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 |