Publications
2025
Scholarly publications
Schleihauf, H., Sanford, E. M., Thompson, B. D., Zhang, S., Rukundo, J., Call, J., Herrmann, E., & Engelmann, J. M. (2025). Chimpanzees rationally revise their beliefs. Science, 390(6772), 521-526. [DOI]
2024
Scholarly publications
Confer, J. A., Schleihauf, H., & Engelmann, J. M. (2024). Children and adults' intuitions of what people can believe. Child Development, 95(2), 447-461. [DOI] [Repository]
2023
Scholarly publications
Engelmann, J. M., Haux, L., Völter, C., Schleihauf, H., Rakoczy, H., Herrmann, E., & Call, J. (2023). Do chimpanzees reason logically? Child Development, 94(5), 1102-1116. [DOI]
2022
Scholarly publications
Stengelin, R., Schleihauf, H., Seidl, A., & Böckler-Raettig, A. (2022). Spreading the game: An experimental study on the link between children's overimitation and their adoption, transmission, and modification of conventional information. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 213, Article 105271. [DOI]
Schleihauf, H., Herrmann, E., Fischer, J., & Engelmann, J. M. (2022). How children revise their beliefs in light of reasons. Child Development, 93(4), 1072-1089. [DOI]
2021
Scholarly publications
Nguyen, T., Schleihauf, H., Kungl, M., Kayhan, E., Hoehl, S., & Vrtička, P. (2021). Interpersonal Neural Synchrony During Father–Child Problem Solving: An fNIRS Hyperscanning Study. Child Development, 92(4), e565-e580. [DOI]
Frick, A., Schleihauf, H., Satchell, L. P., & Gruber, T. (2021). Carry-over effects of tool functionality and previous unsuccessfulness increase overimitation in children. Royal Society Open Science, 8(7), Article 201373. [DOI]
Schleihauf, H., & Hoehl, S. (2021). Evidence for a dual-process account of overimitation: Children imitate anti- And prosocial models equally, but prefer prosocial models once they become aware of multiple solutions to a task. PloS one, 16(9), Article e0256614. [DOI]
Nguyen, T., Schleihauf, H., Kayhan, E., Matthes, D., Vrtička, P., & Hoehl, S. (2021). Neural synchrony in mother-child conversation: Exploring the role of conversation patterns. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 16(1-2), 93-102. [DOI]
Schleihauf, H., Hoehl, S., Tsvetkova, N., König, A., Mombaur, K., & Pauen, S. (2021). Preschoolers’ Motivation to Over-Imitate Humans and Robots. Child Development, 92(1), 222-238. [DOI]
2020
Scholarly publications
Nguyen, T., Schleihauf, H., Kayhan, E., Matthes, D., Vrtička, P., & Hoehl, S. (2020). The effects of interaction quality on neural synchrony during mother-child problem solving. Cortex, 124, 235-249. [DOI]
Schleihauf, H., & Hoehl, S. (2020). A dual-process perspective on over-imitation. Developmental Review, 55, Article 100896. [DOI]
2019
Scholarly publications
Schleihauf, H., Pauen, S., & Hoehl, S. (2019). Minimal group formation influences on over-imitation. Cognitive Development, 50, 222-236. [DOI]
Hoehl, S., Keupp, S., Schleihauf, H., McGuigan, N., Buttelmann, D., & Whiten, A. (2019). ‘Over-imitation’: A review and appraisal of a decade of research. Developmental Review, 51, 90-108. [DOI]
2018
Scholarly publications
Schleihauf, H., Graetz, S., Pauen, S., & Hoehl, S. (2018). Contrasting Social and Cognitive Accounts on Overimitation: The Role of Causal Transparency and Prior Experiences. Child Development, 89(3), 1039-1055. [DOI]
2014
Scholarly publications
Hoehl, S., Zettersten, M., Schleihauf, H., Grätz, S., & Pauen, S. (2014). The role of social interaction and pedagogical cues for eliciting and reducing overimitation in preschoolers. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 122(1), 122-133. [DOI]