Mark Sheskin

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
24 papers, 972 citations indexed

About

Mark Sheskin is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark Sheskin has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 972 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 9 papers in Social Psychology and 7 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Mark Sheskin's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (15 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (6 papers) and Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (5 papers). Mark Sheskin is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (15 papers), Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (6 papers) and Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies (5 papers). Mark Sheskin collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. Mark Sheskin's co-authors include Paul Bloom, Christina Starmans, Karen Wynn, Joshua Knobe, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Kurt Gray, Frank C. Keil, Nicolas Baumard, Laura Schulz and Laurie R. Santos and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, PLoS ONE and Child Development.

In The Last Decade

Mark Sheskin

24 papers receiving 928 citations

Hit Papers

Why people prefer unequal societies 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 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. Why people prefer unequal societies
    2017 259 citations Christina Starmans, Mark Sheskin et al. Nature Human Behaviour profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Mark Sheskin United States 14 329 317 303 278 156 24 972
Amanda Williams Canada 16 392 1.2× 305 1.0× 169 0.6× 108 0.4× 133 0.9× 36 859
Xuezhao Lan China 6 396 1.2× 464 1.5× 190 0.6× 357 1.3× 220 1.4× 7 1.5k
Patricia Kanngießer Germany 17 383 1.2× 399 1.3× 353 1.2× 422 1.5× 133 0.9× 42 1.0k
Fabrice Clément Switzerland 19 386 1.2× 412 1.3× 288 1.0× 718 2.6× 151 1.0× 57 1.2k
Michael T. Rizzo United States 19 698 2.1× 462 1.5× 333 1.1× 456 1.6× 65 0.4× 30 1.2k
Jennifer R. Spoor Australia 12 254 0.8× 247 0.8× 481 1.6× 134 0.5× 71 0.5× 30 982
Cristina Zogmaister Italy 15 529 1.6× 370 1.2× 223 0.7× 90 0.3× 120 0.8× 40 905
Kathryn C. Oleson United States 12 707 2.1× 556 1.8× 179 0.6× 81 0.3× 153 1.0× 25 1.2k
Tobias Rothmund Germany 20 824 2.5× 415 1.3× 257 0.8× 68 0.2× 80 0.5× 58 1.2k
Liqi Zhu China 18 343 1.0× 398 1.3× 308 1.0× 456 1.6× 144 0.9× 85 1.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Mark Sheskin

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mark Sheskin

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All Works

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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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Aboody, Rosie, Sami R. Yousif, Mark Sheskin, & Frank C. Keil. (2022). Says who? Children consider informants’ sources when deciding whom to believe.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 151(10). 2481–2493. 8 indexed citations
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Kominsky, Jonathan F., Tobias Gerstenberg, Mark Sheskin, et al.. (2021). The trajectory of counterfactual simulation in development.. Developmental Psychology. 57(2). 253–268. 26 indexed citations
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Kominsky, Jonathan F., Tobias Gerstenberg, Mark Sheskin, et al.. (2021). The trajectory of counterfactual simulation in development. PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints). 1 indexed citations
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Lockhart, Kristi L., et al.. (2021). No guts, no glory: underestimating the benefits of providing children with mechanistic details. npj Science of Learning. 6(1). 30–30. 5 indexed citations
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Sheskin, Mark, et al.. (2021). An Illusion of Self-Sufficiency for Learning About Artifacts in Scaffolded Learners, But Not Observers. Child Development. 92(4). 1523–1538. 6 indexed citations
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Lockhart, Kristi L., et al.. (2020). Children and adults selectively generalize mechanistic knowledge. Cognition. 199. 104231–104231. 15 indexed citations
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Sheskin, Mark, Kimberly Scott, Candice M. Mills, et al.. (2020). Online Developmental Science to Foster Innovation, Access, and Impact. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 24(9). 675–678. 58 indexed citations
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Johnston, Angie M., Mark Sheskin, & Frank C. Keil. (2019). Learning the Relevance of Relevance and the Trouble with Truth: Evaluating Explanatory Relevance across Childhood. Journal of Cognition and Development. 20(4). 555–572. 9 indexed citations
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Johnston, Angie M., Mark Sheskin, Samuel G. B. Johnson, & Frank C. Keil. (2017). Preferences for Explanation Generality Develop Early in Biology But Not Physics. Child Development. 89(4). 1110–1119. 11 indexed citations
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Starmans, Christina, Mark Sheskin, & Paul Bloom. (2017). Why people prefer unequal societies. Nature Human Behaviour. 1(4). 259 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sheskin, Mark & Nicolas Baumard. (2016). Switching Away from Utilitarianism: The Limited Role of Utility Calculations in Moral Judgment. PLoS ONE. 11(8). e0160084–e0160084. 9 indexed citations
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Sheskin, Mark, et al.. (2016). Some Equalities Are More Equal Than Others: Quality Equality Emerges Later Than Numerical Equality. Child Development. 87(5). 1520–1528. 38 indexed citations
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Safra, Lou, et al.. (2016). Neighborhood Deprivation Negatively Impacts Children’s Prosocial Behavior. Frontiers in Psychology. 7. 1760–1760. 36 indexed citations
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Sheskin, Mark, et al.. (2015). Imagination and the generation of new ideas. Cognitive Development. 34. 99–110. 29 indexed citations
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Sheskin, Mark, Coralie Chevallier, Stéphane Lambert, & Nicolas Baumard. (2014). Life-history theory explains childhood moral development. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 18(12). 613–615. 28 indexed citations
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Sheskin, Mark, Paul Bloom, & Karen Wynn. (2013). Anti-equality: Social comparison in young children. Cognition. 130(2). 152–156. 93 indexed citations
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Skerry, Amy E., Mark Sheskin, & Laurie R. Santos. (2011). Capuchin monkeys are not prosocial in an instrumental helping task. Animal Cognition. 14(5). 647–654. 27 indexed citations
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Gray, Kurt, Joshua Knobe, Mark Sheskin, Paul Bloom, & Lisa Feldman Barrett. (2011). More than a body: Mind perception and the nature of objectification.. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 101(6). 1207–1220. 186 indexed citations
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Ibañez, Lisa V., Daniel S. Messinger, Lisa C. Newell, Brittany Lambert, & Mark Sheskin. (2008). Visual disengagement in the infant siblings of children with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Autism. 12(5). 473–485. 61 indexed citations

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