Prof. Dr. Katja Liebal

• since 2015
  Full professor (W2, temporary position) for Comparative Developmental Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Education and Psychology
  
  

• 2009 – 2015
  Assistant professor for Evolutionary Psychology, Freie Universität Berlin, Excellence Cluster "Languages of Emotion", Department of Education and Psychology
  
  

• 2008 – 2009
  Research position at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology
  
  

• 2005 – 2008
  Senior lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth, UK
  
  

• 2001 – 2004
  PhD position, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology
  
  

• 1995 – 2001
  Diploma (Biology), Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology and University of Leipzig
  
  

• 1995
  A-level Städtisches Gymnasium Mittweida
  
  

• Liebal, K., & Haun, D. B. M. (2018). Why cross-cultural psychology is incomplete without comparative and developmental perspectives. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 49(5), 751-763.

• Liebal, K., & Oña, L. (2018). Different approaches to meaning in primate gestural and vocal communication. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 478.

• Liebal, K., Schneider, C., & Errson-Lembeck, M. (2018). How primates acquire their gestures: evaluating current theories and evidence. Animal Cognition, 1-14

• Mühlenbeck, C., Jacobsen, T., Pritsch, C., & Liebal, K. (2017). Cultural and species differences in gazing patterns for marked and decorated objects: a comparative eye-tracking study. Frontiers in Psychology, 8, 6.

• Kopp, K. S., & Liebal, K. (2016). Here you are!—Selective and active food sharing within and between groups in captive Sumatran orangutans (Pongo abelii). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 1-15.

• Liebal, K., Vaish, A., Haun, D., & Tomasello, M. (2014). Does sympathy motivate prosocial behaviour in great apes? PLOS ONE, 9(1), e84299.

• Scheider, L., Liebal, K., Oña, L., Burrows, A., & Waller, B. (2014). A comparison of facial expression properties in five hylobatid species. American Journal of Primatology. DOI: 10.1002/ajp.22255

• Liebal, K., Waller, B., Burrows, A. Slocombe, K. (2013). Primate Communication. A Multimodal Approach. Cambridge University Press.

• Slocombe, K., Waller, B., & Liebal, K. (2011). The language void: the need for multimodality. Animal Behaviour, 81, 919–924.

• Arbib, M., Liebal, K. & Pika, S. (2008). Primate vocalization, gesture and the evolution of human language. Current Anthropology, 49 (6): 1064-1065.

• "The grammar of the body", with Wendy Sandler, University of Haifa, Israel

• "Study in the field (Chimfunshi, Zambia)", in cooperation with University of Zambia, Lusaka

• "The researcher's affects", with Thomas Stodulka, Freie Universität Berlin and Oliver Lubrich, University of Bern

• "Comparing emotional expression across species", with Linda Oña, Freie Universität Berlin, Bridget Waller, University of Portsmouth, UK and Anne Burrows, Duquesne University, USA

You can only see the contact information of the academics in the database if you are a registered user of AcademiaNet.
Please register here