Personal profile
Research overview
- 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
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
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SDG 10 Reduced Inequalities
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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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
Datasets
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Having Others in Mind_JF (thesis data)
Feng, J. (Creator) & Carpenter, M. (Supervisor), University of St Andrews, 7 Nov 2030
DOI: 10.17630/32e01656-759d-4e88-b512-5d44eebd2504
Dataset: Thesis dataset
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The Developmental Origins of Joint Attention and Communication in Infancy (thesis data)
Salter, G. J. (Creator) & Carpenter, M. (Supervisor), University of St Andrews, 4 Nov 2024
DOI: 10.17630/4bfa0dc0-47d0-45c8-bb1c-1d043de88e56, https://doi.org/10.17630/sta/510
Dataset: Thesis dataset
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Dataset: Communicative eye contact signals a commitment to cooperate for young children
Siposova, B. (Creator), Tomasello, M. (Creator) & Carpenter, M. (Creator), Dataverse, 28 May 2018
DOI: 10.7910/DVN/Y3LADG
Dataset
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The developmental origins of joint attention: Infants’ early joint attention bids
Salter, G. J. (Creator) & Carpenter, M. (Creator), OSF, 2025
Dataset
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Young children use imitation communicatively
Altinok, N. (Creator), Over, H. (Creator) & Carpenter, M. (Creator), OSF, 2023
Dataset
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Cognition (Journal)
Carpenter, M. (Editor)
1 Jul 2013 → 31 Dec 2014Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editor of research journal
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Child Development Perspectives (Journal)
Carpenter, M. (Editor)
2013 → …Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work types › Editor of research journal
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Invited speaker: MK40: Common Knowledge, Common Ground, and Context in Communication Workshop
Carpenter, M. (Speaker)
21 Jun 2021Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Keynote speaker: IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (a robotics conference)
Carpenter, M. (Speaker)
2021Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Keynote speaker: Social Ontology conference
Carpenter, M. (Speaker)
2020Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
Prizes
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Elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Carpenter, M. (Recipient), 2021
Prize: Election to learned society
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Selected as a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science (APS)
Carpenter, M. (Recipient), 2012
Prize: Election to learned society