Developmental Research
Salter, G., Marshall, S., Birchenough, G., Buryn-Weitzel, J. C., Isabella, J., Knapper, C. V., Lavender, E., Peringa, B., Rusenjule, J., Tusiime, F., Wilke, C., Willis, R., Slocombe, K. E. & House, B. R. (under review). The development of children’s normative beliefs about sharing strategies: A cross-cultural study in Uganda and the UK.
Buryn-Weitzel, J. C., Salter, G. … House, B. R. & Slocombe, K. E. (under review) Maternal socialisation of sharing and sharing behaviour in infancy and Early Childhood in Uganda and the UK.
Hancock, E., Bannard, C., Fricke, S., Levickis, P., McGurk Isaacs, R., Pine, J., Salter, G., Sherlock, R., Solaiman, K. & Matthews, D. (submitted). Acceptability of a digital early years language support service for caregivers of children who have SLCN and/or are multilingual.
Matthews, D., Bannard, C., Fricke, S., Levickis, P., Salter, G., Thornton, E., Solaiman, K., Hancock, E., Beswick, A., Pavlou-Rodriguez A., Smith, E., Willis, M. & Pine, J. (submitted). Promoting parental support of early child language development: An RCT to evaluate a text messaging service with BBC Tiny Happy People video content.
Salter, G., Bannard, C., Fricke, S., Hancock, E., Levickis, P., Pavlou-Rodriguez, A., Pine, J., Smith, E., Solaiman, K., Thornton, E., Willis, M. & Matthews, D. (2025). Learning mechanisms influencing infants’ early socio-pragmatic abilities. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 380:20230487
http://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2023.0487
Salter, G., & Carpenter, M. (2025). The developmental origins of joint attention: Infants’ early joint attention bids. Infancy, 30(2), e70012. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.70012
Salter, G., & Carpenter, M. (2022). Showing and giving: From incipient to conventional forms. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 377(1859), 20210102. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0102
Salter, G., Altdörfer, T., Brown, G. and Carpenter, M. (2021). Meeting the challenges of public engagement, research impact and research participation as a baby and child lab. Research for All, 5(2), 420–37. https://doi.org/10.14324/RFA.05.2.15
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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2019.104665
In preparation work
Salter, G., Marshall, S., Birchenough, G., Buryn-Weitzel, J. C., Isabella, J., Knapper, C. V., Lavender, E., Peringa, B., Rusenjule, J., Tusiime, F., Wilke, C., Willis, R., Slocombe, K. E. & House, B. R. (in prep). How the development of children’s normative beliefs about egalitarianism and competition shapes cultural diversity in sharing.
Salter, G., Bannard, C., Fricke, S., Gering, P. R., Levickis, P., Pine, J. & Matthews, D. (in prep). Predicting early vocabulary development from infant prelinguistic communication and caregiver responses. Preregistration: https://osf.io/j43bx/
Charlotte V. Knapper*, Gideon Salter*, Marshall, S. Ayikoru, A., Buryn-Weitzel, J. C., Isabella, J., Peringa, B., Rusenjule, J., Tusiime, F., Slocombe, K. E. & House, B. (in prep). The development of children’s conformity to social norms: A cross-cultural study in the UK and Uganda.
*Joint first authors.
Psychology and Theology
Cockayne, J. & Salter, G. (2025). Why We Gather: Psychology, Theology, and Liturgical Practice. Baylor University Press.
Cockayne, J., & Salter, G. (2023). Group gratitude: a taxonomy. The Journal of Value Inquiry, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-022-09924-3
Cockayne, J., & Salter, G. (2022). Liturgical gratitude to God. Religions, 13(9), 795. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13090795
Cockayne, J., & Salter, G. (2021). Liturgical Anthropology: A Developmental Perspective. TheoLogica, 6(1), 72-106. https://doi.org/10.14428/THL.V6I1.61193
Cockayne, J., & Salter, G. (2021). Feasts of memory: collective remembering, liturgical time travel and the actualisation of the past. Modern Theology, 37(2), 275-295. https://doi.org/10.1111/moth.12683
Cockayne, J., & Salter, G. (2019). Praying together: Corporate prayer and shared situations. Zygon, 54(3), 702-730. https://doi.org/10.1111/zygo.12543