Dr Liz Renner

Assistant Professor

School: Psychology

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

cultural evolution, developmental psychology, social learning, cats, human-animal relationships, touchscreens

Key Publications

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How do young children respond to the distress of others? Applying infrared thermography and behavioural analyses to examine the development of emotion contagion and empathy, Austry, D., Renner, E., Clay, Z. 4 Mar 2026, In: PLoS One
An Index of Her Own: An Investigation of the Proportion of Women Indexed in Evolutionary Psychology Textbooks, Pollet, T., Bovet, J., Renner, E., Barrett, L. 13 Nov 2025, In: Human Ethology
Contagious Crying Revisited: A Cross‐Cultural Investigation Into Infant Emotion Contagion Using Infrared Thermal Imaging, Vreden, C., Renner, E., Ainamani, H., Crowther, R., Forward, B., Mazari, S., Tuohy, G., Ndyareeba, E., Clay, Z. 1 Mar 2025, In: Developmental Science
The paradox of information abundance: Answers provided by popular information-seeking tools lead to differences in trust, memorability and desire for more information, Constable, M., Rajsic, J., Renner, L., Taylor, L. 1 Sep 2025, In: Telematics and Informatics
Are there dedicated neural mechanisms for imitation? A study of grist and mills, Renner, E., Xie, Y., Subiaul, F., Hamilton, A. 26 Sep 2023, In: PLoS One
Capuchin monkeys learn to use information equally well from individual exploration and social demonstration, Kean, D., Renner, E., Atkinson, M., Caldwell, C. 1 Mar 2023, In: Animal Cognition
Fetching felines: a survey of cat owners on the diversity of cat (Felis catus) fetching behaviour, Forman, J., Renner, E., Leavens, D. 14 Dec 2023, In: Scientific Reports
Children transition from simple associations to explicitly reasoned social learning strategies between age four and eight, Blakey, K., Renner, E., Atkinson, M., Rafetseder, E., Caldwell, C. 23 Mar 2022, In: Scientific Reports
Restricted Access to Working Memory Does Not Prevent Cumulative Score Improvement in a Cultural Evolution Task, Dunstone, J., Atkinson, M., Renner, E., Caldwell, C. 24 Feb 2022, In: Entropy
Taking account of others’ goals in social information use: Developmental changes in 3- to 7-year-old children, Blakey, K., Atkinson, M., Rafetseder, E., Renner, E., Caldwell, C. 1 Mar 2022, In: Journal of Experimental Child Psychology

Professional Activity

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Invited talk: The Role of Memory in Cultural Evolution 2024
Oral presentation: Fetching felines: a survey of cat owners on the diversity of cat (Felis catus) fetching behaviour 2023