RESEARCH INTERESTS

My academical background in educational sciences, work experience in kindergartens and ongoing master at the Leipzig University have deepened my interest in early childhood development.

Our human capacity of cooperating, from small to large scale societies, is a fascinating subject and conducting experimental studies with young children can enhance our understanding of its ontogeny. Enforcing norms by consequently punishing transgressions is one way of strengthening the existing social order and fundamental to the preservation of a society. My master’s thesis, an experimental research study, focuses on how children evaluate unequal norm enforcement in comparison to justified unequal treatment and a lack of norm enforcement.