Amrisha Vaish

Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
D-04103 Leipzig
Germany

 

Research interests

• Social-emotional development
• The development of empathy/sympathy, moral emotions, morality, and prosocial behavior
• The early development of pragmatics

 

Ongoing projects:

• The development and understanding of moral emotions, such as guilt, in young children (with Michael Tomasello and Malinda Carpenter)
• The nature of empathy and sympathy in early childhood (with Robert Hepach and Michael Tomasello)