Deena Skolnick Weisberg

4.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
58 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Deena Skolnick Weisberg is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Education and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Deena Skolnick Weisberg has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 27 papers in Education and 12 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Deena Skolnick Weisberg's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (25 papers), Child Development and Digital Technology (14 papers) and Early Childhood Education and Development (10 papers). Deena Skolnick Weisberg is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (25 papers), Child Development and Digital Technology (14 papers) and Early Childhood Education and Development (10 papers). Deena Skolnick Weisberg collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and United Kingdom. Deena Skolnick Weisberg's co-authors include Roberta Michnick Golinkoff, Kathy Hirsh‐Pasek, Frank C. Keil, Jeremy R. Gray, Emily J. Hopkins, Paul Bloom, Alison Gopnik, Jordan Taylor, David Klahr and Audrey K. Kittredge and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Child Development.

In The Last Decade

Deena Skolnick Weisberg

55 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

The Seductive Allure of Neuroscience Explanations

2007 607 citations Deena Skolnick Weisberg et al. profile →
Guided Play: Where Curricular Goals Meet a Playful Pedagogy

2013 263 citations Deena Skolnick Weisberg, Kathy Hirsh‐Pasek et al. Mind Brain and Education profile →
Guided Play

2016 203 citations Deena Skolnick Weisberg, Kathy Hirsh‐Pasek et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Deena Skolnick Weisberg United States	25	1.1k	927	794	495	482	58	2.7k
Patricia A. Ganea Canada	28	913 0.9×	1.3k 1.4×	329 0.4×	293 0.6×	406 0.8×	65	2.1k
Maureen A. Callanan United States	32	1.4k 1.3×	1.8k 2.0×	314 0.4×	475 1.0×	709 1.5×	75	3.5k
Jacqueline D. Woolley United States	26	820 0.8×	2.6k 2.8×	1.6k 2.0×	416 0.8×	905 1.9×	73	3.9k
David M. Sobel United States	36	1.5k 1.4×	2.9k 3.1×	1.3k 1.6×	577 1.2×	1.2k 2.5×	148	5.4k
Kathleen H. Corriveau United States	31	1.0k 0.9×	2.9k 3.1×	979 1.2×	1.1k 2.2×	1.1k 2.3×	95	4.3k
Robert W. Rieber United States	22	1.0k 1.0×	1.1k 1.1×	290 0.4×	448 0.9×	463 1.0×	70	2.9k
Andrew Shtulman United States	21	595 0.6×	849 0.9×	397 0.5×	503 1.0×	613 1.3×	63	1.8k
Deborah Kelemen United States	29	749 0.7×	1.5k 1.6×	800 1.0×	956 1.9×	1.4k 2.9×	62	3.4k
Lawrence A. Hirschfeld United States	20	528 0.5×	1.4k 1.5×	680 0.9×	1.3k 2.7×	1.3k 2.7×	44	3.8k
Melissa A. Koenig United States	23	793 0.7×	2.7k 2.9×	885 1.1×	890 1.8×	887 1.8×	60	3.6k

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Weisberg, Deena Skolnick, et al.. (2025). Water woes: The effects of children’s science media on conservation knowledge, self-efficacy, and environmental worry in the United States of America. Journal of Children and Media. 19(4). 824–844.

Weisberg, Deena Skolnick, et al.. (2023). Dinos and GoPros: Children’s exploratory behaviors in a museum and their reflections on their learning. Frontiers in Psychology. 14. 1110612–1110612. 5 indexed citations

Weisberg, Deena Skolnick, et al.. (2023). Should the cat in the hat keep talking like that? Educational correlates of anthropomorphism in children's science media.. Psychology of Popular Media. 13(2). 274–280. 3 indexed citations

Sobel, David M., et al.. (2022). The influence of children’s first action when learning causal structure from exploratory play. Cognitive Development. 63. 101194–101194. 6 indexed citations

Weisberg, Deena Skolnick & David M. Sobel. (2022). Constructing Science. The MIT Press eBooks. 11 indexed citations

Zhang, Mingjun, Deena Skolnick Weisberg, Jing Zhu, & Michael Weisberg. (2021). A comparative study of the acceptance and understanding of evolution between China and the US. Public Understanding of Science. 31(1). 88–102. 4 indexed citations

Weisberg, Deena Skolnick, et al.. (2020). Knowledge about the nature of science increases public acceptance of science regardless of identity factors. Public Understanding of Science. 30(2). 120–138. 42 indexed citations

Hopkins, Emily J. & Deena Skolnick Weisberg. (2020). Investigating the effectiveness of fantasy stories for teaching scientific principles. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 203. 105047–105047. 16 indexed citations

Goldstein, Thalia R., et al.. (2020). Fact or fiction?. 10(2). 167–192. 2 indexed citations

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Hopkins, Emily J., Deena Skolnick Weisberg, & Jordan Taylor. (2019). Does expertise moderate the seductive allure of reductive explanations?. Acta Psychologica. 198. 102890–102890. 8 indexed citations

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Prabhakar, Janani, Deena Skolnick Weisberg, & Alan M. Leslie. (2018). The interplay between moral actions and moral judgments in children and adults. Consciousness and Cognition. 63. 183–197. 4 indexed citations

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Hopkins, Emily J., Eric Smith, Deena Skolnick Weisberg, & Angeline S. Lillard. (2016). The Development of Substitute Object Pretense: The Differential Importance of Form and Function. Journal of Cognition and Development. 17(2). 197–220. 13 indexed citations

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Panero, Maria Eugenia, Deena Skolnick Weisberg, Jessica E. Black, et al.. (2016). Does reading a single passage of literary fiction really improve theory of mind? An attempt at replication.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 111(5). e46–e54. 126 indexed citations

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Hopkins, Emily J., Deena Skolnick Weisberg, & Jordan Taylor. (2016). The seductive allure is a reductive allure: People prefer scientific explanations that contain logically irrelevant reductive information. Cognition. 155. 67–76. 60 indexed citations

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Weisberg, Deena Skolnick, Jordan Taylor, & Emily J. Hopkins. (2015). Deconstructing the seductive allure of neuroscience explanations. Judgment and Decision Making. 10(5). 429–441. 75 indexed citations

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Weisberg, Deena Skolnick. (2014). The Development of Imaginative Cognition. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement. 75. 85–103. 3 indexed citations

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Weisberg, Deena Skolnick, Jennifer M. Zosh, Kathy Hirsh‐Pasek, & Roberta Michnick Golinkoff. (2013). Talking It Up: Play, Language Development, and the Role of Adult Support.. 6(1). 39–54. 97 indexed citations

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Weisberg, Deena Skolnick, Kathy Hirsh‐Pasek, & Roberta Michnick Golinkoff. (2013). Guided Play: Where Curricular Goals Meet a Playful Pedagogy. Mind Brain and Education. 7(2). 104–112. 263 indexed citations breakdown →

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Weisberg, Deena Skolnick & Alan M. Leslie. (2012). The Role of Victims’ Emotions in Preschoolers’ Moral Judgments. Review of Philosophy and Psychology. 3(3). 439–455. 12 indexed citations

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Weisberg, Deena Skolnick & Paul Bloom. (2009). Young children separate multiple pretend worlds. Developmental Science. 12(5). 699–705. 28 indexed citations

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