Das Leipziger Forschungszentrum für
frühkindliche Entwicklung (LFE) im Profil
Das Leipziger Forschungszentrum für
frühkindliche Entwicklung (LFE) im Profil
Frühkindliche Entwicklung und Kultur
Erziehungswissenschaftliche Fakultät der Universität Leipzig
Jahnallee 59
04109 Leipzig
Since 2021 | Tenure-Track Professor Leipzig Research Center for Early Child Development, Faculty of Education | Leipzig University |
2018 - 2021 | Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA and Center for Adaptive Rationality, Max Planck |
2015 - 2017 | Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany |
2011 - 2015 | PhD Leipzig University/Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany Advisor: Michael Tomasello |
2009 - 2011 | Master in Evolutionary and Comparative Psychology University of St Andrews, UK |
2005 - 2008 | Bachelor in Psychology Northumbria University at Newcastle upon Tyne, UK |
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Grueneisen, S., & Warneken, F. (in press). The development of prosocial behavior – from sympathy to strategy. Current Opinion in Psychology.
Grueneisen, S., Rosati, A.G., & Warneken, F. (2021). Children show economic trust for ingroup and outgroup partners. Cognitive Development, 59, 101077.
Keupp, S., Grueneisen, S., Ludvig, E., Warneken, F., & Melis, A. (2021). Reduced risk-seeking in chimpanzees in a zero-outcome game. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 376, 20190673.
Siposova, B., Grueneisen, S., Helming, K., Tomasello, M., & Carpenter, M. (2021). Common knowledge that help is needed increases helping behavior in children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 201, 104973.
Duguid, S., Wyman, E., Grueneisen, S., & Tomasello, M. (2020). The strategies used by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and children (Homo sapiens) to solve a simple coordination problem. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 134, 401–411.
Grueneisen, S., & Tomasello, M. (2020). The development of coordination via joint expectations for shared benefits. Developmental Psychology, 56, 1149–1156.
Koomen, R.*, Grueneisen, S.*, & Herrmann, E. (2020). Children delay gratification for cooperative ends. Psychological Science, 31, 139–148.
*shared first authorship
Schmelz, M., Grueneisen, S., & Tomasello, M. (2020). The psychological mechanisms underlying reciprocal prosociality in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 134, 149–157.
Grueneisen, S., & Tomasello, M. (2019). Children use rules to coordinate in a social dilemma. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 179, 362–374.
Stengelin, R., Grueneisen, S., & Tomasello, M. (2018). Why should I trust you? Investigating young children’s mistrust in potential deceivers. Cognitive Development, 48, 146–154.
Grueneisen, S.*, Duguid, S.*, Saur, H., & Tomasello, M. (2017). Children, chimpanzees, and bonobos adjust the visibility of their actions for cooperators and competitors. Scientific Reports, 7, 8504.
*shared first authorship
Grueneisen, S., & Tomasello, M. (2017). Children coordinate in a recurrent social dilemma by taking turns and along dominance asymmetries. Developmental Psychology, 53, 265–273.
Schmelz, M.*, Grueneisen, S.*, Kabalak, A., Jost, J., & Tomasello, M. (2017). Chimpanzees return favors at a personal cost. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114, 7462–7467.
*shared first authorship
Grueneisen, S., Wyman, E., & Tomasello, M. (2015). Children use salience to solve coordination problems. Developmental Science, 18, 495–501.
Grueneisen, S., Wyman, E., & Tomasello, M. (2015). Conforming to coordinate: Children use majority information for peer coordination. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 33, 136–147.
Grueneisen, S., Wyman, E., & Tomasello, M. (2015). “I know you don’t know I know…” Children use second-order false-belief reasoning for peer coordination. Child Development, 86, 287–293.
Hepach, R., Kliemann, D., Grueneisen, S., Heekeren, H.R., & Dziobek, I. (2011). Conceptualizing emotions along the dimensions of valence, arousal and communicative frequency – Implications for social-cognitive test and training tools. Frontiers in Psychology 2.
Other publications
Grueneisen, S., & Wyman, E. (2020). Human cooperation: Ontogenetic and evolutionary origins. In L. Workman, W. Reader, & J. Barkow (eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behavior (pp. 265–275). Cambridge University Press.
Koomen, R., Grueneisen, S., & Herrmann, E. (2020). What a new marshmallow test teaches us about cooperation. Behavioral Scientist.