Prein, J. C., Bednarski, F. M., Dzabatou, A., Frank, M. C., Henderson, A. M. E.,... Pope- Caldwell, S.M., ... Bohn, M. (2024, June 19). Measuring variation in gaze following across communities, ages, and individuals — a showcase of the TANGO–CC. LINK TO PREPRINT
Vieira, W., Pope-Caldwell, S. M., Dzabatou, A., Maurits, L., Padberg, M., & Haun, D. B. M. Social learning leads to inflexible strategy use in children across three societies. Under Review.
Bohn, M., Prein, J. C., Ayikoru, A., Bednarski, F. M., Dzabatou, A., Frank, M. C., Henderson, A. M. E., Isabella, J., Kalbitz, J., Kanngiesser, P., Keşşafoğlu, D., Koymen, B., Manrique-Hernandez, M., Magazi, S., Mújica-Manrique, L., Ohlendorf, J., Olaoba, D., Pieters, W., Pope-Caldwell, S., ... Haun, D. (2024). A universal of human social cognition: Children from 17 communities process gaze in similar ways. LINK TO PREPRINT

Bohn, M., Fong, F., Pope-Caldwell, S., Stengelin, R., and Haun, D. B. M. (2024) Understanding cultural variation in cognition one child at a time. Nature Reviews Psychology. LINK TO PDF
Pope-Caldwell, S., Deffner, D., Maurits, L., Neumann, T., & Haun, D. (2024). Variability and harshness shape flexible strategy-use in support of the constrained flexibility framework. Scientific Reports, 14(1), 7236. LINK TO PDF
Pope-Caldwell, S. (2024). How dynamic environments shape cognitive flexibility. In M. Charbonneau (Ed.), The Evolution of Techniques: Rigidity and Flexibility in Use, Transmission, and Innovation. MIT Press. LINK TO PDF
Stengelin, R., Bohn, M., Sánchez-Amaro, A., Haun, D.,...Pope-Caldwell, S.,...Schuhmacher, N. Responsible Research is also concerned with generalizability: Recognizing efforts to reflect upon and increase generalizability in hiring and promotion decisions in psychology. Meta-Psychology LINK TO PDF

Rawlings, B., Davis, H., Anum, A., Burger, O., Chen, L., ...Pope-Caldwell, S.,...Legare, C., 2023 Measuring schooling effects: The impact of school quality on children’s academic achievement in diverse societies. Developmental Science. LINK TO PDF
Lew-Levy, S., van den Bos, W., Corriveau, K., Dutra, N., Flynn, E., O’Sullivan, E., Pope-Caldwell, S., Rawlings, B., Smolla, M., Xu, J., Wood, L., 2023. Peer learning and cultural evolution. Child Development Perspectives. LINK TO PDF

Pope-Caldwell, S. M., Lew-Levy, S., Maurits, L., Boyette, A.H., Ellis-Davies, K., Haun, D., Over, H., House, B. R. The social learning and development of intra- and inter-ethnic sharing norms in the Congo Basin: A registered report protocol. PLOS ONE, 17 (11), e0276845 LINK TO PDF

Bruno, D., Pope-Caldwell, S.M., Haberl, K., Hanus, D., Haun, D., Leisterer-Peoples, S., Mauritz, S., Neldner, K., Sibilsky, A. and Stengelin, R., 2022. Ethical guidelines for good practice in cross-cultural research. LINK TO PDF

Pope-Caldwell, S. M., & Washburn, D. A. (2022). Overcoming cognitive set bias requires more than seeing an alternative strategy. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 1-8. LINK TO PDF

Lew-Levy, S.*, Pope, S. M.*, Haun, D. B., Kline, M. A., & Broesch, T. (2021) Out of the empirical box: A mixed-methods study of tool innovation among Congolese BaYaka forager and Bondongo fisher–farmer children. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 211, 105223. *Co-first authors LINK TO PDF

Lew-Levy, S & Milks, A & Lavi, N & Pope, S. M. & Friesem, D. (2020) Where innovations flourish: An ethnographic and archaeological overview of huntergatherer learning contexts. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 1-61. LINK TO PDF
Pope, S. M., Fagot, J., Meguerditchian, A., Watzek, J., Lew-Levy, S., Autrey, M. M., Hopkins, W. D. (2020). Optional-Switch Cognitive Flexibility in Primates: Chimpanzees’ (Pan troglodytes) Intermediate Susceptibility to Cognitive Set. Journal of Comparative Psychology.134(1), 98. LINK TO PDF

Watzek, J., Pope, S. M., Brosnan, S. F. (2019) Capuchin and rhesus monkeys but not humans show cognitive flexibility in an optional-switch task. Scientific Reports, 9(1), 13195. LINK TO PDF
Pope, S. M., Fagot, J., Meguerditchian, A., Washburn, D. A. & Hopkins, W. D. (2019) Enhanced cognitive flexibility in the semi-nomadic Himba. Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology, 50(1), 47-62. LINK TO PDF

Pope, S. M. (2018). Differences in Cognitive Flexibility Within the Primate Lineage and Across Human Cultures: When Learned Strategies Block Better Alternatives. (PhD Dissertation). LINK TO PDF

Pope, S. M., Taglialatela, J.P., Hopkins, W. D. (2017) Changes in mirror region connectivity following Do-As-I-Do training in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 30(3), 1-11. LINK TO PDF
Hopkins, W. D., Coulon, O., Meguerditchian, A., Autrey, M., Davidek, K., Mahovetz, L., Pope, S. M., Mareno, M.C., & Schapiro, S. J. (2017). Genetic Factors and Oro-Facial Motor Learning Selectively Influence Variability in Central Sulcus Morphology in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Journal of Neuroscience, 2641-16. LINK TO PDF

Hopkins, W.D., Meguerditchian, A., Coulon, O., Misiura, M., Pope, S. M., Mareno, M.C., Schapiro, S.J. (2016) Motor skill for tool-use is associated with asymmetries in Broca’s Area and the Motor Hand Area of the Precentral Gyrus in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Behavioural Brain Research, 318, 71-81. LINK TO PDF
Pope, S. M., Russell, J. L., & Hopkins, W. D. (2015). The association between imitation recognition and socio-communicative competencies in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Frontiers in Psychology, 6. LINK TO PDF

Pope, S. M., Meguerditchian, A., Hopkins, W. D., & Fagot, J. (2015). Baboons (Papio papio), but not humans, break cognitive set in a visuomotor task. Animal Cognition, 1-8. LINK TO PDF
Taglialatela, J.P., Russell, J., Pope, S. M., Morton, T., Bogart, S., Reamer, L.A., Schapiro, S.J., Hopkins, W.D. (2015). Multimodal Communication in Chimpanzees. American Journal of Primatology, 77(11). LINK TO PDF

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