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= Daniel Haun = Daniel Haun (born 1977) is a German psychologist specializing in developmental, cross-cultural, and comparative psychology. Since 2019, he has been the director of the Department for Comparative Cultural Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and the Wolfgang Köhler Primate Research Centre at Leipzig Zoo.

Daniel Haun was born in Bad Kreuznach, Germany. He grew up in and around Kaiserslautern with his parents, Ingrid and Dieter Haun, and three siblings. He is the father of two daughters.

Research
To understand uniquely human cultural diversity and the universal cognitive mechanisms that enable and constrain it during child development, Daniel Haun studies the interaction between culture and cognition by comparing children from different social and physical environments around the world and by comparing the development of human infants with the early development in other, non-human great apes species.

Career
Daniel Haun studied Experimental Psychology at the University of Trier, Germany, and the University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA, with Gary L. Allen. During his Ph.D., he worked under the supervision of Stephen Levinson at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics and Neil Burgess at the Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL. He spent his postdoctoral studies focusing on spatial and social cognition in non-human great apes and children at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology with Josep Call and Michael Tomasello. From 2007 to 2008, he was a Lecturer of Psychology at the University of Portsmouth before directing the Max Planck Research Group for Comparative Cognitive Anthropology from 2008 to 2013. He was a Professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of Jena from 2014 to 2015. Between 2015 and 2019, he served Leipzig University as a Professor of Early Child Development and Culture and as the founding director of the Leipzig Research Center for Early Child Development. Since 2019 he has been the director of the Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and a Professor of Comparative Cultural Psychology at Leipzig University. From 2019 to 2022, he serves as the Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.