Kana Imuta

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Kana Imuta is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Kana Imuta has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 10 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 8 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Kana Imuta's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (13 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (8 papers) and Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (4 papers). Kana Imuta is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (13 papers), Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (8 papers) and Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (4 papers). Kana Imuta collaborates with scholars based in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Kana Imuta's co-authors include Virginia Slaughter, Julie D. Henry, Harlene Hayne, Ted Ruffman, Bilge Selçuk, Candida C. Peterson, Damian Scarf, Michael Colombo, Matthew J. Hornsey and Thomas Suddendorf and has published in prestigious journals such as Psychological Bulletin, PLoS ONE and Child Development.

In The Last Decade

Kana Imuta

34 papers receiving 988 citations

Hit Papers

Theory of mind and prosocial behavior in childhood: A met... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 50 100 150 200 250
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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. Theory of mind and prosocial behavior in childhood: A meta-analytic review.
    2016 287 citations Kana Imuta, Virginia Slaughter et al. Developmental Psychology profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kana Imuta Australia 13 531 401 308 284 227 35 1.0k
Annette M. E. Henderson New Zealand 20 705 1.3× 450 1.1× 269 0.9× 236 0.8× 193 0.9× 55 1.2k
Kristen E. Lyons United States 13 482 0.9× 155 0.4× 357 1.2× 335 1.2× 252 1.1× 15 998
Peipei Setoh Singapore 17 309 0.6× 423 1.1× 326 1.1× 229 0.8× 99 0.4× 65 952
Audun Dahl United States 22 654 1.2× 674 1.7× 436 1.4× 446 1.6× 308 1.4× 64 1.6k
Robert Hepach Germany 20 671 1.3× 609 1.5× 400 1.3× 289 1.0× 155 0.7× 58 1.2k
Annalisa Valle Italy 12 215 0.4× 224 0.6× 258 0.8× 224 0.8× 118 0.5× 37 796
Kristen A. Dunfield Canada 11 685 1.3× 679 1.7× 347 1.1× 398 1.4× 203 0.9× 24 1.3k
Eric A. Walle United States 14 433 0.8× 324 0.8× 220 0.7× 256 0.9× 140 0.6× 36 910
Thalia R. Goldstein United States 19 245 0.5× 424 1.1× 333 1.1× 202 0.7× 415 1.8× 63 1.4k
Stephen C. Want Canada 13 580 1.1× 349 0.9× 335 1.1× 301 1.1× 85 0.4× 25 1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kana Imuta

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All Works

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Ruffman, Ted, Kana Imuta, & Virginia Slaughter. (2025). A Review and Critique of Studies Examining Empathy in Infants. Human Development. 69(4). 171–190. 1 indexed citations
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Suddendorf, Thomas, et al.. (2023). Driven by emotion: Anticipated feelings motivate children’s deliberate practice. Cognitive Development. 66. 101340–101340. 1 indexed citations
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Imuta, Kana, et al.. (2023). A meta-analytic review of the association between theory of mind and aggression. Aggression and Violent Behavior. 74. 101890–101890.
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Hornsey, Matthew J., et al.. (2023). Children's judgments on the acceptability of prejudice. Child Development. 95(1). 34–49. 2 indexed citations
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Imuta, Kana, et al.. (2021). Lying and Theory of Mind: A Meta-Analysis. Child Development. 92(2). 536–553. 41 indexed citations
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Hornsey, Matthew J., et al.. (2021). Something About the Way You Speak: A Meta-analysis on Children’s Linguistic-based Social Preferences. Child Development. 92(2). 517–535. 9 indexed citations
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Imuta, Kana, et al.. (2020). Developments in the Social Meaning Underlying Accent- and Dialect-Based Social Preferences. Child Development Perspectives. 14(3). 135–141. 11 indexed citations
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Imuta, Kana, et al.. (2020). Age-related changes in children’s accent-based resource distribution. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 193. 104807–104807. 9 indexed citations
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Imuta, Kana, et al.. (2018). Which button will I press? Preference for correctly ordered counting sequences in 18-month-olds.. Developmental Psychology. 54(7). 1199–1207. 7 indexed citations
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Imuta, Kana, et al.. (2017). 心の理論と個人主義vs.集団主義,共感性との関連 : 日本とオーストラリア成人による検討 (ヒューマンコミュニケーション基礎). IEICE technical report. Speech. 116(436). 59–63. 1 indexed citations
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Imuta, Kana, Damian Scarf, Sally Carson, & Harlene Hayne. (2017). Children’s learning and memory of an interactive science lesson: Does the context matter?. Developmental Psychology. 54(6). 1029–1037. 7 indexed citations
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Imuta, Kana, et al.. (2017). Practicing for the Future: Deliberate Practice in Early Childhood. Child Development. 89(6). 2051–2058. 17 indexed citations
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Imuta, Kana, Harlene Hayne, & Damian Scarf. (2014). I want it all and i want it now: Delay of gratification in preschool children. Developmental Psychobiology. 56(7). 1541–1552. 33 indexed citations
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Imuta, Kana & Damian Scarf. (2014). When too much of a novel thing may be what's “badâ€: commentary on Fisher, Godwin, and Seltman (2014). Frontiers in Psychology. 5. 1444–1444. 2 indexed citations
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Imuta, Kana, et al.. (2013). Drawing a Close to the Use of Human Figure Drawings as a Projective Measure of Intelligence. PLoS ONE. 8(3). e58991–e58991. 34 indexed citations
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Imuta, Kana, Damian Scarf, & Harlene Hayne. (2012). The effect of verbal reminders on memory reactivation in 2-, 3-, and 4-year-old children.. Developmental Psychology. 49(6). 1058–1065. 10 indexed citations
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Scarf, Damian, Kana Imuta, Michael Colombo, & Harlene Hayne. (2012). Social Evaluation or Simple Association? Simple Associations May Explain Moral Reasoning in Infants. PLoS ONE. 7(8). e42698–e42698. 89 indexed citations
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Hayne, Harlene & Kana Imuta. (2011). Episodic memory in 3‐ and 4‐year‐old children. Developmental Psychobiology. 53(3). 317–322. 91 indexed citations
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Imuta, Kana, et al.. (2011). Children’s human figure drawings do not measure intellectual ability. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 110(3). 444–452. 32 indexed citations

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