Biography
Education
Ph.D., Yale University, 2012-2014
MPhil. & MS., Yale University, 2009-2012
BS, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2000-2005
Courses Taught
PSY470: Collaborative Research in Moral Psychology (Spring 2019)
PSY/SPM 311: Origins of Moral Thought (2018-20)
PSY490: Senior Independent Research in Psychology (2018-20)
PSY390: Directed Research in Psychology (2018-19)
PSY304: Developmental Psychology (2018)
PSY100: Introductory Psychology (2017-19)
PSY100: Introductory Psychology Laboratory (2017-19)
PSY100: Introduction to Psychology (Lecture & Lab)
Chernyak, N., Leimgruber, K.L., Dunham, Y.C., Hu, J.*, & Blake, P.R. (2019) Paying back people who harmed us but not people who helped us: Direct negative reciprocity precedes direct positive reciprocity in early development. Psychological Science, doi: 10.1177/0956797619854975
Leech, K.A., Leimgruber, K.L., Warneken, F., & Rowe, M. (2019) Conversations about the future-self improve preschoolers’ prospection abilities. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 181: 110-120. doi: 10.1016.j.jecp.2018.12.008
Leimgruber, K.L. (2018). The developmental emergence of direct reciprocity and its influence on prosocial behavior. Current Opinion in Psychology, 20: 122-126. doi:10.1016.j.copsyv.2018.01.006
Leimgruber, K.L., & Warneken, F. (2018) Reciprocity. In M. Bornstein (Ed.), The SAGE encyclopedia of lifespan human development (pp. 1817-1818). Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. doi: 10.4135/9781506307633.n677
Leimgruber, K.L., Rosati, A.G., & Santos, L.R. (2015). Capuchin monkeys punish conspecifics who have more. Evolution and Human Behavior. doi: 10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2015.12.002
McAuliffe, K., Chang, L.W., Leimgruber, K.L., Spaulding, R. Blake, P.R., & Santos, L.R. (2015). Capuchin monkeys, Cebus apella, show no evidence for inequity aversion in a costly choice task. Animal Behavior, 103: 65-74.
*Leimgruber, K.L., *Ward, A.F., Widness, J., Norton, M.I., Olson, K.R., Gray, K., & Santos, L.R. (2014). Give what you get: Capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) and 4-year-old children pay forward positive and negative outcomes to conspecifics. PLoS ONE 9(4): e96959.
MacLean, E.L., Hare, B.A., Nunn, C.L., Addessi, E., Amici, F., Anderson, R.C.…Leimgruber, K.L., … & Zhao, Y. (2014). The evolution of self-control. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(20), e2140-2148.
Leimgruber, K.L., Shaw, A., Santos, L.R., & Olson, K.R. (2012). Young children are more generous when others are aware of their actions. PLoS ONE, 7(10): e48292.
Hattori, Y., Leimgruber, K.L., Fujita, K., & de Waal, F.B.M. (2012). Food-related tolerance in capuchin monkeys (Cebus apella) varies with knowledge of the partner’s previous food consumption. Behavior, 149(2), 171-185.
Dindo, M., Leimgruber, K.L., Whiten, A., & de Waal, F.B.M. (2011). Observer preference in the social transmission of novel foraging techniques in capuchins (Cebus apella). American Journal of Primatology, 73(9), 920-927.
Brosnan, S.F., Houser, D., Leimgruber, K.L., Xiao, E., & de Waal, F.B.M. (2010). Competing demands of prosociality and equity in monkeys. Evolution and Human Behavior, 31(4), 279-288.
de Waal, F., Leimgruber, K.L., & Greenberg, A. (2008). Giving is self-rewarding for monkeys. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 105, 13685-1368.