Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
Anja Reimann
phone: +49 (0)341 3550 - 400
e-mail: info_ccp@eva.mpg.de
Daniel Haun

Director
Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
D-04103 Leipzig
Germany
phone: +49 (0) 341 3550 400
email: info_ccp@[>>> Please remove the brackets! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Research Interests
Curriculum Vitae
Publications
Teaching
Supervision
Invited Talks
Research Awards & Funding
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 Plancke Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology |
2015 - present | Director Leipzig Research Center for Early Child Development Leipzig University |
2019 - 2020 | Interim Professor (20%) Early Child Development and Culture Leipzig University |
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 |
Advisory Boards
2013 - 2019 | Scientific Advisory Board Centre for Global Cooperation Research German Development Institute |
2013 - 2014 | Scientific Advisor Austrian Integration Fund (Österreichischen Integrationsfonds) |
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 |
Memberships
- Association for Psychological Science
- Cultural Evolution Association
- Society for Research in Child Development
- International Primatological Society
- Edge Foundation
- European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association
Publications
Articles
Kopp, K. S., Ebel, S. J., Wittig, R. M., Haun, D. B. M., & Crockford, C. (in press). Small mirrors do the trick: A simple, but effective method to study mirror self-recognition in chimpanzees. Animal Behavior and Cognition. | |
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. ![]() | |
Thiele, M., Hepach, R., Michel, C., Gredebäck, G., & Haun, D. B. M. (2021). Social interaction targets enhance 13-month-old infants' associative learning (advance online). Infancy. ![]() | |
Hardecker, D. J. K., & Haun, D. B. M. (2020). Approaching the development of hurt feelings in childhood. New Ideas in Psychology,59: 100796. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
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: e0242071. ![]() | |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
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). ![]() | |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
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., Leeuwen, E. v., & 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. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
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. ![]() | |
Stengelin, R., Hepach, R., & Haun, D. B. M. (2019). Being observed increases overimitation in three diverse cultures. Developmental Psychology,55(12), 2630-2636. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Many Primates, 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. ![]() | |
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(8): e0221092. ![]() | |
van Leeuwen, C., E. J., 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. ![]() | |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Schweinfurth, M. K., DeTroy, S., 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. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
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. ![]() | |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
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. ![]() | |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
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. ![]() | |
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. ![]() | |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
van Leeuwen, E. J. C., Cronin, K. A., & Haun, D. B. M. (2017). Tool use for corpse cleaning in chimpanzees. Scientific Reports,7: 44091. ![]() | |
Haun, D. B. M., & Tomasello, M. (2016). How to compare across species. Psychological Science,27(12), 1670-1672. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
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. ![]() | |
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. ![]() | |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
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. ![]() | |
Schaefer, M., Haun, D. B. M., & Tomasello, M. (2015). Fair is not fair everywhere. Psychological Science,26(8), 1252-1260. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Liebal, K., Vaish, A., Haun, D., & Tomasello, M. (2014). Does sympathy motivate prosocial behaviour in great apes? PLoS One,9(1): e84299. ![]() | |
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. ![]() | |
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. ![]() | |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
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. ![]() | |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Messner, D., Guarín, A., & Haun, D. (2013). The behavioural dimensions of international cooperation. Global Cooperation Research Papers,1. ![]() | |
van Leeuwen, E. J., & Haun, D. B. M. (2013). Conformity in nonhuman primates: Fad or fact? Evolution and Human Behavior,34(1), 1-7. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
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. ![]() | |
Liebal, K., & Haun, D. B. M. (2012). The importance of comparative psychology for developmental science. International Journal of Developmental Science,6, 21-23. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
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. DOI PubMed BibTeX Endnote | |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Haun, D. B. M. (2011). Memory for body movements in Namibian hunter-gatherer children. Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology,10(1), 56-62. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Haun, D. B. M., & Tomasello, M. (2011). Conformity to peer pressure in preschool children. Child Development,82(6), 1759-1767. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Haun, D. B. M., Nawroth, C., & Call, J. (2011). Great apes' risk-taking strategies in a decision making task. PLoS ONE,6(12): e28801. ![]() | |
Haun, D. B. M., Rapold, C. C., Janzen, G., & Levinson, S. C. (2011). Plasticity of human spatial memory: Spatial language and cognition covary across cultures. Cognition,119, 70-80. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Hribar, A., Haun, D. B. M., & Call, J. (2011). Great apes' strategies to map spatial relations. Animal Cognition,14(4), 511-523. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Rekers, Y., Haun, D. B. M., & Tomasello, M. (2011). Children, but not chimpanzees, prefer to collaborate. Current Biology,21(20), 1756-1758. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Haun, D. B. M., & Call, J. (2009). Great apes’ capacities to recognize relational similarity. Cognition,110(2), 147-159. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Haun, D. B. M., & Rapold, C. J. (2009). Variation in memory for body movements across cultures. Current Biology,19(23), R1068-R1069. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Haun, D. B. M., & Call, J. (2008). Imitation recognition in great apes. Current Biology,18(7), R288-R290. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Waller, D., & Haun, D. B. M. (2003). Scaling techniques for modeling directional knowledge. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers,35(2), 285-293. BibTeX Endnote | |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
Books
Haun, D. B. M., & Wertenbruch, M. (2013).Forschungen und Entwicklungen zum Konzept der Ehre als Potential für Konflikte zwischen Kulturen. Wien: Österreichischer Integrationsfonds. ![]() | |
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). DOI BibTeX Endnote |
Book Chapters
Rakoczy, H., & Haun, D. (2020). Comparative cognition between children and animals. In S. Hupp, & J. D. Jewell ( DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Haun, D. B. M. (2015). Comparative and developmental anthropology: Studying the origins of cultural variability in cognitive function. In L. A. Jensen ( DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Haun, D. B. M., & Over, H. (2013). Like me: A homophily-based account of human culture. In P. J. Richerson, & M. H. Christiansen ( DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
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 ( DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Rakoczy, H., & Haun, D. B. M. (2012). Vor- und nichtsprachliche Kognition. In W. Schneider, & U. Lindenberger ( BibTeX Endnote | |
Haun, D. B. M. (2011). How odd I am! In M. Brockman ( BibTeX Endnote | |
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 ( DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Schaefer, M., & Haun, D. B. M. (2010). Sharing among children across cultures. In E. Norcliffe, & N. J. Enfield ( DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Schaefer, M., & Haun, D. B. M. (2010). Sharing among children across cultures. In E. Norcliffe, & N. J. Enfield ( DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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 ( BibTeX Endnote |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
Kamiloğlua, R., Slocombe, K., Haun, D., & Sauter, D. (2020). What can chimpanzee vocalisations tell human listeners? Folia Primatologica,91(3), 304. DOI BibTeX Endnote | |
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. DOI BibTeX Endnote |
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. BibTeX Endnote |
Teaching
Teaching
2015 - 2019 Planning, implementation and direction of a Masters Program entitled M.Sc. Early Childhood Research at Leipzig University (https://www.lfe.uni-leipzig.de/en/study/m-sc-early-childhood-research-2/)
Lectures
- Developmental Psychology (Master) - Leipzig University
- Developmental Psychology (Bachelor) - University of Jena
- Developmental Psychology (Bachelor) - University of Portsmouth
- Introduction to Psychology (Bachelor) - University of Portsmouth
Seminars
- Supervision in Higher Education - Leipzig University
- Comparative Development (Master) - Leipzig University
- Neurocognitive Development (Master) - Leipzig University
- Good Scientific Practice (Master) - Leipzig University
- Observational Methods (Graduate) - Leipzig University
- Cultural Variability of Human Behaviour (Bachelor) - University of Jena
- Comparative Cognition (Bachelor) - University of Jena
- Introduction to Experimental Design (Bachelor) - University of Jena
- Project Seminar Comparative Psychology (Master) - University of Jena
- Comparative Cognition (Bachelor & Master) - University of Frijbourg
- Evolutionary Anthropology (Master) - Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes
- Applied Developmental Psychology (Bachelor) - Leipzig University
- Observational Methods (Bachelor) - Leipzig University
- Biological and cultural foundations of human thinking (Bachelor) - University of Tübingen
Supervision
PhD Students (Primary supervisor)
Current:
- Roman Stengelin - Cross-cultural variation in early social motivation
- Anne Sibilsky - Cross-cultural variation in early conformity
- David Hardecker - Hurt feelings and sulking behavior
- Marie Kaiser - Self-similarity preference in childhood
- Theo Toppe - Game-based interventions in childhood
- Maleen Thiele – Early social attention
- Sarah deTroy – Population-level variation in chimpanzee social behavior
- Sarah Peoples - Cultural co-evolution of games and societal values
Past:
- Marie Schäfer (PhD 2014)
- Nadja Richter (PhD 2014)
- Edwin van Leeuwen (PhD 2014)
- Henriette Zeidler (PhD 2015)
Postdoctoral Researcher
Current:
- Sarah Pope, PhD
- Johanna Eckert, PhD
Past:
- Nadja Richter, PhD
- Edwin van Leeuwen, PhD
- Anja Blumenthal, PhD
- Disa Sauter, PhD
- Emma Cohen, PhD
- Katherine Cronin, PhD
Workshop/Conference Organization
12.09.2019 | 3rd Wilhelm Wundt Dialogue, Title: The Puzzle of Language Acquisition |
09-12.09.2019 | Conference of the Developmental- and Educational Psychology of the German Psychological Society |
29.11.2018 | 2nd Wilhelm Wundt Dialogue, Title: Attachment Theory: Past, Present & Future |
07.12.2017 | 1st Wilhelm Wundt Dialogue, Title: What makes us human? The roots of human culture. |
19.09.2016 - 22.09.2016 | Opening of the Leipzig Research Center for Early Child Development |
19.09.2016 - 22.09.2016 | Non-human minds |
06.11.2015 - 07.11.2015 | Why C(omp)are? Research across species and cultures to understand the human mind |
18.04.2013 - 20.04.2013 | Cross-cultural differences and similarities in children's social behavior |
14.12.2011 - 17.12.2011 | Origins of Cultural Diversity |
12.09.2011 - 14.09.2011 | Cross-cultural Developmental Psychology |
Invited Talks
- Paläon Museum (February 2019)
- Studium Generale, University of Mainz (January 2019)
- Orden Pour le Mérite (September 2018)
- Mind and Life European Summer Research Institute (August, 2018)
- Landesvereinigung Kulturelle Kinder- und Jugendbildung (March, 2018)
- National Academy of Sciences Sackler Colloquium (September, 2017)
- Bundesinstitut für Bau, Stadt und Raumforschung (May, 2017)
- Common Purpose Leipzig (May, 2017)
- Ringvorlesung des Psychologischen Institutes der Universität Jena (May, 2017)
- Medizinische Fakultät der Univesität Freiburg (April, 2017)
- Pontifical University of the Holy Cross (October, 2016)
- State visit of your majesty Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden (October, 2016)
- Kinderuniversale (August / Oktober, 2016)
- Evangelische Hochschule Dresden (März, 2016)
- Ecole Normale Supérieure (January, 2016)
- Kinderuni Jena (June, 2015)
- Zoogesellschaft Wuppertal (April, 2015)
- Deutsche Kinder und Jugendstiftung (September, 2014)
- Cognitive Development Centre Budapest (May, 2014)
- University of Neuchatel (October, 2013)
- Euopäisches Forum Alpbach (August, 2013)
- Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences (April, 2013)
- University of Jena (December, 2012)
- Leipzig University (November, 2012)
- Summerschool of the Marsilius-Kollegs, Heidelberg (July 2012)
- Ernst Strüngmann Forum, Frankfurt (June 2012)
- German Development Institute (September 2011)
- Attention & Performance Symposium, Vaux de Cernay, (July 2010)
- University of Göttingen (June 2010)
- University of Osnabrück (March 2010)
- Free University Berlin (December 2009)
- Z HdK Zürich (October 2009)
- Institud Jean Nicod, Paris (January 2009)
- University of Chicago, Chicago (December 2008)
- University of Vienna (June 2008)
- University of Cambridge (May 2008)
- University of York (May 2008)
- University of St. Andrews (March 2008)
- University of Aarhus (February 2008)
- ICCLS LMU Munich (January 2008)
- Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen (April 2007)
- CNR, Rome (September 2006)
- University of Portsmouth (June 2005)
- University of Miami (April 2005)
- University of South Carolina (April 2005)
- University of Geneva, Geneva, CH. (February 2005)
- Functional Imaging Laboratory, London, UK. (October 2003)
Research Awards & Funding
Stipends
2002 - 2006 | Max Planck Society PhD Stipend Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (Nijmegen, NL) |
2003 - 2004 | Marie Curie Stipend Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience (London, UK) |
Project Funding
Period: 2017-2020 | EU Horizon 2020 Position: Host (Main Applicant: Manuel Bohn) Title: Modeling Common Ground Funding Body: EU Total Amount: 320.000,- Euro |
Period: 2011-2014 | Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research, Veni grant Position: Host (Main Applicant: Katherine Cronin) Title: Variation in social climate and its impact on prosociality Funding Body: Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research Total Amount: 250.000,- Euro |
Period: 2012-2015 | Swiss National Fund, Project grant |
Period: 2008-2012 | Volkswagen-Stiftung, Evolutionary Biology |
Period: 2008-2013 | Max Planck Society, Presidential Innovation Funds |
Period: 2006-2007 | University of Portsmouth, Research Funds |