Amanda L. Woodward

13.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
107 papers, 8.1k citations indexed

About

Amanda L. Woodward is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Amanda L. Woodward has authored 107 papers receiving a total of 8.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 93 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 56 papers in Social Psychology and 35 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Amanda L. Woodward's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (88 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (37 papers) and Language Development and Disorders (18 papers). Amanda L. Woodward is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (88 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (37 papers) and Language Development and Disorders (18 papers). Amanda L. Woodward collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Germany. Amanda L. Woodward's co-authors include Jessica A. Sommerville, Amrisha Vaish, Tobias Großmann, Amy Needham, Zoe Liberman, Sarah A. Gerson, Katherine D. Kinzler, Erin N. Cannon, Annette M. E. Henderson and Ellen M. Markman and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Psychological Bulletin and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Amanda L. Woodward

104 papers receiving 7.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Infants selectively encode the goal object of an actor's reach

1998 1.2k citations Amanda L. Woodward Cognition profile →
Not all emotions are created equal: The negativity bias in social-emotional development.

2008 747 citations Amrisha Vaish, Tobias Großmann et al. Psychological Bulletin profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Amanda L. Woodward United States	46	6.1k	3.9k	2.9k	1.2k	793	107	8.1k
Renée Baillargeon United States	57	7.9k 1.3×	3.5k 0.9×	3.8k 1.3×	1.4k 1.2×	843 1.1×	118	9.9k
Dare A. Baldwin United States	36	5.1k 0.8×	1.9k 0.5×	2.3k 0.8×	1.0k 0.9×	572 0.7×	76	7.1k
Chris Moore Canada	48	5.5k 0.9×	2.7k 0.7×	3.5k 1.2×	1.3k 1.1×	913 1.2×	139	8.7k
Ted Ruffman New Zealand	47	4.1k 0.7×	2.7k 0.7×	3.1k 1.1×	1.5k 1.3×	522 0.7×	124	8.0k
Ian A. Apperly United Kingdom	47	4.1k 0.7×	3.2k 0.8×	3.8k 1.3×	1.7k 1.4×	640 0.8×	122	7.6k
Janet Wilde Astington Canada	32	6.0k 1.0×	2.3k 0.6×	2.5k 0.9×	1.2k 1.1×	470 0.6×	63	7.7k
Philippe Rochat United States	47	3.3k 0.5×	2.7k 0.7×	2.4k 0.8×	781 0.7×	607 0.8×	124	6.0k
Louis J. Moses United States	31	4.2k 0.7×	2.1k 0.6×	2.5k 0.9×	1.3k 1.1×	759 1.0×	41	6.9k
Candida C. Peterson Australia	48	4.2k 0.7×	2.2k 0.6×	2.3k 0.8×	877 0.8×	779 1.0×	149	6.8k
Felix Warneken United States	42	3.8k 0.6×	3.8k 1.0×	2.2k 0.8×	1.3k 1.2×	2.4k 3.0×	89	7.2k

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Meyer, Marlene, et al.. (2023). Children's social network size is related to their perspective-taking skills. Radboud Repository (Radboud University). 1.

Pan, Sarah, et al.. (2023). Toddlers’ action learning and memory from active and observed instructions. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 232. 105670–105670. 2 indexed citations

Meyer, Marlene, et al.. (2021). Three-year-olds’ Perspective-taking in Social Interactions: Relations with Socio-cognitive Skills. Journal of Cognition and Development. 22(4). 537–560. 10 indexed citations

Debnath, Ranjan, et al.. (2020). Neighborhood racial demographics predict infants’ neural responses to people of different races. Developmental Science. 24(4). e13070–e13070. 20 indexed citations

Howard, Lauren H. & Amanda L. Woodward. (2019). Human Actions Support Infant Memory. Journal of Cognition and Development. 20(5). 772–789. 9 indexed citations

Howard, Christina J., et al.. (2019). Visual spatial attention and spatial working memory do not draw on shared capacity-limited core processes. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 73(5). 799–818. 6 indexed citations

Rissman, Lilia, Susan Goldin‐Meadow, & Amanda L. Woodward. (2018). From visual prominence to event construal: influences (and non-influences) of eyegaze. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 2334–2339. 1 indexed citations

Shneidman, Laura & Amanda L. Woodward. (2015). Are child-directed interactions the cradle of social learning?. Psychological Bulletin. 142(1). 1–17. 62 indexed citations

Vaish, Amrisha, Tobias Großmann, & Amanda L. Woodward. (2015). Person‐centred positive emotions, object‐centred negative emotions: 2‐year‐olds generalize negative but not positive emotions across individuals. British Journal of Developmental Psychology. 33(3). 391–397. 4 indexed citations

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Krogh‐Jespersen, Sheila, Zoe Liberman, & Amanda L. Woodward. (2015). Think fast! The relationship between goal prediction speed and social competence in infants. Developmental Science. 18(5). 815–823. 26 indexed citations

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Henderson, Annette M. E. & Amanda L. Woodward. (2012). Nine‐month‐old infants generalize object labels, but not object preferences across individuals. Developmental Science. 15(5). 641–652. 53 indexed citations

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Koenig, Melissa A. & Amanda L. Woodward. (2010). Sensitivity of 24-month-olds to the prior inaccuracy of the source: Possible mechanisms.. Developmental Psychology. 46(4). 815–826. 118 indexed citations

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Rakison, David H. & Amanda L. Woodward. (2008). New perspectives on the effects of action on perceptual and cognitive development.. Developmental Psychology. 44(5). 1209–1213. 50 indexed citations

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Hamlin, J. Kiley, Elizabeth V. Hallinan, & Amanda L. Woodward. (2008). Do as I do: 7‐month‐old infants selectively reproduce others’ goals. Developmental Science. 11(4). 487–494. 104 indexed citations

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Woodward, Amanda L., et al.. (2006). Infants track action goals within and across agents. Cognition. 104(2). 287–314. 134 indexed citations

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Vaish, Amrisha & Amanda L. Woodward. (2005). Baby steps on the path to understanding intentions. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 28(5). 717–718. 8 indexed citations

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Sommerville, Jessica A. & Amanda L. Woodward. (2004). Pulling out the intentional structure of action: the relation between action processing and action production in infancy. Cognition. 95(1). 1–30. 263 indexed citations

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Regier, Terry, et al.. (2001). The Emergence of Words. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 23(23). 11 indexed citations

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Spelke, Elizabeth S., Ann Phillips, & Amanda L. Woodward. (1996). Infants’ knowledge of object motion and human action. Oxford University Press eBooks. 44–78. 270 indexed citations

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Jusczyk, Peter W., et al.. (1992). Perception of acoustic correlates of major phrasal units by young infants. Cognitive Psychology. 24(2). 252–293. 265 indexed citations

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