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Dr. Stefanie Keupp

Guest Scientist

Cognitive Ethology Laboratory

+49 551 3851-247

SKeupp(at)dpz.eu

BG.2, CO.13

Kellnerweg 4
37077 Göttingen

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

starting 2021

Post-doc, Cognitive Ethology Lab, German Primate Center

since 2019

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

2015 - 2018

Post-doc, Cognitive Ethology Lab, German Primate Center

PhD 2014

Department of Cognitive Developmental Psychology, University of Göttingen, Germany

Diplom Psychologie 2009

University of Würzburg, Germany

Keupp, S., Grueneisen, S., Olschewski, S., Hernández-Lloreda, M. V., Warneken, F., Ludvig, E. A., & Melis, A. P. (2024, June 7). The role of future planning, patience, and risk tolerance for prospective reciprocity in human adults. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/5wtq3

O'Hearn, W., Frank, L., Keupp, S., & Fischer, J. (accepted in Animal Behavior and Cognition). Lessons learned from a cooperative box experiment with wild baboons.

Keupp, S., & Herrmann, E. (2024, March 7). Chimpanzees form impressions of conspecifics’ skills in puzzle box tasks. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/udmqj

Stolla, J., & Keupp, S. (2024, January 16). The effect of reward value on the performance of long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) in a delay of gratification exchange task. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/8v6gz (accepted for publication in Primate Biology)

Bruchmann, C., Stolla, J., Titchener, R., Fischer, J., & Keupp, S. (2023, September 7). How does social context modulate risky decision-making in long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis)? A research report on problematic issues with a repeated sampling from experience paradigm. https://doi.org/10.31219/osf.io/uh6mk

Titchener, R, Thiriau, C., Hüser, T., Scherberger, H., Fischer, J., & Keupp, S. (2023). Social disappointment and partner presence affect long-tailed macaque refusal behaviour in an ‘inequity aversion’experiment. Royal Society Open Science, 10, 3, 221225, https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.221225

ManyPrimates et al. (2022). Collaboration and open science initiatives in primate research (Chap. 23, Primate Cognitive Studies (Ed. Schwartz & Beran). Cambridge University Press. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781108955836

Keupp, S., Abedin, F., Jeanson, L., Kade, C., Kalbitz, J., Titchener, R., Mussweiler, T., Bugnyar, T., & Fischer, J. (2021). Performance-based social comparisons in humans and long-tailed macaques. Animal Behavior and Cognition 8(3): 325-350. https://doi.org/10.26451/abc.08.03.02.2021

Keupp, S., Grueneisen, S., Warneken, F., Ludvig, E. A., & Melis, A. (2021). Relationship between Delay Discounting and Risk Preference in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and Humans. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 43(43). https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7jg8s1d8

Keupp, S., Grueneisen, S., Ludvig., E. A., Warneken, F., & Melis, A. (2021). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 376(1819), 20190673. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0673

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.

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