Amanda Woodward
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American psychologist
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- Bachelors Psychology University of California, Berkeley
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Amanda Woodward is Dean of the Division of the Social Sciences and the William S. Gray Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago. Her research investigates infant social cognition and early language development including the understanding of goal-directed actions, agency, theory of mind, and learning from social partners. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Amanda Woodward's Published Works
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Published Works
- Infants selectively encode the goal object of an actor's reach (1998) (1552)
- Not all emotions are created equal: the negativity bias in social-emotional development. (2008) (769)
- Action experience alters 3-month-old infants' perception of others' actions (2005) (674)
- Infants' knowledge of object motion and human action. (1995) (470)
- Perception of acoustic correlates of major phrasal units by young infants (1992) (389)
- Infants' ability to distinguish between purposeful and non-purposeful behaviors (1999) (383)
- Rapid Word Learning in 13- and 18-Month-Olds. (1994) (339)
- Pulling out the intentional structure of action: the relation between action processing and action production in infancy (2005) (326)
- Infants’ developing understanding of the link between looker and object (2003) (291)
- The accidental transgressor: Morally-relevant theory of mind (2011) (268)
- Twelve-Month-Old Infants Interpret Action in Context (2000) (250)
- Infants’ understanding of the point gesture as an object-directed action (2002) (239)
- How infants make sense of intentional action (2001) (213)
- Infants' Grasp of Others' Intentions (2009) (206)
- Infants' learning about words and sounds in relation to objects. (1999) (187)
- Infants track action goals within and across agents (2007) (178)
- Sensitivity of 24-month-olds to the prior inaccuracy of the source: possible mechanisms. (2010) (173)
- Do as I do: 7-month-old infants selectively reproduce others' goals. (2008) (160)
- Infants generate goal-based action predictions. (2012) (159)
- Learning from their own actions: the unique effect of producing actions on infants' action understanding. (2014) (144)
- The Origins of Social Categorization (2017) (130)
- Exposure to multiple languages enhances communication skills in infancy. (2017) (124)
- Action Experience, More than Observation, Influences Mu Rhythm Desynchronization (2014) (122)
- Early emerging system for reasoning about the social nature of food (2016) (117)
- Action production influences 12-month-old infants' attention to others' actions. (2012) (111)
- The emergence of intention attribution in infancy. (2009) (97)
- Mirroring and the development of action understanding (2014) (91)
- Relations between infants' emerging reach-grasp competence and event-related desynchronization in EEG. (2016) (89)
- Is agency skin-deep? Surface attributes influence infants' sensitivity to goal-directed action (2004) (86)
- Infants' sensitivity to word boundaries in fluent speech (1996) (84)
- Infants' and young children's imitation of linguistic in-group and out-group informants. (2015) (79)
- The infant origins of intentional understanding. (2005) (78)
- Motor System Activation Predicts Goal Imitation in 7-Month-Old Infants (2016) (76)
- Social understanding and self-regulation predict pre-schoolers’ sharing with friends and disliked peers (2015) (74)
- “Let’s work together”: What do infants understand about collaborative goals? (2011) (70)
- Friends or foes: infants use shared evaluations to infer others' social relationships. (2014) (69)
- Children' s comprehension of deceptive points (1999) (68)
- Learning and the Infant Mind (2008) (66)
- Social Cognition and Social Responsiveness in 10-month-old Infants (2007) (66)
- New perspectives on the effects of action on perceptual and cognitive development. (2008) (65)
- Nine-month-old infants generalize object labels, but not object preferences across individuals. (2012) (64)
- Understanding of Goals, Beliefs, and Desires Predicts Morally Relevant Theory of Mind: A Longitudinal Investigation. (2016) (58)
- Are child-directed interactions the cradle of social learning? (2016) (56)
- Infants' Sensitivity to the Causal Features of Means‐End Support Sequences in Action and Perception (2005) (55)
- Mother–infant Interaction Quality and Infants' Ability to Encode Actions as Goal‐directed (2014) (53)
- Infants use attention but not emotions to predict others' actions. (2010) (51)
- A claw is like my hand: Comparison supports goal analysis in infants (2012) (48)
- Learning from gesture: How early does it happen? (2015) (47)
- Preverbal Infants Infer Third-Party Social Relationships Based on Language. (2017) (45)
- Learning From Others and Spontaneous Exploration: A Cross-Cultural Investigation. (2016) (44)
- Reaching the goal: Active experience facilitates 8-month-old infants' prospective analysis of goal-based actions. (2018) (42)
- Social Experience, Social Attention and Word Learning in an Overhearing Paradigm (2009) (42)
- Active experience shapes 10-month-old infants' understanding of collaborative goals. (2013) (41)
- The mutual exclusivity bias in children's word learning: By W. E. Merriman and L. L. Bowman. In Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 54, Serial No. 220, 1989☆ (1991) (39)
- Constraining the Problem Space in Early Word Learning (2000) (38)
- Neighborhood linguistic diversity predicts infants’ social learning (2014) (36)
- Infants' use of action knowledge to get a grasp on words (2003) (34)
- Infants' Understanding of the Actions Involved in Joint Attention (2005) (31)
- Seven-Month-Old Infants Selectively Reproduce the Goals of Animate But Not Inanimate Agents. (2009) (31)
- Building intentional action knowledge with one’s hands (2009) (30)
- Action Anticipation and Interference: A Test of Prospective Gaze. (2008) (29)
- The joint role of trained, untrained, and observed actions at the origins of goal recognition. (2014) (29)
- The early social significance of shared ritual actions (2018) (28)
- Child-directed teaching and social learning at 18 months of age: evidence from Yucatec Mayan and US infants. (2016) (28)
- Think fast! The relationship between goal prediction speed and social competence in infants. (2015) (27)
- Children's expectations about conventional and moral behaviors of ingroup and outgroup members. (2018) (26)
- Toddlers learn words in a foreign language: the role of native vocabulary knowledge (2011) (25)
- Making Smart Social Judgments Takes Time: Infants' Recruitment of Goal Information When Generating Action Predictions (2014) (23)
- Preschoolers’ selective learning is guided by the principle of relevance (2013) (21)
- Social Models Enhance Apes’ Memory for Novel Events (2017) (21)
- The Emergence of Words (2001) (21)
- Infants' expectations about the motions of inanimate vs. animate objects (1993) (20)
- The goal trumps the means: Highlighting goals is more beneficial than highlighting means in means-end training. (2013) (17)
- To get the grasp: seven-month-olds encode and selectively reproduce goal-directed grasping. (2013) (17)
- Shifting goals: effects of active and observational experience on infants’ understanding of higher order goals (2015) (17)
- Why Do Child-Directed Interactions Support Imitative Learning in Young Children? (2014) (14)
- Goal prediction in 2‐year‐old children with and without autism spectrum disorder: An eye‐tracking study (2018) (14)
- Labels Facilitate Infants' Comparison of Action Goals (2014) (14)
- Action Experience Changes Attention to Kinematic Cues (2016) (14)
- Infants’ Learning About Intentional Action (2008) (13)
- The Roots of Verbs in Prelinguistic Action Knowledge. (2006) (13)
- Neighborhood racial demographics predict infants' neural responses to people of different races. (2020) (13)
- Cultural and Developmental Influences on Overt Visual Attention to Videos (2017) (13)
- Understanding infants’ understanding of intentions: Two problems of interpretation (2003) (10)
- Occluding the face diminishes the conceptual accessibility of an animate agent (2018) (10)
- The Birth of Social Intelligence. (2008) (10)
- Twelve-Month-Old Infants Generalize Novel Signed Labels, but Not Preferences Across Individuals (2014) (10)
- Verbal framing of statistical evidence drives children’s preference inferences (2015) (10)
- Infant Foundations of Intentional Understanding (2013) (9)
- Not all emotions are created equal: The negativity bias in early socio-emotional development (2007) (9)
- Opportunities and pitfalls of social media research in rare genetic diseases: a systematic review (2021) (8)
- Person-centred positive emotions, object-centred negative emotions: 2-year-olds generalize negative but not positive emotions across individuals. (2015) (8)
- TWELVE-MONTH-OLD INFANTS INTERPRET ACTION (2000) (8)
- Actions Speak Louder Than Gestures When You Are 2 Years Old (2018) (8)
- Social context shapes neural processing of others' actions in 9-month-old infants. (2021) (7)
- Learning From Others: The Effects of Agency on Event Memory in Young Children. (2020) (7)
- Baby steps on the path to understanding intentions (2005) (7)
- Origins of homophily: Infants expect people with shared preferences to affiliate (2021) (6)
- Human Actions Support Infant Memory (2019) (6)
- Let's get it together: Infants generate visual predictions based on collaborative goals. (2020) (6)
- Infants' Grasp of Others' Intentions -1 (2013) (6)
- What infants know about intentional action and how they might come to know it (2004) (5)
- A developmental perspective on action and social cognition. (2014) (5)
- Babies' learning about words and non-word signals in a communicative context (1998) (3)
- Changing language input following market integration in a Yucatec Mayan community (2021) (3)
- Neural correlates of infant action processing relate to theory of mind in early childhood. (2020) (3)
- Young infants pay special attention to an actor's goal (1996) (3)
- Mirroring and the ontogeny of social cognition (2015) (2)
- Infant Origins of Social Cognition (2016) (2)
- Young children and adults associate social power with indifference to others' needs (2019) (2)
- Should I learn from you? Seeing expectancy violations about action efficiency hinders social learning in infancy (2022) (2)
- From visual prominence to event construal: influences (and non-influences) of eyegaze (2018) (2)
- Three-year-olds’ Perspective-taking in Social Interactions: Relations with Socio-cognitive Skills (2021) (2)
- A window to the structure of the mind (2002) (1)
- Online Action Analysis (2013) (1)
- Neural Correlates of Familiar and Unfamiliar Action in Infancy (2022) (1)
- Everyday interactions support toddlers' learning of conventional actions on artifacts. (2021) (1)
- Action experience in infancy predicts visual-motor functional connectivity during action anticipation. (2022) (0)
- Sign language experience affects comprehension and attention to gesture (2018) (0)
- Higher-Level Goals in the Processing of Human Action Events (2016) (0)
- Action Priming and Agency: Effects on Event Recall In Young Children (2015) (0)
- Children's social wariness toward a different-race stranger relates to individual differences in temperament. (2023) (0)
- History of the Cognitive Development Society: The First 16 Years (2017) (0)
- Children’s social networks in developmental psychology: A network approach to capture and describe early social environments (2022) (0)
- Better together: Exploration prior to instruction facilitates rule-learning and modifies attention to demonstration (2020) (0)
- Form and function in very early word learning (1998) (0)
- Cultural and Developmental Influences on Overt Visual Attention to Videos (2017) (0)
- Toddlers' action learning and memory from active and observed instructions. (2023) (0)
- Number 1 regular articles Laura lakusta and Barbara Landau (johns Hopkins university) starting at the end: The importance of goals in spatial language, 1–33 (2005) (0)
- From brain to behavior: Investigating the neural correlates of infant action imitation in the mu- and beta- frequency bands (2015) (0)
- A is Like My Hand: Comparison Supports Goal Analysis in Infants (2022) (0)
- Infants' encoding of grasping by humans versus machines (1998) (0)
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