Die Fakultät für Psychologie lädt ein zum 10. Heckhausen Kolloquium mit dem Gastredner Prof. Dr. Daniel Haun (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology & Universität Lepzig)

"Rethinking Corgnitive Uniqueness: A Comparative Cultural Psychology of the Human Mind"

What makes human cognition unique? In this talk, I revisit an ambition already present in Wundt’s vision of psychology: to understand
the human mind through coordinated evidence from child development, cross-cultural variation, and species comparison. I argue that
uniquely human cognition cannot be understood from any one of these perspectives alone. A Comparative Cultural Psychology
approach asks how cognitive capacities emerge in children, which capacities humans share with other animals, and how far proposed
human universals are shaped by social, ecological, and cultural environments.