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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 - Conferences


Great apes anticipate actions based on agents' (false) beliefs

Conference INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY · July 1, 2016 Link to item Cite

Symposium Communicative Intentions in the Mind/Brain

Conference Cooperative Minds Social Interaction and Group Dynamics Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Cogsci 2013 · January 1, 2013 Cite

Language and Gesture Evolution

Conference Cooperative Minds Social Interaction and Group Dynamics Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Cogsci 2013 · January 1, 2013 Cite

Species differences in the rate of cognitive ontogeny among humans, chimpanzees, and bonobos

Conference AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY · January 1, 2011 Link to item Cite

Cooperation and human cognition: the Vygotskian intelligence hypothesis.

Conference Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · April 2007 Nicholas Humphrey's social intelligence hypothesis proposed that the major engine of primate cognitive evolution was social competition. Lev Vygotsky also emphasized the social dimension of intelligence, but he focused on human primates and cultural things ... Full text Cite