Publications
Preprint
- Baumann, L., Schidelko, L., Proft, M. & Rakoczy, H. (preprint). Even 3- and 4-year-olds master some modal reasoning tasks – if they have a more agentive structure. https://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/5bkfa.
- Blomberg, I., Schünemann, B., Proft, M. & Rakoczy, H. (preprint). Adults and children engage in subtle and fine-grained action interpretation and evaluation in moral dilemmas. https://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/5jm4f.
- Meyer, M., Proft, M., Engelmann, J. & Rakoczy, H. (preprint). Explicit metacognition at age 3. https://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/9qz6b.
- Schidelko, L. & Rakoczy, H. (preprint). Why do children from age four fail true belief tasks? A decision experiment testing competence versus performance limitation accounts. https://dx.doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/2p7zg.
Accepted Pending Data Collection
2024
- Engelmann, J., Völter, C., Goddu, M., Call, J., Herrmann, E., Rakoczy, H., ... Rakoczy, H. (2024). Modal reasoning in non-human animals: Possible ways forward. Biology Letters, 20(6). https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2024.0080.
- Schmidt, M. F., Vaish, A. & Rakoczy, H. (2024). Don't neglect the middle ground, Inspector Gadget! There is ample space between big special and small ordinary norm psychology. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 19(1), 69-71. https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17456916231187408.
2023
- Engelmann, J., Völter, C., Goddu, M., Call, J., Rakoczy, H., Herrmann, E., ... Herrmann, E. (2023). Chimpanzees prepare for alternative possible outcomes. Biology Letters, 19(6), 20230179. https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2023.0179.
- Engelmann, J., Haux, L., Schleihauf, H., Völter, C., Call, J., Rakoczy, H., ... Herrmann, E. (2023). Do chimpanzees reason logically?. Child Development, 94(5), 1102-1116. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13861.
- Fogiel, A., Hermes, J., Rakoczy, H. & Diesendruck, G. (2023). Infants' biased individuation of in-group members. Cognition, 239, 105561. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2023.105561.
- Haskaraca, F. N., Proft, M., Liszkowski, U. & Rakoczy, H. (2023). How robust are egocentric and altercentric interference effects in social cognition? A test with explicit and implicit versions of a continuous false belief task. Frontiers in Psychology, 14. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1142302.
- Rakoczy, H. (2023). The development of implicit Theory of Mind. In R. Thompson, Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy of Implicit Cognition. (1). (pp. 336-350). (pp. 336-350): Routledge.
- Schmidt, M., Vaish, A. & Rakoczy, H. (2023). Don’t neglect the middle ground, Inspector Gadget! There is ample space between big special and small ordinary norm psychology. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 0(0), 17456916231187408. https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/17456916231187408.
- Schmidt, M. & Rakoczy, H. (2023). Children's acquisition and application of norms. Annual Review of Developmental Psychology, 5(1). https://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-devpsych-120621-034731.
2022
- Barone, P., Wenzel, L., Proft, M. & Rakoczy, H. (2022). Do young children track other’s beliefs, or merely their perceptual access? An interactive, anticipatory measure of early theory of mind. Royal Society Open Science, 9, 211278. https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.211278.
- Engelmann, J., Herrmann, E., Proft, M., Keupp, S., Dunham, Y., Rakoczy, H., ... Rakoczy, H. (2022). Chimpanzees consider freedom of choice in their evaluation of social action. Biology letters, 18(2), 20210502. https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2021.0502.
- Rakoczy, H. & Proft, M. (2022). Knowledge before belief ascription? Yes and no (depending on the type of “knowledge” under consideration). Frontiers in Psychology, 13, 988754. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.988754.
- Rakoczy, H. (2022). Puppet studies present clear and distinct windows into the child's mind. Cognitive Development, 61(101147), 7. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2021.101147.
- Rakoczy, H. (2022). Foundations of theory of mind and its development in early childhood. Nature Reviews Psychology, (10.1038), 13. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s44159-022-00037-z.
- Schidelko, L., Proft, M. & Rakoczy, H. (2022). How do children overcome their pragmatic performance problems in the true belief task? The role of advanced pragmatics and higher-order theory of mind. PLOS ONE, 17(4), e0266959. https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266959.
- Schidelko, L., Huemer, M., Schröder, L., Lueb, A., Perner, J., Rakoczy, H., ... Rakoczy, H. (2022). Why Do Children Who Solve False Belief Tasks Begin to Find True Belief Control Tasks Difficult? A Test of Pragmatic Performance Factors in Theory of Mind Tasks. Frontiers in Psychology, 12, 797246. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.797246.
- Schünemann, B., Schidelko, L., Proft, M. & Rakoczy, H. (2022). Children Understand Subjective (Undesirable) Desires Before they Understand Subjective (False) Beliefs. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 213 (2022), 105268. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105268.
2021
- Eckert, J., Rakoczy, H., Duguid, S., Herrmann, E. & Call, J. (2021). The ape lottery: Chimpanzees fail to consider spatial information when drawing statistical inferences. Animal Behavior and Cognition, 8 (3), 305-324. https://dx.doi.org/org/10.26451/abc.08.03.01.20.
- Engelmann, J., Völter, C., O'Madagain, C., Proft, M., Haun, D., Rakoczy, H., ... Herrmann, E. (2021). Chimpanzees consider alternative possibilities. Current Biology, 31 (20), R1377-R1378. doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.09.012.
- Essa, F., Shilo, R., Diesendruck, G. & Rakoczy, H. (2021). Children explain in- and out-group behavior differently. Social Development. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sode.12499.
- Rakoczy, H., Miosga, N. & Schultze, T. (2021). Young children evauate and follow others' arguments when forming and revising beliefs. Social Development, 00, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12533.
- Schidelko, L., Schünemann, B., Rakoczy, H. & Proft, M. (2021). Online testing yields the same results as lab testing: A validation study with the false belief task. Frontiers in Psychology, 12(4573). https://dx.doi.org/10:3389/fpsyg.2021/703238.
- Schünemann, B., Proft, M. & Rakoczy, H. (2021). Children's Developing Understanding of the Subjectivity of Intentions - A Case of "Advanced Theory of Mind". Journal of Cognition and Development. 1-23. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15248372.2021.2003366.
- Schünemann, B., Keller, J., Rakoczy, H., Behne, T. & Bräuer, J. (2021). Dogs distinguish human intentional and unintentional actions. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 1-9. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-94374.
- Shilo, R., Weinsdörfer, A., Rakoczy, H. & Diesendruck, G. (2021). Children's prediction of others' behavior based on group vs. individual properties. Cognitive Development, 57. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2020.100955.