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 91¸£ÀûÍø 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

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., Völter, C. J., Sánchez-Amaro, A., Helming, K. A., Herrmann, E., Call, J.

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

Research output: Article

Felsche, E., Völter, 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., Völter, 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., Völter, 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

Reindl, E., Völter, C. J., Civelek, Z., Duncan, L., Lugosi, Z., Felsche, E., Herrmann, E., Call, J., Seed, A. M.

25 Jan 2023, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 290, 1991, 10p., 20221496

Research output: Article