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Malinda Carpenter 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 Malinda Carpenter sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 139 publications — 43rd percentile

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

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

Malinda Carpenter 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 Malinda Carpenter sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 71 D-Index — 82nd percentile

82% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Malinda Carpenter is affiliated with the University of St Andrews in the United Kingdom. Their research spans the fields of psychology and social sciences, with a focus on developmental and educational psychology, sociology and political science, experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, and education.

The scientist's work primarily addresses topics including child and animal learning development, language, metaphor, and cognition, child development and digital technology, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, psychology of social influence, social and intergroup psychology, and evolutionary psychology and human behavior.

Malinda Carpenter has published extensively in several academic journals. Frequent publication venues include the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, PLoS ONE, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, Infancy, and Research for All.

Recent papers by Carpenter include:

  • "Common knowledge that help is needed increases helping behavior in children" (2020, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology)
  • "Young children share more under time pressure than after a delay" (2021, PLoS ONE)
  • "Showing and giving: from incipient to conventional forms" (2022, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences)
  • "When does it pay to follow the crowd? Children optimize imitation of causally irrelevant actions performed by a majority" (2021, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology)
  • "Young children use imitation communicatively" (2023, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology)

Carpenter has collaborated frequently with other researchers. Notable co-authors include Gideon Salter, Michael Tomasello, Harriet Over, Barbora Šipošová, and Sebastian Grueneisen.

Best Publications

  • Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition

    Michael Tomasello;Malinda Carpenter;Josep Call;Tanya Behne

  • Social Cognition, joint attention and communicative Competence from 9 to 15 months of age

    Malinda Carpenter;Katherine Nagell;Michael Tomasello

  • In search of the uniquely human

    Michael Tomasello;Malinda Carpenter;Josep Call;Tanya Behne

  • A new look at infant pointing.

    Michael Tomasello;Malinda Carpenter;Ulf Liszkowski

  • Fourteen- through 18-month-old infants differentially imitate intentional and accidental actions

    Malinda Carpenter;Nameera Akhtar;Michael Tomasello

  • Shared intentionality

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  • Eighteen-month-old infants show false belief understanding in an active helping paradigm

    David Buttelmann;Malinda Carpenter;Michael Tomasello

  • Twelve‐month‐olds point to share attention and interest

    Ulf Liszkowski;Malinda Carpenter;Anne Henning;Tricia Striano

  • 12- and 18-Month-Olds Point to Provide Information for Others

    Ulf Liszkowski;Malinda Carpenter;Tricia Striano;Michael Tomasello

  • Sympathy through affective perspective taking and its relation to prosocial behavior in toddlers.

    Amrisha Vaish;Malinda Carpenter;Michael Tomasello

  • Unwilling versus unable: infants' understanding of intentional action.

    Tanya Behne;Malinda Carpenter;Josep Call;Michael Tomasello

  • The learning and use of gestural signals by young chimpanzees: A trans-generational study

    Michael Tomasello;Josep Call;Katherine Nagell;Raquel Olguin

  • 'Unwilling' versus 'unable': chimpanzees' understanding of human intentional action.

    Josep Call;Brian Hare;Malinda Carpenter;Michael Tomasello

  • Twelve-month-olds communicate helpfully and appropriately for knowledgeable and ignorant partners

    Ulf Liszkowski;Malinda Carpenter;Michael Tomasello

  • One-year-olds comprehend the communicative intentions behind gestures in a hiding game

    Tanya Behne;Malinda Carpenter;Michael Tomasello

  • Selective imitation of in-group over out-group members in 14-month-old infants.

    David Buttelmann;Norbert Zmyj;Moritz M. Daum;Malinda Carpenter

  • Interrelations among social-cognitive skills in young children with autism

    Malinda Carpenter;Bruce F. Pennington;Sally J. Rogers

  • The Role of Discourse Novelty in Early Word Learning

    Nameera Akhtar;Malinda Carpenter;Michael Tomasello

  • Putting the social into social learning: explaining both selectivity and fidelity in children's copying behavior

    Harriet Over;Malinda Carpenter

  • The emergence of social cognition in three young chimpanzees

    Michael Tomasello;Malinda Carpenter

  • Enculturated chimpanzees imitate rationally

    David Buttelmann;Malinda Carpenter;Josep Call;Michael Tomasello

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Tomasello
Michael Tomasello Duke University
Josep Call
Josep Call University of St Andrews
Harriet Over
Harriet Over University of York
Amrisha Vaish
Amrisha Vaish University of Virginia
Tricia Striano
Tricia Striano Hunter College
Bruce F. Pennington
Bruce F. Pennington University of Denver
Sally J. Rogers
Sally J. Rogers University of California, Davis
Mark Nielsen
Mark Nielsen University of Queensland
Nameera Akhtar
Nameera Akhtar University of California, Santa Cruz
Brian Hare
Brian Hare Duke University

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