Featured Publications

Pérez-Zapata, D., Isoni, I., Zawidzki, T., & Apperly, I. (2026). Three international studies of pure coordination games: When intuitions are presumed to vary. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0001876

Lee, R. J., Li, D., Gilligan, R., van der Kleij, S. W., Lee, M., Pérez-Zapata, D., ... Devine, R., & Apperly, I. (2025). A new measure of social understanding in adolescents and adults reveals individual differences that are trait-like and interpretable. OSF. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/nbgws_v1

Pérez-Zapata, D., & Apperly, I. (2025). Mindshaping, coordination, and intuitive alignment.  The Routledge Handbook of Mindshaping (pp. 54-65). Routledge.

Pérez-Zapata, D., McKenzie-Smart, X., Charest, I., & Apperly, I. (2025). Meeting and missing minds: Children and adults use alignment of intuitions to solve pure coordination games. Journal of Cognitive Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1080/20445911.2025.2452232

Pérez-Zapata, D., van der Kleij, S. W., Lee, R. J., Devine, R., Isoni, I., Zawidzki, T., & Apperly, I. (in preparation.). Coordination and mindreading are separate but correlated constructs.

Wilson, R., Hruby, A., Pérez-Zapata, D., van der Kleij, S., & Apperly, I. (2023). Is recursive “mindreading” really an exception to limitations on recursive thinking? Journal of Experimental Psychology: General. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge000132

Pérez-Zapata, D., Cuadra-Martínez, D., Valenzuela-Barros, C., & Salgado-García, P. (2019). Theory of mind and its relationship with behavioural inhibition in Chilean preschools [Teoría de la mente y su relación con inhibición conductual en pre-escolares chilenos]. Studies in Psychology, 40(2), 443–463.

Pérez-Zapata, D., Slaughter, V., & Henry, J. (2016). Cultural effects in mindreading. Cognition, 146, 410–414.

Slaughter, V., & Pérez-Zapata, D. (2014). Cultural variations in the development of mind reading. Child Development Perspectives, 8(4), 237–241.