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Psychology D-index 92 Citations 33,868 287 World Ranking 480 National Ranking 317

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Awards & Achievements

2012 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences

2011 - Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA)

2008 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

1996 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

What is she best known for?

The fields of study she is best known for:

  • Linguistics
  • Cognition
  • Epistemology

Susan A. Gelman mainly focuses on Cognitive development, Cognition, Developmental psychology, Concept learning and Cognitive psychology. The concepts of her Cognitive development study are interwoven with issues in Social psychology, Object, Language development and Categorization. The various areas that Susan A. Gelman examines in her Cognition study include Attribution, Cognitive science, Perception and Comprehension.

Her studies in Developmental psychology integrate themes in fields like Semantics, Noun and Inference. Her research integrates issues of Race, Vocabulary, Focus and Essentialism in her study of Concept learning. Susan A. Gelman has included themes like Verbal learning and Social cognition in her Cognitive psychology study.

Her most cited work include:

  • Mapping the Mind: Domain Specificity In Cognition And Culture (1357 citations)
  • The Essential Child: Origins of Essentialism in Everyday Thought (959 citations)
  • Categories and induction in young children (885 citations)

What are the main themes of her work throughout her whole career to date?

Her main research concerns Developmental psychology, Cognitive development, Cognition, Social psychology and Cognitive psychology. She focuses mostly in the field of Developmental psychology, narrowing it down to topics relating to Categorization and, in certain cases, Similarity. Her Cognitive development research incorporates elements of Concept learning, Property and Age differences.

Her Cognition research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Causality, Perception, Comprehension, Cognitive science and Object. Her study looks at the relationship between Social psychology and fields such as Social cognition, as well as how they intersect with chemical problems. Her Cognitive psychology study which covers Noun that intersects with Language acquisition.

She most often published in these fields:

  • Developmental psychology (39.71%)
  • Cognitive development (28.70%)
  • Cognition (27.54%)

What were the highlights of her more recent work (between 2016-2021)?

  • Social psychology (26.38%)
  • Developmental psychology (39.71%)
  • Essentialism (16.23%)

In recent papers she was focusing on the following fields of study:

Her scientific interests lie mostly in Social psychology, Developmental psychology, Essentialism, Social cognition and Cognitive development. Her Social psychology study incorporates themes from Context, Perception and Normative. Her Developmental psychology research incorporates themes from Conformity, Categorization and Social perception.

Her work deals with themes such as Cognitive science, Emotional expression and Morality, which intersect with Social cognition. Her Cognitive development research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Negativity bias, Positive economics, Non-human, Sensory cue and Property. The Epistemology study combines topics in areas such as Concept learning and Consumer behaviour.

Between 2016 and 2021, her most popular works were:

  • So It Is, So It Shall Be: Group Regularities License Children's Prescriptive Judgments (42 citations)
  • How language shapes the cultural inheritance of categories (37 citations)
  • Who's the Boss? Concepts of Social Power Across Development. (35 citations)

In her most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Linguistics
  • Cognition
  • Social psychology

Social psychology, Developmental psychology, Cognitive psychology, Essentialism and Conformity are her primary areas of study. Her biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Context, Perception, Social cognition and Normative. Her Perception research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Social learning, Social cognitive theory and Cognition.

Susan A. Gelman has researched Developmental psychology in several fields, including Social power, Power and Pictorial stimuli. Her research in Cognitive psychology intersects with topics in Construal level theory, English language, Self and Self-control. Her biological study deals with issues like Stability, which deal with fields such as Epistemology.

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Best Publications

The Essential Child: Origins of Essentialism in Everyday Thought

Susan A. Gelman.
(2003)

2235 Citations

Mapping the Mind: Domain Specificity In Cognition And Culture

Lawrence A. Hirschfeld;Susan A. Gelman.
(1994)

2118 Citations

Categories and induction in young children

Susan A. Gelman;Ellen M. Markman.
Cognition (1986)

1558 Citations

Cognitive development: Foundational theories of core domains

Henry M. Wellman;Susan A. Gelman.
Annual Review of Psychology (1992)

1404 Citations

Insides and essences: Early understandings of the non-obvious

Susan A. Gelman;Henry M. Wellman.
Cognition (1991)

1205 Citations

Knowledge acquisition in foundational domains.

Henry M. Wellman;Susan A. Gelman.
(1998)

945 Citations

The development of induction within natural kind and artifact categories.

Susan A Gelman.
Cognitive Psychology (1988)

774 Citations

Young children's inductions from natural kinds: the role of categories and appearances.

Susan A. Gelman;Ellen M. Markman.
Child Development (1987)

720 Citations

The role of covariation versus mechanism information in causal attribution

Woo kyoung Ahn;Charles W. Kalish;Douglas L. Medin;Susan A. Gelman.
Cognition (1995)

581 Citations

The importance of knowing a dodo is a bird : categories and inferences in 2-year-old children

Susan A. Gelman;John D. Coley.
Developmental Psychology (1990)

534 Citations

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