M.Sc. Akzira Abuova
Research Interests
- Moral and socio-cognitive development
- Cooperatively motivated dishonest behaviour
- Cross-cultural and within-culture differences in moral and social development
Since 10/2026 Doctoral Researcher in the ERC Starting Grant project DELEGATION, Social and Legal Psychology, University of Bonn, in collaboration with the Research Group Development of Social Behaviour, Faculty of Education, Leipzig University, Germany
10/2025 – 09/2026 Research Affiliate, Research Group Development of Social Behaviour, Faculty of Education, Leipzig University, Germany
04/2024 – 04/2025 Research Assistant, Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
08/2022 – 03/2024 Student Research Assistant, Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
07/2019 – 06/2021 Project Manager, Incoaching Ltd., Seoul, South Korea
03/2018 – 10/2018 Research Assistant, Behavioural Psychology Lab, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
Education
- 10/2021 – 03/2024 M.Sc. Early Childhood Research, Leipzig University, Germany
- 2015 – 2019 B.A. in Psychology, Yonsei University, Seoul, South Korea
2025 – 2026 PreDoc Award, Leipzig University
02/2015 – 02/2019 Full Government Scholarship, National Institute for International Education (NIIED), Seoul, South Korea
Publications
Peer-reviewed Journal Articles
Sánchez-Amaro, A., Ebel van Wijk, S. J., Molenaar, C., Abuova, A., Mujica-Manrique, L., Leisterer-Peoples, S. M., … & Haun, D. B. (2026). EVApeCognition: An 18-year dataset of great ape cognition. Scientific Data.
Abuova, A., Tietz, L., & Grueneisen, S. (2025). Collaborative dishonesty: Children are more likely to cheat when they benefit together. Developmental Science, 28, e70080. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.70080