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Tone Kristine Hermansen

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Room V04-05
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Visiting address Forskningsveien 3A Harald Schjelderups hus 0373 Oslo
Postal address Postboks 1094 Blindern 0317 Oslo

Academic interests

  • Cognitive developmental psychology
  • Social cognitive learning processes
  • Epistemological development
  • Experimental psychology

Background

2020 →         Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo

2018 – 2019: Fulbright fellow, HGSE, Harvard University

2017 – 2020: Postdoctoral fellow, The Norwegian Center for Child Behavioral Development

2012 – 2017: PhD-student, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo

Selected grants and funding

  • 2025: Innovation grant (PI, with Dr. Prendergast C.), Growth House, University of Oslo
  • 2024: Strategic funding grant (PI, with Dr. Prendergast, C.), Department of Psychology, University of Oslo
  • 2023: Strategic funding grant (co-I, with Dr. Prentice, C.), Department of Psychology, University of Oslo
  • 2023: Infrastructure development grant (co-I, with Dr. Mayor, J.), Department of Psychology, University of Oslo
  • 2023: Mobility grant, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo
  • 2022: Strategic funding grant (co-I, with Dr. Mayor, J.), Department of Psychology, University of Oslo
  • 2022: Mobility grant, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo
  • 2022: Internal teaching grant, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo
  • 2021: Strategic funding grant (PI, with Dr. Viana, K.), Department of Psychology, University of Oslo
  • 2021: Internal teaching grant, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo
  • 2019: Fulbright Fellowship grant, Fulbright Foundation
  • 2018: Personal Overseas Grants, The Research Council of Norway
  • 2016: Internal research grant, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo
  • 2015: Internal research grant, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo
  • 2015: Sasakawa Young Leaders Fellowship Fund
  • 2012: Student scholarship, The Research Council of Norway
  • 2011: Student scholarship, The Research Council of Norway

Registered Reports (in Stage 1/in press)

Schuwerk, T., Kampis, D. (…), Hermansen, T. K., (…), Rakoczy, H. (Accepted Stage 1 in Child Development, Data collection completed, N = 928). Action Anticipation Based on an Agent's Epistemic State in Toddlers and Adults. Child Development - RR

Tags: Developmental psychology, Cognitive psychology, Social Psychology

Publications

  • Barresi, Giulia; Viana, Karine Porpino; Hermansen, Tone Kristine; Ragaglia, Beatrice & Bulgarelli, Daniela (2026). Peer Action Coordination in Middle Childhood: A Replication Null Finding on Emotion Understanding and Inhibitory Control. Behavioral Sciences. 16(3). doi: 10.3390/bs16030364. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hermansen, Tone Kristine; Veraksa, Aleksander N.; Piulats, Francisco Maria Pons & Harris, Paul L. (2025). Children revise their emotion attributions in light of the broader temporal context. International Journal of Behavioral Development. ISSN 0165-0254. doi: 10.1177/01650254251337737. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hermansen, Tone Kristine; Mathisen, Kamilla & Ronfard, Samuel (2024). When children can explain why they believe a claim, they suggest a better empirical test for that claim. Royal Society Open Science. doi: 10.1098/rsos.241875. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hermansen, Tone Kristine; Viana, Karine Maria Porpino; Harris, Paul L.; Engel, Susan; Zambrana, Imac Maria & Ronfard, Samuel (2024). Checking Out the Unexplained: With Age, Children Become Increasingly Skeptical of Surprising Claims. Developmental Psychology. ISSN 0012-1649. doi: 10.1037/dev0001532. Full text in Research Archive
  • Steffan, Adrian; Zimmer, Lucie; Arias-Trejo, Natalia; Bohn, Manuel; Ben, Rodrigo Dal & Flores-Coronado, Marco A. [Show all 33 contributors for this article] (2023). Validation of an open source, remote web-based eye-tracking method (WebGazer) for research in early childhood. Infancy. ISSN 1525-0008. doi: 10.1111/infa.12564. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hermansen, Tone Kristine; Syrstad, Kari Enger; Røysamb, Espen & Melinder, Annika Maria Désirée (2022). Child internalizing and externalizing behaviors: Interplay between maternal depressive symptoms and child inhibitory control. JCPP Advances. 2(4). doi: 10.1002/jcv2.12107. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hermansen, Tone Kristine & Augusti, Else-Marie (2021). Samspill mellom emosjoner og kognisjon i barns utvikling. In Tamnes, Christian Krog (Eds.), Nevrokognitiv utviklingspsykologi. Gyldendal Akademisk. ISSN 9788205533387. p. 172–192. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hermansen, Tone K.; Ronfard, Samuel; Harris, Paul L. & Zambrana, Imac M. (2021). Preschool Children Rarely Seek Empirical Data That Could Help Them Complete a Task When Observation and Testimony Conflict. Child Development. ISSN 0009-3920. doi: 10.1111/cdev.13612. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hermansen, Tone Kristine; Ronfard, Samuel; Harris, Paul L.; Pons, Francisco & Zambrana, Imac Maria (2021). Young children update their trust in an informant’s claim when experience tells them otherwise. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. ISSN 0022-0965. 205, p. 105063–105063. doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2020.105063. Full text in Research Archive
  • Zambrana, Imac Maria; Hermansen, Tone Kristine & Rowe, Meredith (2020). Mothers' use of questions and children's learning and language development. In Butler, Lucas; Ronfard, Samuel & Corriveau, Kathleen (Ed.), The questioning child: Insights from psychology and education. Cambridge University Press. ISSN 9781108428910. p. 212–231. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ronfard, Samuel; Zambrana, Imac Maria; Hermansen, Tone Kristine & Kelemen, Deborah (2018). Question-asking in childhood: A review of the literature and a framework for understanding its development. Developmental Review. ISSN 0273-2297. 49, p. 101–120. doi: 10.1016/j.dr.2018.05.002. Full text in Research Archive
  • Kenward, Ben; Koch, Felix-Sebastian; Forssman, Linda; Brehm, Julia; Tidemann, Ida Therese & Sundqvist, Annette [Show all 10 contributors for this article] (2017). Saccadic reaction times in infants and adults: Spatiotemporal factors, gender, and interlaboratory variation. Developmental Psychology. ISSN 0012-1649. 53(9), p. 1750–1764. doi: 10.1037/dev0000338. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hermansen, Tone Kristine; Yrttiaho, Santeri; Røysamb, Espen & Melinder, Annika Maria D (2017). Perceptual interference processing in preschool children, with and without prenatal exposure to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors. Psychopharmacology. ISSN 0033-3158. 234(3), p. 339–351. doi: 10.1007/s00213-016-4467-7. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hermansen, Tone Kristine; Røysamb, Espen; Augusti, Else-Marie & Melinder, Annika Maria D (2016). Behavior and inhibitory control in children with prenatal exposure to antidepressants and medically untreated depression. Psychopharmacology. ISSN 0033-3158. 233(8), p. 1523–1535. doi: 10.1007/s00213-016-4248-3. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hermansen, Tone Kristine & Melinder, Annika Maria D (2015). Prenatal SSRI exposure: Effects on later child development. Child Neuropsychology: A Journal of Normal and Abnormal Development in Childhood and Adolescence. ISSN 0929-7049. 21(5), p. 543–569. doi: 10.1080/09297049.2014.942727. Full text in Research Archive
  • Melinder, Annika Maria D; Konijnenberg, Carolien; Hermansen, Tone Kristine; Daum, Moritz & Gredebäck, Gustaf (2014). The developmental trajectory of pointing perception in the first year of life. Experimental Brain Research. ISSN 0014-4819. 233(2), p. 641–647. doi: 10.1007/s00221-014-4143-2. Full text in Research Archive

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  • Hermansen, Tone Kristine (2025). How reflecting on their own uncertainty shapes children's investigation of surprising claims. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hermansen, Tone Kristine; Prendergast, Claire; Kollstrøm, Selma; Breitholtz, Ellen & Howes, Christine (2025). Explaining developments in figurative language comprehension through abstract thought processes. Full text in Research Archive
  • Stavsholt, Mari; Viana, Karine Porpino & Hermansen, Tone Kristine (2024). A qualitative study on parent’s perception of their child’s developing critical thinking skills and their own role in this development. Full text in Research Archive
  • Stavsholt, Mari; Viana, Karine Maria Porpino & Hermansen, Tone Kristine (2024). A qualitative study on parent’s perception of their child’s developing critical thinking skills and their own role in this development. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hermansen, Tone Kristine; Mathisen, Kamilla & Ronfard, Samuel (2024). Children who can explain why they are skeptical about a claim can devise an efficient empirical test for that claim. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hermansen, Tone Kristine; Viana, Karine Maria Porpino; Harris, Paul L.; Engel, Susan; Zambrana, Imac Maria & Ronfard, Samuel (2023). Investigating unexplained phenomena: Are children more likely to question surprising claims that are presented without supporting explanations? Full text in Research Archive
  • Mathisen, Kamilla; Ronfard, Samuel & Hermansen, Tone Kristine (2023). Exploring links between children’s ability to reflect on their uncertainty about a claim and their suggestions for how to explore that claim. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hermansen, Tone Kristine; Viana, Karine Porpino; Harris, Paul. L.; Engel, Susan & Zambrana, Imac Maria (2023). Investigating unexplained phenomena: Are children more likely to question surprising claims that are presented without supporting explanations? Full text in Research Archive
  • Hermansen, Tone Kristine; Ronfard, Samuel; Harris, Paul L.; Pons, Francisco & Zambrana, Imac Maria (2020). Epistemic uncertainty: Implicit encoding and information seeking from infancy to preschool. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hermansen, Tone Kristine; Ronfard, Samuel; Harris, Paul L.; Pons, Francisco & Zambrana, Imac Maria (2019). Young children revise their trust in an informant’s claim once they gather counter-evidence, and transfer their revised judgement across tasks. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hermansen, Tone Kristine; Ronfard, Samuel; Harris, Paul L.; Pons, Francisco & Zambrana, Imac Maria (2019). Children reassess an informant’s misleading claim in the light of later empirical evidence. Full text in Research Archive
  • Hermansen, Tone Kristine; Ronfard, Samuel; Harris, Paul L.; Pons, Francisco & Zambrana, Imac Maria (2017). Are preschoolers’ questions impacted by prior inconsistent experiences during first-hand exploration? Full text in Research Archive
  • Hermansen, Tone Kristine; Yrttiaho, Santeri; Leppänen, J.-M.; Røysamb, Espen & Melinder, Annika Maria D (2015). The depth of conflict: ERP amplitude at N2 is associated with variation in reaction time in a perceptual interference task. Full text in Research Archive

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