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Manuel Bohn

Professor of Developmental Psychology, Leuphana University Lüneburg

Manuel Bohn studied Psychology in Vienna and New York. He earned his PhD at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, studying the cognitive and communicative abilities of great apes and human infants. After completing a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship at Stanford University, he returned to the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology as a Senior Scientist before accepting a position at Leuphana University Lüneburg. Manuel is a Jacobs Foundation Research Fellow 2023-2025.

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Contributions by Manuel

Manuel Bohn / 24 March 2026

Articles Development Psychology Diversity

Children are playing on a bouncy castle.

Annie Brookman-Byrne / 17 September 2024

Interviews Development Psychology Language

A researcher works with children and great apes.

Research Fellow - Project Manager, University College London

Laura Lucas

Lecturer, University College London

Alex Lloyd, BOLD writer

Postdoctoral Scholar, University of California, Berkeley

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