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45
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19662
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6519
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3535

Karen Wynn 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 Karen Wynn sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 84 publications — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Karen Wynn 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 Karen Wynn sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 45 D-Index — 43rd percentile

43% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Karen Wynn is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Medicine, Psychology, and Neuroscience, with specific focus on subfields such as Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Sociology and Political Science, Clinical Psychology, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

The scientist's work covers a range of main topics including:

  • Neonatal and fetal brain pathology
  • Neonatal Respiratory Health Research
  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Neuroscience of respiration and sleep
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

Their recent papers include:

  • Association Between Increased Seizures During Rewarming After Hypothermia for Neonatal Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy and Abnormal Neurodevelopmental Outcomes at 2-Year Follow-up (2021), published in JAMA Neurology
  • Do Children and Adults Take Social Relationship Into Account When Evaluating People's Actions? (2020), published in Child Development
  • Adults' pedagogical messages engender children's preference for self-resembling others (2021), published in Developmental Science
  • Ingroup Positivity and Outgroup Negativity Jointly Motivate Toddlers' Social Behavior (2023), published in The Journal of Genetic Psychology
  • NICHD Magnetic Resonance Brain Imaging Score in Term Infants With Hypoxic-Ischemic Encephalopathy (2025), published in JAMA Pediatrics

Frequent co-authors of Karen Wynn comprise:

  • Pablo J. Sánchez
  • Lina F. Chalak
  • Abbot R. Laptook
  • Brenda B. Poindexter
  • C. Michael Cotten

Their research has appeared in several publication venues, including:

  • JAMA Neurology
  • Child Development
  • Developmental Science
  • The Journal of Genetic Psychology
  • JAMA Pediatrics

Best Publications

  • Addition and subtraction by human infants.

    Karen Wynn

  • Social Evaluation by Preverbal Infants

    J Kiley Hamlin;Karen Wynn;Paul Bloom

  • Social evaluation by preverbal infants

    J. Kiley Hamlin;Karen Wynn;Paul Bloom

  • Children's understanding of counting

    Karen Wynn

  • Children's Acquisition of the Number Words and the Counting System

    Karen Wynn

  • Young infants prefer prosocial to antisocial others.

    J. Kiley Hamlin;Karen Wynn

  • Attribution of Dispositional States by 12-Month-Olds

    Valerie Kuhlmeier;Karen Wynn;Paul Bloom

  • 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

  • Large-Number Addition and Subtraction by 9-Month-Old Infants

    Koleen McCrink;Karen Wynn

  • Infants' Individuation and Enumeration of Actions

    Karen Wynn

  • Psychological foundations of number: numerical competence in human infants.

    Karen Wynn

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

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

  • Ratio Abstraction by 6-Month-Old Infants

    Koleen McCrink;Karen Wynn

  • Enumeration of Collective Entities by 5-Month-Old Infants.

    Karen Wynn;Paul Bloom;Wen-Chi Chiang

  • Origins of Numerical Knowledge

    Karen Wynn

  • Origins of "us" versus "them": prelinguistic infants prefer similar others.

    Neha Mahajan;Karen Wynn

  • Linguistic cues in the acquisition of number words

    Paul Bloom;Karen Wynn

  • Do 5-month-old infants see humans as material objects?

    Valerie A Kuhlmeier;Paul Bloom;Karen Wynn

  • Anti-equality: Social comparison in young children

    Mark Sheskin;Paul Bloom;Karen Wynn

  • Evidence against empiricist accounts of the origins of numerical knowledge

    Karen Wynn

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Bloom
Paul Bloom Columbia University
Brian J. Scholl
Brian J. Scholl Yale University
J. Kiley Hamlin
J. Kiley Hamlin University of British Columbia
Stephen R. Mitroff
Stephen R. Mitroff George Washington University
George E. Newman
George E. Newman Yale University
Rosemary D. Higgins
Rosemary D. Higgins George Mason University
Frank C. Keil
Frank C. Keil Yale University
Abbot R. Laptook
Abbot R. Laptook Brown University
Namasivayam Ambalavanan
Namasivayam Ambalavanan University of Alabama at Birmingham
Betty R. Vohr
Betty R. Vohr Brown University

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