Journal articleScience (New York, N.Y.) · October 2016
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Humans operate with a "theory of mind" with which they are able to understand that others' actions are driven not by reality but by beliefs about reality, even when those beliefs are false. Although great apes share with humans many social-cognitive skills ...
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Journal articlePsychological science · October 2016
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Human social life depends heavily on social norms that prescribe and proscribe specific actions. Typically, young children learn social norms from adult instruction. In the work reported here, we showed that this is not the whole story: Three-year-old chil ...
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Book · January 4, 2016
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Michael Tomasello offers the most detailed account to date of the evolution of human moral psychology. ...
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Book · February 2014
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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 ...
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Journal articleEuropean Journal of Social Psychology · January 1, 2014
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In evolutionary perspective, what is most remarkable about human sociality is its many and diverse forms of cooperation. Here, I provide an overview of some recent research, mostly from our laboratory, comparing human children with their nearest living rel ...
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Journal articleAnnual Review of Psychology · January 1, 2013
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From an evolutionary perspective, morality is a form of cooperation. Cooperation requires individuals either to suppress their own self-interest or to equate it with that of others. We review recent research on the origins of human morality, both phylogene ...
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