Curriculum vitae

Professional appointments

Since 2012
Full Professor of Developmental Psychology, Department of Psychology, at the University of Münster, Germany

2012
Temporary Professor of Developmental Psychology, Institute of Psychology, University of Münster, Germany

2011-2012
Temporary Professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of Göttingen, Germany

2008-2011
Postdoctoral researcher at the Lower Saxonian Institute of Infant Education and Development (nifbe), research unit Development, Learning, and Culture, Osnabrück, Germany

2003-2008
Research associate at the Department of Culture and Psychology, Institute of Psychology, University of Osnabrück, Germany

Education

2012
Habilitation (PD), University of Osnabrück

2008
Dr. rer. nat., University of Osnabrück, Germany

2003
Diplompsychologie, University of Jena, Germany

2000
Master of Arts in Sociology, University of Essex, UK

Research

• Intuitive parenting, early (m)other-infant interaction and parenting across cultures
• Socio-cognitive and socio-emotional development across cultures
• Early self and intentionality
• Prosocial and cooperative behavior
• Development of culture-sensitive approaches for counseling and early childhood development programs

Publications

Journal articles (peer-reviewed)

Giner Torréns, M., Wefers, H.* & Kärtner, J. (accepted). Der Einfluss von Kultur auf die Entwicklung in den ersten drei Lebensjahren [The influence of culture on early child development]. Zeitschrift für Entwicklungspsychologie und Pädagogische Psychologie.                             *shared first author

Broesch, T., Lew-Levy, S., Kärtner, J., Kanngiesser, P. & Kline, M. (2022). A roadmap to doing culturally grounded developmental science. Review of Philosophy and Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s13164-022-00636-y

Jurkat, S., Iza Simba, N. B., Hernández Chacón, L., Itakura, S. & Kärtner, J. (2022). Cultural similarities and differences in explaining others’ behavior in 4- to 9-year-old children from three cultural contexts. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 53(6), 659–682. https://doi.org/10.1177/00220221221098423

Kärtner, J., Schwick, M.*, Wefers, H & Nomikou, I. (2022). Interactional preludes to infants’ affective climax. Infant Behavior and Development, 67, 101715. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2022.101715                                                                                                    * shared first author

Köster, M., Giner Torréns, M., Kärtner, J., Itakura, S. & Kanngiesser, P. (2022). Parental teaching behavior in diverse cultural contexts. Evolution and Human Behavior, 43(5), 432–441. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2022.07.002

Nieder, C., Bosch, J. F., Nockemann, A. P., & Kärtner, J. (2022). Evaluation of RISE: A Sexual Violence Prevention Program for Female College Students in India. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 37(7–8), NP5538–NP5565. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260520959631

Wefers, H., Schuhmacher, N., Hernández Chacón, L. & Kärtner, J. (2022). Universality without the uniformity – Infants’ reactions to unresponsive partners in urban Germany and rural Ecuador. Memory & Cognition. https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-022-01318-x

Wefers, H., Schwarz, C. L., Hernández Chacón, L., & Kärtner, J. (2022). Maternal ethnotheories about infants’ ideal states in two cultures. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 53(6), 603–625. https://doi.org/10.1177/00220221221096785

Giner Torréns, M., Dreizler, K., & Kärtner, J. (2021). Insight into toddlers’ motivation to help: From social participants to prosocial contributors. Infant Behavior and Development, 64, 101603. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2021.101603

Jurkat, S., Gruber, M., & Kärtner, J. (2021). The effect of verbal priming of visual attention styles in 4- to 9-year-old children. Cognition, 212, 104681. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104681

Kärtner, J. & von Suchodoletz, A. (2021). The role of preacademic activities and adult-centeredness in mother-child play in educated urban middle-class families from three cultures. Infant Behavior and Development, 64, 101600. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2021.101600

Kärtner, J., Giner Torréns, M. & Schuhmacher, N. (2021). Parental structuring during shared chores and the development of helping across the second year. Social Development, 30, 374–395. https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12490

Leyva, D., von Suchodoletz, A. & Kärtner, J. (2021). Maternal Book-Sharing Styles and Goals and Children’s Verbal Contributions in Three Communities. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 54, 228–238. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2020.09.010

Muck, C., Schiller, E.-M., Zimmermann, M., & Kärtner, J. (2021). Preventing sexual violence in adolescence: Comparison of a scientist-practitioner program and a practitioner program using a cluster-randomized design. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 36(3–4), NP1913–NP1940. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260518755488

Rickert, P. & Kärtner, J. (2021). Neue Perspektiven auf die Beratung der Jobcenter: Herausforderungen aus Sicht der Fachkräfte in NRW [New perspectives on the counselling services of employment agencies in Germany: challenges from counsellors’ point of view]. Sozialer Fortschritt, 70, 75–94.

Rickert, P., Forthmann, B., & Kärtner, J. (2021). Factor structure and measurement invariance of employment counselors’ use of discretionary power and differences based on gender, training, and experience. Counselling Psychology Quarterly, 34, 129–149, https://doi.org/10.1080/09515070.2019.1687424

Echterhoff, G., Hellmann, J., Back, M., Kärtner, J., Morina, N., & Hertel, G. (2020). Psychological antecedents of refugee integration. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 15, 856–879. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691619898838

Jurkat, S., Köster, M., Yovsi, R., and Kärtner, J. (2020). The Development of context-sensitive attention across cultures: The impact of stimulus familiarity. Frontiers in Psychology, 11:1526. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01526

Kärtner, J., Schuhmacher, N. & Giner Torréns, M. (2020). Social-cognitive development across cultures. Progress in Brain Research, 258, 225–246. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.pbr.2020.06.011

Köster, M., Yovsi, R., and Kärtner, J. (2020). Cross-cultural differences in the generation of novel ideas in middle childhood. Frontiers in Psychology, 11:1829. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01829

Mavridis, P., Kärtner, J., Cavalcante, L., Resende, B., Schuhmacher, N. & Köster, M. (2020). The development of context-sensitive attention in urban and rural Brazil. Frontiers in Psychology, 11:1623. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01623

Nieder, C., Bosch, J. F., Nockemann, A. P., & Kärtner, J. (2020). Evaluation of RISE: A Sexual Violence Prevention Program for Female College Students in India. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 088626052095963. https://doi.org/10.1177/0886260520959631

Dworazik, N., Kärtner, J., Lange, L., & Köster, M. (2019). Young Children Respond to Moral Dilemmas Like Their Mothers. Frontiers in Psychology, 10, 2683. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.02683

de Mendonça, J. S., Raad Bussab, V. S., & Kärtner, J. (2019). Interactional synchrony and child gender differences in dyadic and triadic family interactions. Journal of Family Issues, 40(8), 959–981 https://doi.org/10.1177/0192513X19832938

Giner Torréns M. & Kärtner J. (2019). Affiliation motivates children’s prosocial behaviors: Relating helping and comforting to imitation. Social Development, 28, 501–513.

Nieder, C., Muck, C, & Kärtner, J. (2019). Sexual violence against women in India – Daily life and coping strategies of young women in Delhi. Violence against Women, 25, 1717–1738. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801218824056

Schuhmacher, N. & Kärtner, J. (2019). Preschoolers prefer in-group to out-group members, but equally condemn their immoral acts, Social Development, 28, 1074–1094.

Köster, M., Itakura, S., Omori, M. & Kärtner, J. (2019). From Understanding Others’ Needs to Prosocial Action: Motor and Social Abilities Promote Infants’ Helping. Developmental Science. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.12804

Köster, M. & Kärtner, J. (2019) Why do infants help? A simple action reveals a complex phenomenon. Developmental Review, 51, 175–187. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dr.2018.11.004

Muhonen, H., von Suchodoletz, A., Doering, E. & Kärtner, J. (2019). Facilitators, teachers, observers, and play partners: How mothers describe their role in play across different cultures. Learning, Culture and Social Interaction, 21, 223–233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lcsi.2019.04.002

Domsch, H., Kläpker, L., & Kärtner, J. (2018). Zur Wirksamkeit des Marburger Konzentrationstrainings. Kindheit & Entwicklung, 27, 220-228. https://doi.org/10.1026/0942-5403/a000261

Döring, A., Kärtner, J. & Bilsky, W. (2018). Values in Families with Young Children: Insights from Two Cultural Milieus in Germany. International Journal of Psychology, 53, 486-495. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12402

Fonseca, B. R., Cavalcante, L. I. C., Kärtner, J., & Köster, M. (2018). Maternal socialization goals and the spontaneous prosocial behavior of children in rural contexts. Psicologia: Reflexão e Crítica, 31: 27. https://doi.org/10.1186/s41155-018-0108-x

Kärtner, J. (2018). Beyond dichotomies – (M)others’ structuring and the development of toddlers’ prosocial behavior across cultures. Current Opinion in Psychology, 20, 6-10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2017.07.040

Köster, M., Itakura, S., Yovsi, R., & Kärtner, J. (2018). Visual attention in 5-year-olds from three different cultures. PLoS ONE, 13, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0200239

Köster, M. & Kärtner, J. (2018) Context-sensitive attention is socialized via a verbal route in the parent-child interaction. PLoS ONE, 13(11): e0207113. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0207113

Muck, C., Schiller, E.-M., & Kärtner (2018). Prävention sexualisierter Gewalt im Jugendalter – Evaluationsstudie zur Wirkung zweier schulischer Präventionsprogramme auf Disclosurebereitschaft und Viktimisierungserleben. Zeitschrift für Soziologie der Erziehung und Sozialisation. 38(2), 118-134.

Muck, C., Schiller, E.-M., Zimmermann, M., & Kärtner, J. (2018). Preventing sexual violence in adolescence: Comparison of a scientist-practitioner and a practitioner program using a cluster-randomized design. Journal of Interpersonal Violence. doi.org/10.1177/0886260518755488

Schuhmacher, N., Köster, M, & Kärtner, J. (2019). Modeling prosocial behavior increases helping in 16-month-olds. Child Development, 90, 1789–1801. https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.13054

Silkenbeumer, J. R., Schiller, E.-M., & Kärtner, J. (2018). Co- and self-regulation of emotions in the preschool setting. Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 44, 72-81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecresq.2018.02.014

Nielsen, M., Haun, D., Kärtner, J., & Legare, C. (2017). The persistent sampling bias in developmental psychology: A call to action. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 162, 31-38. [PDF]

Giner Torréns, M., & Kärtner, J. (2017).The influence of socialization on early helping from a cross-cultural perspective. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 48(3), 353-368. doi.org/10.1177/0022022117690451

Schuhmacher, N. & Kärtner, J. (2017). The differential role of parenting, peers, and temperament for explaining interindividual differences in 18-months-olds’ comforting and helping. Infant Behavior and Development, 46, 124-134.

Döring, A., Kärtner, J., & Bilsky, W. (2016). Values in families with young children: insights from two cultural milieus in Germany. International Journal of Psychology. doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12402

Giner Torréns, M., & Kärtner, J. (2017) Psychometric properties of the early prosocial behaviour questionnaire. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 14(5), 618-627. doi.org/10.1080/17405629.2016.1259107 [PDF]

Kärtner, J., Crafa, D., Chaudhary, N. & Keller, H. (2016). Reactions to receiving a gift – Maternal scaffolding and cultural learning in Berlin and Delhi. Child Development, 87, 712-722. [PDF]

Köster, M., Cavalcante, L., Carvalho, R., Resende, B., & Kärtner, J. (2016). Cultural influences on toddlers’ prosocial behavior: How maternal task assignment relates to helping others. Child Development, 87, 1727-1738. [PDF]

Köster, M., Ohmer, X., Nguyen, T. D., & Kärtner, J. (2016). Infants understand others’ needs. Psychological Science, 27(4), 542-548. [PDF]

Schöllhorn, A., Borke, J., Schiller, E.-M., & Kärtner, J. (2016). Beratung mit Familien aus unterschiedlichen kulturellen Kontexten – Ein Prozessmodell zur kultursensitiven Beratung für Familien mit Säuglingen und Kleinkindern. Familiendynamik, 4, 284-292. [PDF]

Silkenbeumer, J.R., Schiller, E.-M., Holodynski, M., & Kärtner, J. (2016). The role of co-regulation for the development of social-emotional competence. Journal of Self-Regulation and Regulation, 2, 11-26. [PDF]

Kärtner, J. (2015). The autonomous developmental pathway: The primacy of subjective mental states for human behavior and experience. Child Development, 86, 1298-1309. [PDF]

Köster, M., Schuhmacher, N., & Kärtner, J. (2015). A cultural perspective on prosocial development. Human Ethology Bulletin, 30, 71-82. [PDF]

Mendonça, J. S., Bussab, V. S., Lucci, T. K., & Kärtner, J. (2015). Father-child interactional synchrony in Brazilian families with maternal depression. Human Ethology Bulletin, 30, 121-138. [PDF]

Schröder, L., Kärtner, J., & Keller, H. (2015). Telling a “baby story”: Mothers narrating their preschoolers’ past across two cultural contexts. Memory, 23(1), 39-54. [PDF]

Schuhmacher, N., & Kärtner, J. (2015). Explaining interindividual differences in toddlers’ collaboration with unfamiliar peers: Individual, dyadic, and social factors. Frontiers in Psychology. 6, 1-14. [PDF]

Schuhmacher, N., & Kärtner, J. (2015). Social influences on understanding incompatible desires during toddlers’ third year of life. Social Development, 25(2), 435-452. [PDF]

Kärtner, J., Schuhmacher, N., & Collard, J. (2014). Socio-cognitive influences on the domain-specificity of prosocial behavior in the second year. Infant Behavior & Development, 37, 665-675. [PDF]

Carra, C., Lavelli, M, Keller, H., & Kärtner, J. (2013). Parenting infants: Socialization goals and behaviors of Italian mothers and immigrant mothers from West Africa. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 44(8), 1304-1320. [PDF]

Kärtner, J., Holodynski, M., & Wörmann, V. (2013). Parental ethnotheories, social practice and the culture-specific development of the social smile in infants. Mind, Culture, and Activity, 20(1), 79-95. [PDF]

Schröder, L., Keller, H., Kärtner, J., Kleis, A., Abels, M., Yovsi, R. D., Chaudhary, N., Jensen, H., & Papaligoura, Z. (2013). Early reminiscing in cultural context: Cultural models, maternal reminiscing styles, and children’s memories. Journal of Cognition and Development, 14, 10-34. [PDF]

Wermke, K., Pachtner, S., Lamm, B., Voit, V., Hain, J., Kärtner, J., & Keller, H. (2013). Acoustic properties of comfort sounds of 3-month-old Cameroonian (Nso) and German infants. Speech, Language and Hearing, 16(3), 149-162.

Wörmann, V., Holodynski, M., Kärtner, J., & Keller, H. (2013). The emergence of social smiling: The interplay of maternal and infant imitation during the first three months in cross-cultural comparison. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, online first. [PDF]

Kärtner, J., Keller, H., Chaudhary, N., & Yovsi, R. (2012). Sociocultural influences on the development of mirror self-recognition. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development. [PDF]

Kärtner, J., & Keller, H. (2012). Culture-specific developmental pathways to prosocial behavior: A comment on Bischof-Köhler’s universalist perspective. Emotion Review, 4, 49-50. [PDF]

Schröder, L., Kärtner, J., Keller, H., & Chaudhary, N. (2012). Sticking out and fitting in: Culture-specific predictors of 3-year-olds’ autobiographical memories during joint reminiscing. Infant Behavior and Development, 35, 627-634. [PDF]

Wörmann, V., Holodynski, M., Keller, H. & Kärtner, J. (2012). A cross-cultural comparison of the development of the social smile. A longitudinal study of maternal and infant imitation in 6- and 12-week-old infants. Infant Behavior & Development, 35(3), 335-347. [PDF]

Hofer, J., Busch, H., & Kärtner, J. (2011). Self-regulation and well-being: The influence of identity and motives. European Journal of Personality, 25(3), 211-224. [PDF]

Kärtner, J., Borke, J., Maasmeier, K., Keller, H., & Kleis, A. (2011). Socio-cultural influences on the development of self-recognition and self-regulation in Costa Rican and Mexican toddlers. Journal of Cognitive Education and Psychology, 10(2), 96-112. [PDF]

Kärtner, J., Keller, H., & Chaudhary, N. (2010). Cognitive and social influences on early prosocial behavior in two socio-cultural contexts. Developmental Psychology, 46(4), 905-914. [PDF]

Hofer, J., Busch, H., Bond, M. H., Kärtner, J., Kiessling, F., & Law, R (2010). Is self-determined functioning a universal prerequisite for motive-goal congruence? Examining the domain of achievement in three cultures. Journal of Personality, 78(2), 747-779. [PDF]

Kärtner, J., Keller, H., & Yovsi, R. (2010). Mother-infant interaction during the first three months: The emergence of culture-specific contingency patterns. Child Development, 81(2), 540-554. [PDF]

Fischer, R., Ferreira, M. C., Assmar, E., Redford, P., Harb, C., Glazer, S., Cheng, B.-S., Jiang, D.-Y., Wong, C. C., Kumar, N., Kärtner, J., Hofer, J., & Achoui, M. M. (2009). Individualism-collectivism as descriptive norms: Development of a subjective norm approach to culture measurement. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 40(2), 187-213.

Yovsi, R., Kärtner, J., Keller, H., & Lohaus, A. (2009). Maternal interactional quality in two cultural environments: German middle class and Cameroonian rural mothers. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 40(4), 701-707. [PDF]

Kärtner, J., Keller, H., Lam, B., Abels, M., Yovsi, R., Chaudhary, N., & Su, Y. (2008). Similarities and differences in contingency experiences of 3-month-olds across sociocultural contexts. Infant Behavior & Development, 31(3), 488-500. [PDF]

Hofer, J., Busch, H., Chasiotis, A., Kärtner, J., & Campos, D. (2008). Concern for generativity and its relation to implicit pro-social power motivation, generative goals, and satisfaction with life: A cross-cultural investigation. Journal of Personality, 76(1), 1-30. [PDF]

Keller, H., Otto, H., Lamm, B., Yovsi, R., & Kärtner, J. (2008). The timing of verbal/vocal communications between mothers and their infants: A longitudinal cross-cultural comparison. Infant Behavior & Development, 31(2), 217-226. [PDF]

Kärtner, J., Keller, H., Lamm, B., Abels, M., Yovsi, R., & Chaudhary, N. (2007). Manifestations of autonomy and relatedness in mothers’ accounts of their ethnotheories regarding childcare across five cultural communities. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 38(5), 613-628. [PDF]

Hofer, J., Kärtner, J., Chasiotis, A., Busch, H., & Kießling, F. (2007). Socio-cultural aspects of identity formation: The relationship between commitment and well-being in student samples from Cameroon and Germany. Identity, 7(4), 265-288.

Keller, H., Kärtner, J., Borke, J., Yovsi, R., & Kleis, A. (2005). Parenting styles and the development of the categorical self: A longitudinal study on mirror self-recognition in Cameroonian Nso and German families. International Journal of Behavioral Development, 29(6), 496-504. [PDF]

Keller, H., Yovsi, R., Borke, J., Kärtner, J., Jensen, H., & Papaligoura, Z. (2004). Developmental consequences of early parenting experiences: self-recognition and self-regulation in three cultural communities. Child Development, 75(6), 1745-1760. [PDF]

Monographs and book chapters

Strehlke E., Bromme R., Scholz S., Kärtner J. (2021) When Play Store Knows How to Deal with Your Kid: Trust in Digital Counselling. In: Blöbaum B. (Ed.) Trust and Communication, (pp. 221–237). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72945-5_11

Schuhmacher, N. & Kärtner, J. (2020). Soziale Entwicklung. In Roos, J. & Roux, S. (Hrsg.), Das große Handbuch Frühe Bildung in der Kita – Wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse für die Praxis, (pp. 159–172). Köln/Kronach: Carl Link.

Schuhmacher, N. & Kärtner, J. (im Druck). Soziale Entwicklung. In Roos, J. & Roux, S. (Hrsg.), Das große Handbuch Frühe Bildung in der Kita – Wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse für die Praxis. Köln/Kronach: Carl Link.

Nieder, C. & Kärtner, J. (2019). Erfolgreiche Erziehung und Entwicklung aus den Augen geflüchteter Familien in Deutschland. In P. Genkova & A. Riecken (Hrsg.), Handbuch Migration und Erfolg. Springer Reference Psychologie. Wiesbaden: Springer.

Kärtner., J. (2019). Kind, Kindheit und Entwicklung in der Entwicklungspsychologie. In C. Dietrich, U. Stenger & C. Stieve (Eds.), Theoretische Zugänge zur Pädagogik der frühen Kindheit. Eine kritische Vergewisserung, (pp. 29-34). Weinheim, Basel: Beltz Juventa.

Nass, J.R., Schiller, E.-M., & Kärtner, J. (2015). Von der Koregulation zur Selbstregulation: Entwicklungsförderliche Begleitung sozial-emotionaler Kompetenz in Kindertagesstätten. In T. Malti & S. Perren (Eds.), Soziale Kompetenz bei Kindern und Jugendlichen. Entwicklungsprozesse und Förderungsmöglichkeiten, 2. Auflage (S. 208-226). Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.

Borke, J., Schiller, E. M., Schöllhorn, A., & Kärtner, J. (2015). Kultur – Entwicklung – Beratung. Kultursensitive Therapie und Beratung für Familien mit Säuglingen und Kleinkindern. Vandenhoek & Ruprecht.

Kärtner, J. & Borke, J. (2015). Grundzüge einer kultursensitiven Krippenpädagogik. In B. Ö. Otyakmaz & Y. Karakaşoğlu (Eds.), Frühe Kindheit in der Migrationsgesellschaft, (pp. 229-249). Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.

Kärtner, J. & Schuhmacher, N. (2014). Folk models of human behavior and sociocognitive development. ISSBD Bulletin, 66(2), 6-8 [PDF]

Kärtner, J. & Keller, H. (2014). Sozialkognitive Entwicklung im Vorschulalter. In C. Röhner, H. Sünker, R. Braches-Chyrek & M. Hopf (Eds.), Handbuch frühe Kindheit, (pp. 161-170). Leverkusen Opladen: Barbara Budrich Verlag. [PDF]

Keller, H. & Kärtner, J. (2013). Die untrennbare Allianz von Entwicklung und Kultur. In L. Ahnert (Ed.), Theorien in der Entwicklungspsychologie, (pp. 502-519). Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag. [PDF]

Keller, H. & Kärtner, J. (2013). Development – The cultural solution of universal developmental tasks. In M. Gelfand, C.-Y. Chiu & Y.-Y. Hong (Eds.), Advances in Culture and Psychology (Vol. 3), (pp. 63-116). Oxford University Press. [PDF]

Kärtner, J, (2012). Die Entwicklung prosozialen Verhaltens in den ersten Lebensjahren. In Kleinstkinder in Kita und Tagespflege. Themenheft sozial-emotionale Entwicklung (pp. 36-40). Freiburg: Herder Verlag. [PDF]

Borke, J., Döge, P., & Kärtner, J. (2011). Kulturelle Vielfalt bei Kindern unter drei Jahren – Anforderungen an frühpädagogische Fachkräfte. Eine Expertise der Weiterbildungsinitiative Frühpädagogische Fachkräfte (WiFF). [Link]

Kärtner, J. (2011). Die Entwicklung empathischen Erlebens und prosozialen Verhaltens. In H. Keller (Hrsg.), Handbuch der Kleinkindforschung, (pp.430-463). Bern: Huber

Kärtner, J. & Keller, H. (2010). Diversität von Erziehungsvorstellungen. In C. Ghaderi, L. Joksimovic, E. van Keuk & D. David (Hrsg.), Diversity – kompetenter Umgang mit kultureller Vielfalt in klinischen und sozialen Handlungsfeldern, (pp.303-312). Stuttgart: Kohlhammer.

Kärtner, J. (2007). Einflussgrößen auf die Entwicklung empathischen Erlebens und prosozialen Verhaltens: eine kulturvergleichende Untersuchung. E-Dissertation der Universität Osnabrück. [Link]

Teaching

Lectures

• Developmental psychology (BSc); Applied developmental psychology and intervention (MSc); Introduction to cognitive science (MSc)

Seminars (BSc)

• Socio-cognitive development in different cultures; Prosocial behavior and moral development; Socio-cognitive development; Theories and models in developmental psychology

Research seminars (BSc)

• Understanding intentionality in the first and second year; The emerging awareness of own and others’ mental states; Socio-cognitive development and secondary emotions; Emotional warmth in mother-infant interaction; The development of autobiographical memory

Seminars (MSc)

• Development and counseling; Cognitive developmental psychology; Extrafamilial care – concepts and findings; Behavioral observation in developmental psychology; Assessing development