Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
*student coauthors
- Osterhaus, C., & Koerber, S. (in press). The development of advanced ToM in middle childhood: A longitudinal study from age 5 to 10 years. Child Development.
- Osterhaus, C., Brandone, A., Vosniadou, S., & Nicolopoulou, A. (2021). The emergence and development of scientific thinking during the early years: Basic processes and supportive contexts. Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.629384
- Opitz, T., Schuwerk, T., Paulus, M., Kloo, D., Osterhaus, C., Lesch, K.-P., & Sodian, B. (2021). No links between geneticvariation and theory of mind development: A replication attempt of Lackner et al. (2012). Developmental Science. e13100. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13100
- Koerber, S., & Osterhaus, C. (2021). Science competencies in kindergarten: A prospective longitudinal study in the last year of kindergarten. Unterrichtswissenschaft. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42010-020-00093-5
- Osterhaus, C., & Koerber, S. (2020). Social cognition during and after kindergarten: The relations between first-order and advanced theories of mind. European Journal of Developmental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/17405629.2020.1820861
- Schwichow, M., Osterhaus, C., & Edelsbrunner, P. (2020). The relation between the control-of-variables strategy and content knowledge in physics in secondary school. Contemporary Educational Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2020.101923
- Osterhaus, C., Putnick, D. L., Kristen-Antonow, S., Kloo, D., Bornstein, M. H., & Sodian, B. (2020). Theory of Mind and diverse intelligences in 4-year-olds: Modeling associations of false beliefs with children’s numerate-spatial, verbal, and social intelligence. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 38, 580–593. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12336
- Osterhaus, C., Koerber, S., & Sodian, B. (2020). The Science-P Reasoning Inventory (SPR-I): Measuring emerging scientific-reasoning skills in primary school. International Journal of Science Education, 42, 1087–1107. https://doi.org/10.1080/09500693.2020.1748251 [Supplementary materials]
- Nyberg, K., Koerber, S., & Osterhaus, C. (2020). How to measure scientific reasoning in primary school: A comparison of different test modalities. European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 8, 137–144. http://scimath.net/articles/83/833.pdf
- Koerber, S., & Osterhaus, C. (2020). Some but not all aspects of (advanced) Theory of Mind predict loneliness. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 38, 144–148. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12302
- Knöchelmann, N.*, Krueger, S.*, Flack, A. *, & Osterhaus, C. (2019). Adults’ ability to interpret covariation data presented in bar graphs depends on the context of the problem. Frontline Learning Research, 7(4), 58–65. https://doi.org/10.14786/flr.v7i4.471
- Koerber, S., & Osterhaus, C. (2019). Individual differences in early scientific thinking: Assessment, cognitive influences, and their relevance for science learning. Journal of Cognition and Development. https://doi.org/10.1080/15248372.2019.1620232
- Osterhaus, C., Magee, J., Saffran, A., & Alibali, M. W. (2019). Supporting successful interpretations of covariation data: Beneficial effects of variable symmetry and problem context. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 72, 994–1004. https://doi.org/10.1177/1747021818775909
- Osterhaus, C., Koerber, S., & Sodian, B. (2017). Scientific thinking in elementary school: Children’s social cognition and their epistemological understanding promote experimentation skills. Developmental Psychology, 53, 450–462. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0000260
- Koerber, S., Osterhaus, C., & Sodian, B. (2017). Diagrams support revision of prior belief in primary school. Frontline Learning Research, 5(1), 76–84. https://doi.org/10.14786/flr.v5i1.265
- Osterhaus, C., Koerber, S., & Sodian, B. (2016). Scaling of advanced theory-of-mind tasks. Child Development, 87, 1971–1991. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12566
- Osterhaus, C., Koerber, S., & Sodian, B. (2015). Children’s understanding of experimental contrast and experimental control: An inventory for primary school. Frontline Learning Research, 3(4), 56–94. https://doi.org/10.14786/flr.v3i4.220
- Koerber, S., Osterhaus, C., & Sodian, B. (2015). Testing primary-school children’s understanding of the nature of science. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 33, 57–72. https://doi.org/10.1111/bjdp.12067
- Koerber, S., Mayer, D., Osterhaus, C., Schwippert, K., & Sodian, B. (2015). The development of scientific thinking in elementary school: A comprehensive inventory. Child Development, 86, 327–336. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12298
Chapters in Edited Volumes
- Koerber, S., Sodian, B., Osterhaus, C., Mayer, D., Kropf, N., & Schwippert, K. (2018). Science-P.II. Modeling scientific reasoning in primary school. In D. Leutner, J. Fleischer, J. Grünkorn, & E. Klieme (Eds.). Competence assessment in education: Research, models and instruments. Springer.