Kaiser University of Washington
Andrew N. Meltzoff
Andrew N. Meltzoff University of Washington

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