Manuel Bohn

Manuel Bohn is an Assistant Professor in the Institute for Psychology at Leuphana University Lüneburg since 2023. Previously, he held postdoctoral positions at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (2020–2023) and conducted a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship at Stanford University (2017–2020). His research focuses on developmental psychology, examining how children’s everyday experiences shape their communicative and cognitive development, with comparative studies on great apes to understand human uniqueness in language acquisition.

• Education: PhD in Developmental and Comparative Psychology (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 2013–2016),
• Memberships: German Society for Psychology (DGP),
• Languages: German, English, Latin (fluent).

His work bridges developmental, comparative, and cultural psychology, emphasizing cross-cultural studies and open science. Key projects include the ManyPrimates collaboration and TANGO-CC gaze assessment tools. Research interests include pragmatics in language, child-rearing practices, and evolutionary foundations of communication.

Publications emphasize child development, cross-cultural cognition, and primate cognition, with over 50 peer-reviewed articles in journals like Nature Human Behaviour, Developmental Science, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Awards include the ERC Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship (2017–2020) and support from the German Academic Scholarship Foundation (2013–2016).

Advising and grants include leadership in collaborative projects and methodological innovations. His lab focuses on experimental and computational approaches to human communication, with ongoing work on receptive vocabulary measures (oREV) and parent-child interaction studies.