Michael Tomasello, James F. Bonk Distinguished Professor

Contact Info:

Office Location:	Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, 247 Reuben-Cooke Building, Durham, NC
Office Phone:	(919) 660-8752
Email Address:
Web Page:	http://www.eva.mpg.de/psycho/staff/tomas/

Teaching (Fall 2023):

• Psy 490s.01, Special topics in psychology Synopsis

  Reuben-coo 238, Th 01:25 PM-03:55 PM

• Psy 890s.01, Special topics in psychology Synopsis

  Reuben-coo 238, Th 01:25 PM-03:55 PM

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.

Curriculum Vitae

Recent Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

1. Katz, T; Kushnir, T; Tomasello, M (2024). Children are eager to take credit for prosocial acts, and cost affects this tendency.. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 237, 105764. [doi]  [abs]
2. Tomasello, M (2023). Differences in the Social Motivations and Emotions of Humans and Other Great Apes.. Hum Nat. [doi]  [abs]
3. Wolf, W; Tomasello, M (2023). A Shared Intentionality Account of Uniquely Human Social Bonding.. Perspectives on Psychological Science : a Journal of the Association for Psychological Science, 17456916231201795. [doi]  [abs]
4. Vasil, J; Moore, C; Tomasello, M (2023). Thought and language: association of groupmindedness with young English-speaking children’s production of pronouns. First Language, 43(5), 516-538. [doi]  [abs]
5. Benozio, A; House, BR; Tomasello, M (2023). Apes reciprocate food positively and negatively.. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 290(1998), 20222541. [doi]  [abs]