Maleen Thiele

Postdoctoral Researcher

Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
D-04103 Leipzig
Germany

phone: +49 (0) 341 3550 407
email: maleen_thiele@~@eva.mpg.de

Research Interests
Curriculum Vitae
Research Awards & Funding
Publications

Research Interests

In my doctoral research I have studied social attentional precursors of early social learning, primarily focusing on developments in the first year of life. I have used eye-tracking related measures, pupillometry, and behavioral observations to gain an understanding of how infants perceive social relationships between others and how this relates to developments in their own social behavior.

Curriculum Vitae

Career

Since 11/2021	Postdoctoral Researcher Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology Max Planck Insitute of Evolutionary Anthropology
06/2020 - 11/2021	Phd Student Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology Max Planck Insitute of Evolutionary Anthropology
12/2016 - 05/2020	PhD Student \| Research Associate Department of Early Child Development and Culture Leipzig University
08/2018 - 12/2018	Visiting Researcher Uppsala Child and Baby Lab Uppsala University

Education

12/2016 - 11/2021

Dr. rer. nat. Psychology
Leipzig University

Thesis title: "The social attentional foundations of infants' learning from third-party social interactions"

10/2014 - 10/2016

M. Sc. Psychology
Leipzig University

10/2010 - 10/2013

B. Sc. Psychology
Leipzig University

Teaching

Winter term 2019/2020	Seminar “Developmental Psychology” Leipzig University, Master „Early Childhood Research"
Winter term 2019/2020	Crash course “Scientific Reading” Leipzig University, Master „Early Childhood Research”
Summer term 2018, 2019	Seminar “Comparative Development” Leipzig University, Master „Early Childhood Research”
Winter term 2017/2018, 2018/2019	Seminar “Project Planning and Management” Leipzig University, Master „Early Childhood Research”
Summer term 2017	Seminar “Einführung in die Entwicklungspsychologie” Leipzig University, Staatsexamen „Bildungswissenschaften in den Lehrerbildenden Studiengängen“

Languages

German (native speaker)
English (fluent)
French (basic)

Research Awards & Funding

08/2018 - 12/2018

DAAD Scholarship for Guest Researchers

Publications

	Thiele, 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. Open Access DOI BibTeX Endnote Downloads Thiele_Infants_ChildDev_2021.pdf
	Astor, K., Thiele, M., & Gredebäck, G. (2021). Gaze following emergence relies on both perceptual cues and social awareness. Cognitive Development, 60: 101121. Open Access DOI BibTeX Endnote Downloads Astor_Gaze_CogDev_2021.pdf Astor_Gaze_CogDev_2021_Suppl.docx
	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. DOI BibTeX Endnote
	Thiele, K. M. (2021). The social attentional foundations of infant's learning from third-party social interactions. PhD Thesis, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig. BibTeX Endnote
	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. Open Access DOI BibTeX Endnote Downloads Thiele_Social_Infancy_2021.pdf