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)