Kathrin Kopp
Postdoc
Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
phone: +49 (0) 341 3550 614
e-mail:
kathrin_kopp@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Research Interests
GrApeNet - Great Ape Research Network
Curriculum Vitae
Publications
Wolfgang Köhler Primate Research Center
Kickerlingsberg 3
D-04105 Leipzig
Germany
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-8414-3193
Research Interests
- Prosocial behaviour, underlying processes, regulation and development in great apes
- Inter-individual variation in social behaviours and socio-cognition in apes: development and socio-ecological factors
- Social bonds and dynamics in zoo-housed ape groups
- Research as cognitive and behavioural enrichment for apes and in zoos and sanctuaries
GrApeNet - Great Ape Research Network
The main project in my current position is to establish a network of scientifically managed European zoos for long-term comparative psychological and behavioural research with great apes.
Zoos that keep great apes and are interested in the project are welcome to contact me. - I would be happy to present our ideas for GrApeNet at your institution and answer any questions you may have.
Curriculum Vitae
Professional History
Since 10/2022 Since 01/2021 | Research fellow with teaching assignment Post-doctoral researcher, GrApeNet Coordinator |
| 04/2019-12/2020 | Post-doctoral researcher |
| 01/2017-03/2019 | Post-doctoral researcher with teaching assignment |
| 06/2015-12/2016 | Scientific assistant with teaching assignment |
| 04-05/2015 | Visiting lecturer |
| 05/2012-10/2014 | Scientific assistant Cluster of Excellence Languages of Emotion; Group Evolutionary Psychology Freie Universität Berlin |
Education
| 01/2017 | Doctor of Philosophy |
| 2017 | Certificate "University Didactic" |
| 2013-2016 | Advanced training in university didactic, certification programme "SUPPORT für die Lehre" at Freie Universität Berlin |
| 10/2010-09/2016 | Doctorate at Freie Universität Berlin: Comparative Psychology |
| 12/2009 | Magistra Artium in Philosophy and Biology Department of Philosophy, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
Publications
* Joint first author
Malherbe, M., Samuni, L., Ebel, S. J., Kopp, K. S., Crockford, C., & Wittig, R. M. (2024). Protracted development of stick tool use skills extends into adulthood in wild western chimpanzees. PLoS Biology, 22: e3002609. |
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Kopp, K. S. *., Kanngiesser, P. *., Brügger, R. K., Daum, M. M., Gampe, A., Köster, M., van Schaik, C. P., Liebal, K., & Burkart, J. M. (2024). The proximate regulation of prosocial behaviour: towards a conceptual framework for comparative research. Animal Cognition, 27(1): 5. |
Open AccessGräßle, 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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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. |
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. |
Ebel, S. J., Kopp, K. S., & Liebal, K. (2020). Object preferences in captive Sumatran orang-utans (Pongo abelii). Behavioural Processes, 170: 103993. |
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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. |
Kopp, K. S., & Liebal, K. (2018). Conflict resolution in socially housed Sumatran orangutans (̑Pongo abelii). PeerJ, 6: e5303. |
Kopp, K. S. (2017). Prosocial behaviour in captive Sumatran orangutans (Pongo abelii). PhD Thesis, Freie Universität, Berlin. |
Kopp, K. S., & Liebal, K. (2016). Here you are!—Selective and active food sharing within and between groups in captive Sumatran orangutans (Pongo abelii). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 70, 1219-1233. Retrieved from 10.1007/s00265-016-2130-2. |
