David Buttelmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 121855 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Buttelmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Buttelmann |
| SIGNATURE | BUTTELMANN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bern |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0915-7114 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The German version of the highly sensitive child scale
Individuals differ in their sensitivity to external stimuli. The Highly Sensitive Child (HSC) scale can be used to measure sensitivity in children and adolescents. However, the German version has yet to be validated. We examined the psychometric properties of the German self- and the parent report version of the HSC. Measurement invariance (MI) across age groups was tested for the parent report version and latent profile analysis (LPA) was used t…
The Ebbinghaus illusion revisited
Visual context influences humans’ interpretation of stimuli. The Ebbinghaus illusion demonstrates how physical context cues can lead to distorted perceptions. Prior studies on young children’s context-sensitivity leave it open whether older age groups are indeed more susceptible to visual illusions than younger ones or whether young children use different mechanisms when solving this task. This study addresses these questions by investigating 4-y…
How children come to (not) detect and apply multiple functions for objects
Context-Sensitivity Influences German and Chinese Preschoolers’ Comprehension of Indirect Communication
Making inferences in communication is a highly context-dependent endeavor. Previous research found cultural variations for context-sensitivity as well as for communication comprehension. However, the relative impact of culture and context-sensitivity on communication comprehension has not been investigated so far. The current study aimed at investigating this interplay and tested 4- and 6-year-old children from Germany ( n = 132) and China ( n = …
To 14-Month-Olds Expect Unconstrained Agents to Act Efficiently
Behavioral research has shown that 12- but not 9-month-olds imitate an unusual and inefficient action (turning on a lamp with one's forehead) more when the model's hands are free. Rational-imitation accounts suggest that infants evaluate actions based on the rationality principle, that is, they expect people to choose efficient means to achieve a goal. Accordingly, infants' expectations should be violated when observing inefficient actions. Howev…
‘Over-imitation’
The impact of resource valence on children’s other-regarding preferences
Given its importance for the emergence of intergroup conflict, the development of other-regarding preferences toward in-group and out-group members has received increasing attention from various disciplines. The present study investigates children's other-regarding preferences toward in-group and out-group members when allocating resources with positive and negative valence. The 6- and 8-year-olds' (N = 92) task was to allocate resources to thems…
Anxiety-Reducing Effect
Animals have an anxiety-reducing effect on humans. However, in the search for which interventions are the most effective, one notices that studies in this field are not comparable as they all use different designs. Hereby, we investigated the anxiety reducing abilities of different animals and a plant using a public speaking task with identical set-ups and measures in all conditions. After speech anxiety was induced in university students (n = 71…
Eighteen-month-old infants show false belief understanding in an active helping paradigm
Anxiety-Reducing Effect
Animals have an anxiety-reducing effect on humans. However, in the search for which interventions are the most effective, one notices that studies in this field are not comparable as they all use different designs. Hereby, we investigated the anxiety reducing abilities of different animals and a plant using a public speaking task with identical set-ups and measures in all conditions. After speech anxiety was induced in university students (n = 71…
The impact of resource valence on children’s other-regarding preferences
Given its importance for the emergence of intergroup conflict, the development of other-regarding preferences toward in-group and out-group members has received increasing attention from various disciplines. The present study investigates children's other-regarding preferences toward in-group and out-group members when allocating resources with positive and negative valence. The 6- and 8-year-olds' (N = 92) task was to allocate resources to thems…
Eighteen-month-old infants show false belief understanding in an active helping paradigm
Anxiety-Reducing Effect
Animals have an anxiety-reducing effect on humans. However, in the search for which interventions are the most effective, one notices that studies in this field are not comparable as they all use different designs. Hereby, we investigated the anxiety reducing abilities of different animals and a plant using a public speaking task with identical set-ups and measures in all conditions. After speech anxiety was induced in university students (n = 71…
The impact of resource valence on children’s other-regarding preferences
Given its importance for the emergence of intergroup conflict, the development of other-regarding preferences toward in-group and out-group members has received increasing attention from various disciplines. The present study investigates children's other-regarding preferences toward in-group and out-group members when allocating resources with positive and negative valence. The 6- and 8-year-olds' (N = 92) task was to allocate resources to thems…
‘Over-imitation’
To 14-Month-Olds Expect Unconstrained Agents to Act Efficiently
Behavioral research has shown that 12- but not 9-month-olds imitate an unusual and inefficient action (turning on a lamp with one's forehead) more when the model's hands are free. Rational-imitation accounts suggest that infants evaluate actions based on the rationality principle, that is, they expect people to choose efficient means to achieve a goal. Accordingly, infants' expectations should be violated when observing inefficient actions. Howev…
Context-Sensitivity Influences German and Chinese Preschoolers’ Comprehension of Indirect Communication
Making inferences in communication is a highly context-dependent endeavor. Previous research found cultural variations for context-sensitivity as well as for communication comprehension. However, the relative impact of culture and context-sensitivity on communication comprehension has not been investigated so far. The current study aimed at investigating this interplay and tested 4- and 6-year-old children from Germany ( n = 132) and China ( n = …
How children come to (not) detect and apply multiple functions for objects
The Ebbinghaus illusion revisited
Visual context influences humans’ interpretation of stimuli. The Ebbinghaus illusion demonstrates how physical context cues can lead to distorted perceptions. Prior studies on young children’s context-sensitivity leave it open whether older age groups are indeed more susceptible to visual illusions than younger ones or whether young children use different mechanisms when solving this task. This study addresses these questions by investigating 4-y…
The German version of the highly sensitive child scale
Individuals differ in their sensitivity to external stimuli. The Highly Sensitive Child (HSC) scale can be used to measure sensitivity in children and adolescents. However, the German version has yet to be validated. We examined the psychometric properties of the German self- and the parent report version of the HSC. Measurement invariance (MI) across age groups was tested for the parent report version and latent profile analysis (LPA) was used t…
Psychology (8 works) · Cognitive psychology (7 works) · Child and Animal Learning Development (6 works) · Developmental psychology (5 works) · Action Observation and Synchronization (4 works) · Cognition (4 works) · Cognitive science (2 works) · Communication (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · German (2 works)