PUBLICATIONS
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Grueneisen, S., Török, G. , Wathiyage Don, A. & Ruggeri, A. (2023): Young children's adaptive partner choice in cooperation and competition contexts. Child Development. [pdf]
Grueneisen, S., Leimgruber, K. L., Vogt, R.L., & Warneken, F. (2023). Prospection and delay of gratification support the development of calculated reciprocity. Cognition. [pdf]
Grueneisen, S., & Tomasello, M. (2022). How fairness and dominance guide young children’s bargaining decisions. Child Development, 93, 1318–1333. [pdf]
Grueneisen, S., & Warneken, S. (2022). The development of prosocial behavior – from sympathy to strategy. Current Opinion in Psychology, 43, 323–328. [pdf]
Grueneisen, S., Rosati, A.G., & Warneken, F. (2021). Children show economic trust for ingroup and outgroup partners. Cognitive Development, 59, 101077. [pdf]
Keupp, S., Grueneisen, S., Ludvig, E., Warneken, F., & Melis, A. (2021). Reduced risk- seeking in chimpanzees in a zero-outcome game. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 376, 20190673. [pdf]
Siposova, B., Grueneisen, S., Helming, K., Tomasello, M., & Carpenter, M. (2021). Common knowledge that help is needed increases helping behavior in children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 201, 104973. [pdf]
Duguid, S., Wyman, E., Grueneisen, S., & Tomasello, M. (2020). The strategies used by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and children (Homo sapiens) to solve a simple coordination problem. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 134, 401–411. [pdf]
Grueneisen, S., & Tomasello, M. (2020). The development of coordination via joint expectations for shared benefits. Developmental Psychology, 56, 1149–1156. [pdf]
Koomen, R.*, Grueneisen, S.*, & Herrmann, E. (2020). Children delay gratification for cooperative ends. Psychological Science, 31, 139–148. [pdf]
*shared first authorship
Schmelz, M., Grueneisen, S., & Tomasello, M. (2020). The psychological mechanisms underlying reciprocal prosociality in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 134, 149–157. [pdf]
Grueneisen, S., & Tomasello, M. (2019). Children use rules to coordinate in a social dilemma. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 179, 362–374. [pdf]
Stengelin, R., Grueneisen, S., & Tomasello, M. (2018). Why should I trust you? Investigating young children’s mistrust in potential deceivers. Cognitive Development, 48, 146–154. [pdf]
Grueneisen, S.*, Duguid, S.*, Saur, H., & Tomasello, M. (2017). Children, chimpanzees, and bonobos adjust the visibility of their actions for cooperators and competitors. Scientific Reports, 7, 8504. [pdf]
*shared first authorship
Grueneisen, S., & Tomasello, M. (2017). Children coordinate in a recurrent social dilemma by taking turns and along dominance asymmetries. Developmental Psychology, 53, 265–273. [pdf]
Schmelz, M.*, Grueneisen, S.*, Kabalak, A., Jost, J., & Tomasello, M. (2017). Chimpanzees return favors at a personal cost. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114, 7462–7467. [pdf]
*shared first authorship
Grueneisen, S., Wyman, E., & Tomasello, M. (2015). Children use salience to solve coordination problems. Developmental Science, 18, 495–501. [pdf]
Grueneisen, S., Wyman, E., & Tomasello, M. (2015). Conforming to coordinate: Children use majority information for peer coordination. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 33, 136–147. [pdf]
Grueneisen, S., Wyman, E., & Tomasello, M. (2015). “I know you don’t know I know...” Children use second-order false-belief reasoning for peer coordination. Child Development, 86, 287–293. [pdf]
Hepach, R., Kliemann, D., Grueneisen, S., Heekeren, H.R., & Dziobek, I. (2011). Conceptualizing emotions along the dimensions of valence, arousal and communicative frequency – Implications for social-cognitive test and training tools. Frontiers in Psychology 2. [pdf]
Book Chapter
Grueneisen, S., & Wyman, E., (2020). Human cooperation: Ontogenetic and evolutionary origins. In L. Workman, W. Reader & J. Barkow (eds.), Cambridge Handbook of Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behavior. Cambridge University Press.
Other Publications
Koomen, R., Grueneisen, S., & Herrmann, E. (2020). What a new marshmallow test teaches us about cooperation. Behavioral Scientist. [pdf]