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Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology

Director: Prof. Dr. Daniel Haun

The Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology combines approaches from developmental, cross-cultural and comparative psychology, to study uniquely human cultural diversity and the universal cognitive mechanisms that enable and constrain it.

  • We study the interaction between human cognition and culture by studying individuals in different social and physical environments around the world.

  • We study uniquely human cognitive processes by comparing humans with other great ape species.

  • We study similarities and differences in cognitive development and their inter-individual and inter-cultural drivers in human and non-human great apes.

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Researchers now able to precisely analyse bonobo facial expressions

Comparative Cultural Psychology

System adapted: New tool for exploring communication among our close relatives

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Combating two crises in psychological research through international collaboration

Comparative Cultural Psychology

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig launches German-Namibian research project

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Bonobos react negatively to inequity

Comparative Cultural Psychology

Bonobos refuse to participate when faced with unequal rewards, reinforcing the highly contentious debate about…

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