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Esther Herrmann is affiliated with the University of Portsmouth in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, with specific attention to social psychology, developmental and educational psychology, and cognitive neuroscience. The scope of their work also intersects with sociology and political science as well as statistics and probability.

The scientist's research topics cover a range of areas including child and animal learning development, primate behavior and ecology, cultural differences and values, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, evolutionary game theory and cooperation, and human-animal interaction studies.

Herrmann has contributed publications to several scientific journals. The frequent venues of their work include:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Biology Letters
  • Psychological Science
  • Child Development
  • Animal Behavior and Cognition

Recent notable papers authored by or involving Esther Herrmann include:

  • "Ravens parallel great apes in physical and social cognitive skills," 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "Children Delay Gratification for Cooperative Ends," 2020, Psychological Science
  • "The structure of executive functions in preschool children and chimpanzees," 2022, Scientific Reports
  • "Children across societies enforce conventional norms but in culturally variable ways," 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • "How children revise their beliefs in light of reasons," 2022, Child Development

Herrmann's frequently collaborating co-authors include Jan M. Engelmann, Christoph J. Völter, Josep Call, Hannes Rakoczy, and Lou M. Haux. These collaborators appear recurrently in their scholarly work, indicating ongoing research partnerships.

The scientist's research contributes multidisciplinary insights into human and animal cognition, focusing on development, cooperation, and social norms, within and across species. This body of work is situated at the intersection of psychology, behavior, and cultural studies.

Best Publications

  • Humans Have Evolved Specialized Skills of Social Cognition: The Cultural Intelligence Hypothesis

    Esther Herrmann;Josep Call;María Victoria Hernández-Lloreda;Brian Hare

  • Two Key Steps in the Evolution of Human Cooperation The Interdependence Hypothesis

    Michael Tomasello;Alicia P. Melis;Claudio Tennie;Emily Wyman

  • The evolution of self-control

    Evan L. MacLean;Brian Hare;Charles L. Nunn;Elsa Addessi

  • Young children care more about their reputation with ingroup members and potential reciprocators.

    Jan M. Engelmann;Harriet Over;Esther Herrmann;Michael Tomasello

  • Five-year olds, but not chimpanzees, attempt to manage their reputations.

    Jan M. Engelmann;Esther Herrmann;Michael Tomasello

  • How does cognition evolve? Phylogenetic comparative psychology

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

  • Differences in the Cognitive Skills of Bonobos and Chimpanzees

    Esther Herrmann;Brian Hare;Josep Call;Michael Tomasello

  • Ape and Human Cognition What's the Difference?

    Michael Tomasello;Esther Herrmann

  • The Structure of Individual Differences in the Cognitive Abilities of Children and Chimpanzees

    Esther Herrmann;Maria Victoria Hernández-Lloreda;Josep Call;Brian Hare

  • Apes' and children's understanding of cooperative and competitive motives in a communicative situation.

    Esther Herrmann;Michael Tomasello

  • Establishing an infrastructure for collaboration in primate cognition research.

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

  • Differences in the early cognitive development of children and great apes.

    Victoria Wobber;Esther Herrmann;Brian Hare;Richard Wrangham

  • Individual differences in cooperative communicative skills are more similar between dogs and humans than chimpanzees

    Evan L. MacLean;Esther Herrmann;Sunil Suchindran;Brian Hare

  • Great apes' (Pan troglodytes, Pan paniscus, Gorilla gorilla, Pongo pygmaeus) understanding of tool functional properties after limited experience.

    Esther Herrmann;Victoria Wobber;Josep Call

  • Concern for Group Reputation Increases Prosociality in Young Children

    Jan M. Engelmann;Esther Herrmann;Michael Tomasello

  • Direct and indirect reputation formation in nonhuman great apes (Pan paniscus, Pan troglodytes, Gorilla gorilla, Pongo pygmaeus) and human children (Homo sapiens).

    Esther Herrmann;Stefanie Keupp;Brian Hare;Amrisha Vaish

  • A comparison of temperament in nonhuman apes and human infants

    Esther Herrmann;Brian Hare;Julia Cissewski;Michael Tomasello

  • Social disappointment explains chimpanzees' behaviour in the inequity aversion task

    Jan M. Engelmann;Jeremy B. Clift;Esther Herrmann;Michael Tomasello

  • Are there geniuses among the apes

    Esther Herrmann;Josep Call

  • Young children (sometimes) do the right thing even when their peers do not

    Jan M. Engelmann;Esther Herrmann;Diotima J. Rapp;Michael Tomasello

  • Chimpanzees Trust Their Friends

    Jan M. Engelmann;Esther Herrmann

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Tomasello
Michael Tomasello Duke University
Josep Call
Josep Call University of St Andrews
Brian Hare
Brian Hare Duke University
Daniel B. M. Haun
Daniel B. M. Haun Max Planck Society
Hannes Rakoczy
Hannes Rakoczy University of Göttingen
Amrisha Vaish
Amrisha Vaish University of Virginia
Elizabeth M. Brannon
Elizabeth M. Brannon University of Pennsylvania
Michael L. Platt
Michael L. Platt University of Pennsylvania
Stephen R. Ross
Stephen R. Ross Lincoln Park Zoo
Elisabetta Visalberghi
Elisabetta Visalberghi National Research Council (CNR)

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