Sophie Bridgers

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 699 citations indexed

About

Sophie Bridgers is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cultural Studies and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Sophie Bridgers has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 699 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 8 papers in Cultural Studies and 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Sophie Bridgers's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (18 papers), Language and cultural evolution (8 papers) and Language Development and Disorders (4 papers). Sophie Bridgers is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (18 papers), Language and cultural evolution (8 papers) and Language Development and Disorders (4 papers). Sophie Bridgers collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Sophie Bridgers's co-authors include Alison Gopnik, Thomas L. Griffiths, Christopher G. Lucas, Hyowon Gweon, Daphna Buchsbaum, Deena Skolnick Weisberg, Adrienne Wente, Julian Jara‐Ettinger, Ronald E. Dahl and Rosie Aboody and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Child Development and Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Sophie Bridgers

25 papers receiving 661 citations

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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.

Changes in cognitive flexibility and hypothesis search across human life history from childhood to adolescence to adulthood

2017 188 citations Alison Gopnik, Christopher G. Lucas et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sophie Bridgers United States	11	396	176	161	137	135	25	699
Stephanie Denison Canada	15	621 1.6×	178 1.0×	123 0.8×	152 1.1×	86 0.6×	53	910
Caren M. Walker United States	18	549 1.4×	170 1.0×	168 1.0×	286 2.1×	160 1.2×	54	885
Samuel Ronfard United States	16	393 1.0×	126 0.7×	220 1.4×	204 1.5×	85 0.6×	43	649
Amanda C. Brandone United States	14	546 1.4×	197 1.1×	212 1.3×	75 0.5×	117 0.9×	27	706
Jonathan F. Kominsky United States	15	279 0.7×	250 1.4×	138 0.9×	54 0.4×	107 0.8×	35	549
Brandy N. Frazier United States	9	336 0.8×	97 0.6×	217 1.3×	196 1.4×	88 0.7×	10	700
Laura Wagner United States	20	625 1.6×	249 1.4×	108 0.7×	81 0.6×	309 2.3×	63	1.0k
Shari Liu United States	9	259 0.7×	219 1.2×	190 1.2×	39 0.3×	90 0.7×	23	490
Jean‐Baptiste Van der Henst France	20	360 0.9×	466 2.6×	346 2.1×	76 0.6×	314 2.3×	53	1.1k
Brent Strickland France	14	311 0.8×	245 1.4×	154 1.0×	36 0.3×	221 1.6×	38	632

Countries citing papers authored by Sophie Bridgers

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sophie Bridgers

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sophie Bridgers

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Sophie Bridgers. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Sophie Bridgers 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 Sophie Bridgers. Sophie Bridgers is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Bridgers, Sophie, et al.. (2025). Learning Loopholes: The Development of Intentional Misunderstandings in Children. Child Development. 96(3). 1066–1087. 1 indexed citations

Bridgers, Sophie, et al.. (2024). Ambivalence by design: A computational account of loopholes. Cognition. 252. 105914–105914. 3 indexed citations

Bridgers, Sophie, et al.. (2023). Children seek help based on how others learn. Child Development. 94(5). 1259–1280. 3 indexed citations

Bridgers, Sophie, Laura Schulz, & Tomer Ullman. (2021). Loopholes, a Window into Value Alignment and the Learning of Meaning. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 43(43). 3 indexed citations

Asaba, Mika, Sophie Bridgers, Teresa García, et al.. (2021). Moderated Online Data-Collection for Developmental Research: Methods and Replications. Frontiers in Psychology. 12. 734398–734398. 35 indexed citations

Bridgers, Sophie, et al.. (2020). Whom will Granny thank? Thinking about what could have been informs children's inferences about relative helpfulness.. Cognitive Science. 3 indexed citations

Bridgers, Sophie, et al.. (2020). How many observations is one generic worth?. PsyArXiv (OSF Preprints). 2 indexed citations

Bonawitz, Elizabeth, et al.. (2020). Children Change Their Answers in Response to Neutral Follow‐Up Questions by a Knowledgeable Asker. Cognitive Science. 44(1). e12811–e12811. 13 indexed citations

Bridgers, Sophie, Yvonne Wang, & Daphna Buchsbaum. (2019). Children's exploration as a window into their causal learning.. Cognitive Science. 1429–1435. 2 indexed citations

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Bonawitz, Elizabeth, Tomer Ullman, Sophie Bridgers, Alison Gopnik, & Joshua B. Tenenbaum. (2019). Sticking to the Evidence? A Behavioral and Computational Case Study of Micro‐Theory Change in the Domain of Magnetism. Cognitive Science. 43(8). e12765–e12765. 16 indexed citations

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Bridgers, Sophie, Julian Jara‐Ettinger, & Hyowon Gweon. (2019). Young children consider the expected utility of others’ learning to decide what to teach. Nature Human Behaviour. 4(2). 144–152. 70 indexed citations

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Bridgers, Sophie, et al.. (2018). How you learned matters: The process by which others learn informs young children's decisions about whom to ask for help. Cognitive Science. 1402–1407. 3 indexed citations

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Bridgers, Sophie, et al.. (2017). How can I help? 24-48-month-olds provide help specific to the cause of others' failed actions.. Cognitive Science. 2 indexed citations

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Vélez, Natalia, Sophie Bridgers, & Hyowon Gweon. (2016). Not all overlaps are equal: Social affiliation and rare overlaps of preferences.. Cognitive Science. 3 indexed citations

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Wente, Adrienne, et al.. (2016). How Universal Are Free Will Beliefs? Cultural Differences in Chinese and U.S. 4- and 6-Year-Olds. Child Development. 87(3). 666–676. 18 indexed citations

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Walker, Caren M., Sophie Bridgers, & Alison Gopnik. (2016). The early emergence and puzzling decline of relational reasoning: Effects of knowledge and search on inferring abstract concepts. Cognition. 156. 30–40. 33 indexed citations

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Bridgers, Sophie, Daphna Buchsbaum, Elizabeth Seiver, Thomas L. Griffiths, & Alison Gopnik. (2015). Children’s causal inferences from conflicting testimony and observations.. Developmental Psychology. 52(1). 9–18. 30 indexed citations

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Lucas, Christopher G., Sophie Bridgers, Thomas L. Griffiths, & Alison Gopnik. (2014). When children are better (or at least more open-minded) learners than adults: Developmental differences in learning the forms of causal relationships. Cognition. 131(2). 284–299. 139 indexed citations

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Buchsbaum, Daphna, et al.. (2012). Do I know that you know what you know? Modeling testimony in causal inference. Cognitive Science. 34(34). 8 indexed citations

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Buchsbaum, Daphna, Elizabeth Seiver, Sophie Bridgers, & Alison Gopnik. (2012). Learning about Causes from People and about People as Causes. Advances in child development and behavior. 43. 125–160. 5 indexed citations

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