Her research focuses on social cognition, most importantly on the understanding of social learning mechanisms and the basic processes underlying social interactions, like understanding others’ perspectives and the theory of other minds. Recent publications of hers include Beyond rational imitation: learning arbitrary means actions from communicative demonstrations, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2013 or Social category formation is induced by cues of sharing knowledge in young children, 2014 Plos One. She currently works on a model that proposes that the function of naïve sociology, namely the need for categorization of social partners, has important epistemic advantages for humans: the identification of reliable sources of information for the sake of fast cultural knowledge acquisition.