Susanne Hardecker (née Göckeritz)
Guest Researcher
Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
D-04103 Leipzig
Germany
phone: +49 (0) 341 3550 428
email: susanne_hardecker@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Research interests
Curriculum Vitae
Publications
Invited Talks
Conference Work
Research interests
- behavioral research on social norms
- creation of social norms in young children
- moral development
Curriculum Vitae
Education
| since 2014 | Postdoctoral Researcher Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig |
| 2011 - 2014 | PhD Student Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig Supervisors: Dr. Marco F.H. Schmidt, Prof. Dr. Michael Tomasello |
| 2004 - 2010 | Diploma (M.A.) Psychology Martin Luther University, Halle-Wittenberg |
| 2007 - 2008 | Fulbright Scholar |
Research and Teaching Experiences
| 10/2012 – 02/2013 | Lecturer (with Marie Nitzschner): “What makes us human: A comparative perspective on developmental psychology” University of Leipzig Psychology Department, Developmental Psychology |
| 02/2011 - 04/2011 | Internship at the child studies lab Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig |
| 01/2009 - 09/2009 | Student assistant for Dr. habil. Gundula Hübner Psychology Department, Social Psychology Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg |
| 01/2008 - 03/2008 | Teaching assistant for Prof. Dr. Wesley Schultz Psychology Department, Social Psychology California State University, San Marcos |
| 08/2007 - 05/2008 | Collaboration on a cross-cultural research project investigating a social norms intervention and alcohol consumption in University students with Prof. Dr. Wesley Schultz California State University, San Marcos |
Awards and Fellowships
| 2015 | Inaugural Jean Piaget Society Doctoral Dissertation Prize |
| 2007 - 2008 | Fulbright Scholarship |
Publications
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. |
Open AccessToppe, 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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Hardecker, S., Buryn-Weitzel, J. C., & Tomasello, M. (2019). Adult instruction limits children’s flexibility in moral decision making. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 187: 104652. |
Hardecker, S., & Tomasello, M. (2017). From imitation to implementation: How two- and three-year-old children learn to enforce social norms. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 35(2), 237-248. |
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Hardecker, S., Schmidt, M. F. H., & Tomasello, M. (2017). Children's developing understanding of the conventionality of rules. Journal of Cognition and Development, 18(2), 163-188. |
Schmidt, M. F. H., Hardecker, S., & Tomasello, M. (2016). Preschoolers understand the normativity of cooperatively structured competition. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 143, 34-47. |
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Hardecker, S., Schmidt, M. F. H., Roden, M., & Tomasello, M. (2016). Young children’s behavioral and emotional responses to different social norm violations. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 150, 364-379. |
Göckeritz, S. (2014). Children constructing a social world: Exploring preschoolers' understanding of social norms. PhD Thesis, Univ., Leipzig. |
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Göckeritz, S., Schmidt, M. F. H., & Tomasello, M. (2014). Young children's creation and transmission of social norms. Cognitive Development, 30, 81-95. |
Göckeritz, S., Schultz, P. W., Rendón, T., Cialdini, R. B., Goldstein, N. J., & Griskevicius, V. (2010). Descriptive normative beliefs and conservation behavior: The moderating roles of personal involvement and injunctive normative beliefs. European journal of social psychology, 40(3), 514-523. |
Invited Talks
| 2016 | "Gruppenzusammenhalt bei Primaten: Vertrauen bei Schimpansen und Erschaffung von Regeln bei Kindern." Talk presented at the MNU Bundeskongress, Leipzig, Germany. |
| 2015 | "Emerging Normativity: Preschoolers’ Creation of Rules in Peer Interactions." Talk presented at the Early Childhood Workshop, Leipzig, Germany "Wir regeln das – Spielregeln selbst gestalten." Talk presented at the Annual Day for Caregivers, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. "Children constructing a social world: Exploring preschoolers' understanding of social norms", Students Award Session, Jean Piaget Society Conference, Toronto, Canada |
| 2014 | "When children are making the rules: Behavioral studies on social norm understanding in 5-year-olds", Psychology department, University of Kassel, Germany |
Conference Work
| 2016 | Hardecker, S. & Tomasello, M. (2016). How 2- and 3-year-old children learn to enforce social norms. Talk presented in the Symposium: Becoming members of society - Children's developing understanding of social norms (Organizer: Susanne Hardecker) at the 50th Conference of the German Society for Psychology, Leipzig, Germany |
| 2016 | Hardecker, S., Schmidt, M.F.H., & Tomasello, M. (2016). Children constructing a social world: Exploring preschoolers' understanding of social norms. Talk presented at the 24th Annual Meeting of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, St Andrews, Scotland |
| 2016 | Hardecker, S., Schmidt, M.F.H., Roden, M., & Tomasello, M. (2016). Protest, Tattling, and Intervention – How 3- and 5-year-old children respond to moral and conventional norm violations. Poster presented at the CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary |
| 2015 | Hardecker, S., Schmidt, M.F.H., & Tomasello, M. (2015). Wenn Kinder die Regeln machen – Verständnis sozialer Normen bei Fünfjährigen. Talk presented at the 22nd Meeting of the Developmental Psychology Section of the German Psychological Society (DGPs), Frankfurt, Germany Göckeritz, S. & Tomasello, M. (2015). Young children's learning to enforce social norms. Poster presented at the CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary Göckeritz, S., Schmidt, M.F.H., & Tomasello, M. (2015). Young children's behavioral and emotional responses to different social norm violations. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research on Child Development, Philadelphia, PA, USA. Göckeritz, S., Schmidt, M.F.H., & Tomasello, M. (2015). Young children understand norms as socially constructed - if they have done the constructing. Talk presented at the 45th Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Toronto, Canada. |
| 2014 | Göckeritz, S., Schmidt, M.F.H., & Tomasello, M. (2014). Children’s reasoning about the changeability of self-invented versus pre-existing game rules. Poster presented at the CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary. |
| 2014 | Göckeritz, S., Schmidt, M.F.H., & Tomasello, M. (2014). Children’s reasoning about the changeability of self-invented versus pre-existing game rules. Poster presented at the European Association of Social Psychology Conference, Amsterdam, Netherlands. |
| 2013 | Göckeritz, S., Schmidt, M.F.H., & Tomasello, M. (2013). Rules arising: Young children’s creation of social norms. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, WA, USA |
| 2013 | Göckeritz, S., Schmidt, M.F.H., & Tomasello, M. (2013). Children’s spontaneous responses to moral and conventional transgressions: An experimental approach. Poster presented at the CEU Conference on Cognitive Development, Budapest, Hungary. |
| 2008 | Rendón, T., Göckeritz, S., & Schultz, P.W. (2008). Everybody’s doing it: A cross-cultural examination of normative health beliefs. Poster presented at the 88th Annual Convention of the Western Psychological Association, Irvine, CA, USA. |
