• Eltern-Kind-Interaktion
• Frühe Moralentwicklung

Seit 2019

Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Lehrstuhl fürEntwicklungspsychologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

2017 - 2019

Studium Learning Sciences Psychology (M. Sc.), Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

2011 - 2013 & 2016 - 2017

Studium der Psychologie (B.Sc.), Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen & Private Hochschule Göttingen

2013 - 2017

Studium der Sozialen Arbeit und Bildung (B.A.), Hochschule RheinMain Wiesbaden 

Im Druck

Essler, S. & Paulus, M. (in press). Caregivers’ Everyday Moral Reasoning Predicts Young Children’s

Aggressive, Prosocial, and Moral Development: Evidence from Ambulatory Assessment. Infancy.

2023

Essler, S., Christner, N., Becher, T., & Paulus, M. (2023). The ontogenetic emergence of

normativity:  How action imitation relates to infants’ norm enforcement. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 227, 105591. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2022.105591

2021

Essler, S., & Paulus, M. (2021). Robin Hood or Matthew? Children’s reasoning about

redistributive justice in the context of economic inequalities. Child Development, 92(4), 1254-1273.

Christner, N., Essler, S., Hazzam, A., & Paulus, M. (2021). Children’s psychological well-being

and problem behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic: An online study during the lockdown period in Germany. PloS one, 16(6), e0253473.

Essler, S., Christner, N., & Paulus, M. (2021). Longitudinal Relations Between Parental Strain,

Parent–Child Relationship Quality, and Child Well-Being During the Unfolding COVID-19 Pandemic. Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 52(6), 995-1011.

Essler, S., & Paulus, M. (2021). When do caregivers begin to view their child as a moral agent?

Comparing moral and non-moral reactions to young children’s moral transgressions. Journal of Moral Education, 50(3), 330-342.

Lenz, S., Essler, S., Wörle, M., & Paulus, M. (2021). “Who will share with me?”: Preschoolers rely

on their friends more than on their nonfriends to share with them. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 203, 105037.

2020

Paulus, M., & Essler, S. (2020). Why do preschoolers perpetuate inequalities? Theoretical

perspectives on inequity preferences in the face of emerging concerns for equality. Developmental Review, 58, 100933.

Essler, S., Lepach, A. C., Petermann, F., & Paulus, M. (2020). Equality, equity, or inequality

duplication? How preschoolers distribute necessary and luxury resources between rich and poor others. Social Development, 29(1), 110-125.

Essler, S., Wörle, M., Moore, C., & Paulus, M. (2020). Preschoolers’ sharing expectations

towards friends relate to their kindergarten peer status. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 38(1), 1-14.

Wörle, M., Essler, S., & Paulus, M. (2020). Paying it back and forward: The impact of

experiencing and observing others’ sharing and stinginess on preschoolers’ own sharing behavior and expectations. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 198, 104886.

Paulus, M., Erbe, J., Wolfsperger, J., Essler, S., & Wörle, M. (2020). Originalarbeit: Prosoziales

Verhalten bei Vorschulkindern mit Sprachentwicklungsstörungen. Eine explorative Studie. Frühförderung interdisziplinär, 39(3), 120-136.

2019

Essler, S. (2019). Dynamiken menschlicher Entwicklung. Wochenschau Verlag.