Lucie Zimmer, M. Sc.
Research assistant
Clinical Psychology for Children and Adolescence and Consulting Psychology
Office hours:
by arrangement via E-mail
Research interests
- Social-cognitive development, especially Theory of Mind in infancy (DFG project ManyBabies2)
- Neural bases of social cognition in neurodivergent (especially autism spectrum disorder) and neurotypical development
- Early parent-child interaction and the influence of mental disorders
- Psychological, interpersonal and transgenerational effects of sexualised violence against minors in the context of the Catholic Church in the Diocese of Augsburg (reassessment study)
Academic Career
- Since 10/2023
- Training as a child and adolescent psychotherapist (specialising in cognitive behavioural therapy), MUNIK, LMU Munich
- Since 10/2021
- Doctorate, LFE Clinical Psychology of Childhood and Adolescence, LMU Munich
- 2019 - 2021
- Master's degree (MSc) in Psychology, University of Vienna
- 2016 - 2019
- Bachelor's degree (BSc) in Psychology, University of Vienna
- 2013 - 2016
- Bachelor's degree (BA) in Applied Movement Sciences, University of Regensburg
Professional CV
- Since 08/2025
- Child and adolescent psychotherapist in training at the Psychotherapeutic University Outpatient Clinic for Babies, Children, Adolescents and (Expectant) Parents at LMU Munich
- Since 2021
- Research assistant in the LFE Clinical Psychology of Children and Adolescents, LMU Munich
- 08/2024 – 04/2025
- Child and adolescent psychotherapist in training in the parent-child ward (0-6 years) and in the eating disorder ward at Munich Clinic Schwabing
- 2018 - 2021
- Research assistant at the Institute of Developmental Psychology, University of Vienna
Publications
Zimmer, L., Richardson, H., Pletti, C., Paulus, M., & Schuwerk, T. (2025). Predictive responses in the Theory of Mind network: A comparison of autistic and non-autistic adults. Cortex, 187, 159-171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2025.04.006
Zimmer, L., Sodian, B., Mani, N., Grosso, S., Kristen-Antonow, S., & Schuwerk, T. (2025). Two- to three-year-old toddlers differentiate the epistemic verbs ‘know’ and ‘think’ in a preferential looking eye-tracking paradigm. Developmental Psychology. https://doi.org/10.1037/dev0001933
Lucca, K., Yuen, F., Wang, Y., Alessandroni, N., Allison, O., Alvarez, M., ... Zimmer, L., & Hamlin, J. K. (2025). Infants’ social evaluation of helpers and hinderers: A large-scale, multi-lab, coordinated replication study. Developmental Science, 28(1), e13581. https://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13581
Kosie, J. E*., Zettersten, M.*, Abu-Zhaya, R., Amso, D., Babineau, M., Baumgartner, H. A., … Zimmer, L., … Lew-Williams, C. (Accepted Pending Data Collection). ManyBabies 5: A large-scale investigation of the proposed shift from familiarity preference to novelty preference in infant looking time. Nature Human Behavior. Preprint: https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ck3vd (*co-first authors)
Schuwerk, T.*, Kampis, D.*, Baillargeon, R., Biro, S., Bohn, M., Byers-Heinlein, K., … Zimmer, L., … & Rakoczy, H. (In-Principle Acceptance of Registered Report Stage 1: Study Design). Action anticipation based on an agent's epistemic state in toddlers and adults. Child Development. Preprint: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/x4jbm_v2 (* co-first authors)
Steffan, A*., Zimmer, L.*, Arias-Trejo, N., Bohn, M., Dal Ben, R., Flores-Coronado, M. A., … Schuwerk, T. (2024). Validation of an open source, remote web-based eye-tracking method (WebGazer) for research in early childhood. Infancy, 29(19), 31-55. https://doi.org/10.1111/infa.12564 (*co-first authors).
Nguyen, T., Zimmer, L., & Höhl, S. (2023). Your turn, my turn. Neural synchrony in mother-infant proto- conversation. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B – Biological Sciences, 378 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0488