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Daniel B. M. Haun

Daniel B. M. Haun

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Psychology

D-Index
42
Citations
8966
World Ranking
7476
National Ranking
356

Overview

Daniel B. M. Haun is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and has contributed extensively to the field of psychology. Their research spans a broad range of topics within psychology, with a particular focus on social and developmental aspects as well as primate behavior.

The main fields and subfields of study covered in their work include:

  • Psychology
  • Social Psychology
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Cultural Studies

The primary research topics that frequently appear in their publications are:

  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Cultural Differences and Values
  • Language and Cultural Evolution
  • Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
  • Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior
  • Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior

Among recent papers, representative works include:

  • "Cross-cultural variation in how much, but not whether, children overimitate" (2020), Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • "Chimpanzees behave prosocially in a group-specific manner" (2021), Science Advances
  • "Children across societies enforce conventional norms but in culturally variable ways" (2021), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "Chimpanzees consider alternative possibilities" (2021), Current Biology
  • "What isn't social tolerance? The past, present, and possible future of an overused term in the field of primatology" (2021), Evolutionary Anthropology Issues News and Reviews

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Daniel B. M. Haun include:

  • Roman Stengelin
  • Edwin J. C. van Leeuwen
  • Manuel Bohn
  • Robert Hepach
  • Luke Maurits

Their work is often published in recurring venues such as:

  • PLoS ONE
  • Scientific Reports
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • iScience

Best Publications

  • Can language restructure cognition? The case for space

    Asifa Majid;Melissa Bowerman;Sotaro Kita;Daniel B. M. Haun

  • The persistent sampling bias in developmental psychology: A call to action

    Mark Nielsen;Mark Nielsen;Daniel Haun;Joscha Kärtner;Cristine H. Legare

  • Returning the tables: language affects spatial reasoning

    Stephen C Levinson;Sotaro Kita;Daniel B.M Haun;Björn H Rasch

  • Conformity to peer pressure in preschool children

    Daniel B. M. Haun;Daniel B. M. Haun;Michael Tomasello

  • How does cognition evolve? Phylogenetic comparative psychology

    Evan L. MacLean;Luke J. Matthews;Brian A. Hare;Charles L. Nunn

  • Keeping track of time: evidence for episodic-like memory in great apes

    Gema Martin-Ordas;Gema Martin-Ordas;Daniel B. M. Haun;Fernando Colmenares;Josep Call

  • Cognitive cladistics and cultural override in Hominid spatial cognition.

    Daniel B. M. Haun;Christian J. Rapold;Josep Call;Gabriele Janzen

  • Fair Is Not Fair Everywhere

    Marie Schäfer;Daniel B. M. Haun;Michael Tomasello

  • Plasticity of human spatial cognition: spatial language and cognition covary across cultures.

    Daniel B. M. Haun;Christian J. Rapold;Christian J. Rapold;Gabriele Janzen;Stephen C. Levinson

  • Majority-Biased Transmission in Chimpanzees and Human Children, but Not Orangutans

    Daniel B.M. Haun;Yvonne Rekers;Michael Tomasello

  • Children, but not chimpanzees, prefer to collaborate

    Yvonne Rekers;Daniel B.M. Haun;Daniel B.M. Haun;Michael Tomasello

  • Body-based senses enhance knowledge of directions in large-scale environments

    David Waller;Jack M. Loomis;Daniel B. M. Haun

  • Children Conform to the Behavior of Peers; Other Great Apes Stick With What They Know

    Daniel B. M. Haun;Yvonne Rekers;Michael Tomasello

  • A group-specific arbitrary tradition in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).

    Edwin J. C. Van Leeuwen;Katherine A. Cronin;Daniel B. M. Haun

  • Aging and path integration skill: kinesthetic and vestibular contributions to wayfinding.

    Gary L. Allen;Kathleen C. Kirasic;Matthew A. Rashotte;Daniel B. M. Haun

  • Why developmental psychology is incomplete without comparative and cross-cultural perspectives.

    Mark Nielsen;Daniel Haun

  • Establishing an infrastructure for collaboration in primate cognition research.

    Many Primates;Drew M. Altschul;Michael J. Beran;Manuel Bohn;Manuel Bohn

  • Categorical Perception of Emotional Facial Expressions Does Not Require Lexical Categories

    Disa A. Sauter;Oliver LeGuen;Daniel B. M. Haun

  • Majority influence in children and other animals

    Daniel B. M. Haun;Daniel B. M. Haun;Edwin J. C. Van Leeuwen;Micah G. Edelson

  • Neighbouring chimpanzee communities show different preferences in social grooming behaviour

    Edwin J. C. van Leeuwen;Katherine A. Cronin;Daniel B. M. Haun;Roger Mundry

  • Like Me: A Homophily-Based Account of Human Culture

    Daniel Haun;Harriet Over

Frequent Co-Authors

Josep Call
Josep Call University of St Andrews
Michael Tomasello
Michael Tomasello Duke University
Stephen C. Levinson
Stephen C. Levinson Radboud University
Disa Sauter
Disa Sauter University of Amsterdam
Judith M. Burkart
Judith M. Burkart University of Zurich
Hannes Rakoczy
Hannes Rakoczy University of Göttingen
Mark Nielsen
Mark Nielsen University of Queensland
Esther Herrmann
Esther Herrmann University of Portsmouth
Asifa Majid
Asifa Majid University of York
Harriet Over
Harriet Over University of York

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