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Citations
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10961
National Ranking
1073

Overview

Sarah R. Beck is affiliated with the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Psychology, with a concentration on several subfields including Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Applied Psychology, Social Psychology, and General Decision Sciences.

Their work frequently appears in various academic venues, with multiple publications in the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. Other notable publication venues include Diabetes Care, Scientific Reports, British Journal of Health Psychology, and Routledge Open Research.

Key research topics explored by Sarah R. Beck cover a diverse array of areas:

  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Behavioral Health and Interventions
  • Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
  • Behavioral and Psychological Studies
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology

Their recent publications include:

  • "Regret and Decision-Making: A Developmental Perspective," 2020, published in Current Directions in Psychological Science
  • "Voice in an asymmetric federation? The U.S. territories as intergovernmental actors," 2022, published in Regional & Federal Studies
  • "Routine Islet Autoantibody Testing in Clinically Diagnosed Adult-Onset Type 1 Diabetes Can Help Identify Misclassification and the Possibility of Successful Insulin Cessation," 2022, published in Diabetes Care
  • "Age of Diagnosis Does Not Alter the Presentation or Progression of Robustly Defined Adult-Onset Type 1 Diabetes," 2023, published in Diabetes Care
  • "Relief in everyday life," 2022, published in Emotion

Sarah R. Beck has collaborated extensively with several frequent co-authors. These include Teresa McCormack and Aidan Feeney, each with twelve joint publications, Sara Lorimer and Christoph Hoerl, each with eight, and Matthew Johnston with eight as well.

Best Publications

  • Children's Thinking About Counterfactuals and Future Hypotheticals as Possibilities

    Sarah R. Beck;Elizabeth J. Robinson;Daniel J. Carroll;Ian A. Apperly

  • Making tools isn’t child’s play

    Sarah R. Beck;Ian A. Apperly;Jackie Chappell;Carlie Guthrie

  • Lay public's understanding of equipoise and randomisation in randomised controlled trials

    Elizabeth Robinson;CE Kerr;Andrew Stevens;Richard Lilford

  • What is difficult about counterfactual reasoning

    Elizabeth J. Robinson;Sarah Beck

  • Reducing Intergroup Bias: The Moderating Role of Ingroup Identification

    Richard J. Crisp;Sarah R. Beck

  • Relating developments in children's counterfactual thinking and executive functions

    Sarah R. Beck;Kevin J. Riggs;Sarah L. Gorniak

  • Children's thinking about their own and others' regret and relief.

    Daniel P. Weisberg;Sarah R. Beck

  • Refining the understanding of inhibitory processes: how response prepotency is created and overcome

    Andrew Simpson;Kevin J. Riggs;Sarah R. Beck;Sarah L. Gorniak

  • The puzzling difficulty of tool innovation: Why can’t children piece their knowledge together?

    Nicola Cutting;Ian A. Apperly;Jackie Chappell;Sarah R. Beck

  • Individual differences in children's innovative problem-solving are not predicted by divergent thinking or executive functions.

    Sarah R. Beck;Clare Williams;Nicola Cutting;Ian A. Apperly

  • Why do children lack the flexibility to innovate tools

    Nicola Cutting;Ian A. Apperly;Sarah R. Beck

  • The development of children's regret and relief

    Daniel P. Weisberg;Sarah R. Beck

  • The development of tool manufacture in humans: what helps young children make innovative tools?

    Jackie Chappell;Nicola Cutting;Ian A. Apperly;Sarah R. Beck

  • Children's sensitivity to their own relative ignorance: handling of possibilities under epistemic and physical uncertainty.

    Elizabeth J. Robinson;Martin G. Rowley;Sarah R. Beck;Daniel J. Carroll

  • Developing Thoughts About What Might Have Been

    Sarah R. Beck;Kevin John Riggs

  • Young children copy cumulative technological design in the absence of action information.

    Eva Reindl;Ian Apperly;Sarah Beck;Claudio Tennie;Claudio Tennie

  • Almost Thinking Counterfactually: Children’s Understanding of Close Counterfactuals

    Sarah R. Beck;Carlie Guthrie

  • Executive control and the experience of regret

    Patrick Burns;Kevin J. Riggs;Sarah R. Beck

  • Understanding Counterfactuals, Understanding Causation: Issues in Philosophy and Psychology

    Christoph Hoerl;Teresa McCormack;Sarah R. Beck

  • Understanding Counterfactuals, Understanding CausationIssues in Philosophy and Psychology

    Christoph Hoerl;Teresa McCormack;Sarah R. Beck

  • Tool innovation may be a critical limiting step for the establishment of a rich tool-using culture: a perspective from child development.

    Sarah R. Beck;Jackie Chappell;Ian A. Apperly;Nicola Cutting

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian A. Apperly
Ian A. Apperly University of Birmingham
Teresa McCormack
Teresa McCormack Queen's University Belfast
Elizabeth J. Robinson
Elizabeth J. Robinson University of Warwick
Chris Oliver
Chris Oliver University of Birmingham
Joanna Moss
Joanna Moss University of Surrey
Danielle Ropar
Danielle Ropar University of Nottingham
Adele Diamond
Adele Diamond University of British Columbia
Richard J. Crisp
Richard J. Crisp Durham University
Sylvie Droit-Volet
Sylvie Droit-Volet University of Clermont Auvergne

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