Maja Griem- Master of Science
- PhD Student at Ruhr University Bochum
Maja Griem
- Master of Science
- PhD Student at Ruhr University Bochum
PhD Student working on Animal Cognition (Social Cognition, Empathy, Reasoning, Comparative Cognition)
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Current Research & Interests: Comparative Animal Cognition (Social Cognition, Empathy, Play Behavior, Pointing & Attention, Innovative Experimental Methods, Flexibility)
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Indicating directions of objects by manual or facial gestures is common among most (if not all) human cultures. Interestingly, also most domesticated animal species are able to easily learn to understand this gesture. In human children, the development of manual pointing appears to be closely connected to that of shared attention. In this paper we...
Do nonhuman animals (hereafter “animals”) possess empathy and if so to which degree? Can we develop a conceptual framework that allows us to characterize similarities and differences between implementations of empathy in humans and animals? We aim to answer these questions in two steps. First, we develop a new conceptual framework by distinguishing...
