2026 Philip David Zelazo: Psychology Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Psychology	98	672	586	426	361	279	46828

Research.com Recognitions

2002 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)
1992 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Philip David Zelazo is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of psychology, social sciences, and medicine, with specific subfields including education, clinical psychology, experimental and cognitive psychology, psychiatry and mental health, and cognitive neuroscience.

The scientist's main topics of work include early childhood education and development, child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development, cognitive abilities and testing, infant development and preterm care, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, educational and psychological assessments, and the cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills.

Some of their recent notable papers are:

Executive Function and Psychopathology: A Neurodevelopmental Perspective (2020), published in Annual Review of Clinical Psychology
The neurodevelopment of executive function skills: Implications for academic achievement gaps (2020), published in Psychology & Neuroscience
Reconciling the Context-Dependency and Domain-Generality of Executive Function Skills from a Developmental Systems Perspective (2022), published in Journal of Cognition and Development
Executive function measures in early childhood screening: concurrent and predictive validity (2021), published in Early Childhood Research Quarterly
NIH Toolbox executive function measures with developmental extensions: Reliability and validity with preschoolers in emergency housing (2021), published in Child Neuropsychology

Frequent co-authors in their work include Stephanie M. Carlson, Sophie Parent, Jean R. Séguin, Natalie Castellanos-Ryan, and Destany Calma-Birling.

Philip David Zelazo has published multiple papers in venues such as Neurodiversity, Cognitive Development, Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, Psychology & Neuroscience, and Journal of Cognition and Development.

In addition to journal articles, they have contributed to book publications, including the title Developing Theories of Intention (2023), published by Psychology Press eBooks.

The scientist has been recognized with several honors, including Fellow of the American Psychological Association in 2002 and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1992.

Best Publications

Physical Aggression During Early Childhood: Trajectories and Predictors

Richard E. Tremblay;Daniel S. Nagin;Jean R. Seguin;M. Zoccolillo

3118
Citations
The Dimensional Change Card Sort (DCCS): a method of assessing executive function in children

Philip David Zelazo

1898
Citations
The Development of Executive Function in Early Childhood

Philip David Zelazo;Ulrich Müller;Douglas Frye;Stuart Marcovitch

1895
Citations
Hot and Cool Executive Function in Childhood and Adolescence: Development and Plasticity

Philip David Zelazo;Stephanie M. Carlson

1674
Citations
Theory of mind and rule-based reasoning

Douglas Frye;Philip David Zelazo;Tibor Palfai

1503
Citations
Cognition assessment using the NIH Toolbox

Sandra Weintraub;Sureyya S. Dikmen;Robert K. Heaton;David S. Tulsky

1442
Citations
Early development of executive function: A problem-solving framework.

Philip David Zelazo;Alice Carter;J. Steven Reznick;Douglas Frye

1193
Citations
An age-related dissociation between knowing rules and using them ☆

Philip David Zelazo;Douglas Frye;Tanja Rapus

1131
Citations
Executive Function in Typical and Atypical Development

Philip David Zelazo;Ulrich Müller

1080
Citations
Assessment of Hot and Cool Executive Function in Young Children: Age-Related Changes and Individual Differences

Donaya Hongwanishkul;Keith R. Happaney;Wendy S. C. Lee;Philip David Zelazo

1045
Citations
Executive function across the life span.

Philip David Zelazo;Fergus I.M Craik;Laura Booth

926
Citations
II. NIH Toolbox Cognition Battery (CB): measuring executive function and attention

Philip David Zelazo;Jacob E. Anderson;Jennifer Richler;Kathleen Wallner-Allen

911
Citations
Development of "hot" executive function: the children's gambling task.

Aurora Kerr;Philip David Zelazo

824
Citations
Mindfulness meditation and reduced emotional interference on a cognitive task

Catherine N. M. Ortner;Sachne J. Kilner;Philip David Zelazo;Philip David Zelazo

823
Citations
The development of conscious control in childhood.

Philip David Zelazo

770
Citations
Executive Function: Mechanisms Underlying Emotion Regulation.

Philip David Zelazo;William A. Cunningham

769
Citations
The development of executive function in early childhood: I. The development of executive function.

Philip David Zelazo;Ulrich Müller;Douglas Frye;Stuart Marcovitch

758
Citations
Attitudes and evaluations: a social cognitive neuroscience perspective

William A. Cunningham;Philip David Zelazo

732
Citations
Cognitive Complexity and Control II. The Development of Executive Function in Childhood

Philip David Zelazo;Douglas Frye

599
Citations
Development of Hot and Cool Executive Function during the Transition to Adolescence.

Angela Prencipe;Amanda Kesek;Julia Cohen;Connie Lamm

570
Citations
The Oxford Handbook of Developmental Psychology

Philip David Zelazo

216
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Ulrich Müller University of Victoria

Stuart Marcovitch University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Richard E. Tremblay University of Montreal

Elliot Turiel University of California, Berkeley

Stephanie M. Carlson University of Minnesota

Jean R. Séguin University of Montreal

Marc D. Lewis University of Toronto

Richard Gershon Northwestern University

David S. Tulsky University of Delaware

Jacob A. Burack McGill University

External Links

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