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Gail D. Heyman

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Publications

119

Citations

6.7K

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Active since

1992

Affiliations

University of California San Diego(Current)

University of Toronto

Zhejiang Normal University

Hangzhou Normal University

University of Michigan

Gail D. Heyman is an author at University of California San Diego specializing in social sciences, education, and developmental psychology.

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Social SciencesDevelopmental PsychologyPsychologyChild PsychologyEducationChild DevelopmentBehavioral ScienceCognitive DevelopmentSocial PsychologySocial Cognition

Publications per year

1992–2024

119

Publications

119

Carrot-Eaters and Creature-Believers: The Effects of Lexicalization on Children's Inferences About Social Categories

Susan A. Gelman, Gail D. Heyman · Psychological Science · 1999 · 342 citations

Language Development, Psycholinguistics, Lexical Semantics +17

Achievement goals and intrinsic motivation: Their relation and their role in adaptive motivation

Gail D. Heyman, Carol S. Dweck · Motivation and Emotion · 1992 · 317 citations

Adaptive Motivation, Achievement Goal, Behavioral Sciences +11

Young Children's Vulnerability to Self-Blame and Helplessness: Relationship to Beliefs about Goodness

Gail D. Heyman, Carol S. Dweck, Kathleen M. Cain · Child Development · 1992 · 204 citations

Educational Psychology, Global Beliefs, Education +19

Children's thinking about traits: implications for judgments of the self and others.

Gail D. Heyman, Carol S. Dweck · PubMed · 1998 · 178 citations

Social Psychology, Abilities Development, Education +20

Preschool Children's Use of Trait Labels to Make Inductive Inferences

Gail D. Heyman, Susan A. Gelman · Journal of Experimental Child Psychology · 2000 · 174 citations

Early Education, Child Psychology, Cognitive Science +15

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