Main Focus

  • Developmental Psychology 
  • Emotional development 
  • Social development
  • Cooperation and fairness 
  • The development of gratitude
  • Motion depth sensor imaging technology (Body posture analyses)

Curriculum Vitae

2018-2023 

Dr. rer. nat. in Psychology, Leipzig University and University of Oxford

2017-2022

Research Intern and Guest Researcher, Research Group "Naturalistic Social Cognition," Max Planck Institute for Human Development

2016-2018 

M.Sc. in Early Childhood Research, Leipzig University

2016 

Research Assistant, Psycholinguistics Lab, Humboldt University of Berlin

2015 

Research Intern, Harvard Laboratory for Developmental Studies, Harvard University

2012-2016  

B.A. in English Philology, Free University of Berlin and University of California, Berkeley

 

Selected Publications

  • Hepach, R., Engelmann, J. M., Herrmann, E., Gerdemann, S. C., & Tomasello, M. (2023). Evidence for a developmental shift in the motivation underlying helping in early childhood. Developmental Science, 26(1), e13253. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13253
  • Hepach, R., & Gerdemann, S. C. (2023). How “peer-fear” of others’ evaluations can regulate young children’s cooperation. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 46, e64. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X22001893
  • Gerdemann, S. C., McAuliffe, K., Blake, P. R., Haun, D. B. M., & Hepach, R. (2022). The ontogeny of children’s social emotions in response to (un)fairness. Royal Society Open Science, 9(8), 191456. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.191456
  • Gerdemann, S. C., Tippmann, J., Dietrich, B., Engelmann, J. M., & Hepach, R. (2022). Young children show negative emotions after failing to help others. PLOS ONE, 17(4), e0266539. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266539
  • Gerdemann, S. C., & Wertz, A. E. (2021). 18-month-olds use different cues to categorize plants and artifacts. Evolution and Human Behavior, 42(4), 304–315. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2020.12.003

    Awards

    2022   

    D.A.A.D. (German Academic Exchange Service) Scholarship for a 6-month research stay at the University of Oxford

    2021

    Margo Wilson Award for the Best Paper published in Evolution and Human Behavior in 2021

     

     

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