Esther Herrmann Portrait
<̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ class="hero-details__heading hero-details__heading--main" > 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
<̽»¨¾«Ñ¡>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 Portsmouth as a senior lecturer in July 2020.

 

<̽»¨¾«Ñ¡>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.

<̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ id="research-outputs" class="research-outputs__title research-outputs__title--main" > Research outputs

2025

Engelmann, J., Gopnik, A., Herrmann, E., Lewis, L. S., Reddy, R. B., Ritov, O., Sanchez-Amaro, A.

4 Jun 2025, In: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 292, 2048, 12p., 20242242

Engelmann, J. M., Haux, L. M., Herrmann, E., Hertwig, R.

20 Feb 2025, In: Nature Communications. 16, 6p., 1807

2024

Herrmann, E., Keupp, S.

23 Sep 2024, In: Scientific Reports. 14, 1, 12p., 21996

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

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

Buchsbaum, D., Felsche, E., Herrmann, E., Seed, A. M., Völter, C. J.

1 Apr 2024, In: Cognition. 245, 20p., 105721

Engelmann, J. M., Grueneisen, S., Herrmann, E., Knofe, H.

1 Apr 2024, In: Ethology. 130, 4, e13426