Minerva Logo
Former Minerva Research Group

Human Origins of Self-Regulation

Publications

2021

Engelmann, J. M., Zhang, Z., Zeidler, H., Dunham, Y., & Herrmann, E. (2021). The influence of friendship and merit on children’s resource allocation in three societies. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology,208: 105149.
DOI

2020

Pika, S., Sima, M. J., Blum, C. R., Herrmann, E., & Mundry, R. (2020). Ravens parallel great apes in physical and social cognitive skills. Scientific Reports,10: 20617.
Open Access    DOI

2019

Ebel, S. J., Schmelz, M., Herrmann, E., & Call, J. (2019). Innovative problem solving in great apes: The role of visual feedback in the floating peanut task. Animal Cognition,22(5), 791-805.
Open Access    DOI
Engelmann, J. M., Haux, L. M., & Herrmann, E. (2019). Helping in young children and chimpanzees shows partiality towards friends. Evolution and Human Behavior,40(3), 292-300.
DOI
Hepach, R., & Herrmann, E. (2019). The development of prosocial attention across two cultures. Frontiers in Psychology,10: 138.
Open Access    DOI 
Herrmann, E., Engelmann, J. M., & Tomasello, M. (2019). Children engage in competitive altruism. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology,179, 176-189.
DOI
Herrmann, E., Haux, L. M., Zeidler, H., & Engelmann, J. M. (2019). Human children but not chimpanzees make irrational decisions driven by social comparison. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London: B, Biological Sciences,286(1894): 20182228.
DOI
Knofe, H., Engelmann, J., Tomasello, M., & Herrmann, E. (2019). Chimpanzees monopolize and children take turns in a limited resource problem. Scientific Reports,9: 7597.
Open Access    DOI
Rapp, D. J., Engelmann, J. M., Herrmann, E., & Tomasello, M. (2019). Young children's reputational strategies in a peer group context. Developmental Psychology,55(2), 329-336.
DOI

2018

Eckert, J., Call, J., Hermes, J., Herrmann, E., & Rakoczy, H. (2018). Intuitive statistical inferences in chimpanzees and humans follow Weber’s law. Cognition,180, 99-107.
DOI
Eckert, J., Rakoczy, H., Call, J., Herrmann, E., & Hanus, D. (2018). Chimpanzees consider humans' psychological states when drawing statistical inferences. Current Biology,28(12): e3, pp. 1959-1963.
DOI
Engelmann, J. M., & Rapp, D. (2018). The influence of reputational concerns on children's prosociality. Current Opinion in Psychology,20, 92-95.
DOI    BibTeX   Endnote   
Engelmann, J. M., & Tomasello, M. (2018). Prosociality and morality in children and chimpanzees. In New perspectives on moral development (pp. 15-31). New York, NY: Routledge.   
Engelmann, J. M., & Tomasello, M. (2018). The middle step: Joint intentionality as human-unique form of second-personal engagement. In M. Jankovic, & K. Ludwig (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook on Collective Intentionality (pp. 433-446). New York, NY: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group.
Engelmann, J. M., Herrmann, E., & Tomasello, M. (2018). Concern for group reputation increases prosociality in young children. Psychological Science,29(2), 181-190.
Open Access    DOI 
Koomen, R. M., & Herrmann, E. (2018). Chimpanzees overcome the tragedy of the commons with dominance. Scientific Reports,8: 10389.
Open Access    DOI
Koomen, R., & Herrmann, E. (2018). An investigation of children’s strategies for overcoming the tragedy of the commons. Nature Human Behaviour,2(5), 348-355.
DOI
Koomen, R., & Herrmann, E. (2018). The effects of social context and food abundance on chimpanzee feeding competition. American Journal of Primatology,80(2): e22734.
DOI

2017

Engelmann, J. M., & Zeller, C. (2017). Doing the right thing for the wrong reason: Reputation and moral behavior. In J. Kiverstein (Ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Philosopy of the Social Mind (pp. 247-261). London; New York: Routledge.
Engelmann, J. M., Clift, J. B., Herrmann, E., & Tomasello, M. (2017). Social disappointment explains chimpanzees' behaviour in the inequity aversion task. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences,284(1861): 20171502.
DOI
Haux, L. M., Engelmann, J. M., Herrmann, E., & Tomasello, M. (2017). Do young children preferentially trust gossip or firsthand observation in choosing a collaborative partner? Social Development,26(3), 466-474.
DOI
MacLean, E. L., Herrmann, E., Suchindran, S., & Hare, B. (2017). Individual differences in cooperative communicative skills are more similar between dogs and humans than chimpanzees. Animal Behaviour,126, 41-51.
DOI 
Rapp, D. J., Engelmann, J. M., Herrmann, E., & Tomasello, M. (2017). The impact of choice on young children's prosocial motivation. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology,158, 112-121.
DOI 

2016

Engelmann, J. M., & Herrmann, E. (2016). Chimpanzees trust their friends. Current Biology,26(2), 252-256.
DOI 
Engelmann, J. M., Herrmann, E., & Tomasello, M. (2016). Preschoolers affect others' reputations through prosocial gossip. British Journal of Developmental Psychology,34(3), 447-460.
DOI 
Engelmann, J. M., Herrmann, E., & Tomasello, M. (2016). The effects of being watched on resource acquisition in chimpanzees and human children. Animal Cognition,19(1), 147-151.
DOI
Engelmann, J. M., Herrmann, E., Rapp, D., & Tomasello, M. (2016). Young children (sometimes) do the right thing even when their peers do not. Cognitive Development,39, 86-92.
DOI
Ko, A.-M.-S. (2016). Early Austronesians and genetic prehistory of Taiwan. PhD Thesis, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig.
Vaish, A., Herrmann, E., Markmann, C., & Tomasello, M. (2016). Preschoolers value those who sanction non-cooperators. Cognition,153, 43-51.
DOI    BibTeX   Endnote   
Zeidler, H., Herrmann, E., Haun, D. B. M., & Tomasello, M. (2016). Taking turns or not? Children’s approach to limited resource problems in three different cultures. Child Development,87(3), 677-688.
DOI   

2015

Engelmann, J. M., Herrmann, E., & Tomasello, M. (2015). Chimpanzees trust conspecifics to engage in low-cost reciprocity. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences,282(1801): 20142803.
DOI
Herrmann, E. (2015). Origins of human cognition and temperament: A systematic comparison of non-human great apes and human children. Folia primatologica,86(4), 295-296.
DOI
Herrmann, E., & Tomasello, M. (2015). Focusing and shifting attention in human children and chimpanzees. Journal of Comparative Psychology,129(3), 268-274.
DOI
Herrmann, E., Misch, A., Hernandez-Lloreda, V., & Tomasello, M. (2015). Uniquely human self-control begins at school age. Developmental Science,18(6), 979-993.
DOI
Koomen, R., & Herrmann, E. (2015). Feast or famine: An investigation of scarcity and co-feeding effects in chimpanzees. Folia primatologica,86(4), 306-307.
DOI
Wobber, V., & Herrmann, E. (2015). The influence of testosterone on cognitive performance in bonobos and chimpanzees. In B. Hare, & S. Yamamoto (Eds.), Bonobo cognition and behaviour (pp. 161-177). Leiden [u.a.]: Brill.
Wobber, V., & Herrmann, E. (2015). The influence of testosterone on cognitive performance in bonobos and chimpanzees. Behaviour,152(3-4), 407-423.
DOI

2014

Engelmann, J. M. (2014). An empirical investigation of the evolutionary and ontogenetic roots of trust. PhD Thesis, Univ., Leipzig.
MacLean, E. L., Hare, B., Nunn, C. L., Addessi, E., Amici, F., Anderson, R. C., Aureli, F., Baker, J. M., Bania, A. E., Barnard, A. M., Boogert, N. J., Brannon, E. M., Bray, E. E., Bray, J., Brent, L. J. N., Burkart, J. M., Call, J., Cantlon, J. F., Cheke, L. G., Clayton, N. S., Delgado, M. M., DiVincenti, L. J., Fujita, K., Herrmann, E., Hiramatsu, C., Jacobs, L. F., Jordan, K. E., Laude, J. R., Leimgruber, K. L., Messer, E. J. E., de Moura, A. C. A., Ostojić, L., Picard, A., Platt, M. L., Plotnik, J. M., Range, F., Reader, S. M., Reddy, R. B., Sandel, A. A., Santos, L. R., Schumann, K., Seed, A. M., Sewall, K. B., Shaw, R. C., Slocombe, K. E., Su, Y., Takimoto, A., Tan, J., Tao, R., van Schaik, C. P., Virányi, Z., Visalberghi, E., Wade, J. C., Watanabe, A., Widness, J., Young, J. K., Zentall, T. R., & Zhao, Y. (2014). The evolution of self-control. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America,111(20), E2140-E2148.
DOI
Waller, B. M., Misch, A., Whitehouse, J., & Herrmann, E. (2014). Children, but not chimpanzees, have facial correlates of determination. Biology Letters,10(3): 20130974.
DOI
Wobber, V., Herrmann, E., Hare, B., Wrangham, R., & Tomasello, M. (2014). Differences in the early cognitive development of children and great apes. Developmental Psychobiology,56(3), 547-573.
DOI

2013

Engelmann, J. M., Over, H., Herrmann, E., & Tomasello, M. (2013). Young children care more about their reputation with ingroup members and potential reciprocators. Developmental Science,16(6), 952-958.
DOI
Herrmann, E., Keupp, S., Hare, B., Vaish, A., & Tomasello, M. (2013). Direct and indirect reputation formation in nonhuman great apes (Pan paniscus, Pan troglodytes, Gorilla gorilla, Pongo pygmaeus) and human children (Homo sapiens). Journal of Comparative Psychology,127(1), 63-75.
DOI
Rosati, A. G., Herrmann, E., Kaminski, J., Krupenye, C., Melis, A. P., Schroepfer, K., Tan, J., Warneken, F., Wobber, V., & Hare, B. (2013). Assessing the psychological health of captive and wild apes: A response to Ferdowsian et al. (2011). Journal of Comparative Psychology,127(3), 329-336.
DOI

2012

Engelmann, J. M., Herrmann, E., & Tomasello, M. (2012). Five-year olds, but not chimpanzees, attempt to manage their reputations. PLoS One,7(10): e48433.
Open Access    DOI
Herrmann, E. (2012). Similarities in and differences between nonhuman ape and human cognition: The cultural intelligence hypothesis. In N. M. Seel (Ed.), Encyclopedia of the sciences of learning (pp. 3064-3067 ). Berlin: Springer.
DOI
Herrmann, E., & Call, J. (2012). Are there geniuses among the apes? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences,367(1603), 2753-2761.
DOI
Herrmann, E., & Tomasello, M. (2012). Human cultural cognition. In J. C. Mitani, J. Call, & P. M. Kappeler (Eds.), The Evolution of Primate Societies (pp. 701-714). Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 
MacLean, E. L., Matthews, L. J., Hare, B. A., Nunn, C. L., Anderson, R. C., Aureli, F., Brannon, E. M., Call, J., Drea, C. M., Emery, N. J., Haun, D. B. M., Herrmann, E., Jacobs, L. F., Platt, M. L., Rosati, A. G., Sandel, A. A., Schroepfer, K. K., Seed, A. M., Tan, J., Van Schaik, C. P., & Wobber, V. (2012). How does cognition evolve? Phylogenetic comparative psychology. Animal Cognition,15, 223-238.
DOI
Tomasello, M., Melis, A., Tennie, C., Wyman, E., & Herrmann, E. (2012). Two key steps in the evolution of human cooperation: The interdependence hypothesis. Current Anthropology,53(6), 673-692.
DOI 

2011

Herrmann, E., Hare, B., Cissewski, J., & Tomasello, M. (2011). A comparison of temperament in nonhuman apes and human infants. Developmental Science,14(6), 1393-1405.
DOI 
Pettersson, H., Kaminski, J., Herrmann, E., & Tomasello, M. (2011). Understanding of human communicative motives in domestic dogs. Applied Animal Behaviour Science,133(3-4), 235-245.
DOI

2010

Herrmann, E., Hare, B., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. (2010). Differences in the cognitive skills of bonobos and chimpanzees. PLoS ONE,5(8): e12438.
Open Access    DOI
Herrmann, E., Hernández-Lloreda, M. V., Call, J., Hare, B., & Tomasello, M. (2010). The structure of individual differences in the cognitive abilities of children and chimpanzees. Psychological Science,21(1), 102-110.
DOI
Tomasello, M., & Herrmann, E. (2010). Ape and human cognition: What's the difference? Current Directions in Psychological Science,19(1), 3-8.
DOI

2009

Herrmann, E., Hare, B., Cissewski, J., & Tomasello, M. (2009).The origin of human temperament: Differences in the response to novelty among great apes and human children. Poster presented at SRCD Biennial Meeting, Denver, CO.
McIntyre, M. H., Herrmann, E., Wobber, V., Halbwax, M., Mohamba, C., de Sousa, N., Atencia, R., Cox, D., & Hare, B. (2009). Bonobos have a more human-like second-to-fourth finger length ratio (2D:4D) than chimpanzees: a hypothesized indication of lower prenatal androgens. Journal of Human Evolution,56(4), 361-365.
DOI

2008

Herrmann, E., Call, J., Hernández-Lloreda, M. V., Hare, B., & Tomasello, M. (2008). Comparing social skills of children and apes: response. Science,319(5863), 569-570.
DOI
Herrmann, E., Wobber, V., & Call, J. (2008). Great apes' (Pan troglodytes, Pan paniscus, Gorilla gorilla, Pongo pygmaeus) understanding of tool functional properties after limited experience. Journal of Comparative Psychology,122(2), 220-230.
DOI

2007

Herrmann, E., Call, J., Hernández-Lloreda, M. V., Hare, B., & Tomasello, M. (2007). Humans have evolved specialized skills of social cognition: the cultural intelligence hypothesis. Science,317(5843), 1360-1366.
DOI  

2006

Herrmann, E., & Tomasello, M. (2006). Apes' and children's understanding of cooperative and competitive motives in a communicative situation. Developmental Science,9(5), 518-529.
DOI
Herrmann, E., Melis, A. P., & Tomasello, M. (2006). Apes' use of iconic cues in the object-choice task. Animal Cognition,9(2), 118-130.
DOI