Prof. Helene Ahl PhD
Social and behavioural sciences, Organization Theory, Gender studies
Biological and related sciences , Social and behavioural sciences
Comparative Developmental Psychology
Multimodal (gestural and facial) communication of apes
emotion expression
language evolution
prosocial behavior (helping and sharing) in nonhuman primates and children of different cultural backgrounds
English, German
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
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Social and behavioural sciences, Organization Theory, Gender studies
Social and behavioural sciences, Social psychology, industrial and organisational psychology
Biological and related sciences , Evolutionary biology, Evolutionary genetics
Biological and related sciences , Microbial bioelectrochemistry, Microbial electrophysiology