Andrei Cimpian

8.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
108 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Andrei Cimpian is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Andrei Cimpian has authored 108 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 37 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 31 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Andrei Cimpian's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (36 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (27 papers) and Education, Achievement, and Giftedness (23 papers). Andrei Cimpian is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (36 papers), Social and Intergroup Psychology (27 papers) and Education, Achievement, and Giftedness (23 papers). Andrei Cimpian collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and France. Andrei Cimpian's co-authors include Sarah‐Jane Leslie, Meredith Meyer, Lin Bian, Edward P. Freeland, Ellen M. Markman, Erika Salomon, Carol S. Dweck, Susan A. Gelman, Amanda C. Brandone and Daniel Storage and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Andrei Cimpian

105 papers receiving 4.8k 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.

Expectations of brilliance underlie gender distributions across academic disciplines

2015 939 citations Sarah‐Jane Leslie, Andrei Cimpian et al. profile →
Gender stereotypes about intellectual ability emerge early and influence children’s interests

2017 691 citations Sarah‐Jane Leslie, Andrei Cimpian et al. profile →
Teacher Mindsets Help Explain Where a Growth-Mindset Intervention Does and Doesn’t Work

2021 157 citations Andrei Cimpian, Carol S. Dweck et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Andrei Cimpian United States	34	1.5k	1.4k	1.4k	1.4k	1.3k	108	5.0k
Sarah‐Jane Leslie United States	26	1.1k 0.7×	809 0.6×	826 0.6×	903 0.7×	1.0k 0.8×	50	3.9k
Catherine Good United States	11	1.9k 1.2×	1.4k 1.0×	1.7k 1.2×	525 0.4×	1.4k 1.0×	15	4.4k
Joshua Aronson United States	30	2.0k 1.3×	1.7k 1.2×	2.3k 1.7×	591 0.4×	2.6k 2.0×	50	6.4k
Campbell Leaper United States	42	862 0.6×	1.9k 1.4×	1.4k 1.0×	708 0.5×	1.5k 1.2×	90	5.4k
Rebecca S. Bigler United States	41	761 0.5×	2.2k 1.6×	1.9k 1.4×	800 0.6×	3.6k 2.8×	95	6.9k
Gail D. Heyman United States	41	1.1k 0.7×	1.1k 0.8×	2.0k 1.5×	2.2k 1.6×	1.6k 1.3×	158	4.8k
Lee Jussim United States	35	1.0k 0.7×	1.7k 1.3×	2.1k 1.5×	492 0.4×	2.7k 2.1×	98	6.0k
Sapna Cheryan United States	28	1.2k 0.8×	1.4k 1.0×	1.3k 0.9×	686 0.5×	2.4k 1.8×	52	6.3k
Harriet R. Tenenbaum United Kingdom	25	598 0.4×	2.3k 1.7×	941 0.7×	956 0.7×	768 0.6×	84	4.1k
K. Ann Renninger United States	29	2.7k 1.8×	3.5k 2.5×	1.9k 1.4×	2.6k 1.9×	705 0.5×	86	7.3k

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Leshin, Rachel, et al.. (2025). What predicts girls’ and boys’ political ambition? Evidence from the United States and China.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 155(1). 27–43.

Darnon, Céline, et al.. (2025). Why the belief in meritocracy is so pervasive. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 29(2). 101–104. 1 indexed citations

McAuliffe, Katherine, et al.. (2025). Unraveling the gender gap in negotiation: How children’s perceptions of negotiation and of themselves relate to their bargaining outcomes.. Developmental Psychology. 61(3). 604–622. 1 indexed citations

Block, Katharina, et al.. (2025). Who cares about caring? Gender stereotypes about communal values emerge early and predict boys’ prosocial preferences.. Developmental Psychology. 61(3). 594–603. 3 indexed citations

Muradoglu, Melis, Bethany Lassetter, Madison N. Sewell, et al.. (2025). The structure and motivational significance of early beliefs about ability.. Developmental Psychology. 62(3). 583–596. 3 indexed citations

Cimpian, Andrei, et al.. (2024). In the United States, children are more likely than adults to condone discrimination. Cognitive Psychology. 156. 101703–101703. 1 indexed citations

Porter, Tenelle, Mark R. Leary, & Andrei Cimpian. (2024). Teachers’ intellectual humility benefits adolescents’ interest and learning.. Developmental Psychology. 62(2). 424–441. 4 indexed citations

Gaither, Sarah E., et al.. (2024). Adolescent boys’ aggressive responses to perceived threats to their gender typicality. Developmental Science. 27(6). e13544–e13544. 4 indexed citations

Muradoglu, Melis, et al.. (2024). Why a culture of brilliance is bad for physics. Nature Reviews Physics. 6(2). 75–77. 2 indexed citations

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Goudeau, Sébastien, et al.. (2024). The inherence bias in preschoolers’ explanations for achievement differences: replication and extension. npj Science of Learning. 9(1). 10–10. 3 indexed citations

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Barger, Michael M., et al.. (2024). Does inducing growth-oriented mindsets about math ability in parents enhance children’s math mindsets, affect, and achievement?. Developmental Psychology. 60(12). 2396–2408. 6 indexed citations

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Heyder, Anke, Ricarda Steinmayr, & Andrei Cimpian. (2023). Reflecting on their mission increases preservice teachers’ growth mindsets. Learning and Instruction. 86. 101770–101770. 6 indexed citations

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Gladstone, Jessica R., et al.. (2023). What makes a role model motivating for young girls? The effects of the role model’s growth versus fixed mindsets about ability and interest. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 238. 105775–105775. 2 indexed citations

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Hannák, Anikó, Kenneth Joseph, Daniel B. Larremore, & Andrei Cimpian. (2023). Field-specific ability beliefs as an explanation for gender differences in academics’ career trajectories: Evidence from public profiles on ORCID.Org.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 125(4). 681–698. 16 indexed citations

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Muradoglu, Melis, et al.. (2022). Formal explanations shape children’s representations of animal kinds and social groups.. Developmental Psychology. 58(12). 2322–2335. 2 indexed citations

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Valtonen, Jussi, Woo‐kyoung Ahn, & Andrei Cimpian. (2021). Neurodualism: People Assume that the Brain Affects the Mind more than the Mind Affects the Brain. Cognitive Science. 45(9). e13034–e13034. 10 indexed citations

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Zemla, Jeffrey C., et al.. (2021). Inherence bias in explanation increases with age and cognitive impairment. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 43(43). 1 indexed citations

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Cimpian, Andrei, et al.. (2018). How Do We Encourage Gifted Girls to Pursue and Succeed in Science and Engineering?. Gifted Child Today. 41(4). 196–207. 41 indexed citations

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Cimpian, Andrei. (2016). The Privileged Status of Category Representations in Early Development. Child Development Perspectives. 10(2). 99–104. 12 indexed citations

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Brandone, Amanda C., Andrei Cimpian, Sarah‐Jane Leslie, & Susan A. Gelman. (2012). Do Lions have Manes? For Children, Generics are about Kinds, not Quantities. Child Development. 83. 2 indexed citations

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