Dr. Marina Kammermeier

Main Research Topics

• Parent-child-interaction and attachment
• Social-cognitive and social-emotional development in early childhood
• Preverbal communication
• Development of action anticipation in early childhood

Curriculum Vitae

2021

Promotion (Dr. phil.) at the Chair of Developmental Psychology at the LMU München

Since 2015

Research Associate at the Chair of Developmental Psychology at the LMU München

2013 - 2015

Master's Degree (M.Sc.) in Psychology: Learning Sciences at the LMU München

2010 - 2013

Bachelor's Degree (B.A.) in Pedagogics and Education Science at the LMU München

Publications

Peer-reviewed Publications

Paulus, M., Kammermeier, M.,& Melzel, S. (2023). The emergence of pointing as a

communicative gesture: Age-related differences in infants’ non-social and social use of the index finger. Cognitive Development, 65, 101298. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2023.101298

Kammermeier, M., & Paulus, M. (2022). Maternal emotional availability relates to two-year-

olds’ behavior in a challenging cooperative interaction. Infant Behavior and Development, 67, 101696. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infbeh.2022.101696

Kammermeier, M., & Paulus, M. (2021). Maternal sensitivity and non-intrusiveness at 12

months predict attention to emotional facial expressions at 24 months: A cross-lagged panel approach. Social Development, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1111/sode.12561

Kammermeier, M., Duran Perez, L., König, L. &Paulus, M. (2020). Attachment security and

attention to facial emotional expressions in preschoolers: An eye‐tracking study. British Journal of Developmental Psychology. doi:10.1111/bjdp.12313

Paulus, M., & Kammermeier, M. (2018). How to deal with a failed replication of the Duplo

task? A response to Rubio-Fernández (2019). Cognitive Development, 48, 217-218. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2018.07.005

Kammermeier, M., & Paulus, M. (2018). Do action-based tasks evidence false-belief

understanding in young children? Cognitive Development, 46, 31-39. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2017.11.004

Kammermeier, M., & Paulus, M. (2018). Stichwort: Kooperatives Handeln. Frühförderung

interdisziplinär, 37(3), 151-155. http://dx.doi.org/10.2378/fi2018.art23d

Wildgruber, A., Wertfein, M., Wirts, C., Kammermeier, M., & Danay, E. (2016). Situative

Unterschiede der Interaktionsqualität im Verlauf des Kindergartenalltags. Frühe Bildung, 5(4), 206–213. doi: 10.1026/2191-9186/a000283

Conference Talks

Kammermeier, M., Kaßecker, A., & Paulus, M. (2023, June). The early emergence of infant

helping: A longitudinal study. In M. Paulus (Chair), The early development of prosocial action: From parent-child interaction to self-reflective activity. Symposium conducted at the Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Madrid, Spain.

Kammermeier, M., Melzel, S., & Paulus, M. (2023, June). The emergence of pointing as a

communicative gesture. In M. Paulus (Chair), The early ontogeny of human communication: From object-directed actions to interpersonal interaction. Symposium conducted at the Annual Meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Madrid, Spain.

Kammermeier, M., & Paulus, M. (2022, July). Emotional and social development in infancy.

Findings from two longitudinal studies. Research Colloquium of the Centre for Research in Human Development (CRHD), Concordia University, Montreal, Canada.

Kammermeier, M., Duran Perez, L., König, L. & Paulus, M. (2019, September).

Bindungssicherheit und Aufmerksamkeit auf emotionale Gesichtsausdrücke bei Vorschulkindern: Eine Eye-tracking Studie (Attachment security and attention to facial emotional expressions in 5-year-old children: An eye-tracking study). In M. Paulus (Chair), Bindung und Emotionsregulation (Attachment and emotion regulation). Symposium conducted at the Biannual Convention of the German Psychological Society Section for Educational and Developmental Psychology (PaEpsy), Leipzig, Germany.

Conference Poster

Kammermeier, M., & Paulus, M. (2022, July). Social interactions during COVID-19: Infants’

responses to masked and unmasked smiling faces. Poster presented at the International Congress of Infant Studies (ICIS), Ottawa, Canada.

Kammermeier, M., & Paulus, M. (2022, June). Social interactions during COVID-19: Infants’

responses to masked and unmasked smiling faces. Poster presented at the 26th Biennial Meeting of the International Society for the Study of Behavioral Development (ISSBD), Rhodes, Greece.

Kammermeier, M., Duran Perez, L., König, L., & Paulus, M. (2019, July). Attachment security

and attention to facial emotional expressions in 5-year-old children: An eye-tracking study. Poster presented at the International Attachment Conference 2019, Vancouver, Canada.

Kammermeier, M., & Paulus, M. (2017, September). Do nonverbal, action-based tasks

evidence false-belief understanding in young children? Poster presented at the Biannual Convention of the German Psychological Society Section for Educational and Developmental Psychology (PaEpsy), Münster, Germany.

Kammermeier, M., & Paulus, M. (2017, April). Do young children have an implicit theory of

mind? A replication attempt of Rubio-Fernandez and Geurts. Poster presented at the 2017 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Austin, Texas.

Kammermeier, M., Licata, M., & Paulus, M. (2017, April). The relationship between emotional

availability and motionese in mother-infant interaction. Poster presented at the 2017 Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Austin, Texas.

Kammermeier, M., & Paulus, M. (2016, September). Do young children have an implicit theory

of mind? Poster presented at the Congress of the German Psychological Society (DGPs), Leipzig, Germany.

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