I am a postdoctoral researcher with a background in psychology. I am interested in cognitive development, social cognition, comparative psychology, and animal cognition.

ab 2021

Post-doc, Kognitive Ethologie, Deutsches Primatenzentrum

seit 2019

Post-doc, University of Warwick (UK) & University College London (UK)

2015 - 2018

Post-doc, Kognitive Ethologie, Deutsches Primatenzentrum

Promotion 2014

Abteilung für kognitive Entwicklungspsychologie, Universität Göttingen

Diplom Psychologie 2009

Universität Würzburg

Keupp, S., Abedin, F., Jeanson, L., Kade, C., Kalbitz, J., Titchener, R., Mussweiler, T., Bugnyar, T., & Fischer, J. (accepted). Performance-based social comparisons in humans and long-tailed macaques. (un-corrected author copy available here: https://www.dpz.eu/de/abteilung/kognitive-ethologie/publikationen/in-press.html)

Keupp, S., Grueneisen, S., Ludvig., E. A., Warneken, F., & Melis, A. (accepted). Reduced risk-seeking in chimpanzees in a zero-outcome game. Accepted Author Manuscript: https://psyarxiv.com/m5362/

manyPrimates et al. (2019). Establishing an infrastructure for collaboration in primate cognition research. PLoS ONE 14(10): e0223675. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223675

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. https://authors.elsevier.com/c/1YKhm~810JIZx

Keupp, S., Titchener, R., Bugnyar, T., Mussweiler, T., & Fischer, J. (2019). Competition is crucial for social comparison processes in long-tailed macaques. Biology Letters, 15, 20180784. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2018.0784

Keupp, S., Behne, T., & Rakoczy, H. (2018). The Rationality of (Over)imitation, Perspectives on Psychological Science,13(6), 678-687. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1745691618794921

Keupp, S., Barbarroja, N., Topolinski, S., & Fischer, J. (2018). Are monkeys intuitive Aristotelians? Associations between target size and vertical target position in long-tailed macaques
Royal Society Open Science 5: 170889

Keupp, S., Bancken, C., Schillmöller, J., Rakoczy, H., & Behne, T. (2016). Rational Over-Imitation: Preschoolers consider material costs and copy causally irrelevant actions selectively. Cognition, 147, 85-92.

Schmitt V, Federspiel I, Eckert J, Keupp S, Tschernek L, Faraut L, Schuster R, Michels C, Sennhenn-Reulen H, Bugnyar T, Mussweiler T, Fischer J (2016). Do monkeys compare themselves to others? Animal Cognition, DOI 10.1007/s10071-015-0943-4. 

Keupp, S., Behne, T., Zachow, J., Kasbohm, A., & Rakoczy, H. (2015). Overimitation is not automatic: Context sensitivity in children's overimitation and action interpretation of causally irrelevant actions. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 130, 163-175.

Keupp, S., Behne, T., & Rakoczy, H (2013). Why do children over-imitate? Normativity is crucial. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 216, 392-406.

Herrmann, E., Keupp, S., Hare, B., Vaish, A., & Tomasello, M. (2013). Direct and indirect reputation formation in nonhuman great apes (Pan paniscus, Pan troglodytes, Gorilla gorilla, Pongo pygmaeus) and human children (Homo sapiens). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 127, 63–75.