Beate Sodian

8.5k total citations
164 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Beate Sodian is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Beate Sodian has authored 164 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 124 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 62 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 45 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Beate Sodian's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (108 papers), Educational Strategies and Epistemologies (30 papers) and Science Education and Pedagogy (18 papers). Beate Sodian is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (108 papers), Educational Strategies and Epistemologies (30 papers) and Science Education and Pedagogy (18 papers). Beate Sodian collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and France. Beate Sodian's co-authors include Claudia Thoermer, Susanne Kristen, Gertrud Nunner‐Winkler, Markus Paulus, Susanne Koerber, Jörg Meinhardt, Wolfgang Schneider, Uta Frith, Tobias Schuwerk and Monika Sommer and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Beate Sodian

158 papers receiving 5.0k citations

Peers

Beate Sodian
David Cross United States
Louis J. Moses United States
Michael Siegal United Kingdom
Ted Ruffman New Zealand
Candida C. Peterson Australia
Dare A. Baldwin United States
Janet Wilde Astington Canada
Tricia Striano Germany
David F. Bjorklund United States
Maggie Moore United States
David Cross United States
Beate Sodian
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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Beate Sodian

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All Works

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Li, Shuting, Barbara C. N. Müller, Jörg Meinhardt, & Beate Sodian. (2025). Resting-state EEG alpha asymmetry predicts false belief understanding during early childhood: An exploratory longitudinal study. Brain Research. 1853. 149523–149523.
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Kloo, Daniela, et al.. (2024). Early perspective taking predicts later cognitive flexibility: A longitudinal study. Infant and Child Development. 33(6).
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Schuwerk, Tobias & Beate Sodian. (2023). Differences in self‐other control as cognitive mechanism to characterize theory of mind reasoning in autistic and non‐autistic adults. Autism Research. 16(9). 1728–1738. 2 indexed citations
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Zietlow, Anna‐Lena, Mitho Müller, Beate Ditzen, et al.. (2022). Study protocol of the COMPARE-Interaction study: the impact of maternal comorbid depression and anxiety disorders in the peripartum period on child development. BMJ Open. 12(1). e050437–e050437. 3 indexed citations
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Kim, Sunae, Atsushi Senju, Beate Sodian, et al.. (2021). Memory Monitoring and Control in Japanese and German Preschoolers. Memory & Cognition. 51(3). 708–717. 4 indexed citations
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Schuwerk, Tobias, Markus Paulus, Daniela Kloo, et al.. (2021). No links between genetic variation and developing theory of mind: A preregistered replication attempt of candidate gene studies. Developmental Science. 24(5). e13100–e13100. 5 indexed citations
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Kim, Sunae, Olivier Le Guen, Beate Sodian, & Joëlle Proust. (2021). Are Children Sensitive to What They Know?: An Insight from Yucatec Mayan Children. Journal of Cognition and Culture. 21(3-4). 226–242. 1 indexed citations
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Osterhaus, Christopher, Diane L. Putnick, Susanne Kristen, et al.. (2020). Theory of Mind and diverse intelligences in 4‐year‐olds: Modelling associations of false beliefs with children’s numerate‐spatial, verbal, and social intelligence. British Journal of Developmental Psychology. 38(4). 580–593. 9 indexed citations
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Sodian, Beate, Susanne Kristen, & Daniela Kloo. (2020). How Does Children’s Theory of Mind Become Explicit? A Review of Longitudinal Findings. Child Development Perspectives. 14(3). 171–177. 33 indexed citations
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Kim, Sunae, Beate Sodian, Markus Paulus, et al.. (2020). Metacognition and mindreading in young children: A cross-cultural study. Consciousness and Cognition. 85. 103017–103017. 11 indexed citations
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Paulus, Markus, Maria Ester Licata, Burkhard Gniewosz, & Beate Sodian. (2018). The impact of mother-child interaction quality and cognitive abilities on children’s self-concept and self-esteem. Cognitive Development. 48. 42–51. 32 indexed citations
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Osterhaus, Christopher, Susanne Koerber, & Beate Sodian. (2016). Scaling of Advanced Theory-of-Mind Tasks. Child Development. 87(6). 1971–1991. 79 indexed citations
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Kristen, Susanne, et al.. (2014). Crosslinguistic Developmental Consistency in the Composition of Toddlers’ Internal State Vocabulary: Evidence from Four Languages. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2014. 1–8. 8 indexed citations
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Schneider, Wolfgang, Ruth Schumann-Hengsteler, & Beate Sodian. (2014). Young children's cognitive development : interrelationships among executive functioning, working memory, verbal ability, and theory of mind. Psychology Press eBooks. 13 indexed citations
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Döhnel, Katrin, Tobias Schuwerk, Jörg Meinhardt, et al.. (2012). Functional activity of the right temporo-parietal junction and of the medial prefrontal cortex associated with true and false belief reasoning. NeuroImage. 60(3). 1652–1661. 73 indexed citations
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Sodian, Beate. (2011). Theory of Mind in Infancy. Child Development Perspectives. 5(1). 39–43. 82 indexed citations
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Meinhardt, Jörg, Beate Sodian, Claudia Thoermer, Katrin Döhnel, & Monika Sommer. (2010). True- and false-belief reasoning in children and adults: An event-related potential study of theory of mind. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 1(1). 67–76. 53 indexed citations
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Sodian, Beate. (1986). Wissen, wann jemand nicht genug weiß. Unterscheiden Vorschulkinder zwischen eindeutigen und uneindeutigen Hinweis-Äusserungen?. Zeitschrift für Entwicklungspsychologie und Pädagogische Psychologie. 18(1). 2–11. 1 indexed citations

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