| The emergence of prosocial behavior: Why do infants and toddlers help, comfort, and share? M Paulus Child Development Perspectives 8 (2), 77-81, 2014 | 363 | 2014 |
| Quantifying sources of variability in infancy research using the infant-directed-speech preference ManyBabies Consortium Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science 3 (1), 24-52, 2020 | 261 | 2020 |
| The development of recipient-dependent sharing behavior and sharing expectations in preschool children. M Paulus, C Moore Developmental psychology 50 (3), 914, 2014 | 200 | 2014 |
| Imitation in infancy: Rational or motor resonance? M Paulus, S Hunnius, M Vissers, H Bekkering Child development 82 (4), 1047-1057, 2011 | 197 | 2011 |
| Neural correlates of prosocial behavior in infancy: different neurophysiological mechanisms support the emergence of helping and comforting M Paulus, N Kühn-Popp, M Licata, B Sodian, J Meinhardt Neuroimage 66, 522-530, 2013 | 186 | 2013 |
| Children’s psychological well-being and problem behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic: An online study during the lockdown period in Germany N Christner, S Essler, A Hazzam, M Paulus PloS one 16 (6), e0253473, 2021 | 148 | 2021 |
| The early origins of human charity: Developmental changes in preschoolers’ sharing with poor and wealthy individuals M Paulus Frontiers in psychology 5, 344, 2014 | 138 | 2014 |
| The multidimensional nature of early prosocial behavior: a motivational perspective M Paulus Current Opinion in Psychology 20, 111-116, 2018 | 127 | 2018 |
| Social understanding and self-regulation predict pre-schoolers’ sharing with friends and disliked peers: A longitudinal study M Paulus, M Licata, S Kristen, C Thoermer, A Woodward, B Sodian International Journal of Behavioral Development 39 (1), 53-64, 2015 | 125 | 2015 |
| How learning to shake a rattle affects 8-month-old infants’ perception of the rattle's sound: electrophysiological evidence for action-effect binding in infancy M Paulus, S Hunnius, M Van Elk, H Bekkering Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 2 (1), 90-96, 2012 | 121 | 2012 |
| Understanding of goals, beliefs, and desires predicts morally relevant theory of mind: A longitudinal investigation B Sodian, M Licata, S Kristen‐Antonow, M Paulus, M Killen, A Woodward Child development 87 (4), 1221-1232, 2016 | 101 | 2016 |
| Mother–infant interaction quality and infants' ability to encode actions as goal‐directed M Licata, M Paulus, C Thoermer, S Kristen, AL Woodward, B Sodian Social Development 23 (2), 340-356, 2014 | 96 | 2014 |
| Examining implicit metacognition in 3.5-year-old children: An eye-tracking and pupillometric study M Paulus, J Proust, B Sodian Frontiers in Psychology 4, 145, 2013 | 93 | 2013 |
| Producing and understanding prosocial actions in early childhood M Paulus, C Moore Advances in child development and behavior 42, 271-305, 2012 | 93 | 2012 |
| Friendship trumps neediness: The impact of social relations and others’ wealth on preschool children’s sharing M Paulus Journal of experimental child psychology 146, 106-120, 2016 | 92 | 2016 |
| Normative expectations about fairness: The development of a charity norm in preschoolers M Wörle, M Paulus Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 165, 66-84, 2018 | 91 | 2018 |
| The role of frequency information and teleological reasoning in infants' and adults' action prediction. M Paulus, S Hunnius, C van Wijngaarden, S Vrins, I van Rooij, ... Developmental psychology 47 (4), 976, 2011 | 89 | 2011 |
| Children’s inequity aversion depends on culture: A cross-cultural comparison M Paulus Journal of experimental child psychology 132, 240-246, 2015 | 85 | 2015 |
| Bridging the gap between the other and me: The functional role of motor resonance and action effects in infants’ imitation M Paulus, S Hunnius, M Vissers, H Bekkering Developmental science 14 (4), 901-910, 2011 | 83 | 2011 |
| Saving the robot or the human? Robots who feel deserve moral care SRR Nijssen, BCN Müller, RB Baaren, M Paulus Social Cognition 37 (1), 41-S2, 2019 | 80 | 2019 |
