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Karri Neldner is a Forrest Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia, having joined in late 2023. Previously, she held a postdoctoral position in the Department of Comparative Cultural Psychology at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany from 2020 to 2023. Neldner completed her PhD in the School of Psychological Science at the University of Queensland, during which she participated in the Australian-American Fulbright Commission's knowledge exchange program, spending a year at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research broadly focuses on the socio-cultural factors that shape children's learning, specifically how cultural upbringing influences their moral development, decision-making, and problem-solving abilities. She employs mixed-methods from psychology and anthropology, integrating experimental design with interviews and observations to create culturally fair tools embedded in the communities she studies. Her work contributes to understanding human-animal relations and social learning in the context of cultural socialization processes. She has expertise related to the UN Sustainable Development Goals, particularly in the areas of Developmental Psychology and Cross-cultural Psychology.
University of Western Australia • Perth, Australia
Conducting research on socio-cultural factors influencing children's learning and moral development.
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology • Germany
Studied cultural socialization processes and human-animal relations.
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