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Felix Warneken is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on psychology, social sciences, and neuroscience, with an emphasis on developmental and educational psychology, cognitive neuroscience, sociology and political science, social psychology, and clinical psychology.

Warneken's work extensively addresses topics including child and animal learning development, psychology of moral and emotional judgment, social and intergroup psychology, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, experimental behavioral economics studies, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, and child and adolescent psychosocial and emotional development.

Frequent venues for publication include:

  • Cognition
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • Current Opinion in Psychology
  • Social Development

Among recent notable papers are:

  • "The development of prosocial behavior-from sympathy to strategy," 2021, Current Opinion in Psychology
  • "Children's evaluations of third-party responses to unfairness: Children prefer helping over punishment," 2020, Cognition
  • "Costly fairness in children is influenced by who is watching," 2020, Developmental Psychology
  • "Why do children punish? Fair outcomes matter more than intent in children's second- and third-party punishment," 2020, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
  • "Does third-party punishment in children aim at equality?", 2022, Developmental Psychology

Warneken has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

  • Katherine McAuliffe
  • Young-Eun Lee
  • Sebastian Grueneisen
  • Peter Blake
  • Julia Marshall

Their body of work contributes to multiple subfields and topics by integrating experimental approaches to behavioral economics and moral psychology within developmental contexts. This includes investigations into prosocial behavior, punishment and fairness considerations in childhood, and the social evaluation of moral and emotional judgments.

Best Publications

  • Altruistic Helping in Human Infants and Young Chimpanzees

    Felix Warneken;Michael Tomasello

  • Helping and Cooperation at 14 Months of Age

    Felix Warneken;Michael Tomasello

  • The roots of human altruism.

    Felix Warneken;Michael Tomasello

  • Cooperative Activities in Young Children and Chimpanzees

    Felix Warneken;Frances Chen;Michael Tomasello

  • The sources of normativity: Young children's awareness of the normative structure of games.

    Hannes Rakoczy;Felix Warneken;Michael Tomasello

  • Spontaneous Altruism by Chimpanzees and Young Children

    Felix Warneken;Brian Hare;Alicia P Melis;Daniel Hanus

  • Extrinsic rewards undermine altruistic tendencies in 20-month-olds.

    Felix Warneken;Michael Tomasello

  • The ontogeny of fairness in seven societies

    P. R. Blake;K. McAuliffe;K. McAuliffe;K. McAuliffe;J. Corbit;T. C. Callaghan

  • Varieties of altruism in children and chimpanzees

    Felix Warneken;Michael Tomasello

  • Collaboration encourages equal sharing in children but not in chimpanzees

    Katharina Hamann;Felix Warneken;Julia R. Greenberg;Michael Tomasello

  • Early Social Cognition in Three Cultural Contexts

    Tara Callaghan;Henrike Moll;Hannes Rakoczy;Felix Warneken

  • Young Children Share the Spoils After Collaboration

    Felix Warneken;Karoline Lohse;Alicia P. Melis;Michael Tomasello

  • Costly third-party punishment in young children

    Katherine McAuliffe;Katherine McAuliffe;Jillian J. Jordan;Jillian J. Jordan;Felix Warneken

  • The developmental origins of fairness: the knowledge–behavior gap

    Peter R. Blake;Katherine McAuliffe;Felix Warneken

  • The developmental foundations of human fairness

    Katherine McAuliffe;Peter R. Blake;Nikolaus Steinbeis;Nikolaus Steinbeis;Felix Warneken

  • Development of in-group favoritism in children's third-party punishment of selfishness.

    Jillian J. Jordan;Katherine McAuliffe;Felix Warneken

  • Children's Developing Commitments to Joint Goals

    Katharina Hamann;Felix Warneken;Michael Tomasello

  • Young Children Consider Merit when Sharing Resources with Others

    Patricia Kanngiesser;Felix Warneken

  • The emergence of contingent reciprocity in young children.

    Felix Warneken;Michael Tomasello

  • Chimpanzees help conspecifics obtain food and non-food items

    Alicia P. Melis;Felix Warneken;Keith Jensen;Anna Claire Schneider

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Tomasello
Michael Tomasello Duke University
Hannes Rakoczy
Hannes Rakoczy University of Göttingen
Rachid Alami
Rachid Alami Laboratory for Analysis and Architecture of Systems
Giorgio Metta
Giorgio Metta Italian Institute of Technology
Lorenzo Natale
Lorenzo Natale Italian Institute of Technology
Brian Hare
Brian Hare Duke University
Sally J. Rogers
Sally J. Rogers University of California, Davis
Chris Melhuish
Chris Melhuish University of the West of England
Malinda Carpenter
Malinda Carpenter University of St Andrews
Elena Lieven
Elena Lieven University of Manchester

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