Alessandra Geraci

1.6k total citations
40 papers, 905 citations indexed

About

Alessandra Geraci is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Alessandra Geraci has authored 40 papers receiving a total of 905 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 22 papers in Social Psychology and 14 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Alessandra Geraci's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (25 papers), Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (14 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (12 papers). Alessandra Geraci is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (25 papers), Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (14 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (12 papers). Alessandra Geraci collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and Brazil. Alessandra Geraci's co-authors include Luca Surian, Anna Cantagallo, Francesca Simion, Gergely Csibra, Denis Tatone, Laura Franchin, Michael Siegal, Marek Meristo, Gary Morgan and Erland Hjelmquist and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Communications, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Alessandra Geraci

36 papers receiving 864 citations

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Robert Hepach Germany

Susanne Kristen Germany

Norbert Zmyj Germany

Kristen A. Dunfield Canada

Francesca Bellagamba Italy

Stephanie Sloane United States

Bilge Selçuk Türkiye

Janet Kuebli United States

Jennifer G. Bohanek United States

Anna Fritz Canada

Robert Hepach Germany

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Countries citing papers authored by Alessandra Geraci

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20 of 20 papers shown

Geraci, Alessandra, et al.. (2025). Maternal Influence on Infants’ Head-Orienting Preferences for Unfair Distributors. The Journal of Genetic Psychology. 187(2). 110–122.

Geraci, Alessandra, et al.. (2025). A symmetry-based mechanism for perceptual grouping in preverbal infants. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 5035–5035. 1 indexed citations

Geraci, Alessandra, et al.. (2025). Human newborns spontaneously attend to prosocial interactions. Nature Communications. 16(1). 6304–6304. 2 indexed citations

Surian, Luca, Eugenio Parise, & Alessandra Geraci. (2025). Core Moral Concepts and the Sense of Fairness in Human Infants. Human Nature. 36(1). 121–142. 5 indexed citations

Geraci, Alessandra, et al.. (2024). Evaluations of aggressive chasing interactions by 7‐month‐old infants. Aggressive Behavior. 50(5). e22174–e22174. 3 indexed citations

Geraci, Alessandra, Laura Franchin, & Elena Commodari. (2024). Evaluations of pro-environmental behaviours in preschool age. European Journal of Developmental Psychology. 21(5). 770–794. 3 indexed citations

Geraci, Alessandra & Uberta Ganucci Cancellieri. (2024). Preschoolers' retrospective and prospective judgements of immanent justice following distributive actions. British Journal of Developmental Psychology. 42(2). 149–165. 3 indexed citations

Geraci, Alessandra, Elena Commodari, & Paola Perucchini. (2024). Early intergroup coalition: Toddlers attribute fair distributions to Black rather than White distributors. Social Development. 33(4). 5 indexed citations

Rosa, Valentina Lucia La, et al.. (2024). Affective Touch in Preterm Infant Development: Neurobiological Mechanisms and Implications for Child–Caregiver Attachment and Neonatal Care. Children. 11(11). 1407–1407. 13 indexed citations

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Sardella, Alberto, Alessandra Geraci, Vittorio Lenzo, et al.. (2023). Reflective functioning and dissociative experiences: A comparison study between adolescents at “high-risk” of psychosis and healthy controls . Health psychology research. 11(1). 1–1.

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Geraci, Alessandra, et al.. (2023). Sensitivity to the role of an animated agent from observed interactions in newborn chicks ( Gallus gallus ). Royal Society Open Science. 10(10). 210020–210020. 3 indexed citations

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Franchin, Laura, et al.. (2023). Smiling at moral misbehaviors: the effect of violation benignness and psychological distance. Motivation and Emotion. 47(5). 726–738. 2 indexed citations

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Geraci, Alessandra, et al.. (2023). Education to justice and infants' sense of fairness. Iris (Roma Tre University). 1. 2 indexed citations

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Geraci, Alessandra & Laura Franchin. (2021). Is Defensive Behavior a Subtype of Prosocial Behaviors?. Frontiers in Psychology. 12. 678370–678370. 21 indexed citations

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Geraci, Alessandra. (2021). Toddlers' expectations of corporal third-party punishments against the non-defender puppet. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 210. 105199–105199. 14 indexed citations

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Geraci, Alessandra. (2020). How do toddlers evaluate defensive actions toward third parties?. Infancy. 25(6). 910–926. 25 indexed citations

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Tatone, Denis, Alessandra Geraci, & Gergely Csibra. (2015). Giving and taking: Representational building blocks of active resource-transfer events in human infants. Cognition. 137. 47–62. 55 indexed citations

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Geraci, Alessandra, Maria Salvina Signorelli, & Eugenio Aguglia. (2012). Reading the mind: a comparative study of out- and inpatients. Giornale italiano di psicopatologia/Journal of psychopathology/Italian journal of psychopathology. 18. 247–250. 3 indexed citations

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Meristo, Marek, Gary Morgan, Alessandra Geraci, et al.. (2012). Belief attribution in deaf and hearing infants. Developmental Science. 15(5). 633–640. 51 indexed citations

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Siegal, Michael, et al.. (2010). Bilingualism Accentuates Children's Conversational Understanding. PLoS ONE. 5(2). e9004–e9004. 39 indexed citations

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