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 culture and mind by comparing people from different social and physical environments around the world.
• Second, we investigate the developmental processes that lead to similarities and differences in human behavior by studying children’s early development cross-culturally.
• Third, we study the uniquely human aspects of these developmental processes by comparing the development of human infants with the early development in other, non-human great apes species.