Amrisha Vaish

6.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
70 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Amrisha Vaish is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Amrisha Vaish has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Social Psychology, 37 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 24 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Amrisha Vaish's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (36 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (18 papers) and Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (13 papers). Amrisha Vaish is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (36 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (18 papers) and Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (13 papers). Amrisha Vaish collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Amrisha Vaish's co-authors include Michael Tomasello, Tobias Großmann, Amanda L. Woodward, Malinda Carpenter, Robert Hepach, Tricia Striano, Manuela Missana, Janine Oostenbroek, Keith Jensen and Marco F. H. Schmidt and has published in prestigious journals such as Psychological Bulletin, PLoS ONE and Child Development.

In The Last Decade

Amrisha Vaish

66 papers receiving 3.4k 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.

Not all emotions are created equal: The negativity bias in social-emotional development.

2008 747 citations Amrisha Vaish, Tobias Großmann et al. profile →
Origins of Human Cooperation and Morality

2012 440 citations Michael Tomasello, Amrisha Vaish profile →

Peers

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J. Kiley Hamlin Canada

Markus Paulus Germany

Jessica A. Sommerville United States

Luca Surian Italy

Hannes Rakoczy Germany

Emma Flynn United Kingdom

Charlie Lewis United Kingdom

Cristine H. Legare United States

Linda J. Levine United States

Robin Banerjee United Kingdom

J. Kiley Hamlin Canada

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Fields of papers citing papers by Amrisha Vaish

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Amrisha Vaish

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Stern, Jessica, Meltem Yucel, Tobias Großmann, & Amrisha Vaish. (2025). Environmental Moral Cognition in Children and Adults. Journal of Cognition and Development. 27(1). 46–66.

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Vaish, Amrisha, et al.. (2024). Putting the Honor Back in Academic Honor Systems. Journal of Academic Ethics. 23(3). 441–461.

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Thomas, Sarah, Caroline Kelsey, & Amrisha Vaish. (2024). No one is going to recess: How children evaluate collective and targeted punishment. Social Development. 33(2). 1 indexed citations

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Vaish, Amrisha & Tobias Großmann. (2024). How sharp is the compassion–sympathy distinction?. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 28(12). 1051–1052.

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Kelsey, Caroline, et al.. (2023). Cheat to win: Children’s judgements of advantageous vs. disadvantageous rule breaking. Cognitive Development. 66. 101328–101328. 8 indexed citations

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Vaish, Amrisha, et al.. (2022). Young children value recipients who display gratitude.. Developmental Psychology. 58(4). 680–692. 16 indexed citations

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Yucel, Meltem, et al.. (2022). Young children do not perceive distributional fairness as a moral norm.. Developmental Psychology. 58(6). 1103–1113. 8 indexed citations

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Kelsey, Caroline, et al.. (2022). Beyond accidents: Young children’s forgiveness of third-party intentional transgressors. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 228. 105607–105607. 7 indexed citations

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Yucel, Meltem, Robert Hepach, & Amrisha Vaish. (2020). Young Children and Adults Show Differential Arousal to Moral and Conventional Transgressions. Frontiers in Psychology. 11. 548–548. 17 indexed citations

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Vaish, Amrisha. (2019). Something old, something new: Leveraging what we know to optimize new directions in emotion development research.. Developmental Psychology. 55(9). 1998–2001. 2 indexed citations

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Kelsey, Caroline, Tobias Großmann, & Amrisha Vaish. (2018). Early Reputation Management: Three-Year-Old Children Are More Generous Following Exposure to Eyes. Frontiers in Psychology. 9. 698–698. 17 indexed citations

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Vaish, Amrisha. (2017). The prosocial functions of early social emotions: the case of guilt. Current Opinion in Psychology. 20. 25–29. 49 indexed citations

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Vaish, Amrisha. (2016). Flexible Concern: The Development of Multidetermined and Context-Dependent Empathic Responding. Child Development Perspectives. 10(3). 149–154. 16 indexed citations

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Hepach, Robert, Amrisha Vaish, & Michael Tomasello. (2016). The fulfillment of others’ needs elevates children’s body posture.. Developmental Psychology. 53(1). 100–113. 25 indexed citations

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Hepach, Robert, Amrisha Vaish, & Michael Tomasello. (2015). Novel paradigms to measure variability of behavior in early childhood: posture, gaze, and pupil dilation. Frontiers in Psychology. 6. 858–858. 37 indexed citations

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Jensen, Keith, Amrisha Vaish, & Marco F. H. Schmidt. (2014). The emergence of human prosociality: aligning with others through feelings, concerns, and norms. Frontiers in Psychology. 5. 822–822. 76 indexed citations

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Liebal, Katja, Amrisha Vaish, Daniel B. M. Haun, & Michael Tomasello. (2014). Does Sympathy Motivate Prosocial Behaviour in Great Apes?. PLoS ONE. 9(1). e84299–e84299. 32 indexed citations

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Vaish, Amrisha, Manuela Missana, & Michael Tomasello. (2010). Three‐year‐old children intervene in third‐party moral transgressions. British Journal of Developmental Psychology. 29(1). 124–130. 185 indexed citations

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Großmann, Tobias, Mark H. Johnson, Amrisha Vaish, et al.. (2010). Genetic and neural dissociation of individual responses to emotional expressions in human infants. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 1(1). 57–66. 39 indexed citations

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Lillard, Angeline S., Tracy K. Nishida, Davide Massaro, et al.. (2007). Signs of Pretense Across Age and Scenario. Infancy. 11(1). 1–30. 35 indexed citations

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