Laura Schlingloff-Nemecz

I'm a postdoctoral researcher at the iSearch Lab (Technical University of Munich) with Azzurra Ruggeri. I'm interested in how children learn about other people, and what they are curious about in an interaction partner.

Before, I did my PhD in Cognitive Science at the Central European University (Budapest/Vienna), working with Gergely Csibra in the Cognitive Development Center. For my dissertation, I studied how infants and children use a naive utility calculus to reason about agents' behaviors, how they understand helping actions, and infer traits to choose partners for cooperation.

With Maayan Stavans and Gergely Csibra, I developed the Co-Collectors game, which can be used to study social cognition (especially, but not only, partner choice). It is freely available, so if you would like to use it for a research project, get in touch! For more information about the game, check out this paper.