Daniel Haun
Director
Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
D-04103 Leipzig
Germany
Research Interests
- Cross-cultural variation in early socio-cognitive development
- Great ape cognition
- Population-level variation in great ape sociality
- Social motivation
- Spatial cognition
Curriculum Vitae
Current Positions
| 2019 - present | Director Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology |
| 2019 - present | Professor Comparative Cultural Psychology Leipzig University |
Career
| 2019 - present | Director Comparative Cultural Psychology Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Leipzig |
| 2019 - present | Professor Comparative Cultural Psychology Leipzig University |
| 2015 – 2019 | Professor Early Child Development and Culture Leipzig University |
| 2014 - 2015 | Professor Developmental Psychology University of Jena |
| 2013 - 2016 | Guest Scientist Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Leipzig |
| 2008 - 2013 | Research Group leader Comparative Cognitive Anthropology Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology & MPI for Psycholinguistics |
| 2008 - 2014 | Honorary Lecturer Developmental Psychology University of Portsmouth |
| 2007 - 2008 | Lecturer |
| 2006 - 2007 | Post Doc Comparative and Developmental Psychology Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology |
| 2003 - 2004 | Marie Curie PhD Stipend Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience University College London |
| 2002 - 2006 | PhD student |
| 2001 - 2002 | Research Assistant Developmental Psychology University of South Carolina |
| 2001 - 2002 | Academic Tutor for gifted Students Social & Natural Sciences University of South Carolina |
| Summer 2001 | Research Assistant Virtual Reality Laboratory University of California, Santa Barbara |
| Spring 1999 | Research Intern Language and Cognition Group Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics |
| 1998 - 2000 | Student Assistant General Psychology University of Trier |
Education
| 2002 - 2007 | PhD, Psychology MPI Psycholinguistics & Donders Centre for Cognitive Neuroimaging Supervisor: Prof. Stephen C. Levinson, Prof. Neil Burgess, Prof. Gabriele Janzen |
| 2001 - 2002 | M.A., Psychology University of South Carolina Supervisor: Prof. Gary L. Allen |
| 1997 - 2000 | Vordiplom (B.A.), Psychology Universität Trier |
| 1988 - 1997 | Abitur Burggymnasium Kaiserslautern |
Field Research
| 2005, 2006, 2008-2011, 2013-2017 | ≠Akhoe Hai//om; Namibia |
| 2007-2010, 2012 | Orangutan Care Centre and Quarantine; Indonesia |
| 2011, 2012, 2015-2017, 2019 | Chimfunshi Wildlife Orphanage, Zambia |
Publications
Articles
Eckert, J., Sutherland, K., Rakoczy, J., & Haun, D. B. M. (in press). Early development of object individuation in nonhuman great apes. Child Development. |
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Thajib, F., Stodulka, T., Kanngiesser, P., Haun, D., Sunderarajan, J., Junker, M., Meng, T., Sun, W., Zhang, Z., Masaquiza, S., Swastyastu, M., Taek, D. J., Abis, A., Tjizao, D., Shishala, D., Petrović, L., Striegler, B., Weyrowitz, J., Arroyo‐Garcia, B., & Liebal, K. (2025). Combining remote and collaborative research: A critical reflection on large‐scale, comparative, and interdisciplinary research in times of a global crisis (advance online). Ethos, e70016. |
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Becker, Y., Eichner, C., Paquette, M., Bock, C., Girard-Buttoz, C., Jäger, C., Gräßle, T., Deschner, T., Amarasekaran, B., Asiimwe, C., Aschoff, D., Bleyer, M., Chantrey, J., Fedurek, P., Flores, K., Gone Bi, Z. B., Jaffe, J. E., Hambrech, S., Hanus, D., Haun, D., Kirilina, E., Kopp, K., Leendertz, F. H., Liptovszky, M., Makouloutou-Nzassi, P., Mätz-Rensing, K., McElreath, R., McLennan, M., Mezö, Z., Moittié, S., Møller, T., Morawski, M., Olofsson-Sannö, K., Pika, S., Pizarro, A., Pléh, K., Rendel, J., Forero, A. R., Steiner, J., Stidworthy, M. F., Southern, L., Szentiks, C. A., Tanga, T., Ulrich, R., Unwin, S., Walker, S., Weiskopf, N., Wibbelt, G., Wood, K., Zuberbühler, K., Gunz, P., Wittig, R. M., Crockford, C., Friederici, A. D., Anwander, A., & EBC Consortium (2025). Long arcuate fascicle in wild and captive chimpanzees as a potential structural precursor of the language network. Nature Communications, 16: 4485. |
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Radovanović, K., Lorskens, A., Schütte, S., Bräuer, J., Call, J., Haun, D. B. M., & Van Leeuwen, E. J. C. (2025). Bonobos respond aversively to unequal reward distributions. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences (London), 292(2045): 20242873. |
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Hardecker, D. J. K., Stengelin, R., Kachel, G., Schmidt, M. F. H., & Haun, D. B. M. (2025). Investigating the social functions of hurt feelings in middle childhood. Developmental Psychology, 61(4), 623-640. |
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Padberg, M., Hanus, D., Thiele, K. M., Wang, D., Howard, L. H., Grosse Wiesmann, C., Maurits, L., Eckert, J., & Haun, D. B. M. (2025). Social attention increases object memory in adult but not younger great apes. Animal Behaviour, 221: 123081. |
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Fong, F. T. K., & Haun, D. B. M. (2025). Two gaps in studying high‐fidelity imitation across diverse childhood ecologies (advance online). Child Development Perspectives. |
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Kukofka, P., Young, R., Kunz, J. A., Nellissen, L., Alavi, S. E., Rahmaeti, T., Basalamah, F., Haun, D. B. M., & Schuppli, C. (2025). The development of social attention in orangutans: Comparing peering behavior in wild and zoo-housed individuals. iScience, 28(1): 111542. |
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Bohn, M., Prein, J., Engicht, J., Haun, D., Gagarina, N., & Koch, T. (2025). PREVIC: An adaptive parent report measure of expressive vocabulary in children between 3 and 8 years of age. Behavior Research Methods, 57: 95. |
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Prein, J. C., Bednarski, F. M., Dzabatou, A., Frank, M. C., Henderson, A. M. E., Kalbitz, J., Kanngiesser, P., Keşşafoğlu, D., Köymen, B., Manrique-Hernandez, M. V., Magazi, S., Mújica-Manrique, L., Ohlendorf, J., Olaoba, D., Pieters, W. R., Pope-Caldwell, S. M., Sen, U., Slocombe, K., Sparks, R. Z., Stengelin, R., Sunderarajan, J., Sutherland, K., Tusiime, F., Viera, W., Zhang, Z., Zong, Y., Haun, D. B. M., & Bohn, M. (2025). Measuring variation in gaze following across communities, ages, and individuals: A showcase of TANGO-CC (Task for Assessing iNdividual differences in Gaze understanding-Open-Cross-Cultural). Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 8(1). |
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Prein, J. C., Maurits, L., Werwach, A., Haun, D. B. M., & Bohn, M. (2024). Variation in gaze following across the life span: A process-level perspective. Developmental Science, 27(6): e13546. |
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Stengelin, R., Petrović, L., Thiele, M., Hepach, R., & Haun, D. B. M. (2024). Social reward predicts false belief understanding in Namibian Hai||om children. Social Development, 33(4): e12767. |
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Bohn, M., Fong, F. T. K., Pope-Caldwell, S. M., Stengelin, R., & Haun, D. B. M. (2024). Understanding cultural variation in cognition one child at a time. Nature Reviews Psychology, 3(10), 641-643. |
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Bohn, M., Vieira, W. F. d. S., Giner Torréns, M., Kärtner, J., Itakura, S., Cavalcante, L., Haun, D., Köster, M., & Kanngiesser, P. (2024). Mealtime conversations between parents and their 2-year-old children in five cultural contexts. Developmental Psychology, 60(7), 1255-1268. |
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Sánchez Amaro, A., Eirdosh, D., & Haun, D. (2024). Studying Great Apes and Cultural Diversity To Understand the Human Mind. Frontiers for Young Minds, 12: 1337514. |
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Van Leeuwen, E. J. C., DeTroy, S. E., Haun, D. B. M., & Call, J. (2024). Chimpanzees use social information to acquire a skill they fail to innovate. Nature Human Behaviour, 8(5), 891-902. |
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DeTroy, S. E., Hirata, S., Nakamura, M., Haun, D. B. M., & Van Leeuwen, E. J. C. (2024). Evolution of humanity: English translation of the original essay by Kinji Imanishi. Including commentaries by contemporary scholars. International Journal of Primatology, 45(2), 360-387. |
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Bohn, M., Prein, J. C., Delikaya, B., Haun, D. B. M., & Gagarina, N. (2024). oREV: An item response theory-based open receptive vocabulary task for 3- to 8-year-old children. Behavior Research Methods, 56(3), 2595-2605. |
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Prein, J. C., Kalinke, S., Haun, D. B. M., & Bohn, M. (2024). TANGO: A reliable, open-source, browser-based task to assess individual differences in gaze understanding in 3 to 5-year-old children and adults. Behavior Research Methods, 56(3), 2469-2485. |
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Wang, D., Eckert, J., Teague, S., Al-Naji, A., Haun, D., & Chahl, J. (2024). Estimating the cardiac signals of chimpanzees using a digital camera: Validation and application of a novel non-invasive method for primate research. Behavior Research Methods, 56(3), 2064-2082. |
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Sánchez Amaro, A., Maurits, L., & Haun, D. B. M. (2024). Chimpanzees engage in competitive altruism in a triadic ultimatum game. Scientific Reports, 14: 3393. |
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Eisenhauer, N., Frank, K., Weigelt, A., Bartkowski, B., Beugnon, R., Liebal, K., Mahecha, M., Quaas, M., Al‐Halbouni, D., Bastos, A., Bohn, F. J., de Brito, M. M., Denzler, J., Feilhauer, H., Fischer, R., Fritsche, I., Guimaraes‐Steinicke, C., Hänsel, M., Haun, D. B. M., Herrmann, H., Huth, A., Kalesse‐Los, H., Koetter, M., Kolleck, N., Krause, M., Kretschmer, M., Leitão, P. J., Masson, T., Mora, K., Müller, B., Peng, J., Pöhlker, M. L., Ratzke, L., Reichstein, M., Richter, S., Rüger, N., Sánchez‐Parra, B., Shadaydeh, M., Sippel, S., Tegen, I., Thrän, D., Umlauft, J., Wendisch, M., Wolf, K., Wirth, C., Zacher, H., Zaehle, S., & Quaas, J. (2024). A belowground perspective on the nexus between biodiversity change, climate change, and human well‐being. Journal of Sustainable Agriculture and Environment, 3: e212108. |
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Kaminski, J., Stengelin, R., Girndt, A., Haun, D., & Liebal, K. (2024). Understanding others' preferences: A comparison across primate species and human societies. PLoS ONE, 19(1): e0295221. |
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Pope-Caldwell, S., Deffner, D., Maurits, L., Neumann, T., & Haun, D. (2024). Variability and harshness shape flexible strategy‑use in support of the constrained flexibility framework. Scientific Reports, 14: 7236. |
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Sivertsen, S. S., Haun, D., & Hepach, R. (2024). Choosing to help others at a cost to oneself elevates preschoolers' body posture. Evolution and Human Behavior, 45(2), 175-182. |
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Stengelin, R., Maurits, L., Hepach, R., & Haun, D. B. M. (2024). Children's risk preferences vary across sexes, social contexts, and cultures. Communications Psychology, 2: 79. |
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Thiede, N., Stengelin, R., Seibold, A., & Haun, D. B. M. (2023). Testing causal effects of empathy on children’s prosociality in politeness dilemmas. Open Mind, 7, 691-710. |
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Schuppli, C., Nellissen, L., Carvajal, L., Ashbury, A. M., Oliver-Caldwell, N., Rahmaeti, T., Laumer, I., & Haun, D. (2023). Ecological, social, and intrinsic factors affecting wild orangutans’ curiosity, assessed using a field experiment. Scientific Reports, 13: 13184. |
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Gräßle, T., Crockford, C., Eichner, C., Girard-Buttoz, C., Jäger, C., Kirilina, E., Lipp, I., Düx, A., Edwards, L., Jauch, A., Kopp, K. S., Paquette, M., Pine, K., EBC Consortium, Haun, D. B. M., McElreath, R., Anwander, A., Gunz, P., Morawski, M., Friederici, A. D., Weiskopf, N., Leendertz, F. H., & Wittig, R. M. (2023). Sourcing high tissue quality brains from deceased wild primates with known socio‐ecology. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 14(8), 1906 -1924. |
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Bohn, M., Eckert, J., Hanus, D., Lugauer, B., Holtmann, J., & Haun, D. B. M. (2023). Great ape cognition is structured by stable cognitive abilities and predicted by developmental conditions. Nature Ecology & Evolution, 7, 927-938. |
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Schäfer, M., Haun, D. B. M., & Tomasello, M. (2023). Children’s consideration of collaboration and merit when making sharing decisions in private. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 228: 105609. |
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Stengelin, R., Ball, R., Maurits, L., Kanngiesser, P., & Haun, D. B. M. (2023). Children over‐imitate adults and peers more than puppets. Developmental Science, 26(2): e13303. |
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Sibilsky, A., Colleran, H., Deffner, D., & Haun, D. B. M. (2023). Copying fidelity of functional and non-functional features in ni-Vanuatu children: A transmission chain study. PLoS One, 18: e0274061. |
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Friederici, A. D., Wittig, R. M., Anwander, A., Eichner, C., Gräßle, T., Jäger, C., Kirilina, E., Lipp, I., Düx, A., Edwards, L. J., Girard-Buttoz, C., Jauch, A., Kopp, K. S., Paquette, M., Pine, K. J., Unwin, S., Haun, D. B. M., Leendertz, F. H., McElreath, R., Morawski, M., Gunz, P., Weiskopf, N., Crockford, C., & Consortium, E. (2023). Brain structure and function: a multidisciplinary pipeline to study hominoid brain evolution. Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, 17: 1299087. |
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Liebal, K., & Haun, D. B. M. (2023). Vergleichende Psychologie und ihre Relevanz für die Entwicklungspsychologie. Zeitschrift für Entwicklungspsychologie und Pädagogische Psychologie, 55(1), 1-2. |
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Stengelin, R., Haun, D. B. M., & Kanngiesser, P. (2023). Simulating peers: can puppets simulate peer interactions in studies on children's socio-cognitive development? Child Development, 94(5), 1117-1135. |
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Thiele, M., Kalinke, S., Michel, C., & Haun, D. B. M. (2023). Direct and observed joint attention modulate 9-month-old infants’ object encoding. Open Mind, 7, 917-946. |
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Van Leeuwen, E. J. C., Bruinstroop, B. M. C., & Haun, D. B. M. (2023). Early trauma leaves no social signature in sanctuary-housed chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Animals, 13(1), 49. |
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Pope-Caldwell, S. M., Lew-Levy, S., Maurits, L., Boyette, A. H., Ellis-Davies, K., Haun, D., Over, H., & House, B. R. (2022). The social learning and development of intra- and inter-ethnic sharing norms in the Congo Basin: A registered report protocol. PLoS One, 17: e0276845. |
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ManyPrimates, Aguenounon, G., Allritz, M., Altschul, D., Ballesta, S., Beaud, A., Bohn, M., Bornbusch, S., Brandão, A., Brooks, J., Bugnyar, T., Burkart, J., Bustamante, L., Call, J., Canteloup, C., Cao, C., Caspar, K., da Silva, D., de Sousa, A., DeTroy, S., Duguid, S., Eppley, T., Fichtel, C., Fischer, J., Gong, C., Grange, J., Grebe, N., Hanus, D., Haun, D., Haux, L., Héjja-Brichard, Y., Helman, A., Hernadi, I., Hernandez-Aguilar, R. A., Herrmann, E., Hopper, L., Howard, L., Huang, L., Huskisson, S., Jacobs, I., Jin, Z., Joly, M., Kano, F., Keupp, S., Kiefer, E., Knakker, B., Kóczán, K., Kraus, L., Kwok, S. C., Lefrançois, M., Lewis, L., Liu, S., Llorente, M., Lonsdorf, E., Loyant, L., Majecka, K., Maurits, L., Meunier, H., Mobili, F., Morino, L., Motes-Rodrigo, A., Nijman, V., Ihomi, C., Persson, T., Pietraszewski, D., Reátiga Parrish, J., Roig, A., Sánchez Amaro, A., Sato, Y., Sauciuc, G.-A., Schrock, A., Schweinfurth, M., Seed, A., Shearer, C., Šlipogor, V., Su, Y., Sutherland, K., Tan, J., Taylor, D., Troisi, C., Völter, C., Warren, E., Watzek, J., & Zablocki-Thomas, P. (2022). The Evolution of primate short-term memory. Animal Behavior and Cognition, 9(4), 428-516. |
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Escribano, D., Doldán-Martelli, V., Cronin, K. A., Haun, D. B. M., Van Leeuwen, E. J. C., Cuesta, J. A., & Sánchez, A. (2022). Chimpanzees organize their social relationships like humans. Scientific Reports, 12: 16641. |
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Gerdemann, S. C., McAuliffe, K., Blake, P. R., Haun, D. B. M., & Hepach, R. (2022). The ontogeny of children's social emotions in response to (un)fairness. Royal Society Open Science, 9(8): 191456. |
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Farris, K., Kelsey, C. M., Krol, K. M., Thiele, K. M., Hepach, R., Haun, D. B. M., & Grossmann, T. (2022). Processing third-party social interactions in the human infant brain. Infant Behavior and Development, 68: 101727. |
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Hardecker, D. J. K., Schmidt, M. F. H., & Haun, D. B. M. (2022). Sulking behavior and the emergence of hurt feelings in young children. Social Development, 31(2), 388-405. |
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Sibilsky, A., Colleran, H., McElreath, R., & Haun, D. B. M. (2022). Expanding the understanding of majority-bias in children’s social learning. Scientific Reports, 12: 6723. |
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Kanngiesser, P., Schäfer, M., Herrmann, E., Zeidler, H., Haun, D., & Tomasello, M. (2022). Children across societies enforce conventional norms but in culturally variable ways. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 119(1): e2112521118. |
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DeTroy, S., Haun, D. B. M., & Van Leeuwen, E. J. C. (2022). What isn't social tolerance? The past, present, and possible future of an overused term in the field of primatology. Evolutionary Anthropology, 31: evan.21923, pp. 30-44. |
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Stengelin, R., Toppe, T., Kansal, S., Tietz, L., Sürer, G., Henderson, A. M. E., & Haun, D. B. M. (2022). Priming third-party social exclusion does not elicit children's inclusion of out-group members. Royal Society Open Science, 9(1). |
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Leisterer-Peoples, S., Ross, C., Greenhill, S. J., Hardecker, S., & Haun, D. B. M. (2021). Games and enculturation: a cross-cultural analysis of cooperative goal structures in Austronesian games. PLoS One, 16(11): e0259746. |
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Lew-Levy, S., Pope, S. M., Haun, D. B. M., Kline, M. A., & Broesch, T. (2021). Out of the empirical box: A mixed-methods study of tool innovation among Congolese BaYaka forager and Bondongo fisher–farmer children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 211: 105223. |
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Thiele, M., Hepach, R., Michel, C., & Haun, D. B. M. (2021). Infants’ preference for social interactions increases from 7 to 13 months of age. Child Development, 92(6), 2577-2594. |
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Cohen, E., Van Leeuwen, E. J. C., Barbosa, A., & Haun, D. B. M. (2021). Does accent trump skin color in guiding children’s social preferences? Evidence from Brazil’s natural lab. Cognitive Development, 60: 101111. |
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Engelmann, J. M., Völter, C. J., O’Madagain, C., Proft, M., Haun, D. B. M., Rakoczy, H., & Herrmann, E. (2021). Chimpanzees consider alternative possibilities. Current Biology, 31(20), R1377-R1378. |
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Hardecker, D. J. K., Schmidt, M. F. H., & Haun, D. B. (2021). Developing a coding system for sulking behavior in young children. SAGE Open, 11(3): 215624402110092. |
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Sibilsky, A., Colleran, H., McElreath, R., & Haun, D. B. M. (2021). Conformity decreases throughout middle childhood among Ni-Vanuatu children: An intracultural comparison. Developmental Psychology, 57(9), 1497-1509. |
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Kopp, K. S. *., Ebel, S. J. *., Wittig, R. M., Haun, D. B. M., & Crockford, C. (2021). Small mirrors do the trick: A simple, but effective method to study mirror self-recognition in chimpanzees. Animal Behavior and Cognition, 8(3), 391-404. |
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Thiele, M., Hepach, R., Michel, C., & Haun, D. B. M. (2021). Observing others’ joint attention increases 9-month-old infants’ object encoding. Developmental Psychology, 57(6), 837-850. |
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Hanisch, S., Eirdosh, D., Schaefer, M., & Haun, D. B. M. (2021). What is “fair” is not the same everywhere. Frontiers for Young Minds, 9: 580435. |
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Toppe, T., Hardecker, S., Zerres, F., & Haun, D. B. M. (2021). The influence of cooperation and competition on preschoolers' prosociality toward in-group and out-group members. Royal Society Open Science, 8: 202171. |
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Leisterer-Peoples, S., Hardecker, S., Watts, J., Greenhill, S. J., Ross, C., & Haun, D. B. M. (2021). The Austronesian game taxonomy: A cross-cultural dataset of historical games. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 8: 113. |
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Stengelin, R., Golubovic, A., Toppe, T., Over, H., & Haun, D. B. M. (2021). Priming third-party ostracism does not lead to increased affiliation in three Serbian communities. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 203: 105019. |
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Van Leeuwen, E. J. C., DeTroy, S., Kaufhold, S. P., Dubois, C., Schütte, S., Call, J., & Haun, D. B. M. (2021). Chimpanzees behave prosocially in a group-specific manner. Science Advances, 7(9): eabc7982. |
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DeTroy, S. E., Ross, C. T., Cronin, K. A., Van Leeuwen, E. J. C., & Haun, D. B. M. (2021). Cofeeding tolerance in chimpanzees depends on group composition: A longitudinal study across four communities. iScience, 24(3): 102175. |
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Thiele, M., Hepach, R., Michel, C., Gredebäck, G., & Haun, D. B. M. (2021). Social interaction targets enhance 13-month-old infants' associative learning. Infancy, 26(3), 409-422. |
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Hardecker, D. J. K., & Haun, D. B. M. (2020). Approaching the development of hurt feelings in childhood. New Ideas in Psychology, 59: 100796. |
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Sauter, D. A., Crasbon, O., Engels, T., Kamiloğlu, R. G., Sun, R., Eisner, F., & Haun, D. B. M. (2020). Human emotional vocalizations can develop in the absence of auditory learning. Emotion, 20(8), 1435-1445. |
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Stengelin, R., Hepach, R., & Haun, D. B. M. (2020). Cultural variation in young children’s social motivation for peer collaboration and its relation to the ontogeny of Theory of Mind. PLoS One, 15(11): e0242071. |
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Stengelin, R., Hepach, R., & Haun, D. B. M. (2020). Cross-cultural variation in how much, but not whether, children overimitate. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 193: 104796. |
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Stengelin, R., Hepach, R., & Haun, D. B. M. (2020). Hai||om children mistrust, but do not deceive, peers with opposing self-interests. PLoS One, 15(3). |
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Toppe, T., Hardecker, S., & Haun, D. B. M. (2020). Social inclusion increases over early childhood and is influenced by others’ group membership. Developmental Psychology, 56(2), 324-335. |
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Haun, D., Liebal, K., Amici, F., Bender, A., Bohn, M., Bräuer, J., Buttelmann, D., Burkart, J., Cacchione, T., DeTroy, S., Faßbender, I., Fichtel, C., Fischer, J., Gampe, A., Gray, R. D., Horn, L., Oña, L. S., Kärtner, J., Kaminski, J., Kanngießer, P., Keller, H., Köster, M., Kopp, K. S., Kornadt, H.-J., Rakoczy, H., Schuppli, C., Stengelin, R., Trommsdorff, G., Van Leeuwen, E. J. C., & Schaik, C. v. (2020). Ein Plädoyer für die Relevanz der Vergleichenden Psychologie für das Verständnis menschlicher Entwicklung (Kommentare zu Daum, M. M., Greve, W.,Pauen, S., Schuhrke, B. und Schwarzer, G.(2020). Positionspapier der Fachgruppe Entwicklungspsychologie: Ein Versuch einer Standortbestimmung. In: Psychologische Rundschau, 71(1), 24-46). Psychologische Rundschau, 71(1), 40-41. |
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Kamiloğlu, R. G., Slocombe, K. E., Haun, D. B. M., & Sauter, D. A. (2020). Human listeners’ perception of behavioural context and core affect dimensions in chimpanzee vocalizations. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 287(1929): 20201148. |
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Stengelin, R., Hepach, R., & Haun, D. B. M. (2019). Being observed increases overimitation in three diverse cultures. Developmental Psychology, 55(12), 2630-2636. |
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ManyPrimates, Altschul, D. M., Beran, M. J., Bohn, M., Call, J., DeTroy, S., Duguid, S. J., Egelkamp, C. L., Fichtel, C., Fischer, J., Flessert, M., Hanus, D., Haun, D. B. M., Haux, L. M., Hernandez-Aguilar, R. A., Herrmann, E., Hopper, L. M., Joly, M., Kano, F., Keupp, S., Melis, A. P., Motes Rodrigo, A., Ross, S. R., Sánchez Amaro, A., Sato, Y., Schmitt, V., Schweinfurth, M. K., Seed, A. M., Taylor, D., Völter, C. J., Warren, E., & Watzek, J. (2019). Establishing an infrastructure for collaboration in primate cognition research. PLoS One, 14(10): e0223675. |
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Toppe, T., Hardecker, S., & Haun, D. B. M. (2019). Playing a cooperative game promotes preschoolers’ sharing with third-parties, but not social inclusion. PLoS One, 14: e0221092. |
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Van Leeuwen, E. J. C., Cronin, K. A., & Haun, D. B. M. (2019). Reply to Farine and Aplin: Chimpanzees choose their association and interaction partners. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 116(34), 16676-16677. |
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Schrimpf, A., McGarvey, S., Haun, D., Kube, J., Villringer, A., & Gaebler, M. (2019). Socio-cultural norms of body size in Westerners and Polynesians affect heart rate variability and emotion during social interactions. Culture and Brain, 7(1), 26-56. |
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Damerius, L. A., Burkart, J. M., van Noordwijk, M. A., Haun, D. B. M., Kosonen, Z. K., Galdikas, B. M., Saraswati, Y., Kurniawan, D., & van Schaik, C. P. (2019). General cognitive abilities in orangutans (Pongo abelii and Pongo pygmaeus). Intelligence, 74, 3-11. |
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Kanngiesser, P., Rossano, F., Zeidler, H., Haun, D., & Tomasello, M. (2019). Children's respect for ownership across diverse societies. Developmental Psychology, 55(11), 2286-2298. |
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Schweinfurth, M. K., DeTroy, S. E., Van Leeuwen, E. J. C., Call, J., & Haun, D. B. M. (2018). Spontaneous social tool use in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 132(4), 455-463. |
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Acerbi, A., Van Leeuwen, E. J. C., Haun, D. B. M., & Tennie, C. (2018). Reply to 'Sigmoidal acquisition curves are good indicators of conformist transmission'. Scientific Reports, 8(1): 14016. |
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Van Leeuwen, E. J. C., Cohen, E., Collier-Baker, E., Rapold, C. J., Schäfer, M., Schütte, S., & Haun, D. B. M. (2018). The development of human social learning across seven societies. Nature Communications, 9: 2076. |
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Liebal, K., & Haun, D. B. M. (2018). Why cross-cultural psychology is incomplete without comparative and developmental perspectives. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 49(5), 751-763. |
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Van Leeuwen, E. J. C., Cronin, K. A., & Haun, D. B. M. (2018). Population-specific social dynamics in chimpanzees. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 115(45), 11393-11400. |
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Van Leeuwen, E. J. C., Mundry, R., Cronin, K. A., Bodamer, M., & Haun, D. B. M. (2017). Chimpanzee culture extends beyond matrilineal family units. Current Biology, 27(12), R588-R590. |
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Gretscher, H., Tempelmann, S., Haun, D. B. M., Liebal, K., & Kaminski, J. (2017). Prelinguistic human infants and great apes show different communicative strategies in a triadic request situation. PLoS One, 12(4): e0175227. |
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Damerius, L. A., Forss, S. I. F., Kosonen, Z. K., Willems, E. P., Burkart, J. M., Call, J., Galdikas, B. M. F., Liebal, K., Haun, D. B. M., & van Schaik, C. P. (2017). Orientation toward humans predicts cognitive performance in orang-utans. Scientific Reports, 7: 40052. |
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Nielsen, M., Haun, D., Kärtner, J., & Legare, C. H. (2017). The persistent sampling bias in developmental psychology: A call to action. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 162, 31-38. |
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Van Leeuwen, E. J. C., Cronin, K. A., & Haun, D. B. M. (2017). Tool use for corpse cleaning in chimpanzees. Scientific Reports, 7: 44091. |
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Haun, D. B. M., & Tomasello, M. (2016). How to compare across species. Psychological Science, 27(12), 1670-1672. |
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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. |
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Christie, S., Gentner, D., Call, J., & Haun, D. B. M. (2016). Sensitivity to relational similarity and object similarity in apes and children. Current Biology, 26(4), 531-535. |
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Richter, N., Tiddeman, B., & Haun, D. B. M. (2016). Social preference in preschoolers: Effects of morphological self-similarity and familiarity. PLoS One, 11(1): e0145443. |
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Acerbi, A., Van Leeuwen, E. J. C., Haun, D. B. M., & Tennie, C. (2016). Conformity cannot be identified based on population-level signatures. Scientific Reports, 6: 36068. |
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Nielsen, M., & Haun, D. (2016). Why developmental psychology is incomplete without comparative and cross-cultural perspectives. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 371(1686): 20150071. |
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Van Leeuwen, E. J. C., Acerbi, A., Kendal, R. L., Tennie, C., & Haun, D. B. M. (2016). A reappreciation of ‘conformity’. Animal Behaviour, 122, e5-e10. |
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Van Leuween, E. J. C., Kendal, R. L., Tennie, C., & Haun, D. B. M. (2016). Conformity and its look-a-likes. Animal Behaviour, 110, e1-e4. |
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Schaefer, M., Haun, D. B. M., & Tomasello, M. (2015). Fair is not fair everywhere. Psychological Science, 26(8), 1252-1260. |
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Haun, D. B. M., Rekers, Y., & Tomasello, M. (2014). Children conform to the behavior of peers; Other great apes stick with what they know. Psychological Science, 25(12), 2160-2167. |
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Liebal, K., Vaish, A., Haun, D., & Tomasello, M. (2014). Does sympathy motivate prosocial behaviour in great apes? PLoS One, 9(1): e84299. |
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Cronin, K. A., Pieper, B., Van Leeuwen, E. J. C., Mundry, R., & Haun, D. B. M. (2014). Problem solving in the presence of others: How rank and relationship quality impact resource acquisition in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). PLoS One, 9(4): e93204. |
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Cronin, K. A., Van Leeuwen, E. J. C., Vreeman, V., & Haun, D. B. M. (2014). Population-level variability in the social climates of four chimpanzee societies. Evolution and Human Behavior, 35(5), 389-396. |
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Van Leeuwen, E. J. C., & Haun, D. B. M. (2014). Conformity without majority? The case for demarcating social from majority influences. Animal Behaviour, 96, 187-194. |
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Van Leeuwen, E. J. C., Call, J., & Haun, D. B. M. (2014). Human children rely more on social information than chimpanzees do. Biology Letters, 10(11): 20140487. |
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Van Leeuwen, E. J. C., Cronin, K. A., & Haun, D. B. M. (2014). A group-specific arbitrary tradition in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Animal Cognition, 17(6), 1421-1425. |
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Van Leeuwen, E. J. C., Cronin, K. A., Schütte, S., Call, J., & Haun, D. B. M. (2013). Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) flexibly adjust their behaviour in order to maximize payoffs, not to conform to majorities. PLoS One, 8(11): e80945. |
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Cohen, E., & Haun, D. B. M. (2013). The development of tag-based cooperation via a socially acquired trait. Evolution and Human Behavior, 34(3), 230-235. |
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Haun, D. B. M., Van Leeuwen, E. J. C., & Edelson, M. G. (2013). Majority influence in children and other animals. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 3, 61-71. |
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Messner, D., Guarín, A., & Haun, D. (2013). The behavioural dimensions of international cooperation. Global Cooperation Research Papers, 1. |
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Van Leeuwen, E. J., & Haun, D. B. M. (2013). Conformity in nonhuman primates: Fad or fact? Evolution and Human Behavior, 34(1), 1-7. |
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Gretscher, H., Haun, D. B., Liebal, K., & Kaminski, J. (2012). Orang-utans rely on orientation cues and egocentric rules when judging others' perspectives in a competitive food task. Animal Behaviour, 84(2), 323-331. |
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Haun, D. B. M., Rekers, Y., & Tomasello, M. (2012). Majority-biased transmission in chimpanzees and human children, but not orangutans. Current Biology, 22, 727-731. |
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Hribar, A., Haun, D. B. M., & Call, J. (2012). Children's reasoning about spatial relational similarity: The effect of alignment and relational complexity. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 111(3), 490-500. |
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Janzen, G., Haun, D. B. M., & Levinson, S. C. (2012). Tracking down abstract linguistic meaning: Neural correlates of spatial frame of reference ambiguities in language. PLoS One, 7(2): e30657. |
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Liebal, K., & Haun, D. B. M. (2012). The importance of comparative psychology for developmental science. International Journal of Developmental Science, 6, 21-23. |
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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. |
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Van Leeuwen, E. J. C., Cronin, K. A., Haun, D. B. M., Mundry, R., & Bodamer, M. D. (2012). Neighbouring chimpanzee communities show different preferences in social grooming behaviour. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 279, 4362-4367. |
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Haun, D. B. M. (2011). Memory for body movements in Namibian hunter-gatherer children. Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology, 10(1), 56-62. |
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Haun, D. B. M., & Tomasello, M. (2011). Conformity to peer pressure in preschool children. Child Development, 82(6), 1759-1767. |
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Haun, D. B. M., Nawroth, C., & Call, J. (2011). Great apes' risk-taking strategies in a decision making task. PLoS ONE, 6(12): e28801. |
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Haun, D. B. M., Rapold, C. J., Janzen, G., & Levinson, S. C. (2011). Plasticity of human spatial cognition: Spatial language and cognition covary across cultures. Cognition, 119(1), 70-80. |
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Hribar, A., Haun, D. B. M., & Call, J. (2011). Great apes' strategies to map spatial relations. Animal Cognition, 14(4), 511-523. |
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Rekers, Y., Haun, D. B. M., & Tomasello, M. (2011). Children, but not chimpanzees, prefer to collaborate. Current Biology, 21(20), 1756-1758. |
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Sauter, D. A., LeGuen, O., & Haun, D. B. M. (2011). Categorical perception of emotional facial expressions does not require lexical categories. Emotion, 11(6), 1479-1483. |
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Haun, D. B. M., Jordan, F. M., Vallortigara, G., & Clayton, N. S. (2010). Origins of spatial, temporal and numerical cognition: Insights from comparative psychology. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 14(12), 552-560. |
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Martin Ordas, G., Haun, D. B. M., Colmenares, F., & Call, J. (2010). Keeping track of time: Evidence for episodic-like memory in great apes. Animal Cognition, 13(2), 331-340. |
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Haun, D. B. M., & Call, J. (2009). Great apes’ capacities to recognize relational similarity. Cognition, 110(2), 147-159. |
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Haun, D. B. M., & Rapold, C. J. (2009). Variation in memory for body movements across cultures. Current Biology, 19(23), R1068-R1069. |
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Haun, D. B. M., & Call, J. (2008). Imitation recognition in great apes. Current Biology, 18(7), R288-R290. |
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Haun, D. B. M., Rapold, C. J., Call, J., Janzen, G., & Levinson, S. C. (2006). Cognitive cladistics and cultural override in Hominid spatial cognition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103(46), 17568-17573. |
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Haun, D. B. M., Call, J., Janzen, G., & Levinson, S. C. (2006). Evolutionary psychology of spatial representations in the Hominidae. Current Biology, 16(17), 1736-1740. |
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Haun, D. B. M., Allen, G. L., & Wedell, D. H. (2005). Bias in spatial memory: A categorical endorsement. Acta Psychologica, 118(1-2), 149-170. |
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Allen, G. L., Kirasic, K. C., Rashotte, M. A., & Haun, D. B. M. (2004). Aging and path integration skill: Kinesthetic and vestibular contributions to wayfinding. Perception & Psychophysics, 66(1), 170-179. |
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Majid, A., Bowerman, M., Kita, S., Haun, D. B. M., & Levinson, S. C. (2004). Can language restructure cognition? The case for space. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8(3), 108-114. |
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Waller, D., Loomis, J. M., & Haun, D. B. M. (2004). Body-based senses enhance knowledge of directions in large-scale environments. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 11(1), 157-163. |
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Haun, D. B. M. (2003). What's so special about spatial cognition. De Psychonoom, 18, 3-4. |
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Waller, D., & Haun, D. B. M. (2003). Scaling techniques for modeling directional knowledge. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers, 35(2), 285-293. |
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Levinson, S. C., Kita, S., Haun, D. B. M., & Rasch, B. H. (2002). Returning the tables: Language affects spatial reasoning. Cognition, 84(2), 155-188. |
Open AccessBooks
Haun, D. B. M., & Wertenbruch, M. (2013). Forschungen und Entwicklungen zum Konzept der Ehre als Potential für Konflikte zwischen Kulturen. Wien: Österreichischer Integrationsfonds. |
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Guarin, A., Haun, D. B. M., & Messner, D. (2013). Behavioral dimensions of international cooperation. Duisburg: Käte Hamburger Kolleg / Centre for Global Cooperation Research (KHK/GCR21). |
Book Chapters
Zahra, A., Martin, P.-E., Bohn, M., & Haun, D. (2024). Computer vision for analyzing children’s lived experiences. In K. Arai ( |
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Stengelin, R., Neldner, K., & Haun, D. (2023). Cultural variation in childhood social learning. In J. J. Tehrani, J. Kendal, & R. Kendal ( |
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Rakoczy, H., & Haun, D. (2020). Comparative cognition between children and animals. In S. Hupp, & J. D. Jewell ( |
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Haun, D. B. M. (2015). Comparative and developmental anthropology: Studying the origins of cultural variability in cognitive function. In L. A. Jensen ( |
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Haun, D. B. M., & Over, H. (2013). Like me: A homophily-based account of human culture. In P. J. Richerson, & M. H. Christiansen ( |
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Jordan, F. M., van Schaik, C., Francois, P., Gintis, H., Haun, D. B. M., Hruschka, D. H., Janssen, M. A., Kitts, J. A., Lehmann, L., Mathew, S., Richerson, P. J., Turchin, P., & Wiessner, P. (2013). Cultural evolution of the structure of human groups. In P. J. Richerson, & M. H. Christiansen ( |
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Rakoczy, H., & Haun, D. B. M. (2012). Vor- und nichtsprachliche Kognition. In W. Schneider, & U. Lindenberger ( |
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Haun, D. B. M. (2011). How odd I am! In M. Brockman ( |
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Haun, D. B. M., Jordan, F. M., Vallortigara, G., & Clayton, N. S. (2011). Origins of spatial, temporal and numerical cognition: insights from comparative psychology. In S. Dehaene, & E. M. Brannon ( |
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Schaefer, M., & Haun, D. B. M. (2010). Sharing among children across cultures. In E. Norcliffe, & N. J. Enfield ( |
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Allen, G. L., & Haun, D. B. M. (2004). Proximity and precision in spatial memory. In G. Allen ( |
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Haun, D. B. M. (2003). Path integration. In N. J. Enfield ( |
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Haun, D. B. M. (2003). Spatial updating. In N. J. Enfield ( |
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Haun, D. B. M., & Waller, D. (2003). Alignment task. In N. J. Enfield ( |
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Wender, K. F., Haun, D. B. M., Rasch, B. H., & Blümke, M. (2003). Context effects in memory for routes. In C. Freksa, W. Brauer, C. Habel, & K. F. Wender ( |
Conference Papers
Bender, A., Beller, S., Haun, D. B. M., Legare, C., Majid, A., Ojalehto, B., & Medin, D. (2013). Exploring cognitive diversity across disciplines and cultures. In M. Knauff, M. Pauen, N. Sebanz, & I. Wachsmuth ( |
Meeting Abstracts
DeTroy, S., van Leeuwen, E. J. C., Call, J., & Haun, D. B. M. (2020). Chimp see, chimp do: The transmission of a novel skill across two groups of chimpanzees. Folia Primatologica, 91(3), 335-336. |
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Kamiloğlua, R., Slocombe, K., Haun, D., & Sauter, D. (2020). What can chimpanzee vocalisations tell human listeners? Folia Primatologica, 91(3), 304. |
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Cronin, K. A., Van Leeuwen, E. J. C., & Haun, D. B. M. (2013). The many metrics of social tolerance: Are we measuring one concept? Folia primatologica, 84(3-5), 261-262. |
Others
Bruno, D., Pope-Caldwell, S. M., Haberl, K., Hanus, D., Haun, D., Leisterer-Peoples, S., Mauritz, S., Neldner, K., Sibilsky, A., & Stengelin, R. (2022). Ethical guidelines for good practice in cross-cultural research. Leipzig: Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology, Max Planck Institute for evolutionary anthropology. |
Preprint
Stengelin, R., Bohn, M., Sánchez Amaro, A., Haun, D. B. M., Thiele, M., Daum, M. M., Felsche, E., Fong, F. T. K., Gampe, A., Giner Torréns, M., Grueneisen, S., Hardecker, D. J. K., Horn, L., Neldner, K., Pope-Caldwell, S. M., & Schuhmacher, N. (2024). Responsible research is also concerned with generalizability: Recognizing efforts to reflect upon and increase generalizability in hiring and promotion decisions in psychology. Meta-Psychology, 8. |
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Bohn, M., Eckert, J., Hanus, D., Lugauer, B., Holtmann, J., & Haun, D. B. M. (2022). Probing the structure, stability and predictability of great ape cognition. PsyArXiv. |
Talks
Guarin, A., & Haun, D. B. M. (2013). Behavioral dimensions of international cooperation. Talk presented at The Earth System Governance Conference. Tokyo, Japan. 2013-01-28 - 2013-01-31. |
