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Overview

Markus Paulus is affiliated with Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in Germany and specializes in the field of Psychology, with a focus on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical Psychology, and Sociology and Political Science.

The scientist's research covers main topics such as Child and Animal Learning Development, Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment, Action Observation and Synchronization, Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, Social and Intergroup Psychology, Cultural Differences and Values, and Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior.

Paulus has frequently published in several academic venues, including:

  • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology (14 publications)
  • Cognitive Development (11 publications)
  • Developmental Science (6 publications)
  • European Journal of Developmental Psychology (5 publications)
  • Developmental Psychology (4 publications)

Collaboration is a notable aspect of Paulus's work, with frequent coauthors including Natalie Christner, Carolina Pletti, Samuel Essler, Marina Kammermeier, and Lena Söldner.

The scientist has contributed to a variety of recent papers. Notable works include:

  • "Children's psychological well-being and problem behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic: An online study during the lockdown period in Germany" (2021), published in PLoS ONE
  • "Emotion understanding and the moral self-concept as motivators of prosocial behavior in middle childhood" (2020), published in Cognitive Development
  • "Prevention for oneself or others? Psychological and social factors that explain social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic" (2020), published in Journal of Health Psychology
  • "Longitudinal Relations Between Parental Strain, Parent-Child Relationship Quality, and Child Well-Being During the Unfolding COVID-19 Pandemic" (2021), published in Child Psychiatry & Human Development
  • "Should infant psychology rely on the violation-of-expectation method? Not anymore" (2022), published in Infant and Child Development

In addition to journal articles, Paulus has published books, including a title with Frontiers Media:

  • The Mechanisms Underlying the Human Minimal Self (2022)

Best Publications

  • The Emergence of Prosocial Behavior: Why Do Infants and Toddlers Help, Comfort, and Share?

    Markus Paulus

  • Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed-speech preference

    Michael C. Frank;Katherine Jane Alcock;Natalia Arias-Trejo;Gisa Aschersleben

  • The development of recipient-dependent sharing behavior and sharing expectations in preschool children.

    Markus Paulus;Chris Moore

  • Imitation in infancy: Rational or motor resonance?

    Markus Paulus;Sabine Hunnius;Marlies Vissers;Harold Bekkering

  • Neural correlates of prosocial behavior in infancy: different neurophysiological mechanisms support the emergence of helping and comforting.

    Markus Paulus;Nina Kühn-Popp;Maria Licata;Beate Sodian

  • The early origins of human charity: developmental changes in preschoolers’ sharing with poor and wealthy individuals

    Markus Paulus

  • The multidimensional nature of early prosocial behavior: a motivational perspective

    Markus Paulus

  • How learning to shake a rattle affects 8-month-old infants' perception of the rattle's sound: Electrophysiological evidence for action-effect binding in infancy

    Markus Paulus;Sabine Hunnius;Michiel van Elk;Harold Bekkering

  • Social Understanding and Self-Regulation Predict Pre-Schoolers' Sharing with Friends and Disliked Peers: A Longitudinal Study.

    Markus Paulus;Maria Licata;Susanne Kristen;Claudia Thoermer

  • Children's psychological well-being and problem behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic: An online study during the lockdown period in Germany.

    Natalie Christner;Samuel Essler;Astrid Hazzam;Markus Paulus

  • Normative expectations about fairness: The development of a charity norm in preschoolers

    Monika Wörle;Markus Paulus

  • Understanding of Goals, Beliefs, and Desires Predicts Morally Relevant Theory of Mind: A Longitudinal Investigation.

    Beate Sodian;Maria Licata;Susanne Kristen-Antonow;Markus Paulus

  • Mother–infant Interaction Quality and Infants' Ability to Encode Actions as Goal‐directed

    Maria Licata;Markus Paulus;Claudia Thoermer;Susanne Kristen

  • Saving the robot or the human? Robots who feel deserve moral care.

    Sari R. R. Nijssen;Barbara C. N. Müller;Rick B. van Baaren;Markus Paulus

  • The role of frequency information and teleological reasoning in infants' and adults' action prediction.

    Markus Paulus;Sabine Hunnius;Carolien van Wijngaarden;Sven Vrins

  • Friendship trumps neediness: The impact of social relations and others’ wealth on preschool children’s sharing

    Markus Paulus

  • Examining implicit metacognition in 3.5-year-old children: an eye-tracking and pupillometric study.

    Markus Paulus;Joelle Proust;Beate Sodian

  • Bridging the gap between the other and me: the functional role of motor resonance and action effects in infants’ imitation

    Markus Paulus;Sabine Hunnius;Marlies Vissers;Harold Bekkering

  • Action mirroring and action understanding: an ideomotor and attentional account

    Markus Paulus

  • Children’s inequity aversion depends on culture: A cross-cultural comparison

    Markus Paulus

  • From Interest to Obligation: The Gradual Development of Human Altruism

    Audun Dahl;Markus Paulus

Frequent Co-Authors

Beate Sodian
Beate Sodian Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Harold Bekkering
Harold Bekkering Radboud University
Chris Moore
Chris Moore Dalhousie University
Sabine Hunnius
Sabine Hunnius Radboud University
Yee Lee Shing
Yee Lee Shing Goethe University Frankfurt
Amanda L. Woodward
Amanda L. Woodward University of Chicago
Shoji Itakura
Shoji Itakura Kyoto University
Michiel van Elk
Michiel van Elk Leiden University Medical Center
Atsushi Senju
Atsushi Senju Birkbeck, University of London
Simone Kühn
Simone Kühn Max Planck Institute for Human Development

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