Tanya Behne

7.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
39 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

Tanya Behne is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Tanya Behne has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 14 papers in Social Psychology and 11 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Tanya Behne's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (34 papers), Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (8 papers) and Language Development and Disorders (8 papers). Tanya Behne is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (34 papers), Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (8 papers) and Language Development and Disorders (8 papers). Tanya Behne collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and China. Tanya Behne's co-authors include Michael Tomasello, Malinda Carpenter, Josep Call, Henrike Moll, Hannes Rakoczy, Stefanie Keupp, Ulf Liszkowski, Maria Gräfenhain, H. Clark Barrett and Kristin Liebal and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Child Development and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Tanya Behne

38 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cult... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2005 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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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. Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition
    2005 2.6k citations Michael Tomasello, Malinda Carpenter et al. Behavioral and Brain Sciences profile →

Peers

Tanya Behne
Henrike Moll United States
Hannes Rakoczy Germany
Daniel B. M. Haun Germany
Dare A. Baldwin United States
Katherine D. Kinzler United States
Luca Surian Italy
Kathleen H. Corriveau United States
Amanda L. Woodward United States
Diane Poulin‐Dubois Canada
Ulf Liszkowski Germany
Henrike Moll United States
Tanya Behne
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This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Tanya Behne. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Tanya Behne 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 Tanya Behne. Tanya Behne is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Behne, Tanya, et al.. (2023). Pragmatics aid referent disambiguation and word learning in young children and adults. Developmental Science. 26(4). e13363–e13363. 3 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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Colle, Livia, Gerlind Große, Tanya Behne, & Michael Tomasello. (2022). Just teasing! - Infants' and toddlers' understanding of teasing interactions and its effect on social bonding. Cognition. 231. 105314–105314. 2 indexed citations
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Behne, Tanya, et al.. (2018). The Development of Selective Trust: Prospects for a Dual-Process Account. Child Development Perspectives. 12(2). 134–138. 42 indexed citations
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Rakoczy, Hannes, et al.. (2015). The Side-Effect Effect in Children Is Robust and Not Specific to the Moral Status of Action Effects. PLoS ONE. 10(7). e0132933–e0132933. 11 indexed citations
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Keupp, Stefanie, et al.. (2015). Rational over-imitation: Preschoolers consider material costs and copy causally irrelevant actions selectively. Cognition. 147. 85–92. 24 indexed citations
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Keupp, Stefanie, et al.. (2014). Over-imitation is not automatic: Context sensitivity in children’s overimitation and action interpretation of causally irrelevant actions. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 130. 163–175. 34 indexed citations
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Behne, Tanya, Malinda Carpenter, & Michael Tomasello. (2014). Young children create iconic gestures to inform others.. Developmental Psychology. 50(8). 2049–2060. 33 indexed citations
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Lohse, Karoline, Maria Gräfenhain, Tanya Behne, & Hannes Rakoczy. (2014). Young Children Understand the Normative Implications of Future-Directed Speech Acts. PLoS ONE. 9(1). e86958–e86958. 8 indexed citations
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Keupp, Stefanie, Tanya Behne, & Hannes Rakoczy. (2013). Why do children overimitate? Normativity is crucial. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 116(2). 392–406. 121 indexed citations
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Matthews, Danielle, Tanya Behne, Elena Lieven, & Michael Tomasello. (2012). Origins of the human pointing gesture: a training study. Developmental Science. 15(6). 817–829. 88 indexed citations
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Behne, Tanya, Ulf Liszkowski, Malinda Carpenter, & Michael Tomasello. (2011). Twelve‐month‐olds’ comprehension and production of pointing. British Journal of Developmental Psychology. 30(3). 359–375. 120 indexed citations
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Große, Gerlind, Tanya Behne, Malinda Carpenter, & Michael Tomasello. (2010). Infants communicate in order to be understood.. Developmental Psychology. 46(6). 1710–1722. 39 indexed citations
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Gräfenhain, Maria, Tanya Behne, Malinda Carpenter, & Michael Tomasello. (2009). Young children’s understanding of joint commitments.. Developmental Psychology. 45(5). 1430–1443. 127 indexed citations
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Liebal, Kristin, Tanya Behne, Malinda Carpenter, & Michael Tomasello. (2008). Infants use shared experience to interpret pointing gestures. Developmental Science. 12(2). 264–271. 120 indexed citations
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Tomasello, Michael, Malinda Carpenter, Josep Call, Tanya Behne, & Henrike Moll. (2005). Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 28(5). 675–691. 2623 indexed citations breakdown →
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Behne, Tanya, Malinda Carpenter, & Michael Tomasello. (2005). One‐year‐olds comprehend the communicative intentions behind gestures in a hiding game. Developmental Science. 8(6). 492–499. 184 indexed citations
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Barrett, H. Clark & Tanya Behne. (2004). Children's understanding of death as the cessation of agency: a test using sleep versus death. Cognition. 96(2). 93–108. 78 indexed citations
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Barrett, H. Clark & Tanya Behne. (2001). Understanding death as the cessation of intentional action: A cross-cultural developmental study. CogPrints (University of Southampton). 23(23). 5 indexed citations

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