Maleen Thiele

Postdoc
Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
phone: +49 (0) 341 3550 403
e-mail:
maleen_thiele@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Research Interests
Curriculum Vitae
Research Awards & Funding
Publications
Research Interests
I am a developmental psychologist and infancy researcher interested in the psychological foundations of early social learning. In my doctoral research, I have studied how infants in the first postnatal year attend to social interactions between third parties, how their attentional orienting is influenced by their intrinsic motivations, and what factors within observed social interactions help them learn about their cultural environment.
In my current research projects, we want to find out how infants' learning from others in observed social settings compares to their learning from direct interaction partners, and how social context influences object memory across great ape species.
A methodological objective of my research is to refine eye-tracking technology for its application with non-human primates and in remote field settings.
Curriculum Vitae
Career
Since 11/2021 | Postdoctoral Researcher |
06/2020 - 11/2021 | Phd Student |
08/2018 - 12/2018 | Visiting Researcher |
12/2016 - 05/2020 | PhD Student | Research Associate |
Education
12/2016 - 11/2021 | Dr. rer. nat. Psychology |
10/2014 - 10/2016 | M. Sc. Psychology |
10/2010 - 10/2013 | B. Sc. Psychology |
Languages
- German (native speaker)
- English (fluent)
- French (basic)
Research Awards & Funding
11/2023 - 11/2026 | Minerva Fast Track Fellowship |
2022 | Outstanding Dissertation Award |
08/2018 - 12/2018 | Scholarship for Guest Researchers |
Publications
Steffan, A., Zimmer, L., Arias-Trejo, N., Bohn, M., Ben, R. D., Flores-Coronado, M. A., Franchin, L., Garbisch, I., Grosse Wiesmann, C., Hamlin, J. K., Havron, N., Hay, J. F., Hermansen, T. K., Jakobsen, K. V., Kalinke, S., Ko, E.-S., Kulke, L., Mayor, J., Meristo, M., Moreau, D., Mun, S., Prein, J. C., Rakoczy, H., Rothmaler, K., Oliveira, D. S., Simpson, E. A., Smith, E. S., Strid, K., Tebbe, A.-L., Thiele, M., Yuen, F., & Schuwerk, T. (2023). Validation of an open source, remote web-based eye-tracking method (WebGazer) for research in early childhood. PsyArXiv. |
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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. (2023). Responsible research is also concerned with generalizability: Recognizing efforts to reflect upon and increase generalizability in hiring and promotion decisions in psychology. PsyArXiv. |
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. |
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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Legg, E. W., Farrar, B., Lazić, A., Thiele, M., Kampis, D., Mani, N., Sesar, K., Klapwijk, E., Schlingloff, L., Reindl, E., Li, K., Birovljević, G., Attwood, M., Tatone, D., Yuniarto, L. S., & Ostojic, L. (2021). Assessing the reporting and interpretation of non-significant results in the study of cognitive development: A systematic review. |
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Astor, K., Thiele, M., & Gredebäck, G. (2021). Gaze following emergence relies on both perceptual cues and social awareness. Cognitive Development, 60: 101121. |
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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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Thiele, K. M. (2021). The social attentional foundations of infant's learning from third-party social interactions. PhD Thesis, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig. |
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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. |