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Luca Surian 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 Luca Surian sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 122 publications — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Luca Surian 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 Luca Surian sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 39 D-Index — 27th percentile

27% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Luca Surian is affiliated with the University of Trento in Italy. Their primary research domain lies within Psychology, with a specialization in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Their publication record includes 58 contributions in Psychology, with significant focus on developmental aspects.

Their research covers several subfields, including:

  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Social Psychology
  • Education
  • Sociology and Political Science

Surian's work addresses main topics such as:

  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
  • Language Development and Disorders
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
  • Cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills

Their recent papers include:

  • "Preverbal infants' reactions to third-party punishments and rewards delivered toward fair and unfair agents" (2022), published in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • "The violation-of-expectation paradigm: A conceptual overview." (2023), published in Psychological Review
  • "Infants' intention-based evaluations of distributive actions" (2022), published in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • "Scalar and ad-hoc pragmatic inferences in children: guess which one is easier" (2020), published in the Journal of Child Language
  • "Impaired large numerosity estimation and intact subitizing in developmental dyscalculia" (2020), published in PLoS ONE

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Surian include:

  • Alessandra Geraci
  • Francesco Margoni
  • Laura Franchin
  • Gisella Decarli
  • Constantinos Hadjichristidis

Their publications are often found in the following venues:

  • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • Developmental Science
  • Aggressive Behavior
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Best Publications

  • Attribution of Beliefs by 13-Month-Old Infants

    Luca Surian;Stefania Caldi;Dan Sperber

  • The developmental roots of fairness: infants’ reactions to equal and unequal distributions of resources

    Alessandra Geraci;Luca Surian

  • Selective impairments of theory of mind in people with schizophrenia

    M. Mazza;A. De Risio;L. Surian;R. Roncone

  • Are Children with Autism Deaf to Gricean Maxims

    Surian L;Baron-Cohen S;Van der Lely H

  • How foreign language shapes moral judgment

    Janet Geipel;Constantinos Hadjichristidis;Constantinos Hadjichristidis;Luca Surian

  • Competence and performance in false belief understanding: A comparison of autistic and normal 3-year-old children.

    Luca Surian;Alan M. Leslie

  • Do infants detect indirect reciprocity

    Marek Meristo;Luca Surian

  • The Foreign Language Effect on Moral Judgment: The Role of Emotions and Norms.

    Janet Geipel;Constantinos Hadjichristidis;Luca Surian

  • Language access and theory of mind reasoning: evidence from deaf children in bilingual and oralist environments.

    Marek Meristo;Kerstin W. Falkman;Erland Hjelmquist;Mariantonia Tedoldi

  • Infants' evaluation of prosocial and antisocial agents: A meta-analysis.

    Francesco Margoni;Luca Surian

  • Bilingualism and conversational understanding in young children.

    Michael Siegal;Michael Siegal;Laura Iozzi;Luca Surian

  • Where will the triangle look for it? Attributing false beliefs to a geometric shape at 17 months.

    Luca Surian;Alessandra Geraci

  • Mental state language and quality of conversational experience in deaf and hearing children

    Gary Morgan;Marek Meristo;Marek Meristo;Wolfgang Mann;Erland Hjelmquist

  • Foreign language affects the contribution of intentions and outcomes to moral judgment

    Janet Geipel;Constantinos Hadjichristidis;Luca Surian

  • Preverbal Infants' Ability to Encode the Outcome of Distributive Actions

    Marek Meristo;Marek Meristo;Karin Strid;Luca Surian

  • The contact principle and utilitarian moral judgments in young children

    Sandra Pellizzoni;Michael Siegal;Michael Siegal;Luca Surian

  • Do 9-month-olds perceive causation-at-a-distance?

    Anne Schlottmann;Luca Surian

  • Sources of performance on theory of mind tasks in right hemisphere-damaged patients.

    Luca Surian;Michael Siegal

  • Belief attribution in deaf and hearing infants

    Marek Meristo;Gary Morgan;Alessandra Geraci;Laura Iozzi

  • Infants Distinguish Antisocial Actions Directed towards Fair and Unfair Agents

    Marek Meristo;Luca Surian

  • Theory of Mind in patients with ventromedial or dorsolateral prefrontal lesions following traumatic brain injury.

    Alessandra Geraci;Luca Surian;Marco Ferraro;Anna Cantagallo

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Siegal
Michael Siegal University of Sheffield
Remo Job
Remo Job University of Trento
Carlo Semenza
Carlo Semenza University of Padua
Shoji Itakura
Shoji Itakura Kyoto University
Renée Baillargeon
Renée Baillargeon University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Vittorio Girotto
Vittorio Girotto Università Iuav di Venezia
Manuela Piazza
Manuela Piazza University of Trento
Marc Marschark
Marc Marschark Rochester Institute of Technology
Michael C. Frank
Michael C. Frank Stanford University
Alan M. Leslie
Alan M. Leslie Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

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