Organizers

Affiliation: Director of the Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology, Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
Background: experimental psychology
Research interests/current projects:
- Cross-cultural variation in early socio-cognitive development
- Great ape cognition
- Population-level variation in great ape sociality
- Social motivation
- Spatial cognition
Research methods:
- Behavioral and experimental methods

Affiliation: Faculty of Education and Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin; Faculty of Education, Universität Leipzig; (from 1st June 2020: School of Psychology, University of Plymouth)
Background: psychology, philosophy, biology
Research interests/current projects:
- social norms and cooperation across development and societies
- cultural learning and teaching across societies
- refugee youth experience, acculturation and mental health
- behavioral interventions and social change
Research methods:
- behavioral, experimental methods
- observational methods
- surveys
- qualitative methods

Affiliation: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Background: psychology, sociology
Research interests/current projects:
- Intuitive parenting, early (m)other-infant interaction and parenting across cultures
- Socio-cognitive and socio-emotional development across cultures
- Early self and intentionality
- Prosocial and cooperative behavior
Research methods:
- Observational methods
- Experimental methods

Affiliation: Leipzig Lab “Children and Nature” & “ Human Biology & Primate Cognition”, Faculty of Life Sciences, Institute of Biology, Leipzig University
Background: biology, psychology
Research interests/ current projects:
- multimodal communication (gestures, facial expressions) in nonhuman primates
- ontogeny of cognitive and communicative skills in humans and other great apes
- prosocial behavior (sharing, helping, role of empathy) in human children and nonhuman great apes
- children’s attitudes towards other animals
Research methods:
- observational methods
- non-invasive experimental methods (behavioral studies, eyetracking)
- qualitative methods (interviews)