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Michael Tomasello, James F. Bonk Distinguished Professor edit 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: +1 919 660 8752
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Web Page: http://www.eva.mpg.de/psycho/staff/tomas/
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.
Teaching (Spring 2024):
- PSY 103.01, Developmental psychology
Synopsis
- FFSC 2231, TuTh 01:25 PM-02:40 PM
Teaching (Fall 2024): - PSY 256.01, Psychology of language
Synopsis
- Languages 211, Th 01:25 PM-03:55 PM
- Recent Publications
(More Publications)
- 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 239 (March, 2024): 105811. [doi] [abs]
- 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 237 (January, 2024): 105764. [doi] [abs]
- Tomasello, M. "Differences in the Social Motivations and Emotions of Humans and Other Great Apes.." Human nature (Hawthorne, N.Y.) 34.4 (December, 2023): 588-604. [doi] [abs]
- 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]
- 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): 17456916231201795. [doi] [abs]
- Curriculum Vitae
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