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Michaela Gummerum

 

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Dr Michaela Gummerum

  • Job title: Lecturer in Psychology, School of Psychology (Faculty of Science and Technology)
  • Telephone: +441752584828
  • Email: michaela.gummerum@plymouth.ac.uk


Qualifications & background
 
Education
2005 PhD in Psychology, Free University Berlin, Germany
2002 Diploma (MA) in Psychology, Free University Berlin, Germany

Employment
Since 2007 Lecturer In Psychology, University of Plymouth
2005-2007  Postdoctoral Fellow, CHILD, University of British Columbia, Canada
2003-2005  Fellow, International Max Planck Research School LIFE, 
                 Max Planck Institute for Human Development, University of Michigan, University of Virginia
2002-2005  Doctoral Fellow, Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition
                 Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany
  
 

Professional membership

Professional Memberships: 
Association for Moral Education
European Society for Developmental Psychology
International Collaboration on Complex Interventions
Jean Piaget Society
Society for Research in Child Development

 



Research interests

  • Social development
  • Moral development (behavior, emotions, and reasoning)
  • Development of children's friendships and parent-child relationships
  • Cross-cultural psychology (mainly China, Japan, Europe)
  • Economic game theory
  • Ecological approaches to development
 

UoP Research group membership

Centre for Research in Brain, Cognition and Behaviour (CBCB) 

Grants & contracts

2011-2012        British Academy: "The Development of Moral Sensitivity in Friendship 
                        Relationships: A Cross-cultural Perspective"
(Gummerum, M., & Malti, T,; £4400)

2010-2011         ESRC: “The development of punishment” (Gummerum, M.; £72,908)

2010-2011         The Leverhulme Trust: “Do primary school children exchange information during group collaboration?” (Gummerum, M., & Leman, P.; £42,521).

2009-2010         Sino-British Fellowship Trust: “Social change and Chinese children’s and adolescents’ conceptions of family relationships” (Gummerum, M., Zhu, L., & Hanoch, Y.; £7394)

2008                   Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation, Grant for Research and Travel at Hokkaido University, Japan (Gummerum, M., & Hanoch, Y.; £2000)

2008                   British Academy, Travel Grant

2008                   International Collaboration on Complex Interventions, Travel Grant

2006                   International Collaboration on Complex Interventions, Travel Grant

2005-2007         Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada, Postdoctoral Fellowship

2002-2005         Max Planck Society, Predoctoral Fellowship

2000                   German Academic Exchange Service, Travel Grant

 

 

 


Publications

 

 

Published/In press 

Gummerum, M., & Keller, M. (in press). East German children’s and adolescents’ friendship and moral reasoning before and after German reunification. Journal of Genetic Psychology.

Li, J., Zhu, L., & Gummerum (in press). Social value orientation in childhood across different contexts: Evidence from China. International Journal of Psychology.

Atkin, L. M., & Gummerum, M. (2012). Moral and group-based criteria in children's evaluations of peers after transgression. Infant and Child Development, 21, 189-197.

Gummerum, M., & Hanoch, Y. (2012). Altruism behind bars: Sharing, justice, perspective taking and empathy among inmates. Social Justice Research, 25, 61-78.

Hanoch, Y., & Gummerum, M. (2011). A comparison of the risk-taking behaviors of prisoners and non-prisoners. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 24,431-442.

Himmelstein, M., Miron-Shatz, T., Hanoch, Y., Gummerum, M. (2011). Over-the-counter cough and cold medicines for children: Parental usage, perception and trust in the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency. Health, Risk & Society, 13, 451-468.

Gummerum, M., Hanoch, Y., Keller, M., Parsons, K., & Hummel, A. (2010). Preschoolers‘ allocations in the dictator game. The role of moral emotions. Journal of Economic Psychology, 31, 25-34.

Hanoch, Y., Gummerum, M., & Miron-Shatz, T., & Himmelstein, M. S. (2010). Parents‘ decisions following the Food and Drug Administration recommendation: The case of Over-the-Counter cough and cold medication. Child: Care, Health & Development, 36, 795-804.

Miron-Shatz, T., Barron, G., Hanoch, Y., Gummerum, M. & Doniger, G. (2010). To give or not to give: Parental experience and compliance with the Food and Drug Administration warning about over-the-counter cold and cough medication usage. Judgment and Decision Making, 5, 428-436.

Pachur, T., Hanoch, Y., & Gummerum, M. (2010). Prospects behind bars. Analyzing decisions under risk in a prison population. Psychonomic Bulletin and Review, 17, 630-636.

Gummerum, M., Takezawa, M., & Keller, M. (2009). The influence of social category and reciprocity on adults' and children's altruistic behaviour. Evolutionary Psychology, 7, 295-316.

Leman, P. J., Keller, M., Takezawa, M., & Gummerum, M. (2009). Children’s and adolescents’ decisions about sharing money with others. Social Development, 18, 711-727.

Malti, T., Gummerum, M., Keller, M., & Buchmann, M. (2009). Children’s sympathy and prosocial behavior: The role of moral motivation. Child Development, 80, 442-460.

Goelman, H., & The CHILD Project. (2008). Three complementary community-based approaches to the early identification of young at-risk children. Infants and Young Children, 21, 306-323.

Gummerum, M., Hanoch, Y., & Keller, M. (2008). When child development meets economic game theory: An interdisciplinary approach to investigating social development. Human Development, 51, 235-261.

Gummerum, M., & Keller, M. (2008). Moral psychology and economic game theory. European Journal of Developmental Science, 2, 206-220.

Gummerum, M., & Keller, M. (2008). Freundschaftskonzepte und Handlungsvorstellungen in Freundschaft. Der Einfluss von Entwicklung und Kultur. Mittelweg, 17, 42-54.

Gummerum, M., Keller, M., Takezawa, M., & Mata, J. (2008). To give or not to give: Children’s and adolescents’ sharing and moral negotiations in economic decision situations. Child Development, 79, 561-576.

Gummerum, M., & Keller, M. (2008). Affection, virtue, pleasure, and profit: Developing an understanding of friendship closeness and intimacy in Western and Asian cultures. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 32, 130-143.

Hanoch, Y., & Gummerum, M. (2008). What can health psychologists learn from health economics? From monetary incentives to policy programs. Health Psychology Review, 2, 2-19.

Hanoch, Y., Gummerum, M., &  Katsikopoulos, K. V. (2007). Risk perception and consumption of over-the-counter drugs. British Medical Journal, Rapid Response, http://www.bmj.com/cgi/eletters/334/7600/917-b#165127.

Hanoch, Y., Katsikopoulos, K. V., Gummerum, M., & Brass, E. P. (2007). American and German students’ knowledge, perceptions, and behaviors with respect to Over-the-Counter Pain Relievers. Health Psychology, 26, 802-806.

Malti, T., Gummerum, M., Buchmann, M. (2007). Contemporaneous and one-year-longitudinal prediction of children’s prosocial behavior from sympathy and moral motivation. Journal of Genetic Psychology, 168, 277-299.

Takezawa, M., Gummerum, M., & Keller, M. (2006). A stage for the rational tail of the emotional dog: Roles of moral reasoning in group decision making. Journal of Economic Psychology, 27, 117-139.

Gummerum, M. (2005). The development of prosocial behavior: Integrating psychological, economic, and evolutionary perspectives. Doctoral dissertation, Free University Berlin, http://www.diss.fu-berlin.de/2007/292/indexe.html. 

Gummerum, M., Keller, M., & Takezawa, M. (2004). How do children play dictator and ultimatum game? The influence of psychological variables on the behavior of individuals and groups. International Journal of Psychology, 39, 565.

Keller, M., Gummerum, M., Wang, X. T., & Lindsey, S. (2004). Understanding perspectives and emotions in contract violation: Development of deontic and moral reasoning. Child Development, 75, 614-635.

Gummerum, M., Keller, M., Takezawa, M., & Wilke, A. (2003). Children's economic negotiations in Ultimatum and Dictator Games. In P. M. Kappeler, C. Fichtel, & M. Schwibbe (Eds.), Proceedings of the 4th Göttinger Freilandtage on Cooperation in Primates and Humans: Mechanisms and Evolution. Primate Report, 66, 23.

Keller, M., & Gummerum, M. (2003). Freundschaft und Verwandtschaft: Beziehungsvorstellungen im Entwicklungsverlauf und im Kulturvergleich [Friendship and kinship: Development of relationship concepts in different cultures]. Sozialer Sinn, 1, 95-121.

 

Book Chapters and Book Reviews

Keller, M., Gummerum, M., Canz, T., Gigerenzer, G., & Takezawa, M. (in press). The "is" and "ought" of sharing: The equality heuristic across the lifespan. In R. Hertwig, U. Hoffrage & the ABC Research Group, Simple heuristics in a social world. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Pivik, J., Herrington, S., & Gummerum, M. (2011). Nurturant environments for children’s social, emotional and physical well-being. In H. Goelman, J. Pivik, & M. Guhn (Eds.), New approaches to early child development: Rules, rituals and realities (pp.117-139). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

Gummerum, M. (2010). Evolution und Moral - eine Annäherung. In B. Latzko & T. Malti (Eds.), Moralische Entwicklung und Erziehung in Kindheit und Adoleszenz (pp. 105-120). Göttingen: Hogrefe.

Keller, M., & Gummerum, M. (2010). Zwischen Fairness und Eigeninteresse: Moralentwicklung aus ökonomischer Sicht. In B. Latzko & T. Malti (Eds.), Moralische Entwicklung und Erziehung in Kindheit und Adoleszenz (pp. 105-120). Göttingen: Hogrefe.

Zhu, L., Keller, M., Gummerum, M., & Takezawa, M. (2010). A cross-cultural perspective on the development of sharing behavior. Integrating behavioural economics and psychology. In R. Schwarzer & P. A. Frensch (Eds.), Personality, human development, and culture: International perspectives on psychological science, Volume 2 (pp.141-153). Hove, UK: Psychology Press.

Gummerum, M. (2008). Messung und Korrelate von Religiosität [Measurement and correlates of religiosity] by Carmine Maiello. Journal of Moral Education, 37, 261-263.
 

Submitted/In preparation

Ewan-Corrigan, E., & Gummerum M. (Submitted). The effects of a vertical tutor group on adolescents’ social cognition and behaviour.

Gummerum, M. (Submitted). Counterfactual reasoning and moral emotion attribution. 

Gummerum, M., Herrington, S., & Schonert-Reichl, K. (2007). An ecological approach to the development of play behavior among preschool children. Manuscript in preparation.

Gummerum, M., & Keller, M. (2010). Perception of parent-child relationships in times of social change. Manuscript in preparation.

Gummerum, M., Leman, P. J., & Hollins, T. S. (Under revision). Do children share information during collaborative recall? The role of collective information sampling and collaborative inhibition.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Reports & invited lectures

Invited Presentations

Institute of Psychology, Universität Klagenfurt, Austria, May 2011.

Department of Psychology, Durham University, Durham, UK, February 2011.

Department of Psychology, University of Essex, Colchester, UK, October 2010.

Department of Psychology, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan, July 2010.

Workshop “Assisting Decision Makers”, University College London, UK, April 2010.

Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, September 2009.

London Judgment and Decision Making Group, University College London, May 2009

Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London, UK, November 2008.

Laboratory of Social Psychology, Department of Behavioral Science, Graduate School of Letters, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, August 2008.

Human Early Learning Partnership, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, July 2007.

Workshop “Supporting children’s social and emotional health: Assessment tools, research, and practice”. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, May 2006.

Department of Psychology, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada, January 2006.

Department of Special Education and Educational Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, December 2005.

Human Early Learning Partnership, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, December 2005.

Institute of Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, April 2005.

Department of Psychology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA, December 2004.

Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany, May 2002.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Other academic activities
Editorial Activities

2007 – 2008  Guest Co-Editor, Special Issue on “Moral Emotions and Moral Cognitions: Perspectives in Developmental Science”, European Journal of Developmental Science

 

Ad-hoc Reviewer

British Journal of Developmental Psychology, Child Development, Cognition, Cognitive Development, Developmental Science, European Journal of Developmental Science, Infant and Child Development, Journal of Economic Psychology, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Journal of Moral Education, Social Development

British Psychological Society, Developmental Section, 2007 Conference
Society for Research in Child Development, 2009 Conference

Oxford University Press

Grant Reviewer
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), UK

End of Grant Reviewer, ESRC, UK

Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC)

 


Links
Consortium for Health, Intervention, Learning, and Development (CHILD)

Max Planck International Research School LIFE

Center for Adaptive Behavior and Cognition


Some of my collaborators:
Yaniv Hanoch, University of Plymouth
Tara Hollins, University College Plymouth St Mark & St John
Monika Keller, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Patrick Leman
, Royal Holloway University of London
Tina Malti, University of Toronto
Azzurra Ruggeri, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Liqi Zhu
, Chinese Academy of Sciences