Markus Paulus

5.0k total citations
168 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Markus Paulus is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Markus Paulus has authored 168 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 121 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 105 papers in Social Psychology and 66 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Markus Paulus's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (116 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (47 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (30 papers). Markus Paulus is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (116 papers), Action Observation and Synchronization (47 papers) and Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment (30 papers). Markus Paulus collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Netherlands and Canada. Markus Paulus's co-authors include Beate Sodian, Chris Moore, Harold Bekkering, Sabine Hunnius, Natalie Christner, Samuel Essler, Maria Ester Licata, Susanne Kristen, Carolina Pletti and Joëlle Proust and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and NeuroImage.

In The Last Decade

Markus Paulus

154 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Markus Paulus Germany 33 1.9k 1.8k 1.2k 736 686 168 3.4k
Jessica A. Sommerville United States 30 2.6k 1.3× 2.4k 1.4× 2.0k 1.6× 566 0.8× 650 0.9× 80 4.6k
Amrisha Vaish United States 27 1.5k 0.7× 1.8k 1.0× 1.2k 1.0× 722 1.0× 981 1.4× 70 3.5k
J. Kiley Hamlin Canada 28 2.3k 1.2× 2.4k 1.3× 1.6k 1.3× 487 0.7× 1.1k 1.6× 60 4.2k
Charlie Lewis United Kingdom 34 2.4k 1.2× 1.4k 0.8× 1.3k 1.0× 1.3k 1.8× 928 1.4× 127 5.2k
Luca Surian Italy 34 2.3k 1.2× 1.5k 0.8× 1.9k 1.5× 264 0.4× 660 1.0× 102 3.8k
Hannes Rakoczy Germany 40 3.3k 1.7× 2.1k 1.2× 1.7k 1.4× 296 0.4× 1.1k 1.6× 132 4.7k
Robin Banerjee United Kingdom 31 1.0k 0.5× 1.3k 0.7× 596 0.5× 1.4k 1.8× 615 0.9× 103 3.1k
Victoria Talwar Canada 33 1.6k 0.8× 2.5k 1.4× 1.6k 1.3× 1.5k 2.0× 1.0k 1.5× 154 4.0k
Tilmann Habermas Germany 31 3.0k 1.5× 930 0.5× 1.0k 0.8× 1.0k 1.4× 1.6k 2.4× 95 4.4k
Joscha Kärtner Germany 29 1.2k 0.6× 1.4k 0.8× 371 0.3× 898 1.2× 569 0.8× 91 2.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Markus Paulus

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Markus Paulus

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All Works

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Altvater‐Mackensen, Nicole, et al.. (2024). The development of children’s and adults’ use of kinematic cues for visual anticipation and verbal prediction of action. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 249. 106064–106064.
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Essler, Samuel & Markus Paulus. (2023). Normative language understanding and behavioral compliance longitudinally predict 2.5-year-olds' social norm enforcement. Cognitive Development. 66. 101337–101337.
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Paulus, Markus, et al.. (2023). Infants’ responses to masked and unmasked smiling faces: A longitudinal investigation of social interaction during Covid-19. Infant Behavior and Development. 73. 101873–101873. 2 indexed citations
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Paulus, Markus, et al.. (2023). What is in an action? Preschool children predict that agents take previous paths and not previous goals. Developmental Science. 27(3). e13466–e13466.
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Christner, Natalie, et al.. (2023). Longitudinal stability and cross-relations of prosocial behavior and the moral self-concept in early childhood. Cognitive Development. 66. 101341–101341. 7 indexed citations
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Paulus, Markus, et al.. (2023). The communicative nature of moral development: A theoretical framework on the emergence of moral reasoning in social interactions. Cognitive Development. 66. 101336–101336. 6 indexed citations
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Essler, Samuel, et al.. (2023). Longitudinal evidence that infants develop their imitation abilities by being imitated. Current Biology. 33(21). 4674–4678.e3. 4 indexed citations
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Essler, Samuel, et al.. (2022). The ontogenetic emergence of normativity: How action imitation relates to infants’ norm enforcement. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 227. 105591–105591. 6 indexed citations
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Kim, Sunae, Atsushi Senju, Beate Sodian, et al.. (2021). Memory Monitoring and Control in Japanese and German Preschoolers. Memory & Cognition. 51(3). 708–717. 4 indexed citations
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Schuwerk, Tobias, Markus Paulus, Daniela Kloo, et al.. (2021). No links between genetic variation and developing theory of mind: A preregistered replication attempt of candidate gene studies. Developmental Science. 24(5). e13100–e13100. 5 indexed citations
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Essler, Samuel & Markus Paulus. (2021). Robin Hood or Matthew? Children’s Reasoning About Redistributive Justice in the Context of Economic Inequalities. Child Development. 92(4). 1254–1273. 16 indexed citations
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Essler, Samuel & Markus Paulus. (2020). When do caregivers begin to view their child as a moral agent? Comparing moral and non-moral reactions to young children’s moral transgressions. Journal of Moral Education. 50(3). 330–342. 5 indexed citations
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Essler, Samuel, et al.. (2019). Preschoolers’ sharing expectations towards friends relate to their kindergarten peer status. British Journal of Developmental Psychology. 38(1). 1–14. 4 indexed citations
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Essler, Samuel, Anja C. Lepach, Franz Petermann, & Markus Paulus. (2019). Equality, equity, or inequality duplication? How preschoolers distribute necessary and luxury resources between rich and poor others. Social Development. 29(1). 110–125. 32 indexed citations
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Paulus, Markus, Maria Ester Licata, Burkhard Gniewosz, & Beate Sodian. (2018). The impact of mother-child interaction quality and cognitive abilities on children’s self-concept and self-esteem. Cognitive Development. 48. 42–51. 32 indexed citations
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Paulus, Markus & Chris Moore. (2012). Producing and Understanding Prosocial Actions in Early Childhood. Advances in child development and behavior. 42. 271–305. 47 indexed citations
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Paulus, Markus, Sabine Hunnius, Michiel van Elk, & Harold Bekkering. (2011). How learning to shake a rattle affects 8-month-old infants’ perception of the rattle's sound: Electrophysiological evidence for action-effect binding in infancy. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. 2(1). 90–96. 73 indexed citations

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