Ted Ruffman

12.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
124 papers, 8.0k citations indexed

About

Ted Ruffman is a scholar working on Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Social Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ted Ruffman has authored 124 papers receiving a total of 8.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience, 55 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 43 papers in Social Psychology. Recurrent topics in Ted Ruffman's work include Child and Animal Learning Development (50 papers), Face Recognition and Perception (28 papers) and Aging and Gerontology Research (21 papers). Ted Ruffman is often cited by papers focused on Child and Animal Learning Development (50 papers), Face Recognition and Perception (28 papers) and Aging and Gerontology Research (21 papers). Ted Ruffman collaborates with scholars based in New Zealand, United Kingdom and Australia. Ted Ruffman's co-authors include Josef Perner, Lance Slade, Mele Taumoepeau, Julie D. Henry, Susan Sullivan, Louise H. Phillips, Susan Leekam, Vicki Livingstone, Phoebe E. Bailey and Wendy Garnham and has published in prestigious journals such as Psychological Bulletin, PLoS ONE and American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

In The Last Decade

Ted Ruffman

121 papers receiving 7.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

A meta-analytic review of emotion recognition and aging: Implications for neuropsychological models of aging

2008 669 citations Ted Ruffman, Julie D. Henry et al. profile →
The Relation between Children's and Mothers’ Mental State Language and Theory-of-Mind Understanding

2002 624 citations Ted Ruffman, Lance Slade et al. Child Development profile →
Theory of mind and prosocial behavior in childhood: A meta-analytic review.

2016 287 citations Kana Imuta, Julie D. Henry et al. Developmental Psychology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ted Ruffman New Zealand	47	4.1k	3.1k	2.7k	1.5k	1.5k	124	8.0k
Patricia J. Bauer United States	50	5.1k 1.2×	3.8k 1.2×	1.1k 0.4×	1.1k 0.7×	639 0.4×	232	7.9k
Stephanie M. Carlson United States	48	6.4k 1.6×	3.9k 1.2×	2.7k 1.0×	2.4k 1.6×	4.6k 3.1×	105	13.6k
Heinz Wimmer Austria	52	12.9k 3.2×	7.1k 2.3×	2.5k 0.9×	1.6k 1.0×	966 0.6×	102	15.6k
Claire Hughes United Kingdom	65	6.2k 1.5×	4.5k 1.4×	3.0k 1.1×	1.7k 1.1×	4.8k 3.2×	201	13.6k
Janet Wilde Astington Canada	32	6.0k 1.5×	2.5k 0.8×	2.3k 0.9×	1.2k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	63	7.7k
Harlene Hayne New Zealand	48	3.6k 0.9×	3.2k 1.0×	1.6k 0.6×	671 0.4×	896 0.6×	155	6.4k
Louis J. Moses United States	31	4.2k 1.0×	2.5k 0.8×	2.1k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	41	6.9k
Marion Perlmutter United States	32	1.6k 0.4×	1.2k 0.4×	873 0.3×	990 0.6×	756 0.5×	87	4.2k
Stephen A. Petrill United States	48	2.2k 0.5×	1.0k 0.3×	784 0.3×	2.2k 1.5×	2.0k 1.3×	170	7.2k
Ian A. Apperly United Kingdom	47	4.1k 1.0×	3.8k 1.2×	3.2k 1.2×	1.7k 1.1×	723 0.5×	122	7.6k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ruffman, Ted, Kana Imuta, & Virginia Slaughter. (2025). A Review and Critique of Studies Examining Empathy in Infants. Human Development. 69(4). 171–190. 1 indexed citations

Yong, Min Hooi, et al.. (2024). Effects of age on behavioural and eye gaze on Theory of Mind using movie for social cognition. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 77(12). 2476–2487.

Ruffman, Ted, et al.. (2024). Theory of Mind Development in Middle Childhood and Adolescence: Accuracy and Preference for Mental-State Reasoning. Journal of Cognition and Development. 26(2). 274–298.

Ruffman, Ted, et al.. (2023). Recognition of facial emotions across the lifespan: 8‐year‐olds resemble older adults. British Journal of Developmental Psychology. 41(2). 128–139. 2 indexed citations

Ruffman, Ted. (2023). Belief it or not: How children construct a theory of mind. Child Development Perspectives. 17(2). 106–112. 8 indexed citations

Slaughter, Virginia, et al.. (2023). Not just quantity but also quality of language: Cross-cultural comparisons of maternal mental state talk in New Zealand, Australia, and China. PLoS ONE. 18(3). e0282480–e0282480. 4 indexed citations

Ruffman, Ted, et al.. (2022). General cognitive decline does not account for older adults’ worse emotion recognition and theory of mind. Scientific Reports. 12(1). 6808–6808. 10 indexed citations

Hunter, John, et al.. (2020). Chinese children's in-group favoritism is affected by age and gender. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology. 72. 101232–101232. 4 indexed citations

Ruffman, Ted. (2020). What Causes Age-Related Emotion Recognition Decline?. 1–3. 1 indexed citations

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Bailey, Phoebe E., Gillian Slessor, Matthias Rieger, et al.. (2015). Trust and trustworthiness in young and older adults.. Psychology and Aging. 30(4). 977–986. 41 indexed citations

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Bailey, Phoebe E., et al.. (2015). Age-related similarities and differences in first impressions of trustworthiness. Cognition & Emotion. 30(5). 1017–1026. 29 indexed citations

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Taumoepeau, Mele & Ted Ruffman. (2015). Self-awareness moderates the relation between maternal mental state language about desires and children’s mental state vocabulary. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 144. 114–129. 21 indexed citations

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Yong, Min Hooi & Ted Ruffman. (2014). Is that fear? Domestic dogs’ use of social referencing signals from an unfamiliar person. Behavioural Processes. 110. 74–81. 15 indexed citations

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Yong, Min Hooi & Ted Ruffman. (2014). Emotional contagion: Dogs and humans show a similar physiological response to human infant crying. Behavioural Processes. 108. 155–165. 74 indexed citations

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Bailey, Phoebe E., et al.. (2014). Age differences in conscious versus subconscious social perception: The influence of face age and valence on gaze following.. Psychology and Aging. 29(3). 491–502. 22 indexed citations

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Slessor, Gillian, Phoebe E. Bailey, Peter G. Rendell, et al.. (2014). Examining the time course of young and older adults’ mimicry of enjoyment and nonenjoyment smiles.. Emotion. 14(3). 532–544. 15 indexed citations

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Ruffman, Ted, Janice Murray, Jamin Halberstadt, & Mele Taumoepeau. (2010). Verbosity and emotion recognition in older adults.. Psychology and Aging. 25(2). 492–497. 47 indexed citations

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Ruffman, Ted, et al.. (2003). How language relates to belief, desire, and emotion understanding. Cognitive Development. 18(2). 139–158. 152 indexed citations

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Ruffman, Ted, et al.. (1998). Older (but not younger) siblings facilitate false belief understanding.. Developmental Psychology. 34(1). 161–174. 237 indexed citations

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Perner, Josef, Ted Ruffman, & Susan Leekam. (1994). Theory of Mind Is Contagious: You Catch It from Your Sibs. Child Development. 65(4). 1228–1228. 234 indexed citations

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