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Presence Current · Arkansas
Last published 2026
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Douglas A. Behrend

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Researcher

Also affiliated: University of Minnesota (1988); University of Michigan (1989–1990); University of Minnesota System (1988)

Faculty Researcher

17 h-index 35 pubs 1,248 cited

  • Humans
  • Vocabulary
  • Child, Preschool
  • Female
  • Language Development
  • Male
  • Child
  • Semantics
  • Child Language
  • Verbal Learning
  • Adult
  • Concept Formation
  • Music
  • Singing
  • Cognition

Biography and Research Information

OverviewAI-generated summary

Douglas A. Behrend's research focuses on child language development and cognitive processes, with recent work examining how young children acquire new words. His publications explore distinctions between conventional and privileged information in child learning, investigating how sharing and information type influence categorization. Behrend also studies the relationship between intellectual humility and conspiracy beliefs, as well as plant design in teams with mixed vision capabilities.

His work has been published in peer-reviewed journals, and his scholarship metrics include an h-index of 17, with over 1,200 citations across 35 publications. He collaborates with researchers at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, including Lisa M. Bowers, Robert Beitle, and Christina M. Barnes.

Metrics

  • h-index: 17
  • Publications: 35
  • Citations: 1,248

Selected Publications

  • Thinking caps and tin foil hats: Relations between intellectual humility and conspiracy beliefs in competitive quizzers and non-quizzers (2026)
    Personality and Individual Differences DOI OpenAlex
  • On a need‐to‐know basis: Young children distinguish conventional and privileged information (2024)
    British Journal of Developmental Psychology 1 citation DOI OpenAlex
  • The role of sharing and information type in children’s categorization of privileged and conventional information (2024)
    Cognitive Development DOI OpenAlex
  • Child word learning in song and speech (2023)
    Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 3 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • More than just accent? The role of dialect words in children’s language-based social judgments (2020)
    Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 6 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Song and infant-directed speech facilitate word learning (2019)
    Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 30 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Monolingual and bilingual children's social preferences for monolingual and bilingual speakers (2016)
    Developmental Science 80 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Clarifying the role of joint attention in early word learning (2011)
    First Language 28 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Learning words from reliable and unreliable speakers (2008)
    Cognitive Development 174 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Word learning in the absence of a speaker (2007)
    First Language 22 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Two-year-olds differentially disambiguate novel words and facts (2007)
    Journal of Child Language 49 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Beyond fast mapping: Young children's extensions of novel words and novel facts. (2001)
    Developmental Psychology 51 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Colour term knowledge in two-year-olds: evidence for early competence (1996)
    Journal of Child Language 64 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • Morphological cues to verb meaning: verb inflections and the initial mapping of verb meanings (1995)
    Journal of Child Language 57 citations DOI OpenAlex
  • M. Tomasello, First verbs: a case study of early grammatical development. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. pp. ix + 373. (1994)
    Journal of Child Language 2 citations DOI OpenAlex

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