Profile of the Leipzig Research Center
for Early Child Development (LFE)
Profile of the Leipzig Research Center
for Early Child Development (LFE)
University of Oxford
Medical Sciences Division
John Radcliffe Hospital
Headley Way, Oxford OX3 9DU
United Kingdom
2020 | Associate Professor of Developmental Psychology Medical Sciences Division University of Oxford | Oxford, United Kingdom |
09/2016 - 2020 | Junior Professor Junior Professorship: Research Methods in Early Childhood Development | Leipzig University |
04 – 08/2016 | Visiting Professor Department of Psychology | University of Göttingen |
04/2016 | Teaching Fellow Department of Psychology | Dresden University of Technology |
01/2013 – 04/2016 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology | Leipzig |
2010 – 2013 | PhD in Psychology (Dr. rer. nat.) Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig | University of Leipzig |
2008 – 2009 | M.Res. in Psychology Oxford Brookes University | United Kingdom |
2005 – 2007 | B.Sc. in Psychology University of Konstanz |
Hepach, R. (in press). Morality from is to taught: Review of ’How to Teach Morality’ by Georg Lind.
Hepach, R. Vaish, A., Müller, K., & Tomasello, M. (in press). Changes in physiological arousal reflect children’s intrinsic motivation to help others. Neuropsychologica
Vaish, A., Hepach, R., & Grossmann, T. (2018). Desire understanding in 2-year-old children: An eye-tracking study. Infant Behavior and Development 52, 22-31.
Hepach, R.* & Warneken, F.* (2018). Early development can reveal the foundation of human prosociality. Current Opinion in Psychology, 20.
Vaish, A., Hepach, R., & Tomasello, M. (2018). Young children reciprocate more generously to those who intentionally benefit them. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 167, 336-353
Keil, V., Hepach, R., Vierrath, S., Caffier, D., Tuschen-Caffier, B., Klein, C., & Schmitz, J. (2018). Children with social anxiety disorder show blunted pupillary reactivity and altered eye contact processing in response to emotional faces: Insights from pupillometry and eye movements. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 58, 61-69.
Hepach, R., & Hardecker, S. (2017). Kinder kollaborieren. Theorie und Praxis der Sozialpädagogik
Hepach, R. (2017). Prosocial Arousal in Children. Child Development Perspectives, 11(1), 50-55.
Hepach, R., Vaish, A., & Tomasello, M. (2017). The fulfillment of others’ needs elevates children’s body posture. Developmental psychology, 53(1), 100.
Hepach, R., Kante, N., & Tomasello, M. (2017). Toddlers help a peer. Child development, 88(5), 1642-1652.
Hepach, R., Vaish, A., & Tomasello, M. (2017). Children’s intrinsic motivation to provide help themselves after accidentally harming others. Child development, 88(4), 1251-1264.
Hepach, R., Vaish, A., Grossmann, T., & Tomasello, M. (2016). Young children want to see others get the help they need. Child Development, 87(6), 1703-1714.
Hepach, R., & Westermann, G. (2016). Pupillometry in infancy research. Journal of Cognition and Development, 17(3), 359-377.
Hepach, R. (2016). Motive for young children’s developing concern for others’ well-Being as a core motive for developing prosocial behavior. In C. Brand (Ed.), Dual-Process theories in moral psychology: Interdisciplinary approaches to theoretical, rmpirical and practical considerations (pp. 101-117). Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien.
Hepach, R., Haberl, K., Lambert, S., & Tomasello, M. (2017). Toddlers help anonymously. Infancy, 22(1), 130-145
Hepach, R., Vaish, A., & Tomasello, M. (2015). Novel paradigms to measure variability of behavior in early childhood: Posture, gaze, and pupil dilation. Frontiers in Psychology, 6: 858.
Hepach, R., Vaish, A., & Tomasello, M. (2013). A New Look at Children’s Prosocial Motivation. Infancy, 18(1), 67-90.
Hepach, R., & Westermann, G. (2013). Infants’ sensitivity to the congruence of others’ emotions and actions. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 115(1), 16-29.
Hepach, R., Vaish, A., & Tomasello, M. (2013). Young children sympathize less in response to unjustified emotional distress. Developmental Psychology, 49(6), 1132-1138.
Hepach, R. (2012). The motivation of early benevolence: An investigation into a causal mechanism of cooperation. PhD Thesis, Univ., Leipzig.
Hepach, R., Vaish, A., & Tomasello, M. (2012). Young children are intrinsically motivated to see others helped. Psychological Science, 23(9), 967-972.
Hepach, R., Kliemann, D., Grüneisen, S., Heekeren, H. R., & Dziobek, I. (2011). Conceptualizing emotions along the dimensions of valence, arousal, and communicative frequency: Implications for social-cognitive tests and training tools. Frontiers in Psychology, 2: 266.