Esther Herrmann Portrait

Dr Esther Herrmann

Senior Lecturer

Esther.Herrmann@port.ac.uk

PhD Supervisor

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Faculty of Science and Health School of Psychology, Sport and Health Sciences Psychology Biological sciences Democratic citizenship Health and wellbeing Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology

Biography

I completed my PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, under the supervision of Michael Tomasello and Josep Call. After that I continued working as a postdoc, a coordinator for research in African chimpanzee sanctuaries and senior scientist. In 2013 I was awarded my own Minerva Research Group on the Human Origins of Self-Regulation within the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. I joined the psychology department at СÀ¶ÊÓƵ as a senior lecturer in July 2020.

 

Research interests

The goal of my research is to investigate the roots of human cooperation and self-control through a multi-disciplinary and comparative lens. My experimental research focuses on: 1) contributing to our understanding of the evolution of human cognition by identifying shared and unique socio-cognitive abilities in humans and non-human great-apes and 2) discovering how developmental factors and cultural characteristics influence social cognition and behavior. To pursue this goal, over the last years, I established, coordinated and conducted research across various cross-cultural field sites in Africa and African chimpanzee sanctuaries.

Research outputs

2024

Herrmann, E., Keupp, S.

23 Sep 2024, In: Scientific Reports. 14, 1, 12p., 21996

Engelmann, J. M., Haux, L. M., Herrmann, E., Hertwig, R.

4 Sep 2024, In: Nature Communications

Call, J., Ebel, S. J., Helming, K. A., Herrmann, E., Sánchez-Amaro, A., Völter, C. J.

28 May 2024, In: Scientific Reports. 14, 9p., 12155

Buchsbaum, D., Felsche, E., Herrmann, E., Seed, A. M., Völter, C. J.

1 Apr 2024, In: Cognition. 245, 20p., 105721

2023

Engelmann, J. M., Grueneisen, S., Herrmann, E., Knofe, H.

30 Nov 2023, In: Ethology

Call, J., Engelmann, J. M., Haux, L. M., Herrmann, E., Rakoczy, H., Schleihauf, H., Völter, C.

1 Sep 2023, In: Child Development. 94, 5, p. 1102-1116

Call, J., Engelmann, J. M., Goddu, M. K., Herrmann, E., Rakoczy, H., Völter, C. J.

21 Jun 2023, In: Biology Letters. 19, 6, 5p., 20230179

Arslan, R. C., Engelmann, J. M., Haux, L. M., Herrmann, E., Hertwig, R.

1 Mar 2023, In: Psychological Science. 34, 3, p. 358-369

Call, J., Civelek, Z., Duncan, L., Felsche, E., Herrmann, E., Lugosi, Z., Reindl, E., Seed, A. M., Völter, C. J.

25 Jan 2023, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 290, 1991, 10p., 20221496