Publications
2024
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Bleijlevens, N. & Behne, T.
(2024).
Young children and adults use reasoning by exclusion rather than attraction to novelty to disambiguate novel word meanings.
Developmental Psychology.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dev0001705.
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Schmid, B., Bleijlevens, N., Mani, N. & Behne, T.
(2024).
The cognitive underpinnings and early development of children’s selective trust.
Child Development,
00,
1-18.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdev.14073.
2023
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Bleijlevens, N., Contier, F. & Behne, T.
(2023).
Pragmatics aid referent disambiguation and word learning in young children and adults.
Developmental Science.
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Colle, L., Grosse, G., Behne, T. & Tomasello, M.
(2023).
Just teasing! - Infants’ and toddlers’ understanding of teasing interactions and its effect on social bonding.
Cognition,
231,
105314.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2022.105314.
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Outters, V., Hepach, R., Behne, T. & Mani, N.
(2023).
Children's affective involvement in early word learning.
Scientific Reports,
13,
7351.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-34049-3.
2020
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Outters, V., Schreiner, M., Behne, T. & Mani, N.
(2020).
Maternal input and infants’ response to infant-directed speech.
Infancy.
00:1-22.
https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12334.
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Schütte, F., Mani, N. & Behne, T.
(2020).
Retrospective inferences in selective trust.
Royal Society Open Science,
7(2),
1-11.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.191451.
2019
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Hermes, J., Rakoczy, H. & Behne, T.
(2019).
Making sense of conflicting information – a touchscreen paradigm to measure young children’s selective trust.
Infant and Child Development.
https://dx.doi.org/Doi.10.1002/icd.2119.
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Rakoczy, H. & Behne, T.
(2019).
Commitment sharing as crucial step toward a developmentally plausible speech act theory?.
Theoretical Linguistics,
45(1-2),
93-97.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1515/tl-2019-0007.
2018
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Hermes, J., Behne, T. & Rakoczy, H.
(2018).
The development of selective trust: Prospects for a dual-process account.
Child Development Perspectives,
12(2),
134-138.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cdep.12274.
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Hermes, J., Behne, T., Bich, A., Thielert, C. & Rakoczy, H.
(2018).
Children's selective trust decisions: rational competence and limiting performance factors.
Developmental Science,
21,
e12527.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/desc.12527.
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Keupp, S., Behne, T. & Rakoczy, H.
(2018).
The rationality of (over-) imitation.
Perspectives on Psychological Science,
13(6),
678-687.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/174569161879.
2016
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Hermes, J., Behne, T., Studte, K., Zeyen, A., Gräfenhain, M., Rakoczy, H., ... Rakoczy, H.
(2016).
Selective Cooperation in Early Childhood – How to Choose Models and Partners.
PLoS ONE,
11(8),
e0160881.
https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0160881.
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Keupp, S., Bancken, C., Schillmöller, J., Rakoczy, H. & Behne, T.
(2016).
Rational over-imitation: Preschoolers consider material costs and copy causally irrelevant actions selectively.
Cognition,
147,
85-92.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.20.
2015
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Hermes, J., Behne, T. & Rakoczy, H.
(2015).
The Role of Trait Reasoning in Young Children’s Selective Trust.
Developmental Psychology,
51(11),
1574-1587.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/dev0000042.
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Keupp, S., Behne, T. & Rakoczy, H.
(2015).
Over-imitation is not automatic: Context-sensitivity in children's over-imitation and action interpretation of causally irrelevant actions.
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology,
130,
163-175.
2014
- Behne, T. (2014). Cultural Learning. In Brooks, P., Kempe, V. (Eds.), (pp. 135-138). : Sage Publications.
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Behne, T., Carpenter, M. & Tomasello, M.
(2014).
Young children create iconic gestures to inform others.
Developmental Psychology,
50(8),
2049-2060.
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Lohse, K., Gräfenhain, M., Behne, T. & Rakoczy, H.
(2014).
Young children understand the normative implications of future-directed speech acts.
PLoS ONE,
9(1).
https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0086958.
2012
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Behne, T., Liszkowski, U., Carpenter, M. & Tomasello, M.
(2012).
Twelve-month-olds’ comprehension and production of pointing.
British Journal of Developmental Psychology,
30(3),
359-375.
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Matthews, D., Behne, T., Lieven, E. & Tomasello, M.
(2012).
Origins of the human pointing gesture: a training study.
Developmental Science,
15(6),
817-829.
2009
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Gräfenhain, M., Behne, T., Carpenter, M. & Tomasello, M.
(2009).
Young children's understanding of joint commitments.
Developmental Psychology,
45,
1430-1443.
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Gräfenhain, M., Behne, T., Carpenter, M. & Tomasello, M.
(2009).
One-year-olds' understanding of nonverbal gestures directed to a third person.
Cognitive Development,
24(1),
23-33.
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Liebal, K., Behne, T., Carpenter, M. & Tomasello, M.
(2009).
Infants use shared experience to interpret pointing gestures.
Developmental Science,
12(2),
264-271.
2005
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Barrett, H. & Behne, T.
(2005).
Children's understanding of death as the cessation of agency: a test using sleep versus death.
Cognition,
96(2),
93-108.
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Behne, T., Carpenter, M., Call, J. & Tomasello, M.
(2005).
Unwilling versus unable: Infants’ understanding of intentional action.
Developmental Psychology,
41(2),
328-337.
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Behne, T., Carpenter, M. & Tomasello, M.
(2005).
One-year-olds comprehend the communicative intentions behind gestures in a hiding game.
Developmental Science,
8(6),
492-499.
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Tomasello, M., Carpenter, M., Call, J., Behne, T. & Moll, H.
(2005).
Understanding and sharing intentions: The ontogeny of cultural cognition.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences,
28,
675-735.