Marie Padberg
@mariepadberg.bsky.social
Postdoc at MPI EVA, studying the social-cognitive development in non-human great apes. Fieldworker at heart.
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I am happy to announce that our project on risk and social learning is now in press at Psychological Review. Several new additions and revisions thanks to detailed feedback from colleagues and anonymous reviewers. osf.io/preprints/so...
@psmaldino.bsky.social @babeheim.bsky.social
@psmaldino.bsky.social @babeheim.bsky.social
September 27, 2025 at 12:14 AM
I am happy to announce that our project on risk and social learning is now in press at Psychological Review. Several new additions and revisions thanks to detailed feedback from colleagues and anonymous reviewers. osf.io/preprints/so...
@psmaldino.bsky.social @babeheim.bsky.social
@psmaldino.bsky.social @babeheim.bsky.social
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We are excited for the interdisciplinary workshop at the University of Ghana starting next week! Supported by the Bridging Minds Program @maxplanck.de, organized by researchers from MPI-EVA, including @hannahrausch.bsky.social and @mariepadberg.bsky.social. More info:
www.eva.mpg.de/events/2025-...
www.eva.mpg.de/events/2025-...
2025-Bridging Minds - Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
www.eva.mpg.de
September 8, 2025 at 9:12 AM
We are excited for the interdisciplinary workshop at the University of Ghana starting next week! Supported by the Bridging Minds Program @maxplanck.de, organized by researchers from MPI-EVA, including @hannahrausch.bsky.social and @mariepadberg.bsky.social. More info:
www.eva.mpg.de/events/2025-...
www.eva.mpg.de/events/2025-...
I was so lucky to be part of the perspective taking symposium of this year’s Behaviour conference in Kolkata. I presented my last paper showing that great apes, especially infants, are influenced by the false beliefs of a human bystander. Great questions, great talks, great conference!
August 30, 2025 at 5:04 AM
I was so lucky to be part of the perspective taking symposium of this year’s Behaviour conference in Kolkata. I presented my last paper showing that great apes, especially infants, are influenced by the false beliefs of a human bystander. Great questions, great talks, great conference!
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When an animals' groupmates go out of sight, do they also go out of mind?
In a new paper in Proc B @royalsocietypublishing.org, Luz Carvajal and I show that a bonobo (Kanzi) can keep mental tabs on the whereabouts of multiple hidden social partners
royalsocietypublishing.org/eprint/4GI7G...
In a new paper in Proc B @royalsocietypublishing.org, Luz Carvajal and I show that a bonobo (Kanzi) can keep mental tabs on the whereabouts of multiple hidden social partners
royalsocietypublishing.org/eprint/4GI7G...
Mental representation of the locations and identities of multiple hidden agents or objects by a bonobo | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Humans are adept at navigating the social world in part because we flexibly map the
locations and identities of agents around us. While field studies suggest primates
can track individual conspecifics...
royalsocietypublishing.org
August 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
When an animals' groupmates go out of sight, do they also go out of mind?
In a new paper in Proc B @royalsocietypublishing.org, Luz Carvajal and I show that a bonobo (Kanzi) can keep mental tabs on the whereabouts of multiple hidden social partners
royalsocietypublishing.org/eprint/4GI7G...
In a new paper in Proc B @royalsocietypublishing.org, Luz Carvajal and I show that a bonobo (Kanzi) can keep mental tabs on the whereabouts of multiple hidden social partners
royalsocietypublishing.org/eprint/4GI7G...
When it rains, it pours. Happy to share my latest first-author publication in Animal Behaviour investigating the ontogenetic development of altercentric influences in great apes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Great apes show altercentric influences when confronted with conflicting beliefs
Humans' beliefs are automatically impacted by others' beliefs. This so-called altercentric influence indicates that we rely on automated mental simula…
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August 21, 2025 at 3:36 PM
When it rains, it pours. Happy to share my latest first-author publication in Animal Behaviour investigating the ontogenetic development of altercentric influences in great apes www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Thrilled to share our latest open-access study published in Scientific Reports! We examined how social versus asocial learning influences children’s ability to override previously learned strategies across three cultural settings—BaYaka, Bandongo, and Germany: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Social learning leads to inflexible strategy use in children across three societies - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Social learning leads to inflexible strategy use in children across three societies
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August 19, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Thrilled to share our latest open-access study published in Scientific Reports! We examined how social versus asocial learning influences children’s ability to override previously learned strategies across three cultural settings—BaYaka, Bandongo, and Germany: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Human cognition is often altercentric, and human infants seem to have an altercentric bias. Is this cognitive stance uniquely human or might it be shared with other species? There are arguments both ways and we explore them in this paper.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
An evolutionary perspective on altercentrism
Putting oneself, mentally, in someone else’s shoes is traditionally considered a late-developing, cognitively demanding skill thought to critically un…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 21, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Human cognition is often altercentric, and human infants seem to have an altercentric bias. Is this cognitive stance uniquely human or might it be shared with other species? There are arguments both ways and we explore them in this paper.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Sharing our new paper published today in Nature Communications. In my view, this is our clearest demonstration to date that something profoundly changes in how infants encode the world around them before and after the emergence of self-representation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
The self-reference memory bias is preceded by an other-reference bias in infancy - Nature Communications
A classic feature of human memory is that we remember information better when it refers to ourselves. Here, the authors show that before the emergence of self-concept, infants instead remember informa...
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July 9, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Sharing our new paper published today in Nature Communications. In my view, this is our clearest demonstration to date that something profoundly changes in how infants encode the world around them before and after the emergence of self-representation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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New student exchange program @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social fosters collaboration between young researchers from Germany & #Namibia. By exploring how #culture shapes #child development, the program enhances research in #psychology & provides unique training opportunities. 🌍 www.mpg.de/24711207/051...
Combating two crises in psychological research through international collaboration
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig launches German-Namibian research project
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June 27, 2025 at 11:20 AM
New student exchange program @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social fosters collaboration between young researchers from Germany & #Namibia. By exploring how #culture shapes #child development, the program enhances research in #psychology & provides unique training opportunities. 🌍 www.mpg.de/24711207/051...
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New paper just dropped🎉 With novel "Curiosity Boxes", we find that chimps & children are very curious about social interactions, & some even give up a reward to gain info! Fun collaboration with @alisongopnik.bsky.social, @janengelmann.bsky.social & others royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Chimpanzees and children are curious about social interactions | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Curiosity is adaptive, enhances learning, and reduces uncertainty. Social curiosity
is defined as the motivation to gain information about the actions, relationships,
and psychology of others. Little ...
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June 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
New paper just dropped🎉 With novel "Curiosity Boxes", we find that chimps & children are very curious about social interactions, & some even give up a reward to gain info! Fun collaboration with @alisongopnik.bsky.social, @janengelmann.bsky.social & others royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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🎊Fully funded PhD position on cooperative sustainability🌳
Are you curious about
🧒 developmental,
🌍 cross-cultural
🦧 species comparative
research on cooperative sustainability?
All info here or dm me with questions!
career2.successfactors.eu/sfcareer/job...
Please share! 🙏
Are you curious about
🧒 developmental,
🌍 cross-cultural
🦧 species comparative
research on cooperative sustainability?
All info here or dm me with questions!
career2.successfactors.eu/sfcareer/job...
Please share! 🙏
Career Opportunities: PhD position Cooperative Sustainability (14208)
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June 5, 2025 at 9:27 AM
🎊Fully funded PhD position on cooperative sustainability🌳
Are you curious about
🧒 developmental,
🌍 cross-cultural
🦧 species comparative
research on cooperative sustainability?
All info here or dm me with questions!
career2.successfactors.eu/sfcareer/job...
Please share! 🙏
Are you curious about
🧒 developmental,
🌍 cross-cultural
🦧 species comparative
research on cooperative sustainability?
All info here or dm me with questions!
career2.successfactors.eu/sfcareer/job...
Please share! 🙏
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New paper alert 👇 We present a new two-action sequential coordination task designed to investigate co-representation non-human primates. In collaboration with @drelizabethwarren.bsky.social and Josep Call and out now, fully #openaccess in PLoS One! (1/4)
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
Do chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) mentally represent collaboration?: Action-learning and communication in a partnered task
Non-human primates engage in complex collective behaviours, but existing research does not paint a clear picture of what individuals cognitively represent when they act together. This study investigat...
journals.plos.org
June 6, 2025 at 6:18 PM
New paper alert 👇 We present a new two-action sequential coordination task designed to investigate co-representation non-human primates. In collaboration with @drelizabethwarren.bsky.social and Josep Call and out now, fully #openaccess in PLoS One! (1/4)
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
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Our new paper is out!
We found #orangutans develop #nest-building skills through observational #sociallearning, #selectiveattention
to“know-how” and transmission of“know-what” information.
🦧🦧🦧🦧
#academicsky
#primates
#science
#biologicalscience
#warwickpsych
🦧🦧🦧🦧
link.springer.com/content/pdf/...
We found #orangutans develop #nest-building skills through observational #sociallearning, #selectiveattention
to“know-how” and transmission of“know-what” information.
🦧🦧🦧🦧
#academicsky
#primates
#science
#biologicalscience
#warwickpsych
🦧🦧🦧🦧
link.springer.com/content/pdf/...
link.springer.com
June 8, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Our new paper is out!
We found #orangutans develop #nest-building skills through observational #sociallearning, #selectiveattention
to“know-how” and transmission of“know-what” information.
🦧🦧🦧🦧
#academicsky
#primates
#science
#biologicalscience
#warwickpsych
🦧🦧🦧🦧
link.springer.com/content/pdf/...
We found #orangutans develop #nest-building skills through observational #sociallearning, #selectiveattention
to“know-how” and transmission of“know-what” information.
🦧🦧🦧🦧
#academicsky
#primates
#science
#biologicalscience
#warwickpsych
🦧🦧🦧🦧
link.springer.com/content/pdf/...
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🚨 New chapter alert 🚨 What can variation in great ape communication—across individuals, dyads, populations, species—tell us about language origins and communicative flexibility? 🦧🤷♂️ My latest piece w/ Carel van Schaik is out now in the OH of Approaches to Language Evolution.
doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
May 27, 2025 at 7:54 AM
🚨 New chapter alert 🚨 What can variation in great ape communication—across individuals, dyads, populations, species—tell us about language origins and communicative flexibility? 🦧🤷♂️ My latest piece w/ Carel van Schaik is out now in the OH of Approaches to Language Evolution.
doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
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New preprint w/ @christophvoelter.bsky.social et al.
Individual differences in great ape cognition across time and domains: stability, structure, and predictability
48 apes 🦍, 10 tasks 🧠, 10 sessions📊, 1.5 y📅
✅ Stable individual traits
❌ No g-factor
🤝 Social ≠ non-social
🔗: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Individual differences in great ape cognition across time and domains: stability, structure, and predictability
48 apes 🦍, 10 tasks 🧠, 10 sessions📊, 1.5 y📅
✅ Stable individual traits
❌ No g-factor
🤝 Social ≠ non-social
🔗: osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
May 20, 2025 at 4:19 PM
New preprint w/ @christophvoelter.bsky.social et al.
Individual differences in great ape cognition across time and domains: stability, structure, and predictability
48 apes 🦍, 10 tasks 🧠, 10 sessions📊, 1.5 y📅
✅ Stable individual traits
❌ No g-factor
🤝 Social ≠ non-social
🔗: osf.io/preprints/ps...
Individual differences in great ape cognition across time and domains: stability, structure, and predictability
48 apes 🦍, 10 tasks 🧠, 10 sessions📊, 1.5 y📅
✅ Stable individual traits
❌ No g-factor
🤝 Social ≠ non-social
🔗: osf.io/preprints/ps...
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New paper alert!
Bonobos are often cited as the 'most empathic ape' yet a comparison to their chimp cousins has never been done. So we directly compared their consolation tendencies
We found big overlaps between the two species plus considerable within-species variation
open-access link below!
Bonobos are often cited as the 'most empathic ape' yet a comparison to their chimp cousins has never been done. So we directly compared their consolation tendencies
We found big overlaps between the two species plus considerable within-species variation
open-access link below!
April 25, 2025 at 11:03 AM
New paper alert!
Bonobos are often cited as the 'most empathic ape' yet a comparison to their chimp cousins has never been done. So we directly compared their consolation tendencies
We found big overlaps between the two species plus considerable within-species variation
open-access link below!
Bonobos are often cited as the 'most empathic ape' yet a comparison to their chimp cousins has never been done. So we directly compared their consolation tendencies
We found big overlaps between the two species plus considerable within-species variation
open-access link below!
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I'm looking for a PhD Student at the intersection of Machine Learning and Developmental Psychology.
We study everyday experiences in children from 🇰🇪🇩🇪🇹🇷 and use ML models to quantify interactions.
4 years, fully funded, great team, beautiful location. Please share and apply!
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We study everyday experiences in children from 🇰🇪🇩🇪🇹🇷 and use ML models to quantify interactions.
4 years, fully funded, great team, beautiful location. Please share and apply!
tinyurl.com/2mafdyh4
Research Associate (m/f/d) Applying Machine Learning to Developmental Psychology
www.leuphana.de
April 10, 2025 at 9:38 AM
I'm looking for a PhD Student at the intersection of Machine Learning and Developmental Psychology.
We study everyday experiences in children from 🇰🇪🇩🇪🇹🇷 and use ML models to quantify interactions.
4 years, fully funded, great team, beautiful location. Please share and apply!
tinyurl.com/2mafdyh4
We study everyday experiences in children from 🇰🇪🇩🇪🇹🇷 and use ML models to quantify interactions.
4 years, fully funded, great team, beautiful location. Please share and apply!
tinyurl.com/2mafdyh4
Excited to share my first publication in Animal Behaviour! Our study investigates how social stimuli influence object memory in great apes across different age groups (infancy to adulthood). Read more here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
March 25, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Excited to share my first publication in Animal Behaviour! Our study investigates how social stimuli influence object memory in great apes across different age groups (infancy to adulthood). Read more here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...