Curriculum vitae

Professional appointments

2018-2023
Research assistant, Department of Developmental Psychology, University of Münster

11/2014-01/2018
Student Assistant at the Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Leipzig

Education

10/2014-12/2017
Master of Arts in Communication and Media Studies/Focus on Empirical Research on Communication and Media, University of Leipzig

10/2009-02/2014
Bachelor of Arts in Communication Research and Psychology, University of Jena, Tartu Ülikool (Estonia)

Research

• Emergence of cultural differences in attentional styles
• Social attribution across different cultures

Publications

Journal articles (peer-reviewed)

Jurkat, S., Köster, M., Hernández Chacón, L., Itakura, S., & Kärtner, J. (2023). Visual attention across cultures: Similarities and differences in child development and maternal attention styles. Developmental Science, e13368. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13368

Jurkat, S., Iza Simba, N. B., Hernández Chacón, L., Itakura, S., & Kärtner, J. (2022). Cultural similarities and differences in explaining others’ behavior in 4- to 9-year-old children from three cultural contexts. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, 53(6). https://doi.org/10.1177/00220221221098423

Jurkat, S., Gruber, M., & Kärtner, J. (2021). The effect of verbal priming of visual attention styles in 4- to 9-year-old children. Cognition. 212:104681. https://doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104681

Jurkat, S., Köster, M., Yovsi, R., & Kärtner, J. (2020). The Development of context-sensitive attention across cultures: The impact of stimulus familiarity. Frontiers in Psychology. 11:1526. https://doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01526

Köymen, B., Jurkat, S., & Tomasello, M. (2020). Preschoolers refer to direct and indirect evidence in their collaborative reasoning. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology. 193:104806. https://doi: 10.1016/j.jecp.2020.104806

Conferences

Jurkat, S. & Kärtner, J. (2022). The role of language in the development of visual attention styles. In S. Jurkat (Chair), Cultural differences in attention: Perspectives on development and underlying mechanisms. Symposium conducted at the Biennial Meeting of the Study of Behavioural Development (ISSBD), Rhodes, Greece, 19-23 June.

Jurkat, S. & Kärtner, J. (2022). The role of language in the development of visual attention styles. In A. Rothe-Wulf (Chair), Cognition in the context of language and culture II: Diversity across domains and human development. Symposium conducted at the Tagung experimentell arbeitender Psycholog:innen (TeaP), virtual meeting, 20-23 March.

Jurkat, S., Köster, M., Itakura, S., Hernández Chacón, L., & Kärtner, J. (2021). The emergence of visual attentional styles in three different cultural contexts. In S. Jurkat (Chair), Cross-cultural differences in the development of visual attention. Symposium conducted at the International Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP), virtual meeting, 27-31 July.

Jurkat, S., Iza Simba, N. B., Itakura, S., & Kärtner, J. (2021). The development of social attributional styles in three different cultural contexts. Poster presented at the International Congress of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology (IACCP), virtual meeting, 27-31 July.

Jurkat, S., Gruber, M., & Kärtner, J. (2021). The effect of language-based priming of visual attention styles in 4- to 9-year-old children. Poster presented at the Biennal Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), virtual meeting, 7-9 April.

Jurkat, S., & Kärtner, J. (2019). Language-based priming of visual attentional styles in 4- to 9-year-old children. Poster presented at the Gemeinsame Tagung der Fachgruppen Entwicklungspsychologie und pädagogische Psychlogie (PAEPSY), Leipzig, Germany, 9-12 September.

Teaching

B. Sc. course

• Development and Culture (winter term 20/21, 21/22, 22/23)