Prof Malinda Carpenter
Professor in Developmental Psychology
Research areas
- Infants' and young children's:
- – participation in shared activities (joint attention, gestural communication, imitation, collaboration)
- – prosocial and affiliative behaviour
- – reactions to in- and out-group members
- – understanding of others' mental states (intentions, attention, knowledge, and beliefs)
- Differences between ape and human social cognition
PhD supervision
- Christina Ruiz-Mendoza
- Jinzhi Feng
Selected publications
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Putting the Social Into Social Learning: Explaining Both Selectivity and Fidelity in Children's Copying Behavior
Over, H. & Carpenter, M., May 2012, In: Journal of Comparative Psychology. 126, 2, p. 182-192 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Eighteen-month-old infants show false belief understanding in an active helping paradigm
Buttelmann, D., Carpenter, M. & Tomasello, M., Aug 2009, In: Cognition. 112, 2, p. 337-342 6 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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One-Year-Old Infants Follow Others' Voice Direction
Rossano, F., Carpenter, M. & Tomasello, M., Nov 2012, In: Psychological Science. 23, 11, p. 1298-1302 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Eighteen-Month-Old Infants Show Increased Helping Following Priming With Affiliation
Over, H. & Carpenter, M., Oct 2009, In: Psychological Science. 20, 10, p. 1189-1193 5 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Being Mimicked Increases Prosocial Behavior in 18-Month-Old Infants
Carpenter, M., Uebel, J. & Tomasello, M., Sept 2013, In: Child Development. 84, 5, p. 1511-1518 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review