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.
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Action anticipation based on an agent's epistemic state in toddlers and adults
Schuwerk, T., Kampis, D., Baillargeon, R., Biro, S., Bohn, M., Byers-Heinlein, K., Dörrenberg, S., Fisher, C., Franchin, L., Fulcher, T., Garbisch, I., Geraci, A., Grosse Wiesmann, C., Hamlin, K., Haun, D. B. M., Hepach, R., Hunnius, S., Hyde, D. C., Karman, P., Kosakowski, H., Kovács, Á. M., Krämer, A., Kulke, L., Lee, C., Lew-Williams, C., Liszkowski, U., Mahowald, K., Mascaro, O., Meyer, M., Moreau, D., Perner, J., Poulin-Dubois, D., Powell, L. J., Prein, J. C., Priewasser, B., Proft, M., Raz, G., Reschke, P. J., Ross, J., Rothmaler, K., Saxe, R., Schneider, D., Southgate, V., Surian, L., Tebbe, A.-L., Träuble, B., Tsui, A., Wertz, A. E., Woodward, A., Yuen, F., Yuile, A. R., Zellner, L., Zimmer, L., Frank, M. C. & Rakoczy, H., 14.02.2021, (Submitted) 79 p. OSF.Research output: other publications › Other › Research
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An individual differences perspective on pragmatic abilities in the preschool years
Bohn, M., Tessler, M. H., Kordt, C., Hausmann, T. & Frank, M. C., 11.2023, In: Developmental Science. 26, 6, 14 p., e13401.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Comment on Cesana-Arlotti et al. (2018)
Jasbi, M., Bohn, M., Long, B., Fourtassi, A., Barner, D. & Frank, M. C., 05.03.2019, (Submitted) 4 p. OSF.Research output: other publications › Other › Research
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Computer Vision for Analyzing Children’s Lived Experiences
Zahra, A., Martin, P. E., Bohn, M. & Haun, D., 2024, Intelligent Systems and Applications - Proceedings of the 2023 Intelligent Systems Conference IntelliSys Volume 2. Arai, K. (ed.). Cham: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland, p. 376-383 8 p. (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems; vol. 823 LNNS).Research output: Contributions to collected editions/works › Article in conference proceedings › Research › peer-review
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Mealtime Conversations Between Parents and Their 2-Year-Old Children in Five Cultural Contexts
Bohn, M., da Silva Vieira, W. F., Torréns, M. G., Kärtner, J., Itakura, S., Cavalcante, L., Haun, D., Köster, M. & Kanngiesser, P., 07.2024, In: Developmental Psychology. 60, 7, p. 1255-1268 14 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Measuring Variation in Gaze Following Across Communities, Ages, and Individuals: A Showcase of TANGO-CC (Task for Assessing iNdividual differences in Gaze understanding-Open-Cross-Cultural)
Prein, J., Bednarski, F. M., Dzabatou, A., Frank, M. C., Henderson, A. M. E., Kalbitz, J., Kanngiesser, P., Kessafoglu, D., Koymen, B., Manrique-Hernandez, M. V., Magazi, S., Mujica-Manrique, L., Ohlendorf, J., Olaoba, D., Pieters, W. R., Pope-Caldwell, S., Sen, U., Slocombe, K., Sparks, R. Z., Stengelin, R., Sunderarajan, J., Sutherland, K., Tusiime, F., Vieira, W., Zhang, Z., Zong, Y., Haun, D. B. M. & Bohn, M., 01.2025, In: Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science. 8, 1, 16 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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oREV: An item response theory-based open receptive vocabulary task for 3- to 8-year-old children
Bohn, M., Prein, J., Koch, T., Bee, R. M., Delikaya, B., Haun, D. & Gagarina, N., 03.2024, In: Behavior Research Methods. 56, 3, p. 2595-2605 11 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Pragmatics as Social Inference About Intentional Action
Bohn, M. & Frank, M. C., 08.02.2025, In: Open Mind. 9, p. 290-304 15 p.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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PREVIC: An adaptive parent report measure of expressive vocabulary in children between 3 and 8 years of age
Bohn, M., Prein, J., Engicht, J., Haun, D., Gagarina, N. & Koch, T., 03.2025, In: Behavior Research Methods. 57, 3, 12 p., 95.Research output: Journal contributions › Journal articles › Research › peer-review
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Responsible Research is also concerned with generalizability: Recognizing efforts to reflect upon and increase generalizability in hiring and promotion decisions in psychology
Stengelin, R., Bohn, M., Sanchez-Amaro, A., Haun, D. B. M., Thiele, M., Allritz, M., Daum, M. M., Felsche, E., Fong, F. T. K., Gampe, A., Torréns, M. G., Grueneisen, S., Hardecker, D. J. K., Horn, L., Neldner, K., Pope, S. & Schuhmacher, N., 11.02.2023, (Submitted) 15 p. OSF.Research output: other publications › Other › Research