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Overview

Ted Ruffman is affiliated with the University of Otago in New Zealand and has contributed extensively to research primarily in psychology and social sciences. Their scholarly output includes work published in prominent venues and collaborations with various researchers in related fields.

Their research covers several main fields of study:

  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences

Within these broader fields, Ted Ruffman's work is focused on key subfields such as:

  • Social Psychology
  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology

The main research topics addressed by Ted Ruffman include:

  • Social and Intergroup Psychology
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Aging and Gerontology Research
  • Face Recognition and Perception
  • Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior

Ted Ruffman has co-authored frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Damian Scarf
  • Kangning Du
  • John Hunter
  • Qiuyi Kong
  • Virginia Slaughter

Their research has appeared in multiple scientific journals, with several publications in:

  • Scientific Reports
  • PLoS ONE
  • Infant and Child Development
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

Notable recent papers by Ted Ruffman include:

  • "Belief it or not: How children construct a theory of mind," 2023, Child Development Perspectives
  • "General cognitive decline does not account for older adults' worse emotion recognition and theory of mind," 2022, Scientific Reports
  • "RWAc and SDOc: The measurement of right-wing authoritarianism and social dominance orientation in childhood," 2020, Social Development

Other relevant papers contributing to the broader field but with other lead authors include:

  • "Music Making and Neuropsychological Aging: A Review," 2020, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
  • "A meta-analytic review on the social-emotional intelligence correlates of the six bullying roles: Bullies, followers, victims, bully-victims, defenders, and outsiders," 2022, Psychological Bulletin

Best Publications

  • The relation between children's and mothers' mental state language and theory-of-mind understanding.

    Ted Ruffman;Lance Slade;Elena Crowe

  • Theory of mind is contagious - you catch it from your sibs

    Josef Perner;Ted Ruffman;Susan R. Leekam

  • A meta-analytic review of emotion recognition and aging: Implications for neuropsychological models of aging

    Ted Ruffman;Julie D. Henry;Vicki Livingstone;Louise H. Phillips

  • Older (but not younger) siblings facilitate false belief understanding.

    Ted Ruffman;Josef Perner;Mika Naito;Lindsay Parkin

  • Infants' Insight into the Mind: How Deep?

    Josef Perner;Ted Ruffman

  • Mother and infant talk about mental states relates to desire language and emotion understanding.

    Mele Taumoepeau;Ted Ruffman

  • Stepping Stones to Others’ Minds: Maternal Talk Relates to Child Mental State Language and Emotion Understanding at 15, 24, and 33 Months

    Mele Taumoepeau;Ted Ruffman

  • A meta-analytic review of age differences in theory of mind

    Julie D. Henry;Louise H. Phillips;Ted Ruffman;Phoebe E. Bailey

  • Theory of mind and prosocial behavior in childhood: A meta-analytic review.

    Kana Imuta;Julie D. Henry;Virginia Slaughter;Bilge Selcuk

  • How Parenting Style Affects False Belief Understanding

    Ted Ruffman;Josef Perner;Lindsay Parkin

  • EMOTION RECOGNITION DEFICITS IN THE ELDERLY

    Susan Sullivan;Ted Ruffman

  • How language relates to belief, desire, and emotion understanding

    Ted Ruffman;Ted Ruffman;Lance Slade;Kate Rowlandson;Charlotte Rumsey

  • How language does (and does not) relate to theory of mind: A longitudinal study of syntax, semantics, working memory and false belief

    Lance Slade;Lance Slade;Ted Ruffman;Ted Ruffman

  • Does Eye Gaze Indicate Implicit Knowledge of False Belief? Charting Transitions in Knowledge

    Ted Ruffman;Wendy Garnham;Arlina Import;Dan Connolly

  • Social understanding: how does it fare with advancing years?

    Susan Sullivan;Ted Ruffman;Ted Ruffman

  • Age Differences in Emotion Recognition Skills and the Visual Scanning of Emotion Faces

    Susan Sullivan;Ted Ruffman;Samuel B Hutton

  • What mothers say and what they do: The relation between parenting, theory of mind, language and conflict/cooperation

    Ted Ruffman;Ted Ruffman;Lance Slade;Kerry Devitt;Elena Crowe

  • Is there a Gender Difference in False Belief Development

    Tony Charman;Ted Ruffman;Wendy Clements

  • Iodine supplementation improves cognition in mildly iodine-deficient children

    Rosie C Gordon;Meredith C Rose;Sheila A Skeaff;Andrew R Gray

  • To belief or not belief: Children’s theory of mind

    Ted Ruffman

  • Reflecting on Scientific Thinking: Children's Understanding of the Hypothesis-Evidence Relation

    Ted Ruffman;Josef Perner;David R. Olson;Martin Doherty

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter G. Rendell
Peter G. Rendell University of Queensland
Julie D. Henry
Julie D. Henry University of Queensland
Jamin Halberstadt
Jamin Halberstadt University of Otago
Josef Perner
Josef Perner University of Salzburg
Kerry S. O'Brien
Kerry S. O'Brien Monash University
Louise H. Phillips
Louise H. Phillips University of Aberdeen
Virginia Slaughter
Virginia Slaughter University of Queensland
David R. Olson
David R. Olson University of Toronto
Samuel B. Hutton
Samuel B. Hutton University of Sussex
Henry Brodaty
Henry Brodaty University of New South Wales

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