Cathal O’Madagain

846 total citations
17 papers, 196 citations indexed

About

Cathal O’Madagain is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Cathal O’Madagain has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 196 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 5 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 5 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Cathal O’Madagain's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (6 papers), Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (4 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (3 papers). Cathal O’Madagain is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (6 papers), Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (4 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (3 papers). Cathal O’Madagain collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Morocco. Cathal O’Madagain's co-authors include Michael Tomasello, Brent Strickland, Bahar Köymen, Paul Égré, Daniel B. M. Haun, Jan M. Engelmann, Christoph J. Völter, Esther Herrmann, Hannes Rakoczy and Josep Call and has published in prestigious journals such as Child Development, Current Biology and Psychological Science.

In The Last Decade

Cathal O’Madagain

17 papers receiving 188 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Cathal O’Madagain Germany 8 97 60 57 40 39 17 196
Natalia Vélez United States 8 78 0.8× 74 1.2× 99 1.7× 53 1.3× 37 0.9× 21 231
Johannes L. Brandl Austria 7 86 0.9× 49 0.8× 50 0.9× 22 0.6× 71 1.8× 24 198
Katelyn E. Kurkul United States 8 206 2.1× 70 1.2× 37 0.6× 41 1.0× 32 0.8× 10 287
Donald Peterson United Kingdom 5 193 2.0× 50 0.8× 125 2.2× 30 0.8× 37 0.9× 7 274
Elizabeth E. Blair United States 6 119 1.2× 54 0.9× 31 0.5× 32 0.8× 41 1.1× 15 239
Erika Nurmsoo United Kingdom 9 328 3.4× 59 1.0× 95 1.7× 62 1.6× 49 1.3× 15 378
Jason Scofield United States 10 280 2.9× 34 0.6× 68 1.2× 37 0.9× 38 1.0× 23 335
Marco Fenici Italy 8 121 1.2× 154 2.6× 202 3.5× 34 0.8× 71 1.8× 16 330
Francesca Panzeri Italy 9 125 1.3× 34 0.6× 122 2.1× 15 0.4× 69 1.8× 29 267
Peggy Joy Goetz United States 4 258 2.7× 45 0.8× 116 2.0× 22 0.6× 76 1.9× 6 348

Countries citing papers authored by Cathal O’Madagain

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Fields of papers citing papers by Cathal O’Madagain

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cathal O’Madagain

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All Works

17 of 17 papers shown
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O’Madagain, Cathal, et al.. (2024). Three- and 5-year-old children know their current belief might be wrong. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 246. 106001–106001. 1 indexed citations
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O’Madagain, Cathal, et al.. (2022). Great apes and human children rationally monitor their decisions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 289(1971). 20212686–20212686. 12 indexed citations
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O’Madagain, Cathal & Michael Tomasello. (2021). Shared intentionality, reason-giving and the evolution of human culture. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 377(1843). 20200320–20200320. 33 indexed citations
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Engelmann, Jan M., Christoph J. Völter, Cathal O’Madagain, et al.. (2021). Chimpanzees consider alternative possibilities. Current Biology. 31(20). R1377–R1378. 21 indexed citations
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O’Madagain, Cathal. (2020). This is a Paper about Demonstratives. Philosophia. 49(2). 745–764. 2 indexed citations
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O’Madagain, Cathal, et al.. (2020). The Worst-Motive Fallacy: A Negativity Bias in Motive Attribution. Psychological Science. 31(11). 1430–1438. 10 indexed citations
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O’Madagain, Cathal, et al.. (2019). The origin of pointing: Evidence for the touch hypothesis. Science Advances. 5(7). 14 indexed citations
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Égré, Paul & Cathal O’Madagain. (2019). Concept Utility. The Journal of Philosophy. 116(10). 525–554. 9 indexed citations
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Köymen, Bahar, et al.. (2019). Young Children’s Ability to Produce Valid and Relevant Counter-Arguments. Child Development. 91(3). 685–693. 21 indexed citations
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O’Madagain, Cathal & Michael Tomasello. (2019). Joint attention to mental content and the social origin of reasoning. Synthese. 198(5). 4057–4078. 52 indexed citations
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O’Madagain, Cathal. (2019). Is Reasoning Culturally Transmitted. Dialnet (Universidad de la Rioja). 38(1). 107–120. 4 indexed citations
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O’Madagain, Cathal. (2018). Outsourcing Concepts. Oxford University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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O’Madagain, Cathal. (2014). Indexicals and the Metaphysics of Semantic Tokens. Thought A Journal of Philosophy. 3(1). 71–79. 7 indexed citations
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O’Madagain, Cathal. (2014). CAN GROUPS HAVE CONCEPTS? SEMANTICS FOR COLLECTIVE INTENTIONS. Philosophical Issues. 24(1). 347–363. 2 indexed citations
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O’Madagain, Cathal. (2013). Davidson and Husserl on the Social Origin of our Concept of Objectivity. SSRN Electronic Journal. 2 indexed citations
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O’Madagain, Cathal. (2013). Indexicals as Labels. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations
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O’Madagain, Cathal. (2012). Group Agents: Persons, Mobs, or Zombies?. International Journal of Philosophical Studies. 20(2). 271–287. 4 indexed citations

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