Gideon Salter
Research Associate

Profile

Biography

• 2017 - 2022: PhD Developmental Psychology, University of St Andrews
• 2015 - 2016: MSc Language Sciences specialising in Language Development, University College London
• 2012 - 2015: BA Linguistics, University College London

My research focuses on the development of social cognition, communication, and language in infancy and early childhood, primarily using a longitudinal approach.

Career

• 2022 - 2024: Research Associate, BBC Tiny Happy People Evaluation, University of Sheffield

Research

Overview

I am working on the project “The Development of Normative Prosociality across Diverse Societies” with Dr Bailey House and Professor Katie Slocombe.

Collaborators

• Dr Bailey House
• Prof Katie Slocombe

Publications

Selected publications

• Salter, G., Bannard, C., Fricke, S., Hancock, E., Levickis, P., Pavlou-Rodriguez, A., ... & Matthews, D. (2023). [PREPRINT] A low-intensity, digital intervention influences infant pre-linguistic communication and caregiver responses at 12 months: Evidence from an RCT.
• Salter, G., & Carpenter, M. (2022). Showing and giving: from incipient to conventional forms. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 377(1859), 20210102.
• Salter, G., Altdörfer, T., Brown, G., & Carpenter, M. (2021). Meeting the challenges of public engagement, research impact, and research participation as a baby and child lab. Research for All.
• Salter, G., & Breheny, R. (2019). Removing shared information improves 3-and 4-year-olds’ performance on a change-of-location explicit false belief task. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 187, 104665.