Maleen Thiele
Postdoc
Abteilung für Vergleichende Kulturpsychologie
Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
Telefon: +49 (0) 341 3550 403
E-Mail:
maleen_thiele@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de
Research Interests
I'm a developmental psychologist and infancy researcher interested in the psychological foundations of early social learning. In my doctoral research, I have studied how infants in the first postnatal year attend to social interactions between third parties and how their attention is influenced by their intrinsic motivations; how they identify and represent observed social interactive relations; and what factors within observed social interactions help them learn about their cultural environment.
In my current postdoc project, I take a comparative perspective studying the influence of observation-based social learning contexts on object-related memory across great ape species. A central methodological aim of the project is to develop robust eye-tracking paradigms and reproducible data processing approaches helping us to study ape cognition across species from infancy to adulthood.
Curriculum Vitae
Career
| Since 11/2021 | Postdoctoral Researcher |
| 06/2020 - 11/2021 | Phd Student |
| 12/2016 - 05/2020 | PhD Student | Research Associate |
| 08/2018 - 12/2018 | Visiting Researcher |
Education
| 12/2016 - 11/2021 | Dr. rer. nat. Psychology |
| 10/2014 - 10/2016 | M. Sc. Psychology |
| 10/2010 - 10/2013 | B. Sc. Psychology |
Teaching
Summer term 2022 | Seminar “Introduction to Comparative Cultural Psychology” (Guest Lecturer) Leipzig University, Master of Science „Psychology" |
Summer terms 2021, 2022 | Seminar “Experimental Neuroscience” (Guest Lecturer) Leipzig University, Bachelor of Science „Psychology" |
| Winter term 2019/2020 | Seminar “Developmental Psychology” (Course Leader) |
| Winter term 2019/2020 | Crash course “Scientific Reading” (Course Leader) |
| Summer terms 2019, 2020 | Seminar “Neuroscience” (Guest Lecturer) |
Summer terms 2018, 2019 | Seminar “Comparative Development” (Course Leader) |
| Winter terms 2017/2018, 2018/2019 | Seminar “Project Planning and Management” (Course Leader) |
| Summer term 2017 | Seminar “Einführung in die Entwicklungspsychologie” (Course Leader) |
Languages
- German (native speaker)
- English (fluent)
- French (basic)
Research Awards & Funding
2022 | Outstanding Dissertation Award |
| 08/2018 - 12/2018 | Scholarship for Guest Researchers |
Publications
Farris, K., Kelsey, C. M., Krol, K. M., Thiele, K. M., Hepach, R., Haun, D. B. M., & Grossmann, T. (2022). Processing third-party social interactions in the human infant brain. Infant Behavior and Development, 68: 101727. |
Open AccessThiele, M., Hepach, R., Michel, C., & Haun, D. B. M. (2021). Infants’ preference for social interactions increases from 7 to 13 months of age. Child Development, 92(6), 2577-2594. |
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Astor, K., Thiele, M., & Gredebäck, G. (2021). Gaze following emergence relies on both perceptual cues and social awareness. Cognitive Development, 60: 101121. |
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Thiele, M., Hepach, R., Michel, C., & Haun, D. B. M. (2021). Observing others’ joint attention increases 9-month-old infants’ object encoding. Developmental Psychology, 57(6), 837-850. |
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Thiele, K. M. (2021). The social attentional foundations of infant's learning from third-party social interactions. PhD Thesis, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig. |
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Thiele, M., Hepach, R., Michel, C., Gredebäck, G., & Haun, D. B. M. (2021). Social interaction targets enhance 13-month-old infants' associative learning. Infancy, 26(3), 409-422. |
Contact
Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
phone: +49 (0)341 3550 - 400
e-mail: info_ccp@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de