Cooperating Researchers - Michael Tomasello

POSITION AT CILS

Associate Faculty Member

 

DISCIPLINES / RESEARCH AREAS

Processes of Social Cognition: social learning and communication from developmental, comparative and cultural perspectives - especially aspects related to language and its acquisition

Processes of Shared Intentionality: empirical research mainly with human children from 1 to 4 years of age and great apes

 

OTHER AFFILIATIONS

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig

 

FELLOWSHIPS / AWARDS

  • Instructor, LSA summer school, UC Berkeley (2009)
  • Instructor, LSA summer school, Stanford University (2007)
  • Instructor, summer school in linguistics, San Marino, Italy (2003)
  • Instructor, LOT (Dutch Graduate School of Linguistics) (2001)
  • Instructor, International Cognitive Science Institute (1999)
  • Visiting Scholar, MPI for Psycholinguistics (1998)
  • Visiting Professor, The British Academy (1996)
  • Visiting Professor, University of Rome (1995)
  • Visiting Fellow, British Psychological Society (1994)
  • Instructor, International Cognitive Science Institute (1994)
  • Visiting Scholar, Harvard University (1987 – 1988)

 

  • Heineken Prize for Cognitive Science, Royal Academy of the Netherlands (2010)
  • Max Planck Research Award, Humboldt Foundation (2010)
  • Hegel Prize, City of Stuttgart (2009)
  • Oswald Külpe Prize, University of Würzburg (2009)
  • Eleanor Maccoby Book Award, American Psychological Association (2009)
  • Mind & Brain Prize, Center for Cognitive Science, University of Turin (2007)
  • Jean Nicod Prize for Philosophy of Cognitive Science (2006)
  • Cognitive Development Society Book Award (2005)
  • Fyssen Foundation Prize for Cognitive Science (2004)
  • William James Book Award, American Psychological Association (2001)

 

EDITORSHIPS / MEMBERSHIPS

  • Editorial Board, J. of Child Language
  • Editorial Board, Cognitive Linguistics
  • Editorial Board, Biology & Philosophy
  • Editorial Board, Animal Cognition
  • Editorial Board, Interaction Studies
  • Editorial Board, Biological Theory
  • Editorial Board, Cognitive Science
  • Editorial Board, First Language
  • Editorial Board, Human Development
  • Editorial Board, Social Development
  • Editorial Board, Gesture
  • Editorial Board, Mind & Society
  • Editorial Board, Cognition
  • Editorial Board, Developmental Science
  • Editorial Board, Language Learning & Development
  • Editorial Board, Cognitive Science Quarterly
  • Editorial Board, Constructions
  • Editorial Board, Child Development Perspectives
  • Associate Editor, Developmental Science (1997 – 2005)

 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

  • Bannard, C., Lieven, E., & Tomasello, M. (2009). Modeling children's early grammatical knowledge. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106,17284-17289.
  • Buttelmann, D., Carpenter, M., & Tomasello, M. (2009). Eighteen-month-olds show false belief understanding in an active helping paradigm.  Cognition, 112, 337-42.
  • Gräfenhain, M., Behne, T., Carpenter, M., & Tomasello, M. (2009). Young children's understanding of joint commitments.  Developmental Paychology, 45, 1430-43.
  • Liebal, K.., Behne, T., Carpenter, M., & Tomasello, M. (2009). Infants use shared experience to interpret pointing gestures. Developmental Science, 12, 264-71.
  • Liszkowski, U., Schäfer, M., Carpenter, M., & Tomasello, M. (2009). Prelinguistic infants, but not chimpanzees, communicate about absent entities. Psychological Science, 20(5), 654-660.
  • Vaish, A., Carpenter, M., & Tomasello, M. (2009). Sympathy through affective perspective taking and its relation to prosocial behavior in toddlers. Developmental Psychology, 45(2), 534–543.
  • Warneken, F. & Tomasello, M. (2009).  Varieties of altruism in children and chimpanzees. Trends in Cognitive Science, 13, 397-402.
  • Call, J. & Tomasello, M. (2008). Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind? 30 years later. Trends in Cognitive Science, 12, 187-192.
  • Dittmar, M., Abbot-Smith, K., Lieven, E., & Tomasello, M. (2008). German children's comprehension of word order and case marking in causative sentences. Child Development, 79(4), 1152-1167.
  • Kaminski, J, Call, J., & Tomasello, M. (2008). Chimpanzees know what others know, but not what they believe. Cognition, 109, 224-234.