Tara C. Callaghan

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
31 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Tara C. Callaghan is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Tara C. Callaghan has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology, 13 papers in Social Psychology and 10 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Tara C. Callaghan's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (18 papers), Cultural Differences and Values (7 papers) and Aesthetic Perception and Analysis (3 papers). Tara C. Callaghan is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (18 papers), Cultural Differences and Values (7 papers) and Aesthetic Perception and Analysis (3 papers). Tara C. Callaghan collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Japan. Tara C. Callaghan's co-authors include John Corbit, Philippe Rochat, Ulf Liszkowski, Peter Blake, Felix Warneken, Katherine McAuliffe, Felix Warneken, Connie De Vos, Akira Takada and Penny Brown and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Child Development and Psychological Science.

In The Last Decade

Tara C. Callaghan

30 papers receiving 1.6k citations

Hit Papers

The ontogeny of fairness in seven societies 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 100 200 300
What are hit papers?

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. The ontogeny of fairness in seven societies
    2015 323 citations Peter Blake, Katherine McAuliffe et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Tara C. Callaghan Canada 18 931 651 432 334 297 31 1.6k
Hyowon Gweon United States 22 1.3k 1.4× 577 0.9× 580 1.3× 387 1.2× 308 1.0× 74 2.2k
Susan Birch Canada 25 1.2k 1.3× 708 1.1× 657 1.5× 600 1.8× 363 1.2× 49 2.1k
Elizabeth Bonawitz United States 23 1.6k 1.7× 335 0.5× 488 1.1× 241 0.7× 421 1.4× 94 2.5k
Valerie A. Kuhlmeier Canada 17 1.1k 1.1× 889 1.4× 515 1.2× 343 1.0× 254 0.9× 41 1.8k
Lynne Baker‐Ward United States 25 1.2k 1.3× 427 0.7× 1.0k 2.4× 276 0.8× 257 0.9× 41 2.3k
Kristin Shutts United States 25 933 1.0× 913 1.4× 484 1.1× 1.2k 3.6× 434 1.5× 54 2.5k
Hilary Horn Ratner United States 20 1.2k 1.3× 723 1.1× 554 1.3× 332 1.0× 294 1.0× 50 2.1k
E. Margaret Evans United States 27 731 0.8× 1.1k 1.6× 234 0.5× 548 1.6× 185 0.6× 42 2.2k
Genyue Fu China 33 796 0.9× 1.3k 2.0× 1.4k 3.3× 825 2.5× 443 1.5× 115 2.7k
Megan M. Saylor United States 24 1.2k 1.3× 452 0.7× 426 1.0× 215 0.6× 241 0.8× 65 1.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tara C. Callaghan

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tara C. Callaghan

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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McAuliffe, Katherine, Tara C. Callaghan, John Corbit, et al.. (2025). Across six societies children engage in costly third-party punishment of unfair sharing. Communications Psychology. 3(1). 43–43. 1 indexed citations
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Callaghan, Tara C., Tyler Colasante, Muhammad Saifullah, et al.. (2024). Fostering Prosociality in Refugee Children: An Intervention With Rohingya Children. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 89(1-2). 7–109.
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Amir, Dorsa, David Melnikoff, Felix Warneken, et al.. (2023). Computational signatures of inequity aversion in children across seven societies.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 152(10). 2882–2896. 4 indexed citations
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Corbit, John, et al.. (2022). Facilitating the prosocial development of Rohingya refugee children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 220. 105414–105414. 4 indexed citations
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Corbit, John, et al.. (2021). The influence of collaboration on children’s sharing in rural India. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 211. 105225–105225. 5 indexed citations
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Corbit, John, Tara C. Callaghan, & Margarita Svetlova. (2020). Toddlers’ costly helping in three societies. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 195. 104841–104841. 14 indexed citations
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Corbit, John, Katherine McAuliffe, Tara C. Callaghan, Peter Blake, & Felix Warneken. (2017). Children’s collaboration induces fairness rather than generosity. Cognition. 168. 344–356. 50 indexed citations
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Callaghan, Tara C. & John Corbit. (2017). Early prosocial development across cultures. Current Opinion in Psychology. 20. 102–106. 46 indexed citations
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Blake, Peter, John Corbit, Tara C. Callaghan, & Felix Warneken. (2016). Give as I give: Adult influence on children’s giving in two cultures. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 152. 149–160. 60 indexed citations
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Blake, Peter, Katherine McAuliffe, John Corbit, et al.. (2015). The ontogeny of fairness in seven societies. Nature. 528(7581). 258–261. 323 indexed citations breakdown →
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Liszkowski, Ulf, Penny Brown, Tara C. Callaghan, Akira Takada, & Connie De Vos. (2012). A Prelinguistic Gestural Universal of Human Communication. Cognitive Science. 36(4). 698–713. 175 indexed citations
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Callaghan, Tara C., Henrike Moll, Hannes Rakoczy, et al.. (2011). ABSTRACT. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. 76(2). vii–viii. 179 indexed citations
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Ungar, Michael, Anna W. Lee, Tara C. Callaghan, & Roger A. Boothroyd. (2005). An International Collaboration to Study Resilience in Adolescents Across Cultures. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering. 6(1). 5–45. 27 indexed citations
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Callaghan, Tara C., et al.. (2004). Modeling Referential Actions in 6- to 18-Month-Old Infants: A Precursor to Symbolic Understanding. Child Development. 75(6). 1733–1744. 27 indexed citations
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Callaghan, Tara C. & Philippe Rochat. (2003). Traces of the artist: Sensitivity to the role of the artist in children's pictorial reasoning. British Journal of Developmental Psychology. 21(3). 415–445. 20 indexed citations
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Callaghan, Tara C., et al.. (2002). Emergence of Graphic Symbol Functioning and the Question of Domain Specificity: A Longitudinal Training Study. Child Development. 73(2). 359–376. 62 indexed citations
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Callaghan, Tara C.. (1999). Early Understanding and Production of Graphic Symbols. Child Development. 70(6). 1314–1324. 81 indexed citations
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Callaghan, Tara C.. (1997). Children's judgments of emotions portrayed in museum art. British Journal of Developmental Psychology. 15(4). 515–529. 9 indexed citations
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Callaghan, Tara C.. (1989). Interference and dominance in texture segregation: Hue, geometric form, and line orientation. Perception & Psychophysics. 46(4). 299–311. 56 indexed citations
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Callaghan, Tara C.. (1984). Dimensional interaction of hue and brightness in preattentive field segregation. Perception & Psychophysics. 36(1). 25–34. 56 indexed citations

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