Roman Stengelin

Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
D-04103 Leipzig
Germany
phone: +49 (0) 341 3550 408
email: roman_stengelin@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Thesis title: A cross-cultural investigation of social motivation and social cognition in young children
Research Interests
- social learning
- social motivation
- social cognition
- deception
- culturally determined socialization goals and parenting practices
- economic risk-taking behaviors
- cross-cultural developmental psychology
Curriculum Vitae
Career & Education
since 2020 | Postdoctoral Researcher Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig |
2015 - 2020 | Research Associate | PhD Student Department of Early Child Development and Culture Leipzig University |
2013 - 2015 | M.Sc in Psychology Leipzig University |
2010 - 2013 | B.Sc in Psychology Koblenz-Landau University |
Practical Experience
2016 - 2019 | Cross-cultural developmental Psychology in Namibia (11 months) Oshikoto region, Bwabwata region) |
Teaching (courses/taught at the University)
2019 | Developmental Psychology, seminar for graduate students (M.Sc.) |
2019 | Cross-Cultural Psychology, seminar for graduate students (M.Sc.) |
2018 | Ethics Committee, exercise for graduate students (M.Sc.) |
2018 | Neurocognitive Development, seminar for graduate students (M.Sc.) |
2017 | Scientific Reading, seminar for graduate students (M.Sc., with T. Toppe and S. DeTroy) |
2017 | Ethics Committee, exercise for graduate students (M.Sc.) |
2017 | Student Internship, graduate module (M.Sc.) |
2016 | Ethics Committee, exercise for graduate students (M.Sc.) |
2016 | Developmental Psychology, seminar for StEx students (education) |
2015 | Developmental Psychology, seminar for StEx students (education) |
Memberships
- DGP - Deutsche Gesellschaft für Psychologie
Languages
- German (mother tongue)
- English (fluent)
- French (basic skills)
Publications
Stengelin, R., Ball, R., Maurits, L., Kanngiesser, P., & Haun, D. B. M. (2022). Children over‐imitate adults and peers more than puppets (advance online). Developmental Science. |
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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. |
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Stengelin, R., Schleihauf, H., Seidl, A., & Böckler-Raettig, A. (2022). Spreading the game: An experimental study on the link between children’s overimitation and their adoption, transmission, and modification of conventional information. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 213: 105271. |
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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). |
Toppe, T., Stengelin, R., Schmidt, L. S., Amini, N., & Schuhmacher, N. (2021). Explaining variation in parents' and their children's stress during COVID-19 lockdowns. Frontiers in Psychology, 12: 645266. |
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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. |
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. |
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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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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. |
Stengelin, R., Hepach, R., & Haun, D. B. M. (2019). Being observed increases overimitation in three diverse cultures. Developmental Psychology, 55(12), 2630-2636. |
Stengelin, R., Grüneisen, S., & Tomasello, M. (2018). Why should I trust you? Investigating young children’s spontaneous mistrust in potential deceivers. Cognitive Development, 48, 146-154. |