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Michael Tomasello

James F. Bonk Distinguished Professor
Psychology & Neuroscience
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, 247 Reuben-Cooke Building, Durham, NC 27708

Scholarly Works - Books


Agency and Cognitive Development

Book · July 23, 2024 Children of different ages live in different worlds. This is partly due to learning: as children learn more and more about the world they experience it in different ways. But learning cannot be the whole story or else children could learn anything at any a ... Full text Cite

Primate Cognition: Volume 1: Social Cognition, Second Edition

Book · January 1, 2024 Primate Cognition set the agenda for a new field of study. Borrowing theoretical constructs and paradigms from human cognitive science and developmental psychology, the book reviewed all of the empirical research existing at that time concerning both physi ... Full text Cite

The gestural communication of apes and monkeys

Book · August 19, 2020 The Gestural Communication of Apes and Monkeys is an intriguing compilation of naturalistic and experimental research conducted over the course of 20 years on gestural communication in primates, as well as a comparison to what is known about the vocal comm ... Full text Cite

Foreword

Book · January 1, 2020 Full text Cite

The new psychology of language: Cognitive and functional approaches to language structure

Book · January 1, 2017 This book, which gathers in one place the theories of 10 leading cognitive and functional linguists, represents a new approach that may define the next era in the history of psychology: It promises to give psychologists a new appreciation of what this vari ... Full text Cite

A Natural History of Human Morality

Book · January 4, 2016 Featured Publication Michael Tomasello offers the most detailed account to date of the evolution of human moral psychology. ... Cite

A Natural History of Human Thinking

Book · February 2014 Featured Publication Tool-making or culture, language or religious belief: ever since Darwin, thinkers have struggled to identify what fundamentally differentiates human beings from other animals. In this much-anticipated book, Michael Tomasello weaves his twenty years of comp ... Link to item Cite

The new psychology of language: Cognitive and functional approaches to language structure, volume ii classic edition

Book · January 1, 2014 From the point of view of psychology and cognitive science, much of modern linguistics is too formal and mathematical to be of much use. The New Psychology of Language volumes broke new ground by introducing functional and cognitive approaches to language ... Cite

The new psychology of language: Cognitive and functional approaches to language structure, volume I classic edition

Book · January 1, 2014 From the point of view of psychology and cognitive science, much of modern linguistics is too formal and mathematical to be of much use. The New Psychology of Language volumes broke new ground by introducing functional and cognitive approaches to language ... Cite

Introduction

Book · August 22, 2004 Full text Cite