Alia Martin

Biographic Data

ID5762214
NAMEAlia Martin
GIVEN NAMESAlia
FAMILY NAMEMartin
SIGNATUREMARTIN A
AFFILIATIONSSchool of Psychology Victoria University of Wellington Wellington New Zealand
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS6
TOTAL CITATIONS10
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX1

  • Testing the relationship between preferences for infant-directed speech and vocabulary development

    Open AccessMelanie Soderstrom, Joscelin Rocha‐hidalgo et al.ARTICLEJournal of Child Language2025

    From early on, infants show a preference for infant-directed speech (IDS) over adult-directed speech (ADS), and exposure to IDS has been correlated with language outcome measures such as vocabulary. The present multi-laboratory study explores this issue by investigating whether there is a link between early preference for IDS and later vocabulary size. Infants’ preference for IDS was tested as part of the ManyBabies 1 project, and follow-up CDI d…

  • What you really want

    Open AccessLaura N Anderson, Laura Anderson et al.ARTICLESocial Development2023References: 4

    Toddlers are motivated to help others achieve their goals, but providing effective help also requires toddlers to consider what will be most helpful to another individual. Sometimes, helping requests provide conflicting information about an individual's goals, so we need to decide which information to prioritise in order to decide how is best to help. The current studies investigate how toddlers prioritise conflicting information about immediate …

  • When Children Treat Condemnation as a Signal

    Open AccessHannah Hok, Alia Martins et al.ARTICLEChild Development2020

    Condemnation is ubiquitous in the social world and adults treat condemnation as a costly signal. We explore when children begin to treat condemnation as a signal by presenting 4- to 9-year-old children (N = 435) with stories involving a condemner of stealing and a noncondemner. Children were asked to predict who would be more likely to steal as well as who should be punished more harshly for stealing. In five studies, we found that 7- to 9-year-o…

  • Quantifying Sources of Variability in Infancy Research Using the Infant-Directed-Speech Preference

    Open AccessMichael C Frank, Katie Alcock et al.ARTICLEAdvances in Methods and Practices…2020

    Psychological scientists have become increasingly concerned with issues related to methodology and replicability, and infancy researchers in particular face specific challenges related to replicability: For example, high-powered studies are difficult to conduct, testing conditions vary across labs, and different labs have access to different infant populations. Addressing these concerns, we report on a large-scale, multisite study aimed at (a) as…

  • When kids know better

    Alia Martins, Alia Martin et al.ARTICLEDevelopmental Psychology2013Cited by: 10References: 6

    Helping others is often more complicated than fulfilling their requests, for instance, when an individual requests something that is not suited to achieving her or his ultimate goal. Are children indiscriminate helpers, responding to any object-directed action or request, or do their helping actions prioritize ultimate goals over specific requests? We examined how 3-year-olds would provide help to an experimenter whose verbal requests were incomp…

  • Leaders' and Followers' Social Rank Styles Interact to Predict Group Performance

    Open AccessAllison C Kelly, David C Zuroff et al.ARTICLESocial Behavior and Personality…2011

    In the current study we extended the research of Zuroff, Fournier, Patall, and Leybman (2010) who found that individuals differ in their use of dominant leadership (DL), coalition building (CB), and ruthless self-advancement (RSA) when trying to secure rank among peers. In this study we examined whether the interaction of leaders' and followers' social rank styles, composed of these 3 dimensions, would influence group performance. Groups of 4 und…