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Dr. Hanna Schleihauf serves as Assistant Professor in the Department for Developmental Psychology at Utrecht University's Social and Behavioural Sciences faculty since 2023, while also holding a 50% Postdoctoral Marie Curie Fellowship at the German Primate Center in Göttingen, Germany, and maintaining affiliations with the University of California, Berkeley.
Her educational qualifications include:
- Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the Max-Planck-Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Science, Leipzig & Heidelberg University (2018)
- M.Sc. in Developmental & Clinical Psychology from Heidelberg University (2013)
- B.Sc. in Psychology from Heidelberg University (2011)
Dr. Schleihauf's research program investigates the socio-cognitive foundations of cultural learning, examining how children in early and middle childhood develop into proficient cultural participants. She focuses on three critical developmental domains: (1) effective transmission of behaviors, (2) transmission of beliefs, and (3) the cognitive capacities and motivations required to receive and adopt transmitted information.
Her methodological approach spans behavioral off- and online experiments, eye-tracking paradigms, and neuroscientific techniques. Taking a genuinely global perspective, her studies incorporate participants from Kenya, China, Germany, and the United States, complemented by cross-species comparisons between humans and chimpanzees to provide evolutionary insights.
Her professional recognition includes:
- Marie Curie Fellow
Dr. Schleihauf contributes to academic instruction through courses such as "Human development and developmental psychopathology" and "Introduction to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Youth." Her research is formally integrated within Utrecht University's Dynamics of Youth (DoY) initiative, which examines developmental trajectories from infancy through adolescence.
Her laboratory work encompasses comparative investigations of cultural learning mechanisms across species and cross-cultural examinations of developmental processes in children.