Elizabeth A. Simpson

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
76 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Elizabeth A. Simpson is a scholar working on Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Elizabeth A. Simpson has authored 76 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 36 papers in Social Psychology, 34 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 23 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Elizabeth A. Simpson's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (23 papers), Face Recognition and Perception (20 papers) and Primate Behavior and Ecology (20 papers). Elizabeth A. Simpson is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (23 papers), Face Recognition and Perception (20 papers) and Primate Behavior and Ecology (20 papers). Elizabeth A. Simpson collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and United Kingdom. Elizabeth A. Simpson's co-authors include Pier Francesco Ferrari, Annika Paukner, Kristina Grigaityte, Leonardo Christov‐Moore, Marco Iacoboni, Stephen J. Suomi, Krisztina V. Jakobsen, Lynne Murray, Valentina Sclafani and James A. Taylor and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Elizabeth A. Simpson

72 papers receiving 2.0k citations

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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.

Empathy: Gender effects in brain and behavior

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Gina M. Grimshaw New Zealand

Karen Sage United Kingdom

Suparna Choudhury Canada

Mike Anderson Australia

Gail Robinson Australia

Miriam H. Beauchamp Canada

Astrid F. Fry United States

Lewis A. Leavitt United States

Sven C. Mueller Belgium

Sarah L. Friedman United States

Gina M. Grimshaw New Zealand

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Bainter, Sierra A., et al.. (2025). Stability of Individual Differences in Social and Nonsocial Visual Attention From Newborn to 14 Months. Developmental Psychobiology. 67(4). e70054–e70054. 1 indexed citations

Jakobsen, Krisztina V., et al.. (2024). Emerging Adults Mirror Infants’ Emotions and Yawns. Developmental Psychobiology. 66(6). e22539–e22539. 1 indexed citations

Jakobsen, Krisztina V., et al.. (2023). Behavioral and physiological sensitivity to natural sick faces. Brain Behavior and Immunity. 110. 195–211. 6 indexed citations

Jakobsen, Krisztina V., et al.. (2023). Pareidolic faces receive prioritized attention in the dot-probe task. Attention Perception & Psychophysics. 85(4). 1106–1126. 9 indexed citations

Jakobsen, Krisztina V., et al.. (2023). Infection detection in faces: Children's development of pathogen avoidance. Child Development. 95(1). e35–e46. 3 indexed citations

AlHeresh, Rawan, Elizabeth A. Simpson, Saralynn Allaire, & Julie J. Keysor. (2023). Workplace barriers among people with rheumatic and chronic back pain: Results from the work experience survey for rheumatic conditions. Work. 75(3). 869–875. 1 indexed citations

Delgado, Christine F., et al.. (2023). Elevated risk for developmental disabilities in children with congenital heart defects. Birth Defects Research. 115(18). 1708–1722. 1 indexed citations

Messinger, Daniel S., et al.. (2023). Social motivation predicts gaze following between 6 and 14 months. Infancy. 28(4). 836–860. 1 indexed citations

Simpson, Elizabeth A., et al.. (2023). Maximizing valid eye-tracking data in human and macaque infants by optimizing calibration and adjusting areas of interest. Behavior Research Methods. 56(2). 881–907. 9 indexed citations

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Torres, Elizabeth B., Eric London, Phyllis Kittler, et al.. (2023). Sensing echoes: temporal misalignment in auditory brainstem responses as the earliest marker of neurodevelopmental derailment. PNAS Nexus. 2(2). pgac315–pgac315. 6 indexed citations

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Messinger, Daniel S., et al.. (2022). Infant temperamental fear, pupil dilation, and gaze aversion from smiling strangers. Developmental Psychobiology. 64(7). e22324–e22324. 1 indexed citations

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Palmer, Rebecca, et al.. (2022). Improving safe sleep practices in an urban inpatient newborn nursery and neonatal intensive care unit. Journal of Perinatology. 42(4). 515–521. 1 indexed citations

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Miron, Oren, Rafael E. Delgado, Christine F. Delgado, et al.. (2020). Prolonged Auditory Brainstem Response in Universal Hearing Screening of Newborns with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Autism Research. 14(1). 46–52. 27 indexed citations

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Akangire, Gangaram, Elizabeth A. Simpson, Julie Weiner, et al.. (2019). Implementation of the Neonatal Sepsis Calculator in Early-Onset Sepsis and Maternal Chorioamnionitis. Advances in Neonatal Care. 20(1). 25–32. 21 indexed citations

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Simpson, Elizabeth A., Lauren M. Robinson, & Annika Paukner. (2019). Infant rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) personality and subjective well-being. PLoS ONE. 14(12). e0226747–e0226747. 10 indexed citations

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Simpson, Elizabeth A., et al.. (2019). Face detection in infants and adults: Effects of orientation and color. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 186. 17–32. 20 indexed citations

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Damon, Fabrice, David Méary, Paul C. Quinn, et al.. (2017). Preference for facial averageness: Evidence for a common mechanism in human and macaque infants. Scientific Reports. 7(1). 46303–46303. 25 indexed citations

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Kaburu, Stefano, Annika Paukner, Elizabeth A. Simpson, Stephen J. Suomi, & Pier Francesco Ferrari. (2016). Neonatal imitation predicts infant rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) social and anxiety-related behaviours at one year. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 34997–34997. 23 indexed citations

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Simpson, Elizabeth A., Krisztina V. Jakobsen, Dorothy M. Fragaszy, Kazunori Okada, & Janet E. Frick. (2014). The development of facial identity discrimination through learned attention. Developmental Psychobiology. 56(5). 1083–1101. 13 indexed citations

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Simpson, Elizabeth A.. (1951). SRA better reading book. 1 indexed citations

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