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Amanda Woodward is a Professor in Developmental Psychology at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her research investigates infant social cognition and early language development including the understanding of goal-directed actions, agency, theory of mind, and linguistic communities.

Education and Awards

Dr. Woodward received her Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford University in 1992. She was a post doctoral fellow at Cornell University and a faculty member at the University of Chicago before joining the faculty at the University of Maryland in 2005. Her research has been recognized by several awards including the John Merck Fund Young Scholars Award (1994), the APA Boyd McCandless Award (2000) and a James McKeen Cattell Sabbatical Fellowship (2003-2004). She is a fellow of the Association for Psychological Science and of the American Psychological Association (Division 7). She serves as an Associate Editor for the APA journal Psychological Bulletin.

Recent Publications

• Cannon, E., & Woodward, A. L. (in press). Action anticipation and interference: A test of prospective gaze. Proceedings of the Meetings of the Cognitive Science Society.
• Gerson, S. & Woodward, A.L. (in press). Building intentional action knowledge with one’s hands. In S. P. Johnson (Ed.) Neo-constructivism. Oxford University Press.
• Woodward, A. L. & Needham, A (Eds.). (in press). Learning and the infant mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Rakison, D.H., & Woodward, A. L. (in press). Introduction to the special section: New perspectives on the effects of action on perceptual and cognitive development. Developmental Psychology.
• Hamlin, J. K., Hallinan, E.V., & Woodward, A. L. (2008). Do as I do: 7-month-old infants selectively reproduce others’ goals. Developmental Science, 11(4), 487-494.
• Henderson, A.M.E., Gerson, S., & Woodward, A.L. (2008). The birth of social intelligence. Zero to Three, May, 13-20. (PDF)
• Vaish, A., Grossmann, T. & Woodward, A. (2008). Not all emotions are created equal: The negativity bias in early development.Psychological Bulletin, 134(3), 383-403.
• Brune, C. W., & Woodward, A. L. (2007). Social cognition and social responsiveness in 10-month-old infants. Journal of Cognition and Development.
• Buresh, J. S. & Woodward, A. L. (2007). Infants track action goals within and across agents. Cognition.
• Koenig, M. A., & Woodward, A. L. (in press). Word learning. In M. G. Gaskell (Ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Psycholinguistics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Sommerville, J. A., & Woodward, A. L. (in press). The link between action production and action processing in infancy. In F. Grammont, D. Legrand, P. Livet (eds.) Naturalizing intention in action.
• Vaish, A. & Woodward, A. L. (in press). Baby steps on the path to understanding intentions. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
• Buresh, J., Wilson Brune, C., & Woodward, A. L. (2006). Prelinguistic action knowledge and the birth of verbs. In K. Hirsh-Pasek & R. Golinkoff (eds). Action meets words(pp. 208–227). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Sommerville, J. A., & Woodward, A. L. (2005). Infants’ sensitivity to the causal features of means-end support relations in action and perception. Infancy, 8(2).
• Woodward, A. L. (2005). The infant origins of intentional understanding. In R. V. Kail (ed.) Advances in Child Development and Behavior, Volume 33 (pp. 229–262). Oxford: Elsevier.
• Sommerville, J. A., Woodward, A. L., & Needham, A. (2005). Action experience alters 3-month-old infants' perception of othersÕ actions. Cognition, 96, B1-B11.
• Sommerville, J. A., & Woodward, A. L. (2005). Pulling out the intentional structure of human action: The relation between action production and processing in infancy, Cognition, 95, 1-30.
• Woodward, A. L. (2005). Infants' understanding of the actions involved in joint attention. In N. Eilan, C. Hoerl, T. McCormack and J. Roessler (eds.) Joint attention: Communication and other minds (pp. 110–128). Oxford University Press.