Esther Herrmann Portrait

Dr Esther Herrmann

Senior Lecturer

Esther.Herrmann@port.ac.uk

PhD Supervisor

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Faculty of Science and Health School of Psychology, Sport and Health Sciences Psychology Biological sciences Democratic citizenship Centre for Comparative and Evolutionary Psychology

Biography

I completed my PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, under the supervision of Michael Tomasello and Josep Call. After that I continued working as a postdoc, a coordinator for research in African chimpanzee sanctuaries and senior scientist. In 2013 I was awarded my own Minerva Research Group on the Human Origins of Self-Regulation within the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. I joined the psychology department at 兔子先生 as a senior lecturer in July 2020.

 

Research interests

The goal of my research is to investigate the roots of human cooperation and self-control through a multi-disciplinary and comparative lens. My experimental research focuses on: 1) contributing to our understanding of the evolution of human cognition by identifying shared and unique socio-cognitive abilities in humans and non-human great-apes and 2) discovering how developmental factors and cultural characteristics influence social cognition and behavior. To pursue this goal, over the last years, I established, coordinated and conducted research across various cross-cultural field sites in Africa and African chimpanzee sanctuaries.

Research outputs

2025

Schleihauf, H., Sanford, E., Thompson, B., Zhang, S., Rukundo, J., Call, J., Herrmann, E., Engelmann, J. M.

13 Aug 2025, In: Science

Research output: Article

Lewis, L. S., Ritov, O., Herrmann, E., Reddy, R. B., Sanchez-Amaro, A., Gopnik, A., Engelmann, J.

4 Jun 2025, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 292, 2048, 12p., 20242242

Research output: Article

Haux, L. M., Engelmann, J. M., Herrmann, E., Hertwig, R.

20 Feb 2025, In: Nature Communications. 16, 6p., 1807

Research output: Article

2024

Keupp, S., Herrmann, E.

23 Sep 2024, In: Scientific Reports. 14, 1, 12p., 21996

Research output: Article

Ebel, S. J., V枚lter, C. J., S谩nchez-Amaro, A., Helming, K. A., Herrmann, E., Call, J.

28 May 2024, In: Scientific Reports. 14, 9p., 12155

Research output: Article

Felsche, E., V枚lter, C. J., Herrmann, E., Seed, A. M., Buchsbaum, D.

1 Apr 2024, In: Cognition. 245, 20p., 105721

Research output: Article

Knofe, H., Engelmann, J. M., Grueneisen, S., Herrmann, E.

1 Apr 2024, In: Ethology. 130, 4, e13426

Research output: Article

2023

Engelmann, J. M., Haux, L. M., V枚lter, C., Schleihauf, H., Call, J., Rakoczy, H., Herrmann, E.

1 Sep 2023, In: Child Development. 94, 5, p. 1102-1116

Research output: Article

Engelmann, J. M., V枚lter, C. J., Goddu, M. K., Call, J., Rakoczy, H., Herrmann, E.

21 Jun 2023, In: Biology Letters. 19, 6, 5p., 20230179

Research output: Article

Haux, L. M., Engelmann, J. M., Arslan, R. C., Hertwig, R., Herrmann, E.

1 Mar 2023, In: Psychological Science. 34, 3, p. 358-369

Research output: Article