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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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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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Social memory in great apes

Comparative Cultural Psychology

Great apes, like humans, remember objects better when introduced by a social agent, but develop this skill…

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Learning from conspecifics

Comparative Cultural Psychology

Chimpanzees may use social learning to acquire new skills

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