Archive Guest Speaker




  • Gerald Carter
    (Ohio State University)
    Cooperation, conflict, and the development of "friendship" -- insights from vampire bats
    Time: May, 26th at 4 p.m.


  • Kay Holekamp
    (Michigan State University)
    The evolution of social relationships in hyenas
    Time: November, 17th at 4 p.m.


  • Dorothy Cheney
    (University of Pennsylvania)
    Seminar: Friends of friends - Can social network analysis tell us anything that we don't already know?
    Time: October 13th, 2015 at 2:30 p.m.
    Location: Seminar Room, German Primate Center, Kellnerweg 4, 37077 Göttingen
    In Collaboration with the Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition


  • Robert Seyfarth
    (University of Pennsylvania)
    Signalers, receivers, and pragmatic inference in primate communication
    Time: October 14th, 2015 at 2:30 p.m.
    Location: Lecture Hall, German Primate Center, Kellnerweg 4, 37077 Göttingen
    In Collaboration with the Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition
    Host: Julia Fischer, Cognitive Ethology


  • Marc Mehu
    (Webster Private University Vienna)
    The link between social influence and information transfer in human emotional communication
    Time: January, 27th 2016 at 2:30 p.m.
    Location: Lecture Hall, German Primate Center, Kellnerweg 4, 37077 Göttingen
    Host: Annekathrin Schacht, CRC Text Structures



  • Alexandra M. Freund
    (Universität Zürich)
    Social-cognitive effects of social approach and avoidance motivation
    Time: Wednesday, April 6th 2016 at 2:30 p.m.
    Location: Old Lecture Hall, German Primate Center, Kellnerweg 4, 37077 Göttingen
    Host: Julia Fischer, Cognitive Ethology


  • Pascal Vrticka
    (MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig)
    Attachment Theory: Origins, concepts and applied research in humans
    Time:Thursday, April 28th 2016, time: 4:15 p.m.
    Location: Seminar room E0.14, German Primate Center, Kellnerweg 4, 37077 Göttingen
    Host: Annekathrin Schacht, CRC Text Structures


  • Irene Mittelberg
    (RWTH Aachen)
    Crossmodal meaning construction: Gestures as mediators between linguistic structure and pragmatics
    Time:Wednesday, May 11th 2016, time: 2:30 p.m.
    Location: CRC Texts structures, Library 2nd Floor, Nikolausbergerweg 23
    Host: Markus Steinbach, Institute for German Philology


  • Andrea Hildebrandt
    (University of Greifswald)
    Modeling individual differences in facial emotion processing
    Time:Wednesday, June 1st 2016, time: 6:00 p.m.
    Location: CRC Texts structures, Library 2nd Floor, Nikolausbergerweg 23
    Host: Annekathrin Schacht, CRC Text Structures


  • Connie de Vos
    (MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen)
    Linguistic cues enabling rapid conversational turn-taking in sign
    Time:Monday, November 8th 2016, time: 2:00 p.m.
    Location: CRC Texts structures, Library 2nd Floor, Nikolausbergerweg 23
    Host: Markus Steinbach, Institute for German Philology


  • Roman Wittig
    (MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig)
    The effect of social bonds on the cost-benefit arithmetic of chimpanzees
    Time: Wednesday, January 18th 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    Location: German Primate Center, Lecture Hall, Kellnerweg 4


  • Tamar Kushnir
    (Cornell University, Ithaka)
    Beyond belief-desire psychology: Exploring early culture-mindedness through counterfactual questions
    Date: February 1st 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    Location: German Primate Center, Lecture Hall, Kellnerweg 4
    Host: Hannes Rakoczy


  • Bernard Nijstad
    (University of Groningen)
    Female dominance in human groups
    Date: February 8th 2017, 3:00 p.m.
    Location: Institute for Psychology, Room 1.140, Goßlerstraße 14
    Host: Stefan Schulz-Hardt


  • Silke Paulmann
    (University of Essex)
    It's not what you said, it's how you said it: How emotions and motivations are processed from speech
    Date: May 3rd 2017, 2:30 p.m.,
    Location: German Primate Center, Old Lecture Hall
    Host: Annekatrhin Schacht


  • Mark van Vugt
    (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
    Naturally Selected: Evolutionary and Neurobiological Approaches to Leadership
    Date: Tuesday, May 16th 2017, 4:30 p.m.
    Location: Institute for Psychology, Goßlerstraße 14, Room 1.140
    Host: Stefan Schulz-Hardt


  • Amy Lieberman
    (Boston University)
    Sign language processing in the visual world
    Date: Wednesday, June 28th 2017, 4:15 p.m.
    Location: CRC Text structures, Nikolausbergerweg 23, 2nd floor, library
    Interpretation English - German Sign Language is provided
    Host: Markus Steinbach, Anne Wienholz


  • Emily Mather
    (University of Hull)
    Learning contexts and young children’s mapping of nouns and actions to objects
    Date: Wednesday, September 6th 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    Location: GEM-Institut for Psychology, Goßlerstraße 14, Room 1.140
    Host: Nivedita Mani, Sarah Eiteljörge


  • Sarah Beck
    (University of Birmingham)
    Thinking about what might have been: the development of children’s counterfactual thinking
    Date: Thursday, October, 19th 2017, 12:15 p.m.
    Location: Waldweg 26, Room 2.111
    Host: Hannes Rakoczy, Nadja Miosga


  • Bob McMurray
    (University of Iowa)
    It’s not what you know, It’s how you use it: The slow development of real-time lexical processing
    Date: Wednesday, January, 10th 2017, 2:30 p.m.
    Location: Room 1.140, Institute for Psychology, Goßlerstraße 14, Göttingen
    Host: Nivedita Mani, Vivien Radtke


  • Thore Bergman
    (University of Michigan & University of Göttingen)
    Complexity and group size in geladas
    Date: Wednesday, February, 14th 2018, 3:00 p.m.
    Location: Lecture hall , German Primate Center, Kellnerweg 4


  • Anja Widdig
    (University of Leipzig & MPI Evolutionary Anthropology)
    Paternal kinship: patterns, behavioral bias and cues of kin recognition
    Date: Tuesday, February, 20th 2018, 10:00 a.m.
    Location: Seminar Room E0.14 , German Primate Center, Kellnerweg 4
    Host: Julia Ostner, Delphine de Moor


  • Katja Schlegel
    (University of Bern)
    Marcello Mortillaro
    (Swiss Center for Affective Sciences)
    Successful communication of emotions: Contributions of the face, voice, and body
    Date: Tuesday, June 12th, 6:00 p.m.
    Location: GEMI, Goßlerstraße 14, Room 1.134
    Host: Adi Lausen, Annekathrin Schacht


  • Angie Johnston
    (Yale University)
    What can dogs teach us about human learning?
    Mark Sheskin
    (Yale University)
    New Directions In Online Child Data Collection
    Date: Tuesday, July 10th, 2 p.m.
    Location: Lecture Hall, German Primate Center, Kellnerweg 4
    Host: Franziska Brugger, Hannes Rakoczy
    Together with the Leibniz ScienceCampus Primate Cognition


  • Diane Brentari
    (University of Chicago)
    Observing phonologization in sign languages
    Date: Wednesday, September 5th, 4:15 p.m
    Location: Library, CRC Text Structures, Nikolausbergerweg 23, Göttingen
    Host: Elisabeth Volk, Markus Steinbach


  • Erno Teglas
    (Central European University, Budapest)
    Logical concepts in preverbal infants: the case of disjunctive syllogism
    Date: Wednesday, September 19th, 10.00 a.m.
    Location: Room 2.111, Waldweg 26, 37073 Göttingen
    Host: Sarah Placì, Hannes Rakoczy


  • Federica Amici
    (University of Leipzig & MPI Evolutionary Anthropology)
    Innovation - a comprehensive approach?
    Date: Tuesday, November 27th, 14.15 a.m.
    Location: Old lecture hall, German Primate Center, Kellnerweg 4, 37077 Göttingen
    Host: Christoph von Borrell


  • Dominik Bach
    (University of Zürich)
    Action-selection under threat: algorithms and neural circuits for survival
    Date: Wednesday, January 9th, 6.00 p.m.
    Location: GEMI, Goßlerstraße 14, Room 1.134
    Host: Annekathrin Schacht


  • Ralph Hertwig
    (MPI for Human Development)
    Experience and Description: Exploring Two Paths to Knowledge
    Date: January, 17th 2019, 12:15
    Location: GEMI, Goßlerstraße 14
    Host: Sarah Plací


  • Rasha Abdel Rahman
    (HU Berlin)
    Influences of social person-related information on face perception and person evaluation
    Date: June 6th, 2019, 18.30
    Location: GEMI, Goßlerstraße 14, 1.140
    Host: Ronja Demel


  • Kate Mesh
    (University of Haifa)
    The Grammaticalization of Pointing in ISL
    Time: September, 12th 2019 at 2:00 p.m.
    Location: Room 1.245, Käte-Hamburger-Weg, 37073 Göttingen
    Host: Markus Steinbach, Rehana Omardeen


  • Robert Seyfarth
    (University of Pennsylvania)
    Social Cognition
    Time: October 25th., 2019, 11.00
    Location:Seminar Room E0.14 , German Primate Center, Kellnerweg 4
    Host: Julia Fischer


  • Laura Kaltwasser
    (HU Berlin)
    Biological and behavioral determinants of individual differences in cooperation
    Time: November 5th, 2019, 18.00
    Location: Room 1.134, GEMI, Goßlerstraße 14
    Host: Annekathrin Schacht


  • Dominik Bach
    (University College London)
    Learning to predict threat: computation, circuits, and interference
    Time: November 12th, 2019, 18.00
    Location: Room 1.134, GEMI, Goßlerstraße 14
    Host: Annekathrin Schacht


  • Donna Jo Napoli
    (Swartmore College)
    Drawing shapes and what that teaches us about the lexicon
    Time: December 20th, 2019, 16.15
    Location: SDP Medienraum (1.245), Käte-Hamburger-Weg 3
    Host: Markus Steinbach, Rehana Omardeen


  • Gerald Carter
    (Ohio State University)
    Cooperation, conflict, and the development of "friendship" -- insights from vampire bats
    Date: May, 26th, 2020, 16:00
    Location: Online (Zoom)


  • Kay Holekamp
    (Michigan State University)
    The evolution of social relationships in hyenas
    Date: November, 17th, 2020, 16:00
    Location: Online (Zoom)

  • Albert Newen (Ruhr University Bochum)
    Person model theory meets mental file theory (talk in cooperation with CogSci Colloquium)
    Date: November, 10th 2022, 12 a.m., Waldweg 26, room 6.103
    Host: Feride Nur Haskaraca Kizilay, Lydia Schidelko



  • Fabiola Gerpott (Otto Beisheim School of Management)
    Capturing behavior to understand emergent phenomena in organizational behavior & leadership research: A useful approach?!
    Date: November, 10th 2022, 2 p.m., Goßlerstraße 14, room nr. 1.140
    Host: Sophie Lusser



  • Jonathan Phillipps (Dartmouth College)
    Decomposing Modal Thought
    Date: December, 8th 2022, 12 a.m., Waldweg 26, room 6.103
    Host: Lydia Schidelko



  • Mitja Back (University of Münster)
    The social relations model: Understanding personality and social relationships
    Date: May, 10th 2023, 2:30 p.m., Kellnerweg 4, Seminarraum (E0.14) - Multifunktionsgebäude, EG
    Host: Ben Kawam



  • Rowena Garcia (MPI for Psycholinguistics)
    Increasing language coverage while building a more diverse discipline: A challenge
    for language acquisition
    Date: May, 10th 2023, 2:30 p.m., Waldweg 26 Room 9.101
    Host: Rajalakshmi Satarai Madhavan



  • Katarzyna Pisanski (University of Lyon 2)
    Human nonverbal vocal communication: from form to function
    Date: December, 7th 2023, 4:15 p.m., Waldweg 26 Room 9.101
    Host: Sabine Ostermann










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