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Katherine D. Kinzler

Katherine D. Kinzler

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Psychology

D-Index
40
Citations
10183
World Ranking
8090
National Ranking
4332

Overview

Katherine D. Kinzler is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Psychology, with a strong focus on subfields including Sociology and Political Science, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology, Gender Studies, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The topics covered in their work include Child and Animal Learning Development, Social and Intergroup Psychology, Cultural Differences and Values, Early Childhood Education and Development, Gender Diversity and Inequality, Misinformation and Its Impacts, and Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology.

Among recent publications are significant papers such as "The Future of Women in Psychological Science" (2020, Perspectives on Psychological Science), "Language as a Social Cue" (2021, Annual Review of Psychology), "Children's Thinking About Group-Based Social Hierarchies" (2022, Trends in Cognitive Sciences), "Origins of Homophily: Infants Expect People with Shared Preferences to Affiliate" (2021, Cognition), and "Understanding the Developmental Roots of Gender Gaps in Politics" (2021, Psychological Inquiry).

Their collaborations include frequent coauthors such as Radhika Santhanagopalan, Isobel A. Heck, Kristin Shutts, Zoe Liberman, and Amanda L. Woodward.

Publication venues where Katherine D. Kinzler has contributed multiple works include Developmental Science, Journal of Experimental Psychology General, Developmental Psychology, Cognition, and Psychological Inquiry.

Best Publications

  • The native language of social cognition

    Katherine D. Kinzler;Emmanuel Dupoux;Elizabeth S. Spelke

  • Accent Trumps Race in Guiding Children's Social Preferences

    Katherine D. Kinzler;Kristin Shutts;Jasmine DeJesus;Elizabeth S. Spelke

  • The Contribution of Emotion and Cognition to Moral Sensitivity: A Neurodevelopmental Study

    Jean Decety;Kalina J. Michalska;Katherine D. Kinzler

  • Children's selective trust in native-accented speakers.

    Katherine D. Kinzler;Kathleen H. Corriveau;Paul L. Harris

  • The Origins of Social Categorization

    Zoe Liberman;Amanda L. Woodward;Katherine D. Kinzler

  • The Exposure Advantage: Early Exposure to a Multilingual Environment Promotes Effective Communication

    Samantha P. Fan;Zoe Liberman;Boaz Keysar;Katherine D. Kinzler

  • Social Information Guides Infants' Selection of Foods

    Kristin Shutts;Katherine D. Kinzler;Caitlin B. McKee;Elizabeth S. Spelke

  • Do infants show social preferences for people differing in race

    Katherine D. Kinzler;Elizabeth S. Spelke

  • Accuracy trumps accent in children's endorsement of object labels.

    Kathleen H. Corriveau;Katherine D. Kinzler;Paul L. Harris

  • Priorities in social categories.

    Katherine D. Kinzler;Kristin Shutts;Joshua Correll

  • Age-related sex differences in explicit measures of empathy do not predict brain responses across childhood and adolescence.

    Kalina J. Michalska;Katherine D. Kinzler;Jean Decety

  • Core systems in human cognition

    Katherine D Kinzler;Elizabeth S Spelke

  • Children’s essentialist reasoning about language and race

    Katherine D. Kinzler;Jocelyn B. Dautel

  • Northern = smart and Southern = nice: The development of accent attitudes in the United States

    Katherine D. Kinzler;Jasmine M. DeJesus

  • Early emerging system for reasoning about the social nature of food.

    Zoe Liberman;Amanda L. Woodward;Kathleen R. Sullivan;Kathleen R. Sullivan;Katherine D. Kinzler;Katherine D. Kinzler

  • Children Associate Racial Groups with Wealth: Evidence from South Africa

    Kristina R. Olson;Kristin Shutts;Katherine D. Kinzler;Kara G. Weisman

  • Race preferences in children: insights from South Africa

    Kristin Shutts;Katherine D. Kinzler;Rachel C. Katz;Colin Tredoux

  • Preverbal Infants Infer Third‐Party Social Relationships Based on Language

    Zoe Liberman;Amanda L. Woodward;Katherine D. Kinzler;Katherine D. Kinzler

  • Memory for “mean” over “nice”: The influence of threat on children’s face memory

    Katherine D. Kinzler;Kristin Shutts

  • Exposure to multiple languages enhances communication skills in infancy.

    Zoe Liberman;Amanda L. Woodward;Boaz Keysar;Katherine D. Kinzler;Katherine D. Kinzler

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth S. Spelke
Elizabeth S. Spelke Harvard University
Amanda L. Woodward
Amanda L. Woodward University of Chicago
Emmanuel Dupoux
Emmanuel Dupoux School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences
Jean Decety
Jean Decety University of Chicago
Paul L. Harris
Paul L. Harris Harvard University
Lisa Feldman Barrett
Lisa Feldman Barrett Northeastern University
Kathleen H. Corriveau
Kathleen H. Corriveau Boston University
Boaz Keysar
Boaz Keysar University of Chicago
Michelle G. Craske
Michelle G. Craske University of California, Los Angeles
Deanna M. Barch
Deanna M. Barch Washington University in St. Louis

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