Here are some of our research papers, please get in touch if you would like to know more.

Gibhardt, S., Aitken, J., Low, R., & Henderson, A. M. (2024). Task demands matter in shaping how preschoolers express instrumental helping, comforting, and sharing: A longitudinal analysis. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 243, 105929. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2024.105929

Gibhardt, S., Hepach, R., & Henderson, A. M. (2024). Observing prosociality and talent: the emotional characteristics and behavioral outcomes of elevation and admiration in 6.5-to 8.5-year-old children. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1392331.

Sagar, M., Moser, A., Henderson, A. M. E., Morrison, S. *, Pages, N., Nejati, A., Yeh, W-T.*, Conder, J., Knott, A., Jawed, K., & Takac, M. (in press). A platform for holistic embodied models of infant cognition, and its use in a model of event processing. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems.

Breeland, N.*, Henderson, A. M. E., & Low, R. (2022). Initial interactions matter: Warm-up play impacts 2-year-olds’ cooperative ability with an unfamiliar same-aged peer. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 218, 105328. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2021.105328

Stengelin, R., Toppe, T., Kansal, S., Tietz, L., Sürer, G., Henderson, A. M. E., & Haun, D. B. M. (2022). Priming third-party social exclusion does not elicit children ’ s inclusion of out-group members. Royal Society Open Science, 9, 211281. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.211281

Morrison, S. *, Henderson, A. M. E., Sagar, M., Kennedy-Costantini, S., & Adams, J. * (2021). Infant Behavior and Development Peek-a-who ? Exploring the dynamics of early communication with an interactive partner swap paradigm and state space grid visualization. Infant Behavior and Development, 64, 101576. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2021.101576

Low, R. S. T., Overall, N. C., Chang, V. T., Henderson, A. M. E., & Sibley, C. G. (2021). Emotion regulation and psychological and physical health during a nationwide COVID-19 lockdown. Emotion, 21(8), 1671–1690. https://doi.org/10.1037/emo0001046

McRae, C. S. *, Overall, N., Henderson, A. M. E., Low, R. S. T., & Chang, V. T. (2021). Parents’ Distress and Poor Parenting during a COVID-19 Lockdown: The Buffering Effects of Partner Support and Cooperative Coparenting. Developmental Psychology, 57, 1623-1632. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001207

McRae, C. S. *, Overall, N., Henderson, A. M. E., Low, R. S. T., & Cross, E. J. (2021). Conflict-Coparenting Spillover: The Role of Actors’ and Partners’ Attachment Insecurity and Gender. Journal of Family Psychology, 35(7), 972–982. https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0000884

Corkin, M. T.*, Henderson, A. M. E., Peterson, E. R., Kennedy-Costantini, S., Sharplin, H.*, & Morrison, S.* (2021). Associations between technoference, quality of parent-infant interactions, and infant vocabulary development. Infant Behavior and Development, 64, 101611. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2021.101611

Corkin, M. T. *, Peterson, E. R., Henderson, A. M. E., Waldie, K. E., Reese, E., & Morton, S. M. B. (2021). Preschool screen media exposure, executive functions and symptoms of inattention/hyperactivity. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 73, 101237. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appdev.2020.101237

Corkin, M. T. *, Peterson, E. R., Henderson, A. M. E., Bird, A. L., Waldie, K. E., Reese, E., & Morton, S. M. B. (2021). The Predictors of Screen Time at Two Years in a Large Nationally Diverse Cohort. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 30, 2076-2096. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-021-01985-5

Overall, N., Chang, V., Pietromonaco, P. R., Low, R. S. T., & Henderson, A. M. E. (2021). Partners’ Attachment Insecurity and Stress Predict Poorer Relationship Functioning during COVID-19 Quarantines. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1177/1948550621992973

Overall, N. C., Chang, V. T., Cross, E. J., Low, R. S. T., & Henderson, A. M. E. (2021). Sexist attitudes predict family-based aggression during a COVID-19 lockdown. Journal of Family Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/fam0000834

Cross, E, Overall, N., Low, R*, & Henderson, A. M. E. (2020). Relationship problems, agreement and bias in perceptions of partners’ parental responsiveness, and family functioning. Journal of Family Psychology. https://doi-org.ezproxy.auckland.ac.nz/10.1037/fam0000812

Krogh-Jespersen, S., Henderson, A. M. E., & Woodward, A. L. (2020). Let’s get it together: Infants generate visual predictions based on collaborative goals. Infant Behavior and Development, 59, 101446. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2020.101446

Wang, Y.*, Park, Y.*, Itakura, S., Henderson, A. M. E., Kanda, T., Furuhata, N.*, Ishiguro, H. (2020). Infants’ perceptions of cooperation between a human and robot. Infant and Child Development, 29, e2161. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/icd.2161

Low, R*, Overall, N., Cross, E*, & Henderson, A. M. E. (2019). Emotion Regulation, Conflict Resolution, and Spillover on Subsequent Family Functioning. Emotion, 19, 1162-1182. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/emo0000519

Gönül, G.*, Hohenberger, A., Corballis, M., & Henderson, A. M. E. (2019). Joint and individual tool making in preschoolers: From social to cognitive processes. Social Development, 28, 103.7-1053. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/sode.12373

Wang, Y. *, & Henderson, A. M. E. (2018). We cooperated so… now what? Infants expect cooperative partners to share resources. Infant Behavior and Development, 52, 9-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2018.04.005

Wang, Y. *, & Henderson, A. M. E. (2018). Just rewards: 17-month-old infants expect agents to take resources according to the principles of distributive justice. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 172, 25-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2018.02.008

Sagar, M, Seymour, M., & Henderson, A. (2016). Creating connection with autonomous facial animation. Communications of the ACM, 59(12), 82-19. https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2950041

Wang, Y., & Henderson, A. M. E. (2018a). Just rewards: 17-Month-old infants expect agents to take resources according to the principles of distributive justice. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 172, 25-40. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2018.02.008

Wang, Y., & Henderson, A. M. E. (2018b). We cooperated so . . . now what? Infants expect cooperative partners to share resources. Infant Behavior and Development, 52, 9-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2018.04.005

Sagar, M., Seymour, M., & Henderson, A. (2016). Creating connection with autonomous facial animation. Communications of the ACM, 59(12), 82–91. http://doi.org/10.1145/2950041

Henderson, A. M. E.; Graham, S. A.; Schell, V. (2015). 24-month-olds’ selective learning is not an all-or-none phenomenon. PloS one, 10(6),  doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0131215.

Henderson, A. M. E.; Scott, J.C. (2015). She called that thing a mido, but should you call it a mido too? Linguistic experience influences infants’ expectations of conventionality. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00332.

Howard, L.H.; Henderson, A. M. E.; Carrazza, C.; Woodward, A. L. (2015). Infants’ and young children’s imitation of linguistic in-group and out-group informants. Child Development, 86(1), 259-275, doi:10.1111/cdev.12299.

Hoda, R.; Henderson, A. M. E; Lee, S.; Beh, B.; Greenwood, J. (2014). Aligning technological and pedagogical considerations: harnessing touch-technology to enhance opportunities for collaborative gameplay and reciprocal teaching in nz early education. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction, 2(1), 48-59, doi:10.1016/j.ijcci.2014.06.001.

Novack, M.A.; Henderson, A. M. E; Woodward, A.L. (2014). Twelve-month-old infants generalize novel signed labels, but not preferences across individuals. Journal of Cognition and Development, 15(4), 539-550, doi:10.1080/15248372.2013.782460.

Scott, J., Henderson, A. M. E. (2013). Language matters: thirteen-month-olds appreciate that linguistic community constrains conventionality. Developmental Psychology, 49, 2102-2111. doi:10.1037/a0031981

Henderson, A. M. E., Sabbagh, M. A., Woodward, A. L. (2013). Preschoolers’ selective learning is guided by the principle of relevance. Cognition, 126, 246-257doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2012.10.006

Henderson, A. M. E., Wang, Y.*, Matz, L., & Woodward, A. L. (2013). Active experience shapes 10-month-old infants’ understanding of collaborative goals. Infancy, 18, 10-39doi:10.1111/j.1532-7078.2012.00126.x

Henderson, A. M. E., & Sabbagh, M. A. (2013). Learning words from experience: An integrated framework. In L. Gogate & G. Hollich (Eds.) Theoretical and Computational Models of Word Learning (pp. 109-131)IGI Global: Pennsylvania.

Sabbagh, M. A., Henderson, A. M. E. (2013). Preschoolers are selective word learners. In M. R. Banaji3 & S. A. Gelman3 (Eds.) Navigating the Social World: What Infants, Children, and Other Species Can Teach Us(pp. 177-180). New York: Oxford University Press.

Henderson, A. M. E., & Woodward, A. L. (2012). Nine-month-old infants generalize object labels, but not object preferences across individuals. Developmental Science, 15, 641-652. doi:10.1111/j.1467-7687.2012.01157.x

Henderson, A. M. E. & Woodward, A. L. (2011). “Let’s work together”: what do infants understand about collaborative goals? Cognition, 21, 12 – 21. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2011.05.008

Henderson, A. M. E., & Sabbagh, M. A. (2010). Parents’ use of conventional and unconventional labels in conversations with their preschoolers. Journal of Child Language, 37, 793-816doi:10.1017/S0305000909990122

Henderson, A. M. E., Gerson, S., & Woodward, A. L. (2008). The birth of social intelligenceZero-to-Three28, 13–20.

Sabbagh, M. A., & Henderson, A. M. E. (2007). How an appreciation of conventionality shapes early word learning. New Directions in Child and Adolescent Development, 115, 25–37doi:10.1002/cd.180

Graham, S. A., Stock, H., & Henderson, A. M. E. (2006). Nineteen-month-olds’ understanding of the conventionality of object labels versus desires. Infancy, 9, 341-350. doi:10.1207/s15327078in0903_5

Henderson, A. M. E., & Graham, S. A. (2005). Two-year-olds’ appreciation of the shared nature of novel object labels. Journal of Cognition and Development, 6, 381-402doi:10.1207/s15327647jcd0603_4