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Adrienne Wente

Berkeley College(US)Institute of Psychology(RU)University of California, Berkeley(US)

Publications by Year

Research Areas

Child and Animal Learning Development, Cultural Differences and Values, Social and Intergroup Psychology, Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics, Early Childhood Education and Development

Most-Cited Works

→ Changes in cognitive flexibility and hypothesis search across human life history from childhood to adolescence to adulthood(2017)333 cited
→ Culture moderates the relationship between self-control ability and free will beliefs in childhood(2021)54 cited
→ How Universal Are Free Will Beliefs? Cultural Differences in Chinese and U.S. 4- and 6-Year-Olds(2016)49 cited
→ Causal Learning Across Culture and Socioeconomic Status(2017)23 cited
→ Young Children Are Wishful Thinkers: The Development of Wishful Thinking in 3- to 10-Year-Old Children(2019)21 cited
→ Causal learning, counterfactual reasoning and pretend play: a cross-cultural comparison of Peruvian, mixed- and low-socioeconomic status U.S. children(2022)15 cited

→ The Developmental and Cultural Origins of Our Beliefs about Self-Control(2020)

6 cited

The Relationship Between Inhibitory Control and Free Will Beliefs in 4-to 6-Year-Old-Children.(2016)

→ Development of an Instrument to Characterize Methodological and Collaborative Factors that May Influence Community-Based Clinician Post-Trial Adoption of Clinical Research Interventions(2014)

Desires influence 4- to 6-year-old children's probabilistic judgments.(2017)