Katherine McAuliffe

4.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
83 papers, 3.0k citations indexed

About

Katherine McAuliffe is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Cognitive Neuroscience and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Katherine McAuliffe has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 3.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 31 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience and 27 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Katherine McAuliffe's work include Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (31 papers), Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (27 papers) and Child and Animal Learning Development (27 papers). Katherine McAuliffe is often cited by papers focused on Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (31 papers), Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (27 papers) and Child and Animal Learning Development (27 papers). Katherine McAuliffe collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Katherine McAuliffe's co-authors include Peter Blake, Felix Warneken, Alex Thornton, Jillian Jordan, Nichola Raihani, Yarrow Dunham, Felix Warneken, Tim Clutton‐Brock, Richard W. Wrangham and Nikolaus Steinbeis and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Katherine McAuliffe

76 papers receiving 2.9k 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 ontogeny of fairness in seven societies

2015 323 citations Peter Blake, Katherine McAuliffe et al. Nature profile →

Peers

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Esther Herrmann Germany

Laurie R. Santos United States

Alicia P. Melis Germany

Daniel B. M. Haun Germany

H. Clark Barrett United States

Sarah F. Brosnan United States

Jeffrey R. Stevens United States

Willem E. Frankenhuis Netherlands

Jennifer Vonk United States

Claudio Tennie Germany

Esther Herrmann Germany

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Countries citing papers authored by Katherine McAuliffe

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Fields of papers citing papers by Katherine McAuliffe

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Katherine McAuliffe

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Katherine McAuliffe. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Katherine McAuliffe based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Katherine McAuliffe. Katherine McAuliffe is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Marshall, Julia, et al.. (2026). Descriptive norms influence children’s injunctive and moral norm beliefs. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 265. 106468–106468.

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Marshall, Julia, et al.. (2025). Children's Evaluations and Expectations of Forgiveness Following Second- and Third-Party Interventions. Child Development. 96(6). 2146–2161.

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McAuliffe, Katherine, et al.. (2025). Unraveling the gender gap in negotiation: How children’s perceptions of negotiation and of themselves relate to their bargaining outcomes.. Developmental Psychology. 61(3). 604–622. 1 indexed citations

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Marshall, Julia, et al.. (2025). Older children’s third-party punishment decisions are more sensitive to severity than younger children’s.. Developmental Psychology.

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Martin, Justin W., et al.. (2024). The impact of group membership on punishment versus partner rejection. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 22238–22238. 2 indexed citations

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Gollwitzer, Anton, et al.. (2024). Parent and community political orientation predicts children's health behaviours. European Journal of Social Psychology. 54(4). 843–858. 1 indexed citations

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Bshary, Redouan, Lindsey Drayton, Justin W. Martin, et al.. (2023). Punishment is sensitive to outside options in humans but not in cleaner fish (Labroides dimidiatus). Animal Behaviour. 205. 15–33. 1 indexed citations

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McAuliffe, Katherine, et al.. (2023). Do Children Expect Boys and Girls to Be Rewarded Differently for Doing the Same Work?. Collabra Psychology. 9(1).

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Amir, Dorsa, et al.. (2023). Tokens of virtue: Replicating incentivized measures of children’s prosocial behavior with online methods and virtual resources. Cognitive Development. 66. 101313–101313. 3 indexed citations

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Marshall, Julia, et al.. (2023). Descriptive Norms Influence Children's Injunctive and Moral Norm Beliefs. SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

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House, Bailey R., Joan B. Silk, & Katherine McAuliffe. (2022). No strong evidence for universal gender differences in the development of cooperative behaviour across societies. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 378(1868). 20210439–20210439. 9 indexed citations

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Marshall, Julia, et al.. (2022). Children’s judgments of interventions against norm violations: COVID-19 as a naturalistic case study. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 221. 105452–105452. 4 indexed citations

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Amir, Dorsa, et al.. (2021). Trustworthiness is distinct from generosity in children.. Developmental Psychology. 57(8). 1318–1324. 3 indexed citations

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Cone, Jeremy, et al.. (2021). Nationality dominates gender in decision-making in the Dictator and Prisoner’s Dilemma Games. PLoS ONE. 16(1). e0244568–e0244568. 11 indexed citations

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Amir, Dorsa, et al.. (2021). Children are more forgiving of accidental harms across development. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 205. 105081–105081. 13 indexed citations

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Blake, Peter, et al.. (2020). Ingroup bias does not influence inequity aversion in children.. Developmental Psychology. 56(6). 1080–1091. 20 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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Corbit, John, Katherine McAuliffe, Tara C. Callaghan, Peter Blake, & Felix Warneken. (2017). Children’s collaboration induces fairness rather than generosity. Cognition. 168. 344–356. 50 indexed citations

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Blake, Peter, Katherine McAuliffe, John Corbit, et al.. (2015). The ontogeny of fairness in seven societies. Nature. 528(7581). 258–261. 323 indexed citations breakdown →

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Thornton, Alex & Katherine McAuliffe. (2006). Teaching in Wild Meerkats. Science. 313(5784). 227–229. 239 indexed citations

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