J. Kiley Hamlin

8.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
60 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

J. Kiley Hamlin is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, J. Kiley Hamlin has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 34 papers in Social Psychology and 22 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in J. Kiley Hamlin's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (45 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (18 papers) and Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (18 papers). J. Kiley Hamlin is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (45 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (18 papers) and Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (18 papers). J. Kiley Hamlin collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. J. Kiley Hamlin's co-authors include Karen Wynn, Paul Bloom, Julia W. Van de Vondervoort, Lara B. Aknin, Neha Mahajan, Paul Alexander Bloom, Elizabeth W. Dunn, Zoe Liberman, Tanya Broesch and Elizabeth V. Hallinan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

J. Kiley Hamlin

57 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

Social evaluation by preverbal infants 2007 2026 2013 2019 2007 2017 250 500 750
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.

  1. Social evaluation by preverbal infants
    2007 870 citations J. Kiley Hamlin, Karen Wynn et al. Nature profile →
  2. A Collaborative Approach to Infant Research: Promoting Reproducibility, Best Practices, and Theory‐Building
    2017 175 citations Michael C. Frank, Christina Bergmann et al. Infancy profile →

Peers

J. Kiley Hamlin
Amrisha Vaish United States
Jessica A. Sommerville United States
Henrike Moll United States
Tanya Behne Germany
Markus Paulus Germany
Katherine D. Kinzler United States
Felix Warneken United States
Luca Surian Italy
Hannes Rakoczy Germany
Amanda L. Woodward United States
Amrisha Vaish United States
J. Kiley Hamlin
Citations per year, relative to J. Kiley Hamlin J. Kiley Hamlin (= 1×) peers Amrisha Vaish

Countries citing papers authored by J. Kiley Hamlin

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Fields of papers citing papers by J. Kiley Hamlin

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of J. Kiley Hamlin

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Geraci, Alessandra, et al.. (2025). Human newborns spontaneously attend to prosocial interactions. Nature Communications. 16(1). 6304–6304. 2 indexed citations
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Schreiner, Melanie S., Martin Zettersten, Christina Bergmann, et al.. (2024). Limited evidence of test‐retest reliability in infant‐directed speech preference in a large preregistered infant experiment. Developmental Science. 27(6). e13551–e13551. 1 indexed citations
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Baumgartner, Heidi A., Krista Byers‐Heinlein, Michael C. Frank, et al.. (2023). How to build up big team science: a practical guide for large-scale collaborations. Royal Society Open Science. 10(6). 230235–230235. 15 indexed citations
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Proulx, Jason, Julia W. Van de Vondervoort, J. Kiley Hamlin, John F. Helliwell, & Lara B. Aknin. (2023). Are Real-World Prosociality Programs Associated with Greater Psychological Well-Being in Primary School-Aged Children?. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 20(5). 4403–4403. 3 indexed citations
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Woo, Brandon Matthew, et al.. (2022). Socially evaluative contexts facilitate mentalizing. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 27(1). 17–29. 12 indexed citations
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Margoni, Francesco, Katharina Block, J. Kiley Hamlin, Norbert Zmyj, & Toni Schmader. (2022). Meta-analytic evidence against sex differences in infants’ and toddlers’ preference for prosocial agents.. Developmental Psychology. 59(2). 229–235.
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Tan, Enda, et al.. (2020). The Homogeneity and Heterogeneity of Moral Functioning in Preschool. Child Development. 92(3). 959–975. 14 indexed citations
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McAuliffe, Katherine, et al.. (2019). Do Dogs Prefer Helpers in an Infant-Based Social Evaluation Task?. Frontiers in Psychology. 10. 591–591. 11 indexed citations
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Tan, Enda, Amori Yee Mikami, & J. Kiley Hamlin. (2018). Do infant sociomoral evaluation and action studies predict preschool social and behavioral adjustment?. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 176. 39–54. 18 indexed citations
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Aknin, Lara B., Julia W. Van de Vondervoort, & J. Kiley Hamlin. (2017). Positive feelings reward and promote prosocial behavior. Current Opinion in Psychology. 20. 55–59. 212 indexed citations
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Steckler, Conor M., Brandon Matthew Woo, & J. Kiley Hamlin. (2017). The limits of early social evaluation: 9-month-olds fail to generate social evaluations of individuals who behave inconsistently. Cognition. 167. 255–265. 17 indexed citations
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Vondervoort, Julia W. Van de & J. Kiley Hamlin. (2016). Evidence for Intuitive Morality: Preverbal Infants Make Sociomoral Evaluations. Child Development Perspectives. 10(3). 143–148. 41 indexed citations
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Hamlin, J. Kiley, et al.. (2013). The mentalistic basis of core social cognition: experiments in preverbal infants and a computational model. PMC.
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Hamlin, J. Kiley. (2013). Failed attempts to help and harm: Intention versus outcome in preverbal infants’ social evaluations. Cognition. 128(3). 451–474. 139 indexed citations
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Hamlin, J. Kiley & Karen Wynn. (2010). Young infants prefer prosocial to antisocial others. Cognitive Development. 26(1). 30–39. 311 indexed citations
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Hamlin, J. Kiley, George E. Newman, & Karen Wynn. (2009). Eight‐Month‐Old Infants Infer Unfulfilled Goals, Despite Ambiguous Physical Evidence. Infancy. 14(5). 579–590. 29 indexed citations
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Hamlin, J. Kiley, Elizabeth V. Hallinan, & Amanda L. Woodward. (2008). Do as I do: 7‐month‐old infants selectively reproduce others’ goals. Developmental Science. 11(4). 487–494. 104 indexed citations
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Hamlin, J. Kiley, Karen Wynn, & Paul Bloom. (2007). Social evaluation by preverbal infants. Nature. 450(7169). 557–559. 870 indexed citations breakdown →

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