David Buttelmann

3.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
46 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

David Buttelmann is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, David Buttelmann has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 24 papers in Social Psychology and 17 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in David Buttelmann's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (38 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (14 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (7 papers). David Buttelmann is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (38 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (14 papers) and Memory and Neural Mechanisms (7 papers). David Buttelmann collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and United Kingdom. David Buttelmann's co-authors include Malinda Carpenter, Michael Tomasello, Josep Call, Norbert Zmyj, Moritz M. Daum, Robert Böhm, Frances Buttelmann, Stefanie Hoehl, Renée Baillargeon and Victoria Southgate and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Child Development and Psychological Science.

In The Last Decade

David Buttelmann

45 papers receiving 1.9k citations

Hit Papers

‘Over-imitation’: A review and appraisal of a decade of r... 2019 2026 2021 2023 2019 40 80 120
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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.

  1. ‘Over-imitation’: A review and appraisal of a decade of research
    2019 135 citations Stefanie Hoehl, David Buttelmann et al. profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David Buttelmann Germany 18 1.3k 947 741 365 257 46 2.0k
Szilvia Bı́ró Netherlands 15 1.5k 1.1× 1.2k 1.3× 833 1.1× 160 0.4× 139 0.5× 31 2.1k
Betty M. Repacholi United States 19 1.2k 0.9× 1.4k 1.4× 791 1.1× 274 0.8× 91 0.4× 30 2.6k
Nicola McGuigan United Kingdom 21 1.1k 0.8× 999 1.1× 363 0.5× 483 1.3× 533 2.1× 40 1.7k
Valerie A. Kuhlmeier Canada 17 1.1k 0.8× 889 0.9× 515 0.7× 343 0.9× 63 0.2× 41 1.8k
Ann Cale Kruger United States 13 1.7k 1.2× 1.2k 1.3× 532 0.7× 439 1.2× 542 2.1× 36 2.8k
Diane Poulin‐Dubois Canada 37 3.0k 2.2× 1.0k 1.1× 1.4k 1.9× 248 0.7× 223 0.9× 142 3.9k
Ben Kenward United Kingdom 20 736 0.5× 814 0.9× 397 0.5× 310 0.8× 137 0.5× 41 1.4k
Luca Surian Italy 34 2.3k 1.7× 1.5k 1.6× 1.9k 2.6× 660 1.8× 126 0.5× 102 3.8k
Ernő Téglás Austria 12 958 0.7× 455 0.5× 457 0.6× 83 0.2× 97 0.4× 15 1.4k
Marco F. H. Schmidt Germany 18 1.1k 0.9× 856 0.9× 717 1.0× 775 2.1× 135 0.5× 32 1.9k

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All Works

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Buttelmann, David, et al.. (2022). Infants differentiate between successful and failed communication in a false-belief context. Infant Behavior and Development. 69. 101770–101770. 3 indexed citations
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Buttelmann, David, et al.. (2021). Children understand communication intuitively, but indirect communication makes them think twice—Evidence from pupillometry and looking patterns. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 206. 105105–105105. 3 indexed citations
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Aschersleben, Gisa, et al.. (2020). A model’s natural group membership affects over-imitation in 6-year-olds. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 192. 104783–104783. 9 indexed citations
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Buttelmann, David & Norbert Zmyj. (2020). Fourteen-month-olds’ imitation is influenced more strongly by a model’s competence than by a model’s certainty. Infant Behavior and Development. 60. 101458–101458. 3 indexed citations
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Buttelmann, David, et al.. (2019). Feedback Enhances Preschoolers’ Performance in an Inhibitory Control Task. Frontiers in Psychology. 10. 977–977. 7 indexed citations
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Buttelmann, David, et al.. (2019). Rational imitation declines within the second year of life: Changes in the function of imitation. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 185. 148–163. 10 indexed citations
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Buttelmann, David, et al.. (2018). Reduced Mu Power in Response to Unusual Actions Is Context-Dependent in 1-Year-Olds. Frontiers in Psychology. 9. 36–36. 17 indexed citations
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Buttelmann, David, et al.. (2017). Infants’ and adults’ looking behavior does not indicate perceptual distraction for constrained modelled actions − An eye-tracking study. Infant Behavior and Development. 47. 103–111. 4 indexed citations
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Buttelmann, David, Frances Buttelmann, Malinda Carpenter, Josep Call, & Michael Tomasello. (2017). Great apes distinguish true from false beliefs in an interactive helping task. PLoS ONE. 12(4). e0173793–e0173793. 77 indexed citations
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Buttelmann, David. (2017). Calling for Careful Designs for the Evaluation of Interactive Behavioral Measures on Early False-Belief Reasoning. Frontiers in Psychology. 8. 1302–1302. 2 indexed citations
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Wetzel, Nicole, et al.. (2015). Infant and adult pupil dilation in response to unexpected sounds. Developmental Psychobiology. 58(3). 382–392. 90 indexed citations
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Buttelmann, Frances, et al.. (2014). What you get is what you believe: Eighteen-month-olds demonstrate belief understanding in an unexpected-identity task. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 131. 94–103. 44 indexed citations
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Buttelmann, David, Harriet Over, Malinda Carpenter, & Michael Tomasello. (2013). Eighteen-month-olds understand false beliefs in an unexpected-contents task. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 119. 120–126. 51 indexed citations
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Zmyj, Norbert & David Buttelmann. (2013). An integrative model of rational imitation in infancy. Infant Behavior and Development. 37(1). 21–28. 11 indexed citations
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Buttelmann, David, Norbert Zmyj, Moritz M. Daum, & Malinda Carpenter. (2012). Selective Imitation of In-Group Over Out-Group Members in 14-Month-Old Infants. Child Development. 84(2). 422–428. 216 indexed citations
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Zmyj, Norbert, David Buttelmann, Malinda Carpenter, & Moritz M. Daum. (2010). The reliability of a model influences 14-month-olds’ imitation. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 106(4). 208–220. 125 indexed citations
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Buttelmann, David, Josep Call, & Michael Tomasello. (2009). Do great apes use emotional expressions to infer desires?. Developmental Science. 12(5). 688–698. 41 indexed citations
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Buttelmann, David, Malinda Carpenter, Josep Call, & Michael Tomasello. (2008). Rational Tool Use and Tool Choice in Human Infants and Great Apes. Child Development. 79(3). 609–626. 64 indexed citations
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Buttelmann, David, Malinda Carpenter, Josep Call, & Michael Tomasello. (2007). Enculturated chimpanzees imitate rationally. Developmental Science. 10(4). F31–8. 170 indexed citations
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Riedel, Julia, David Buttelmann, Josep Call, & Michael Tomasello. (2005). Domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) use a physical marker to locate hidden food. Animal Cognition. 9(1). 27–35. 40 indexed citations

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