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Louis J. Moses is affiliated with the University of Oregon in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of psychology, neuroscience, and social sciences, with significant contributions to developmental and educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, social psychology, sociology and political science, and education.

The main topics Louis J. Moses has explored include child and animal learning development, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, impact of technology on adolescents, child development and digital technology, social media and politics, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, and autism spectrum disorder research.

Louis J. Moses has published in a range of academic venues, including:

  • Journal of Affective Disorders
  • European Journal of Developmental Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Cognitive Development
  • Collabra Psychology

Frequent coauthors in Moses's work include Karlena D. Ochoa, Elizabeth J. Ivie, Adam Pettitt, Nicholas B. Allen, and Stephanie Chen-Wu Gluck.

Examples of recent papers authored or coauthored by Louis J. Moses include:

  • A meta-analysis of the association between adolescent social media use and depressive symptoms (2020, Journal of Affective Disorders)
  • A comparison of mother and father reports of children's theory of mind: further validation of the children's social understanding scale (2020, European Journal of Developmental Psychology)
  • False belief understanding and moral judgment in young children (2022, Developmental Psychology)
  • Individual differences in second-order false-belief understanding and executive abilities: A meta-analytic review of evidence from school-age children and adults (2023, Cognitive Development)
  • The Interplay of Theory of Mind and Moral Development: Children's and Adults' Attributions of Intent, Praise and Blame, and Deserved Consequences in False Belief Contexts (2023, Collabra Psychology)

Best Publications

  • Individual differences in inhibitory control and children's theory of mind.

    Stephanie M. Carlson;Louis J. Moses

  • How specific is the relation between executive function and theory of mind? Contributions of inhibitory control and working memory

    Stephanie M. Carlson;Louis J. Moses;Casey Breton

  • The Development of Executive Functioning and Theory of Mind A Comparison of Chinese and U.S. Preschoolers

    Mark A. Sabbagh;Fen Xu;Stephanie M. Carlson;Louis J. Moses

  • Individual differences in executive functioning and theory of mind: An investigation of inhibitory control and planning ability

    Stephanie M Carlson;Louis J Moses;Laura J Claxton

  • The role of inhibitory processes in young children's difficulties with deception and false belief

    Stephanie M. Carlson;Louis J. Moses;Hollie R. Hix

  • The Ontogeny of Social Information Gathering

    Dare A. Baldwin;Louis J. Moses

  • Intentions and Intentionality: Foundations of Social Cognition

    Bertram F. Malle;Louis J. Moses;Dare A. Baldwin

  • Evidence for Referential Understanding in the Emotions Domain at Twelve and Eighteen Months

    Louis J. Moses;Dare A. Baldwin;Julie G. Rosicky;Glynnis Tidball

  • Inferring False Beliefs from Actions and Reactions

    Louis J. Moses;John H. Flavell

  • Young Children's Understanding of Fact Beliefs versus Value Beliefs.

    John H. Flavell;Eleanor R. Flavell;Frances L. Green;Louis J. Moses

  • What Can the Study of Cognitive Development Reveal About Children's Ability to Appreciate and Cope with Advertising?

    Louis J. Moses;Dare A. Baldwin

  • Executive Accounts of Theory-of-Mind Development

    Louis J. Moses

  • Demographics, Parenting, and Theory of Mind in Preschool Children

    Katherine C. Pears;Louis J. Moses

  • Links between Social Understanding and Early Word Learning: Challenges to Current Accounts.

    Dare A. Baldwin;Louis J. Moses

  • A meta-analysis of the association between adolescent social media use and depressive symptoms.

    Elizabeth J Ivie;Adam Pettitt;Louis J Moses;Nicholas B Allen

  • How and where: theory-of-mind in the brain.

    Caitlin E.V. Mahy;Caitlin E.V. Mahy;Louis J. Moses;Jennifer H. Pfeifer

  • The Role of Inhibitory Processes in Young Children's Difficulties with Deception and False Belief

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  • Early understanding of referential intent and attentional focus: Evidence from language and emotion.

    Dare A. Baldwin;Louis J. Moses

  • Executive Functioning and Preschoolers' Understanding of False Beliefs, False Photographs, and False Signs

    Mark A. Sabbagh;Louis J. Moses;Sean Shiverick

  • Young Children's Understanding of Fact Beliefs versus Value Beliefs

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  • Young Children's Understanding of Belief Constraints on Intention.

    Louis J Moses

  • The Relation Between Executive Function and Theory of Mind is More Than Skin Deep

    Stephanie M. Carlson;Laura J. Claxton;Louis J. Moses

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephanie M. Carlson
Stephanie M. Carlson University of Minnesota
Dare A. Baldwin
Dare A. Baldwin University of Oregon
Mark A. Sabbagh
Mark A. Sabbagh Queen's University
John H. Flavell
John H. Flavell Stanford University
Matthias Kliegel
Matthias Kliegel University of Geneva
Michael J. Chandler
Michael J. Chandler University of British Columbia
Bertram F. Malle
Bertram F. Malle Brown University
Jennifer H. Pfeifer
Jennifer H. Pfeifer University of Oregon
Nicholas B. Allen
Nicholas B. Allen University of Oregon
Kang Lee
Kang Lee University of Toronto

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