Professorship for Developmental Psychology
Organisational unit: Professoship
Main research areas
The Department of Developmental Psychology investigates how children become part of the society they grow up in. The focus of our research lies in communicative and cognitive development during the preschool years. We take a broad and interdisciplinary perspective on development: we use cross-cultural comparative studies to shed light on the diversity of developmental pathways and to test the generalizability of psychological theories. We use species comparative studies with non-human primates to study the evolutionary origins of human communication. Our goal is to explain the dynamic interplay between social, cognitive, and communicative development in a comparative context.
A Global Developmental Psychology
Bohn, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.25 → 31.12.30
Project: Research
Comprehension of iconic gestures in chimapnzees and human children
Bohn, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.12 → 31.12.12
Project: Individual grant
Evolutionary roots of human communication
Bohn, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.13 → 31.12.16
Project: Individual grant
ManyPrimates: Establishing a Culture of Collaboration in Primate Cognition Research
Bohn, M. (Project manager, academic)
Project: Research
Quantifying children’s everyday experiences
Bohn, M. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.23 → 31.12.25
Project: Individual grant
Research Fellowship der Jacobs Foundation
Bohn, M. (Project manager, academic)
26.12.22 → 31.12.27
Project: Research
Symbolic literacy: Young children’s developing understanding of the relation between symbol and referent in the graphic domain
Deiglmayr, A. (Project manager, academic), Kachel, G. (Project manager, academic) & Bohn, M. (Partner)
01.01.20 → 31.12.24
Project: Research
Testing children’s role in the (r)evolution of language
Bohn, M. (Project manager, academic) & Cournane, A. (Project manager, academic)
01.01.22 → 31.12.23
Project: Research