Julia Christin Prein
Guest
Abteilung für Vergleichende Kulturpsychologie
Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
E-Mail:
julia_prein@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Thesis title: New Methods to study social cognition in young children
Research Interests
- Socio-cognitive development
- Theory of Mind
- Developing new study methods with focus on reliability and validity
Curriculum Vitae
Career & Education
| since 09/2020 | PhD student |
| 10/2018 - 08/2020 | M.Sc. in "Early Childhood Research" |
| 10/2014 - 05/2018 | B.Sc. in "Cognitive Science" |
Practical Experience
| 05/2019 – 07/2020 | Research Assistant Department of Educational Psychology Leipzig University |
| 09/2019 | Research Internship Department of Developmental Psychology University of Göttingen |
| 02/2019-04/2019 | Research Internship Uppsala Child and Baby Lab Uppsala University |
Languages
- German (native)
- English (fluent)
- French, Danish, Russian (basic)
- Latin
- …and learning programming languages like R, Java, Python, HTML, CSS, Javascript
Projects & Partners
- Member of ManyBabies2
Publications
Bohn, M., Prein, J., Engicht, J., Haun, D., Gagarina, N., & Koch, T. (2025). PREVIC: An adaptive parent report measure of expressive vocabulary in children between 3 and 8 years of age. Behavior Research Methods, 57: 95. |
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Prein, J. C. (2025). Rethinking variation in social cognition: Gaze following across individuals, ages, and communities. PhD Thesis, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Lüneburg. |
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Prein, J. C., Bednarski, F. M., Dzabatou, A., Frank, M. C., Henderson, A. M. E., Kalbitz, J., Kanngiesser, P., Keşşafoğlu, D., Köymen, B., Manrique-Hernandez, M. V., Magazi, S., Mújica-Manrique, L., Ohlendorf, J., Olaoba, D., Pieters, W. R., Pope-Caldwell, S. M., Sen, U., Slocombe, K., Sparks, R. Z., Stengelin, R., Sunderarajan, J., Sutherland, K., Tusiime, F., Viera, W., Zhang, Z., Zong, Y., Haun, D. B. M., & Bohn, M. (2025). Measuring variation in gaze following across communities, ages, and individuals: A showcase of TANGO-CC (Task for Assessing iNdividual differences in Gaze understanding-Open-Cross-Cultural). Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science, 8(1). |
Open AccessPrein, J. C., Maurits, L., Werwach, A., Haun, D. B. M., & Bohn, M. (2024). Variation in gaze following across the life span: A process-level perspective. Developmental Science, 27(6): e13546. |
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Bohn, M., Prein, J. C., Delikaya, B., Haun, D. B. M., & Gagarina, N. (2024). oREV: An item response theory-based open receptive vocabulary task for 3- to 8-year-old children. Behavior Research Methods, 56(3), 2595-2605. |
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Prein, J. C., Kalinke, S., Haun, D. B. M., & Bohn, M. (2024). TANGO: A reliable, open-source, browser-based task to assess individual differences in gaze understanding in 3 to 5-year-old children and adults. Behavior Research Methods, 56(3), 2469-2485. |
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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. (2024). Validation of an open source, remote web-based eye-tracking method (WebGazer) for research in early childhood. Infancy, 29(1), 31-55. |
Schmidt, T. T., & Prein, J. C. (2019). The Ganzfeld experience—A stably inducible altered state of consciousness: Effects of different auditory homogenizations. PsyCh Journal, 8(1), 66-81. |
