Robert Hepach

2.1k total citations
58 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Robert Hepach is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert Hepach has authored 58 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 49 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 32 papers in Social Psychology and 13 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Robert Hepach's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (46 papers), Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (16 papers) and Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (10 papers). Robert Hepach is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (46 papers), Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior (16 papers) and Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development (10 papers). Robert Hepach collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and United States. Robert Hepach's co-authors include Michael Tomasello, Amrisha Vaish, Gert Westermann, Daniel B. M. Haun, Tobias Großmann, Nivedita Mani, Katharina Müller, Stéphane Lambert, Christine Michel and Antje von Suchodoletz and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Child Development.

In The Last Decade

Robert Hepach

54 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Robert Hepach Germany 20 671 609 400 289 221 58 1.2k
Kristen A. Dunfield Canada 11 685 1.0× 679 1.1× 347 0.9× 398 1.4× 223 1.0× 24 1.3k
Margarita Svetlova United States 14 788 1.2× 843 1.4× 412 1.0× 582 2.0× 235 1.1× 16 1.6k
Kana Imuta Australia 13 531 0.8× 401 0.7× 308 0.8× 284 1.0× 162 0.7× 35 1.0k
Annette M. E. Henderson New Zealand 20 705 1.1× 450 0.7× 269 0.7× 236 0.8× 141 0.6× 55 1.2k
Sara R. Nichols United States 13 631 0.9× 625 1.0× 252 0.6× 638 2.2× 161 0.7× 16 1.3k
Douglas K. Symons Canada 16 565 0.8× 491 0.8× 315 0.8× 581 2.0× 404 1.8× 38 1.6k
Kenneth J. Aitken United Kingdom 7 525 0.8× 505 0.8× 428 1.1× 598 2.1× 149 0.7× 12 1.4k
Susanne Kristen Germany 16 581 0.9× 497 0.8× 366 0.9× 292 1.0× 82 0.4× 38 990
Donna L. Mumme United States 12 685 1.0× 583 1.0× 282 0.7× 491 1.7× 275 1.2× 16 1.6k
Eric A. Walle United States 14 433 0.6× 324 0.5× 220 0.6× 256 0.9× 143 0.6× 36 910

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Robert Hepach

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All Works

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Hepach, Robert, et al.. (2024). Social reward predicts false belief understanding in Namibian Hai||om children. Social Development. 33(4).
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Maurits, Luke, et al.. (2024). Children’s risk preferences vary across sexes, social contexts, and cultures. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2(1). 79–79. 1 indexed citations
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Hepach, Robert & Michael Tomasello. (2024). Instrumental helping motivations of children and chimpanzees. Child Development Perspectives. 19(2). 72–79.
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Völter, Christoph J., et al.. (2024). Do dogs preferentially encode the identity of the target object or the location of others’ actions?. Animal Cognition. 27(1). 28–28. 2 indexed citations
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Hepach, Robert, et al.. (2024). Preverbal infants’ understanding of social norms. Scientific Reports. 14(1). 2983–2983. 2 indexed citations
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Hepach, Robert, et al.. (2023). The role of interest in young children's retention of words. Infant and Child Development. 33(3). 4 indexed citations
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Hepach, Robert, et al.. (2023). Children’s affective involvement in early word learning. Scientific Reports. 13(1). 7351–7351. 3 indexed citations
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Hepach, Robert, et al.. (2022). Preschool children’s evaluations of their own unjustified requests. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 218. 105377–105377. 6 indexed citations
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Hepach, Robert, et al.. (2021). Observing others’ joint attention increases 9-month-old infants’ object encoding.. Developmental Psychology. 57(6). 837–850. 9 indexed citations
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Hepach, Robert, et al.. (2021). Infants’ Preference for Social Interactions Increases from 7 to 13 Months of Age. Child Development. 92(6). 2577–2594. 10 indexed citations
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Suchodoletz, Antje von & Robert Hepach. (2021). Cultural values shape the expression of self-evaluative social emotions. Scientific Reports. 11(1). 13169–13169. 13 indexed citations
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Hepach, Robert, et al.. (2020). Cultural variation in young children’s social motivation for peer collaboration and its relation to the ontogeny of Theory of Mind. PLoS ONE. 15(11). e0242071–e0242071. 13 indexed citations
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Yucel, Meltem, Robert Hepach, & Amrisha Vaish. (2020). Young Children and Adults Show Differential Arousal to Moral and Conventional Transgressions. Frontiers in Psychology. 11. 548–548. 17 indexed citations
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Hepach, Robert & Esther Herrmann. (2019). The Development of Prosocial Attention Across Two Cultures. Frontiers in Psychology. 10. 138–138. 7 indexed citations
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Haun, Daniel B. M., et al.. (2017). Young Infants' Attentional Preference for Social Interactions. OSF Preprints (OSF Preprints).
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Hepach, Robert, Amrisha Vaish, Katharina Müller, & Michael Tomasello. (2017). The relation between young children's physiological arousal and their motivation to help others. Neuropsychologia. 126. 113–119. 30 indexed citations
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Hepach, Robert. (2016). Prosocial Arousal in Children. Child Development Perspectives. 11(1). 50–55. 50 indexed citations
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Hepach, Robert, Amrisha Vaish, & Michael Tomasello. (2016). The fulfillment of others’ needs elevates children’s body posture.. Developmental Psychology. 53(1). 100–113. 25 indexed citations
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Hepach, Robert, Amrisha Vaish, & Michael Tomasello. (2015). Novel paradigms to measure variability of behavior in early childhood: posture, gaze, and pupil dilation. Frontiers in Psychology. 6. 858–858. 37 indexed citations
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