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Journals
Articles
Meyer C, Alhaddad L, Stammel N, Sixtus F, Wesche J, Kerschreiter R, Kanngiesser P & Knaevelsrud C (2023) 'With a Little Help from my Friends: Acculturation and Mental Health in Arabic-speaking Refugee Youth Living with their Families' Frontiers in Psychiatry ,
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Kanngiesser P, Serko D & Woike JK (2023) 'Promises on the go: A field study on keeping one's word' Frontiers in Psychology 14, ,
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Stengelin R, Ball R, Maurits L, Kanngiesser P & Haun DBM (2023) 'Children over-imitate adults and peers more than puppets' Developmental science 26, (2) ,
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Stengelin R, Haun DBM & Kanngiesser P (2023) 'Simulating peers: Can puppets simulate peer interactions in studies on children's socio‐cognitive development?' Child Development ,
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Würbel I & Kanngiesser P (2023) 'Pre-schoolers’ images, intergroup attitudes, and liking of refugee peers in Germany' PLOS ONE 18, (2) e0280759-e0280759 ,
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Köster M, Torréns MG, Kärtner J, Itakura S, Cavalcante L & Kanngiesser P (2022) 'Parental teaching behavior in diverse cultural contexts' Evolution and Human Behavior 43, (5) 432-441 ,
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Broesch T, Lew-Levy S, Kline M, Kärtner J & Kanngiesser P (2022) 'A roadmap to doing culturally grounded developmental science' Review of Philosophy and Psychology ,
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Marsh LE, Gil J & Kanngiesser P (2022) 'The influence of collaboration and culture on the IKEA effect: Does cocreation alter perceptions of value in British and Indian children?' Developmental Psychology 58, (4) 662-670 ,
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Woike J, Hafenbrädl S, Kanngiesser P & Hertwig R (2022) 'The Transmission Game: Testing behavioral interventions in a pandemic-like simulation' Science Advances 8, (8) ,
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Kanngiesser P, Schäfer M, Herrmann E, Zeidler H, Haun D & Tomasello M (2022) 'Children across societies enforce conventional norms but in culturally variable ways' Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 119, (1) ,
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Alhaddad L, Goodwin R & Kanngiesser P (2021) 'Challenges and Coping: Perspectives of Syrian and Iraqi Refugee Youth in Germany' Journal of Adolescent Research ,
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Kanngiesser P, Mammen M & Tomasello M (2021) 'Young children’s understanding of justifications for breaking a promise' Cognitive Development 60, 101127-101127 ,
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Köster M, Langeloh M, Kliesch C, Kanngiesser P & Hoehl S (2021) 'The value of subsequent memory paradigms in uncovering neural mechanisms of early social learning' NeuroImage 234, ,
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Kanngiesser P, Sunderarajan J & Woike JK (2021) 'Keeping them honest: Promises reduce cheating in adolescents' Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 34, (2) 183-198 ,
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Köster M, Langeloh M, Kliesch C, Kanngiesser P & Hoehl S (2020) 'Motor cortex activity during action observation predicts subsequent action imitation in human infants' NeuroImage 116958-116958 ,
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House BR, Kanngiesser P, Barrett HC, Yilmaz S, Smith AM, Sebastian-Enesco C, Erut A & Silk JB (2020) 'Social norms and cultural diversity in the development of third-party punishment' Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 287, 20192794-20192794 ,
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House BR, Kanngiesser P, Barrett HC, Broesch T, Cebioglu S, Crittenden AN, Erut A, Lew-Levy S, Sebastian-Enesco C & Smith AM (2020) 'Universal norm psychology leads to societal diversity in prosocial behaviour and development' Nature Human Behaviour 4, (1) 36-44 ,
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Haun DBM, Liebal K, Amici F, Bender A, Bohn M, Braeuer J, Buttelmann D, Burkart J, Cacchione T & DeTroy S (2020) 'A Pleading for the Relevance of comparative Psychology for the Understanding of human Development' PSYCHOLOGISCHE RUNDSCHAU 71, (1) 40-41 Author Site
Molleman L, Kanngiesser P & van den Bos W (2019) 'Social information use in adolescents: The impact of adults, peers and household composition' PLOS ONE 14, (11) e0225498-e0225498 ,
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Kanngiesser P, Rossano F, Zeidler H, Haun D & Tomasello M (2019) 'Children’s respect for ownership across diverse societies' Developmental Psychology 55, 2286-2298 ,
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Woike JK & Kanngiesser P (2019) 'Most people keep their word rather than their money' Open Mind 3, 68-88 ,
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Kanngiesser P, Rossano F, Frickel R, Tomm A & Tomasello M (2019) 'Children, but not great apes, respect ownership' Developmental Science 23, (1) 0-0 ,
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Petrowski M, Kanngiesser P & Friedman O (2019) 'Two- and three-year-olds consider ownership when selecting and allocating resources' Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 185, 214-223 ,
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Weltzien S, Marsh L, Kanngiesser P, Stuijfzand B & Hood B (2019) 'Considering self or others across two cultural contexts: How children’s resource allocations are affected by self-construal manipulations' Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 184, 139-157 ,
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Isella M, Kanngiesser P & Tomasello M (2018) 'Children’s Selective Trust in Promises' Child Development 90, e868-e887 ,
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Marsh LE, Kanngiesser P & Hood B (2018) 'When and how does labour lead to love? The ontogeny and mechanisms of the IKEA effect' Cognition 170, 245-253 ,
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Kanngiesser P, Köymen B & Tomasello M (2017) 'Young children mostly keep, and expect others to keep, their promises' Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 159, 140-158 ,
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Kanngiesser P & Woike JK (2016) 'Framing the debate on human-like framing effects in bonobos and chimpanzees: a comment on Krupenye et al. (2015)' Biology Letters 12, 20150718-20150718 ,
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Hood B, Weltzien S, Marsh L & Kanngiesser P (2016) 'Picture yourself: Self-focus and the endowment effect in preschool children' Cognition 152, 70-77 ,
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Kanngiesser P, Rossano F & Tomasello M (2015) 'Late Emergence of the First Possession Heuristic: Evidence From a Small-Scale Culture' Child Development 86, (4) 1282-1289 ,
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Kanngiesser P, Itakura S, Zhou Y, Kanda T, Ishiguro H & Hood B (2015) 'The role of social eye-gaze in children’s and adults’ ownership attributions to robotic agents in three cultures' Interaction Studies 16, 1-28 ,
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Kanngiesser P, Itakura S & Hood BM (2014) 'The effect of labour on ownership decisions in two cultures: Developmental evidence from Japan and the United Kingdom' British Journal of Developmental Psychology 32, 320-329 ,
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Kanngiesser P & Hood BM (2014) 'Young children’s understanding of ownership rights for newly made objects' Cognitive Development 29, 30-40 ,
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Kanngiesser P & Hood B (2013) 'Not by labor alone: Considerations for value influence use of the labor rule in ownership transfers' Cognitive Science 38, 353-366 ,
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Kanngiesser P & Warneken F (2013) 'Correction: Young Children Consider Merit when Sharing Resources with Others' PLoS ONE 8, (8) ,
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Kanngiesser P & Warneken F (2012) 'Young children consider merit when sharing resources with others' PloS One 7, e43979-e43979 ,
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Kanngiesser P, Santos LR, Hood BM & Call J (2011) 'The limits of endowment effects in great apes (Pan paniscus, Pan troglodytes, Gorilla gorilla, Pongo pygmaeus)' Journal of Comparative Psychology 125, 436-445 ,
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Kanngiesser P, Sueur C, Riedl K, Grossmann J & Call J (2010) 'Grooming network cohesion and the role of individuals in a captive chimpanzee group' American Journal of Primatology 73, 758-767 ,
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Potì P, Kanngiesser P, Saporiti M, Amiconi A, Bläsing B & Call J (2010) 'Searching in the middle—Capuchins’ (Cebus apella) and bonobos’ (Pan paniscus) behavior during a spatial search task' Journal of Experimental Psychology: Animal Behavior Processes 36, 92-109 ,
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Kanngiesser P, Gjersoe N & Hood BM (2010) 'The effect of creative labor on property-ownership transfer by preschool children and adults' Psychological Science 21, 1236-1241 ,
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Kanngiesser P & Call J (2009) 'Bonobos, chimpanzees, gorillas, and orang utans use feature and spatial cues in two spatial memory tasks' Animal Cognition 13, 419-430 ,
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Kanngiesser P 'The missing link? How do non-human primates fit in the minimalist model of ownership? (Commentary)' Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Kanngiesser P, Sunderarajan J & Woike J 'Cheating and the effect of promises in Indian and German children' Child Development
Chapters
Kanngiesser P, Schmidt MFH & Rossano F (2016) 'Young children’s understanding of social norms and social institutions' in Kury H; Redo SL; Shea E Women and children as victims and offenders: Background, prevention, reintegration. Vol. 1: Suggestions for succeeding generations
Presentations and posters
Woike J & Kanngiesser P Woike J & Kanngiesser P 'Can promises reduce cheating in the absence of punishment? Economic Science Association (ESA) World Meeting, Berlin, Germany, 2018'
Serko D, Kanngiesser P & Woike JK Serko D, Kanngiesser P & Woike JK 'Keeping one's word is not the exception, it’s the rule. International Conference on Social Dilemmas, Sedona, Arizona, USA, 2019'
Woike JK & Kanngiesser P Woike JK & Kanngiesser P 'Promises and dice: Do people keep their word rather than their money? Subjective Probability, Utility, and Decision Making Conference (SPUDM), Haifa, Israel, 2017'
Woike JK & Kanngiesser P Woike JK & Kanngiesser P 'Promises and dice: Most people keep their word rather than their money, Annual Meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, Boston, USA, 2016'
Woike J & Kanngiesser P Woike J & Kanngiesser P 'Promises and dice: Most people keep their word rather than their money, International Conference on Social Dilemmas, Taormina, Italy, 2017'