Publications

  • Schmidt, M. F. H., & Rakoczy, H. (in press). Children’s acquisition and application of norms. Annual Review of Developmental Psychology. 
  • Kassecker, A., Verschoor, S. A., & Schmidt, M. F. H. (2023). Human infants are aroused and concerned by moral transgressions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 120(31),e2306344120. Request a copy here
  • O’Madagain, C., Helming, K. A., Schmidt, M. F. H., Shupe, E., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. (2022). Great Apes and Human Children Rationally Monitor Their Decisions. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. Request a copy here
  • Hardecker, D. J. K., Schmidt, M. F. H., & Haun, D. B. M. (2022). Sulking behavior and the emergence of hurt feelings in young children. Social Development. Request a copy here
  • Friedrich, J. P., & Schmidt, M. F. H. (2022). Preschoolers agree to and enforce prosocial, but not selfish, sharing norms. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 214, 105303. Request a copy here
  • Hardecker, D. J. K., Schmidt, M. F. H., & Haun, D. B. M. (2021). Developing a Coding System for Sulking Behavior in Young Children. SAGE Open, 11(3), 21582440211009224. Request a copy here
  • Schmidt, M. F. H., Rakoczy, H., & Tomasello, M. (2019). Eighteen-month-old infants correct non-conforming actions by others. Infancy. Request a copy here
  • Fedra, E., & Schmidt, M. F. H. (2019). Older (but not younger) preschoolers reject incorrect knowledge claims. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 37(1), 130–145. Request a copy here
  • Schmidt, M. F. H., & Rakoczy, H. (2019). On the uniqueness of human normative attitudes. In K. Bayertz & N. Roughley (Eds.), The Normative Animal? On the anthropological significance of social, moral and linguistic norms (pp. 121–135). Oxford, NY: Oxford University Press. Request a copy here
  • Butler, L. P., Schmidt, M. F. H., Tavassolie, N. S., & Gibbs, H. M. (2018). Children’s evaluation of verified and unverified claims. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 176, 73-83. Request a copy here
  • Dahl, A., & Schmidt, M. F. H. (2018). Preschoolers, but not adults, treat instrumental norms as categorical imperatives. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 165, 85-100. Request a copy here
  • Fedra, E., & Schmidt, M. F. H. (2018). Preschoolers understand the moral dimension of factual claims. Frontiers in Psychology, 9. Request a copy here
  • Kassecker, A., & Schmidt, M. F. H. (2018). Entwicklung von sozialem Wissen und sozialer Kompetenz. In J. Strohmer (Ed.), Psychologische Grundlagen für Fachkräfte in Kindergarten, Krippe und Hort (pp. 177-184). Bern: Hogrefe. 
  • Paulus, M., & Schmidt, M. F. H. (Eds.). (2018). Special issue: The early development of the normative mind. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 165, 1-6. Request a copy here
  • Schmidt, M. F. H., & Rakoczy, H. (2018). Developing an understanding of normativity. In A. Newen, L. de Bruin, & S. Gallagher (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Cognition: Embodied, Embedded, Enactive and Extended (pp. 685–706). Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. 
  • Schmidt, M. F. H., González-Cabrera, I., & Tomasello, M. (2017). Children’s developing metaethical judgments. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 164, 163-177. Request a copy here
  • Hardecker, S., Schmidt, M. F. H., & Tomasello, M. (2017). Children’s developing understanding of the conventionality of rules. Journal of Cognition and Development, 18(2), 163-188. Request a copy here
  • Schmidt, M. F. H., & Tomasello, M. (2016). How chimpanzees cooperate: If dominance is artificially constrained. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 113(44), E6728–E6729. Request a copy here
  • Schmidt, M. F. H., Butler, L. P., Heinz, J., & Tomasello, M. (2016). Young children see a single action and infer a social norm: Promiscuous normativity in 3-year-olds. Psychological Science, 27(10), 1360–1370. Request a copy here
  • Hardecker, S., Schmidt, M. F. H., Roden, M., & Tomasello, M. (2016). Young children’s behavioral and emotional responses to different social norm violations. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 150, 364–379. Request a copy here
  • Schmidt, M. F. H., Svetlova, M., Johe, J., & Tomasello, M. (2016). Children’s developing understanding of legitimate reasons for allocating resources unequally. Cognitive Development, 37, 42–52. Request a copy here
  • Kanngiesser, P., Schmidt, M. F. H., & Rossano, F. (2016). Young children’s understanding of social norms and social institutions. In H. Kury, S. Redo, & E. Shea (Eds.), Women and children as victims and offenders: Background – prevention – reintegration.Suggestions for succeeding generations (pp. 195–210). Heidelberg: Springer Verlag. Request a copy here
  • Schmidt, M. F. H., Rakoczy, H., Mietzsch, T., & Tomasello, M. (2016). Young children understand the role of agreement in establishing arbitrary norms—but unanimity is key. Child Development, 87(2), 612–626. Request a copy here
  • Schmidt, M. F. H., Hardecker, S., & Tomasello, M. (2016). Preschoolers understand the normativity of cooperatively structured competition. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 143, 34–47. Request a copy here
  • Köymen, B., Schmidt, M. F. H., Rost, L., Lieven, E., & Tomasello, M. (2015). Teaching versus enforcing game rules in preschoolers’ peer interactions. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 135, 93–101. Request a copy here
  • Butler, L. P., Schmidt, M. F. H., Bürgel, J., & Tomasello, M. (2015). Young children use pedagogical cues to modulate the strength of normative inferences. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 33(4), 476–488. Request a copy here
  • Göckeritz, S., Schmidt, M. F. H., & Tomasello, M. (2014). Young children’s creation and transmission of social norms. Cognitive Development, 30(0), 81–95. Request a copy here
  • Jensen, K., Vaish, A., & Schmidt, M. F. H. (2014). The emergence of human prosociality: Aligning with others through feelings, concerns, and norms. Frontiers in Psychology,5(822). Request a copy here
  • Schmidt, M. F. H., Rakoczy, H., & Tomasello, M. (2013). Young children understand and defend the entitlements of others. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 116(4), 930– 944. Request a copy here
  • Rakoczy, H., & Schmidt, M. F. H. (2013). The early ontogeny of social norms. ChildDevelopment Perspectives, 7(1), 17–21. Request a copy here
  • Sommerville, J. A., Schmidt, M. F. H., Yun, J., & Burns, M. (2013). The development of fairness expectations and prosocial behavior in the second year of life. Infancy, 18(1), 40–66. Request a copy here
  • Schmidt, M. F. H., Rakoczy, H., & Tomasello, M. (2012). Young children enforce social norms selectively depending on the violator’s group affiliation. Cognition, 124(3), 325–333. Request a copy here
  • Schmidt, M. F. H., & Tomasello, M. (2012). Young children enforce social norms. CurrentDirections in Psychological Science, 21(4), 232–236. Request a copy here
  • Schmidt, M. F. H., Rakoczy, H., & Tomasello, M. (2011). Young children attribute normativity to novel actions without pedagogy or normative language. Developmental Science,14(3), 530-539. Request a copy here
  • Schmidt, M. F. H., & Sommerville, J. A. (2011). Fairness expectations and altruistic sharing in 15- month-old human infants. PLoS ONE, 6(10), e23223. Request a copy here
  • Duschek, S., Heiss, H., Schmidt, M. F. H., Werner, N. S., & Schuepbach, D. (2010). Interactions between systemic hemodynamics and cerebral blood flow during attentional processing. Psychophysiology, 47(6), 1159-1166. Request a copy here
  • Szameitat, A. J., Raabe, M., Müller, H. J., Greenlee, M. W., Mourão-Miranda, J., & NCP Students (Goltz, D., Graf, P., Hegenloh, M., Herbst, K., Leszczynski, M., Myers, N., Schmidt, M. F. H., Seidl, K., Soutschek, A., Tardy, M., & Tsankova, E.) (2010). Motor imagery of voluntary coughing - A functional MRI study using a support vector machine. NeuroReport, 21(15), 980-984. Request a copy here