Michael Tomasello, James F. Bonk Distinguished Professor

Please note: Michael has left the "Linguistics" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

Major research interests in processes of social cognition, social learning, cooperation, and communication from developmental, comparative, and cultural perspectives. Current theoretical focus on processes of shared intentionality. Empirical research mainly with human children from 1 to 4 years of age and great apes.

Office Location:	Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, 247 Reuben-Cooke Building, Durham, NC
Office Phone:	(919) 660-8752
Email Address:
Web Pages:	https://sites.duke.edu/tomasellolabduke/files/2022/05/TomasCV.docx https://sites.duke.edu/tomasellolabduke/

Teaching (Spring 2024):

• PSY 103.01, DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY Synopsis

  FFSC 2231, TuTh 01:25 PM-02:40 PM

• PSY 256.01, PSYCHOLOGY OF LANGUAGE Synopsis

  Languages 211, Th 01:25 PM-03:55 PM

  (also cross-listed as LINGUIST 207.01)

Education:

Ph.D.	University of Georgia	1980
B.A.	Duke University	1972

Research Interests:

Major research interests in processes of social cognition, social learning, cooperation, and communication from developmental, comparative, and cultural perspectives. Current theoretical focus on processes of shared intentionality. Empirical research mainly with human children from 1 to 4 years of age and great apes.

Recent Publications

1. Winter Née Grocke, P; Tomasello, M, From what I want to do to what we decided to do: 5-year-olds, but not 3-year-olds, honor their agreements with peers., Journal of experimental child psychology, vol. 239 (March, 2024), pp. 105811 [doi]  [abs]
2. Katz, T; Kushnir, T; Tomasello, M, Children are eager to take credit for prosocial acts, and cost affects this tendency., Journal of experimental child psychology, vol. 237 (January, 2024), pp. 105764 [doi]  [abs]
3. Tomasello, M, Differences in the Social Motivations and Emotions of Humans and Other Great Apes., Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.), vol. 34 no. 4 (December, 2023), pp. 588-604 [doi]  [abs]
4. Vasil, J; Price, D; Tomasello, M, Thought and language: Effects of group-mindedness on young children's interpretation of exclusive we., Child development (December, 2023) [doi]  [abs]
5. Wolf, W; Tomasello, M, A Shared Intentionality Account of Uniquely Human Social Bonding., Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science (October, 2023), pp. 17456916231201795 [doi]  [abs]