Max Planck Society; Duke University; Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
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Selected Publications
Journal Articles
Wouter Wolf, Vivian Iva, Isabella Larsen, Michael Tomasello (2026). Young children enforce self-created norms promiscuously. Journal Of Experimental Child Psychology, Vol. 262.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2026). The evolutionary psychology of the human pointing gesture. Mind & Language.DOI
H. Zeidler, Marie Schäfer, Esther Herrmann, Patricia Kanngiesser, Luke Maurits, Daniel B. M. Haun, Michael Tomasello (2026). Children from six cultures reliably help their peers-but in different ways. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.DOI
Kayley Dotson, Michael Tomasello (2026). When revealed after the fact, selfish intentions undermine prosocial actions in 5-year-olds. PLoS ONE.DOI
Alissa Rivero, J. Vasil, Michael Tomasello (2026). Two- and three-year-olds coordinate decisions in dyads and triads. Child Development.DOI
Trisha Katz, Michael Tomasello (2026). It's the cost that counts! Young children's reciprocity is sensitive to subjective cost. Child Development.DOI
Bahar Köymen, Yasmin Green, Sophie Bennett, Michael Tomasello (2026). Three-year-old children understand the false beliefs of their partner in collaborative decision making. Child Development.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2025). Attention in evolutionary perspective. Behavioral And Brain Sciences, Vol. 48.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2025). The evolutionary psychology of syntax. Mind & Language, Vol. 400, No. 4.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2025). [Review] Children's developing understanding of social norms. Current Opinion In Psychology, Vol. 64.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2025). [Review] Agency and Intentionality. Current Opinion In Behavioral Sciences, Vol. 62.DOI
Wouter Wolf, Michael Tomasello (2025). A Shared Intentionality Account of Uniquely Human Social Bonding. Perspectives On Psychological Science, Vol. 200, No. 20.DOI
Katharina Helming, Cathal O'Madagain, Michael Tomasello (2024). Three- and 5-year-old children know their current belief might be wrong. Journal Of Experimental Child Psychology, Vol. 246.DOI
Jared Vasil, Dayna Price, Michael Tomasello (2024). Thought and language: Effects of group-mindedness on young children's interpretation of exclusive we. Child Development, Vol. 950, No. 30.DOI
Patricia Winter (nee Grocke), Michael Tomasello (2024). From what I want to do to what we decided to do: 5-year-olds, but not 3-year-olds, honor their agreements with peers. Journal Of Experimental Child Psychology, Vol. 239.DOI
Trisha Katz, Tamar Kushnir, Michael Tomasello (2024). Children are eager to take credit for prosocial acts, and cost affects this tendency. Journal Of Experimental Child Psychology, Vol. 237.DOI
Robert Hepach, Michael Tomasello (2024). Instrumental helping motivations of children and chimpanzees. Child Development Perspectives.DOI
J. Vasil, Camryn Capoot, Michael Tomasello (2024). Effects of group entitativity on young English-speaking children’s interpretation of inclusive We. PLoS ONE.DOI
J. Vasil, Maya Provençal, Michael Tomasello (2024). Effects of “We”-framing and partner number on 2- and 3-year-olds’ sense of commitment. Cognitive development.DOI
Avi Benozio, Bailey R House, Michael Tomasello (2024). Gender and cultural differences in the development of reciprocity in young children. Developmental Psychology.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2024). Agency and Cognitive Development.DOI
Trisha Katz, Michael Tomasello (2024). Reciprocal reputation management: Preschoolers respond to shared credit with shared blame. Cognitive development.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2023). Differences in the Social Motivations and Emotions of Humans and Other Great Apes. Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective, Vol. 340, No. 4.DOI
Avi Benozio, Bailey R. R. House, Michael Tomasello (2023). Apes reciprocate food positively and negatively. Proceedings Of The Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, Vol. 290, No. 19980.DOI
Marie Schafer, Daniel B. M. Haun, Michael Tomasello (2023). Children?s consideration of collaboration and merit when making sharing decisions in private. Journal Of Experimental Child Psychology, Vol. 228.DOI
Livia Colle, Gerlind Grosse, Tanya Behne, Michael Tomasello (2023). Just teasing!-Infants' and toddlers' understanding of teasing interactions and its effect on social bonding. Cognition, Vol. 2310.DOI
Wouter Wolf, Julia Thielhelm, Michael Tomasello (2023). Five-year-old children show cooperative preferences for faces with white sclera. Journal Of Experimental Child Psychology, Vol. 225.DOI
Robert Hepach, Jan M. Engelmann, Esther Herrmann, Stella C. Gerdemann, Michael Tomasello (2023). Evidence for a developmental shift in the motivation underlying helping in early childhood. Developmental Science, Vol. 260, No. 10.DOI
Leon Li, Michael Tomasello (2022). Disagreement, justification, and equitable moral judgments: A brief training study. Journal Of Experimental Child Psychology, Vol. 223.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2022). What is it like to be a chimpanzee? Synthese, Vol. 2000, No. 2.DOI
Cathal O'Madagain, Katharina A. Helming, Marco F. H. Schmidt, Eli Shupe, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (2022). Great apes and human children rationally monitor their decisions. Proceedings Of The Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, Vol. 289, No. 19710.DOI
Sebastian Grueneisen, Michael Tomasello (2022). How fairness and dominance guide young children's bargaining decisions. Child Development.DOI
Jared Vasil, Michael Tomasello (2022). Effects of we-framing on young children's commitment, sharing, and helping. Journal Of Experimental Child Psychology, Vol. 214.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2022). Construction Grammar for Kids. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2021). Knowledge-by-acquaintance before propositional knowledge/belief. Behavioral And Brain Sciences, Vol. 44.DOI
Gregor Kachel, Richard Moore, Robert Hepach, Michael Tomasello (2021). Toddlers Prefer Adults as Informants: 2-and 3-Year-Olds' Use of and Attention to Pointing Gestures From Peer and Adult Partners. Child Development, Vol. 920, No. 4.DOI
Cathal O'Madagain, Michael Tomasello (2021). Joint attention to mental content and the social origin of reasoning. Synthese, Vol. 1980, No. 5.DOI
Wouter Wolf, Amanda Nafe, Michael Tomasello (2021). The Development of the Liking Gap: Children Older Than 5 Years Think That Partners Evaluate Them Less Positively Than They Evaluate Their Partners. Psychological Science, Vol. 320, No. 50.DOI
Barbora Siposova, Sebastian Grueneisen, Katharina Helming, Michael Tomasello, Malinda Carpenter (2021). Common knowledge that help is needed increases helping behavior in children. Journal Of Experimental Child Psychology, Vol. 201.DOI
Wouter Wolf, Michael Tomasello (2020). Human children, but not great apes, become socially closer by sharing an experience in common ground. Journal Of Experimental Child Psychology, Vol. 199.DOI
Alejandro Sanchez-Amaro, Shona Duguid, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (2020). Do 7-year-old children understand social leverage? Journal Of Experimental Child Psychology, Vol. 199.DOI
Julia Ulber, Michael Tomasello (2020). Young children's prosocial responses toward peers and adults in two social contexts. Journal Of Experimental Child Psychology, Vol. 198.DOI
Manuel Bohn, Clara Kordt, Maren Braun, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (2020). Learning Novel Skills From Iconic Gestures: A Developmental and Evolutionary Perspective. Psychological Science, Vol. 310, No. 70.DOI
Bahar Koymen, Solveig Jurkat, Michael Tomasello (2020). Preschoolers refer to direct and indirect evidence in their collaborative reasoning. Journal Of Experimental Child Psychology, Vol. 193.DOI
Bahar Koymen, Cathal O'Madagain, Andreas Domberg, Michael Tomasello (2020). Young Children's Ability to Produce Valid and Relevant Counter-Arguments. Child Development, Vol. 910, No. 3.DOI
Robert Hepach, Leila Benziad, Michael Tomasello (2020). Chimpanzees help others with what they want; children help them with what they need. Developmental Science, Vol. 230, No. 30.DOI
Wouter Wolf, Michael Tomasello (2020). Watching a video together creates social closeness between children and adults. Journal Of Experimental Child Psychology, Vol. 189.DOI
Patricia Kanngiesser, Federico Rossano, Ramona Frickel, Anne Tomm, Michael Tomasello (2020). Children, but not great apes, respect ownership. Developmental Science, Vol. 230, No. 10.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2020). The moral psychology of obligation. Behavioral And Brain Sciences, Vol. 43.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2020). The many faces of obligation. Behavioral And Brain Sciences, Vol. 43.DOI
Robert Hepach, Amrisha Vaish, Katharina Mueller, Michael Tomasello (2019). Toddlers' intrinsic motivation to return help to their benefactor. Journal Of Experimental Child Psychology, Vol. 188.DOI
Margherita Isella, Patricia Kanngiesser, Michael Tomasello (2019). Children's Selective Trust in Promises. Child Development, Vol. 900, No. 6.DOI
Susanne Hardecker, Joanna C. Buryn-Weitzel, Michael Tomasello (2019). Adult instruction limits children's flexibility in moral decision making. Journal Of Experimental Child Psychology, Vol. 187.DOI
Zhen Zhang, Patricia Grocke, Michael Tomasello (2019). The influence of intention and outcome on young children's reciprocal sharing. Journal Of Experimental Child Psychology, Vol. 187.DOI
Ulrike Kachel, Margarita Svetlova, Michael Tomasello (2019). Three- and 5-year-old children's understanding of how to dissolve a joint commitment. Journal Of Experimental Child Psychology, Vol. 184.DOI
Jan M. Engelmann, Michael Tomasello (2019). [Review] Children's Sense of Fairness as Equal Respect. Trends In Cognitive Sciences, Vol. 23, No. 6.DOI
Manuel Bohn, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (2019). Natural reference: A phylo- and ontogenetic perspective on the comprehension of iconic gestures and vocalizations. Developmental Science, Vol. 220, No. 20.DOI
Esther Herrmann, Jan M. Engelmann, Michael Tomasello (2019). Children engage in competitive altruism. Journal Of Experimental Child Psychology, Vol. 179.DOI
Sebastian Grueneisen, Michael Tomasello (2019). Children use rules to coordinate in a social dilemma. Journal Of Experimental Child Psychology, Vol. 179.DOI
Robert Hepach, Amrisha Vaish, Katharina Mueller, Michael Tomasello (2019). The relation between young children's physiological arousal and their motivation to help others. Neuropsychologia, Vol. 126.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2019). Becoming Human. Belknap Press.
Michael Tomasello (2019). Becoming Human : A Theory of Ontogeny.
Avi Benozio, Bailey R. House, Michael Tomasello (2019). Girls, not boys, are strong reciprocators in one-shot, sequential, and costly interactions. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society).
Maria John, Alicia P. Melis, Daniel Read, Federico Rossano, Michael Tomasello (2018). The preference for scarcity: A developmental and comparative perspective. Psychology & Marketing, Vol. 350, No. 8.DOI
Manuel Bohn, Luise Zimmermann, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (2018). The social-cognitive basis of infants' reference to absent entities. Cognition, Vol. 1770.DOI
Bailey R. House, Michael Tomasello (2018). Modeling social norms increasingly influences costly sharing in middle childhood. Journal Of Experimental Child Psychology, Vol. 171.DOI
Jing Li, Michael Tomasello (2018). The development of intention-based sociomoral judgment and distribution behavior from a third-party stance. Journal Of Experimental Child Psychology, Vol. 167.DOI
Bahar Koymen, Michael Tomasello (2018). Children's meta-talk in their collaborative decision making with peers. Journal Of Experimental Child Psychology, Vol. 166.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2018). Precis of a natural history of human morality. Philosophical Psychology, Vol. 310, No. 5.DOI
Alejandro Sánchez-Amaro, Shona Duguid, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (2018). Coordination strategies of chimpanzees and children in a prisoner's dilemma. Max Planck Digital Library.
Victoria Vonau, Claudio Tennie, Daniel Hanus, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (2018). Chimpanzees are sensitive to temporal directionality in causal sequences. Max Planck Digital Library.
Michael Tomasello, Ivan Gonzalez-Cabrera (2017). The Role of Ontogeny in the Evolution of Human Cooperation. Human Nature-An Interdisciplinary Biosocial Perspective, Vol. 280, No. 3.DOI
Jan M. Engelmann, Jeremy B. Clift, Esther Herrmann, Michael Tomasello (2017). Social disappointment explains chimpanzees' behaviour in the inequity aversion task. Proceedings Of The Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, Vol. 284, No. 18610.DOI
Patricia Kanngiesser, Bahar Koeymen, Michael Tomasello (2017). Young children mostly keep, and expect others to keep, their promises. Journal Of Experimental Child Psychology, Vol. 159.DOI
Diotima J. Rapp, Jan M. Engelmann, Esther Herrmann, Michael Tomasello (2017). The impact of choice on young children's prosocial motivation. Journal Of Experimental Child Psychology, Vol. 158.DOI
Julia Ulber, Katharina Hamann, Michael Tomasello (2017). Young children, but not chimpanzees, are averse to disadvantageous and advantageous inequities. Journal Of Experimental Child Psychology, Vol. 155.DOI
Silke Brandt, David Buttelmann, Elena Lieven, Michael Tomasello (2016). Children's understanding of first- and third-person perspectives in complement clauses and false-belief tasks. Journal Of Experimental Child Psychology, Vol. 151.DOI
Susanne Hardecker, Marco F. H. Schmidt, Meike Roden, Michael Tomasello (2016). Young children's behavioral and emotional responses to different social norm violations. Journal Of Experimental Child Psychology, Vol. 150.DOI
Marco F. H. Schmidt, Lucas P. Butler, Julia Heinz, Michael Tomasello (2016). Young Children See a Single Action and Infer a Social Norm: Promiscuous Normativity in 3-Year-Olds. Psychological Science, Vol. 270, No. 100.DOI
Alicia P. Melis, Patricia Grocke, Josefine Kalbitz, Michael Tomasello (2016). One for You, One for Me: Humans' Unique Turn-Taking Skills. Psychological Science, Vol. 270, No. 70.DOI
Lucas P. Butler, Michael Tomasello (2016). Two- and 3-year-olds integrate linguistic and pedagogical cues in guiding inductive generalization and exploration. Journal Of Experimental Child Psychology, Vol. 145.DOI
Paul Ibbotson, Michael Tomasello (2016). Evidence rebuts Chomsky's theory of language learning. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society).
Michael Tomasello, Jürgen Schröder, Suhrkamp Verlag (2016). Eine Naturgeschichte der menschlichen Moral.
Avi Benozio, Bailey R. House, Michael Tomasello (2016). Girls, but not boys, reciprocate in a self-defeating task. Max Planck Digital Library.
Avi Benozio, Bailey R. House, Michael Tomasello (2016). Clearly nice, clearly selfish: Chimpanzees reciprocate unambiguous signals of pro- and anti-social dispositions. Max Planck Digital Library.
Avi Benozio, Bailey R. House, Michael Tomasello (2016). A gendered-effect in children’s direct and in-direct reciprocal behaviors. Max Planck Digital Library.
Avi Benozio, Maria Plötner, Michael Tomasello (2016). Out-group 'love' and in-group 'indifference': Group identification underlay children’s group-biased behavior. Max Planck Digital Library.
Maria Ploetner, Harriet Over, Malinda Carpenter, Michael Tomasello (2015). The effects of collaboration and minimal-group membership on children's prosocial behavior, liking, affiliation, and trust. Journal Of Experimental Child Psychology, Vol. 139.DOI
Susanne Grassmann, Cornelia Schulze, Michael Tomasello (2015). Children's level of word knowledge predicts their exclusion of familiar objects as referents of novel words. Frontiers In Psychology, Vol. 6.DOI
Robert Hepach, Amrisha Vaish, Michael Tomasello (2015). Novel paradigms to measure variability of behavior in early childhood: posture, gaze, and pupil dilation. Frontiers In Psychology, Vol. 6.DOI
Sebastian Grueneisen, Emily Wyman, Michael Tomasello (2015). I Know You Don't Know I Know ... Children Use Second-Order False-Belief Reasoning for Peer Coordination. Child Development, Vol. 860, No. 1.DOI
Maria John, Federico Rossano, Alicia P. Melis, Michael Tomasello (2015). Scarcity and value attribution in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society).
Maria John, Alicia P. Melis, Michael Tomasello (2015). Do chimpanzees distinguish between collaborators and non-collaborators after food acquisition? Max Planck Digital Library.
Michael Tomasello (2015). The ontogeny of cultural learning. Current Opinion in Psychology.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2015). The social-pragmatic theory of word learning. Pragmatics Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA).DOI
Susanne Grassmann, Michael Tomasello (2015). The primacy of pragmatics over lexical knowledge in young children's reference resolution. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society).
Federico Rossano, Marie Nitzschner, Michael Tomasello (2014). Domestic dogs and puppies can use human voice direction referentially. Proceedings Of The Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, Vol. 281, No. 17850.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2014). The ultra-social animal. European Journal Of Social Psychology, Vol. 440, No. 3.DOI
David Buttelmann, Harriet Over, Malinda Carpenter, Michael Tomasello (2014). Eighteen-month-olds understand false beliefs in an unexpected-contents task. Journal Of Experimental Child Psychology, Vol. 119.DOI
Federico Rossano, Lydia Fiedler, Michael Tomasello (2014). Preschoolers’ understanding of the role of communication and cooperation in establishing property rights. Developmental Psychology.DOI
Bahar Köymen, Lena Rosenbaum, Michael Tomasello (2014). Reasoning during joint decision-making by preschool peers. Cognitive Development.DOI
Felix Warneken, Michael Tomasello (2014). Extrinsic rewards undermine altruistic tendencies in 20-month-olds. Motivation Science.DOI
Martina Vogelsang, Keith Jensen, Sebastian Kirschner, Claudio Tennie, Michael Tomasello (2014). Preschoolers are sensitive to free riding in a public goods game. Frontiers in Psychology.DOI
Felix Warneken, Jasmin Steinwender, Katharina Hamann, Michael Tomasello (2014). Young children's planning in a collaborative problem-solving task. Cognitive Development.DOI
Susanne Göckeritz, Marco F. H. Schmidt, Michael Tomasello (2014). Young children's creation and transmission of social norms. Cognitive Development.DOI
Keith Austin, Anna Theakston, Elena Lieven, Michael Tomasello (2014). Young children’s understanding of denial. Developmental Psychology.DOI
Tanya Behne, Malinda Carpenter, Michael Tomasello (2014). Young children create iconic gestures to inform others. Developmental Psychology.DOI
Katja Karg, Martin Schmelz, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (2014). All great ape species (Gorilla gorilla, Pan paniscus, Pan troglodytes, Pongo abelii) and two-and-a-half-year-old children (Homo sapiens) discriminate appearance from reality. Journal of comparative psychology.DOI
Bahar Köymen, Daniel Schmerse, Elena Lieven, Michael Tomasello (2014). Young children create partner-specific referential pacts with peers. Developmental Psychology.DOI
Anna Albiach‐Serrano, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (2014). Do chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) help conspecifics to obtain food? Max Planck Digital Library.
Martina Wittig, Keith Jensen, Michael Tomasello (2013). Five-year-olds understand fair as equal in a mini-ultimatum game. Journal Of Experimental Child Psychology, Vol. 116, No. 2.DOI
Alicia P. Melis, Kristin Altrichter, Michael Tomasello (2013). Allocation of resources to collaborators and free-riders in 3-year-olds. Journal Of Experimental Child Psychology, Vol. 114, No. 2.DOI
Michael Tomasello, Amrisha Vaish (2013). [Review] Origins of Human Cooperation and Morality. Annual Review Of Psychology, Vol 64, Vol. 64.DOI
Richard Moore, Kristin Liebal, Michael Tomasello (2013). Three-year-olds understand communicative intentions without language, gestures, or gaze. Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems.DOI
Daniel Schmerse, Elena Lieven, Michael Tomasello (2013). Discourse Particles and Belief Reasoning: The Case of German doch. Journal of Semantics.DOI
Colin Bannard, Jörn E. Klinger, Michael Tomasello (2013). How selective are 3-year-olds in imitating novel linguistic material? Developmental Psychology.DOI
Michael Tomasello, Malinda Carpenter (2013). Dueling Dualists. Human Development.DOI
Michael Tomasello, Alicia P. Melis, Claudio Tennie, Emily Wyman, Esther Herrmann (2012). Two Key Steps in the Evolution of Human Cooperation The Interdependence Hypothesis. Current Anthropology, Vol. 530, No. 6.DOI
Anna-Claire Schneider, Alicia P. Melis, Michael Tomasello (2012). How chimpanzees solve collective action problems. Proceedings Of The Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, Vol. 279, No. 17490.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2012). Why be nice? Better not think about it. Trends In Cognitive Sciences, Vol. 16, No. 12.DOI
Marco F. H. Schmidt, Hannes Rakoczy, Michael Tomasello (2012). Young children enforce social norms selectively depending on the violator's group affiliation. Cognition, Vol. 1240, No. 3.DOI
Marco F. H. Schmidt, Michael Tomasello (2012). Young Children Enforce Social Norms. Current Directions In Psychological Science, Vol. 210, No. 40.DOI
Juliane Kaminski, Linda Schulz, Michael Tomasello (2012). How dogs know when communication is intended for them. Developmental Science, Vol. 150, No. 20.DOI
Felix Warneken, Maria Graefenhain, Michael Tomasello (2012). Collaborative partner or social tool? New evidence for young children's understanding of joint intentions in collaborative activities. Developmental Science, Vol. 150, No. 10.DOI
Linda Scheider, Juliane Kaminski, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (2012). Do domestic dogs interpret pointing as a command? Animal Cognition.DOI
Juliane Bräuer, Magdalena Keckeisen, Andrea Pitsch, Juliane Kaminski, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (2012). Domestic dogs conceal auditory but not visual information from others. Animal Cognition.DOI
Jan M. Engelmann, Esther Herrmann, Michael Tomasello (2012). Five-Year Olds, but Not Chimpanzees, Attempt to Manage Their Reputations. PLoS ONE.DOI
Marie Nitzschner, Alicia P. Melis, Juliane Kaminski, Michael Tomasello (2012). Dogs (Canis familiaris) Evaluate Humans on the Basis of Direct Experiences Only. PLoS ONE.DOI
Robert Hepach, Amrisha Vaish, Michael Tomasello (2012). Young children sympathize less in response to unjustified emotional distress. Developmental Psychology.DOI
Claudio Tennie, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (2012). Untrained Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) Fail to Imitate Novel Actions. PLoS ONE.DOI
Esther Herrmann, Stefanie Keupp, Brian A. Hare, Amrisha Vaish, Michael Tomasello (2012). Direct and indirect reputation formation in nonhuman great apes (Pan paniscus, Pan troglodytes, Gorilla gorilla, Pongo pygmaeus) and human children (Homo sapiens). Journal of comparative psychology.DOI
Henrike Moll, Andrew N. Meltzoff, Katharina Merzsch, Michael Tomasello (2012). Taking versus confronting visual perspectives in preschool children. Developmental Psychology.DOI
Robert Hepach, Amrisha Vaish, Michael Tomasello (2012). A New Look at Children’s Prosocial Motivation. Infancy.DOI
Katharina Csilla Kirchhofer, Felizitas Zimmermann, Juliane Kaminski, Michael Tomasello (2012). Dogs (Canis familiaris), but Not Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), Understand Imperative Pointing. PLoS ONE.DOI
Michael Tomasello, Katharina Hamann (2012). Kooperation bei Kleinkindern. Max Planck Digital Library.
Anke F. Bullinger, Felizitas Zimmermann, Juliane Kaminski, Michael Tomasello (2011). Different social motives in the gestural communication of chimpanzees and human children. Developmental Science, Vol. 140, No. 10.DOI
Henrike Moll, Michael Tomasello (2011). Three-year-olds understand appearance and reality—just not about the same object at the same time. Developmental Psychology.DOI
Anke F. Bullinger, Alicia P. Melis, Michael Tomasello (2011). Chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes , prefer individual over collaborative strategies towards goals. Animal Behaviour.DOI
Juliane Kaminski, Martina Neumann, Juliane Bräuer, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (2011). Dogs, Canis familiaris, communicate with humans to request but not to inform. Animal Behaviour.DOI
Katharina Hamann, Felix Warneken, Julia R. Greenberg, Michael Tomasello (2011). Collaboration encourages equal sharing in children but not in chimpanzees. Nature.DOI
Linda Scheider, Susanne Grassmann, Juliane Kaminski, Michael Tomasello (2011). Domestic Dogs Use Contextual Information and Tone of Voice when following a Human Pointing Gesture. PLoS ONE.DOI
Alicia P. Melis, Anna-Claire Schneider, Michael Tomasello (2011). Chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes, share food in the same way after collaborative and individual food acquisition. Animal Behaviour.DOI
Tanya Behne, Ulf Liszkowski, Malinda Carpenter, Michael Tomasello (2011). Twelve‐month‐olds’ comprehension and production of pointing. British Journal of Developmental Psychology.DOI
Dorit Mersmann, Michael Tomasello, Josep Call, Juliane Kaminski, Michael Taborsky (2011). Simple Mechanisms Can Explain Social Learning in Domestic Dogs (Canis familiaris). Ethology.DOI
Thomas Grünloh, Elena Lieven, Michael Tomasello (2011). German children use prosody to identify participant roles in transitive sentences. Cognitive Linguistics.DOI
Amrisha Vaish, Malinda Carpenter, Michael Tomasello (2011). Young children's responses to guilt displays. Developmental Psychology.DOI
Michael Tomasello, Henrike Moll (2011). Replik auf die Kommentare. Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie.DOI
Victoria Wobber, Esther Herrmann, Brian A. Hare, Richard W. Wrangham, Michael Tomasello (2011). Species differences in the rate of cognitive ontogeny among humans, chimpanzees, and bonobos. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society).
Sebastian Kirschner, Michael Tomasello (2010). Joint music making promotes prosocial behavior in 4-year-old children. Evolution And Human Behavior, Vol. 31, No. 5.DOI
Amanda Seed, Michael Tomasello (2010). Primate Cognition. Topics In Cognitive Science, Vol. 20, No. 30.DOI
D. Hanuš, Dekan, P. Frensch, E. van der Meer, Michael Tomasello (2010). Great Apes ’ Causal Cognition in the Physical Domain.
Juliane Kaminski, Marie Nitzschner, Victoria Wobber, Claudio Tennie, Juliane Bräuer, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (2010). Do dogs distinguish rational from irrational acts? Animal Behaviour.DOI
Julia R. Greenberg, Katharina Hamann, Felix Warneken, Michael Tomasello (2010). Chimpanzee helping in collaborative and noncollaborative contexts. Animal Behaviour.DOI
Silke Brandt, Elena Lieven, Michael Tomasello (2010). Development of Word Order in German Complement-Clause Constructions: Effects of Input Frequencies, Lexical Items, and Discourse Function. Language.DOI
Esther Herrmann, Brian A. Hare, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (2010). Differences in the Cognitive Skills of Bonobos and Chimpanzees. PLoS ONE.DOI
Henrike Moll, Malinda Carpenter, Michael Tomasello (2010). Social Engagement Leads 2‐Year‐Olds to Overestimate Others’ Knowledge. Infancy.DOI
Susanne Grassmann, Michael Tomasello (2010). Prosodic stress on a word directs 24-month-olds’ attention to a contextually new referent. Journal of Pragmatics.DOI
Claudio Tennie, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (2010). Evidence for Emulation in Chimpanzees in Social Settings Using the Floating Peanut Task. PLoS ONE.DOI
Carla Krachun, Canada Malinda Carpenter, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (2010). A New Change-of-Contents False Belief Test: Children and Chimpanzees Compared. International Journal of Comparative Psychology.DOI
Kirsten Abbot‐Smith, Michael Tomasello (2010). The Influence of Frequency and Semantic Similarity on How Children Learn Grammar. First Language.DOI
Andrew Whiten, William C. McGrew, Leslie C. Aiello, Christophe Boesch, Robert T. Boyd, Richard W. Byrne, Robin Dunbar, Tetsuro Matsuzawa, Joan B. Silk, Michael Tomasello, Carel P. van Schaik, Richard W. Wrangham (2010). Studying Extant Species to Model Our Past. Science.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2009). Universal grammar is dead. Behavioral And Brain Sciences, Vol. 32, No. 5.DOI
Felix Warneken, Michael Tomasello (2009). [Review] Varieties of altruism in children and chimpanzees. Trends In Cognitive Sciences, Vol. 13, No. 9.DOI
Felix Warneken, Michael Tomasello (2009). The roots of human altruism. British Journal Of Psychology, Vol. 1000.DOI
Sebastian Kirschner, Michael Tomasello (2009). Joint drumming: Social context facilitates synchronization in preschool children. Journal Of Experimental Child Psychology, Vol. 102, No. 3.DOI
Michael Tomasello, Juliane Kaminski (2009). Like Infant, Like Dog. Science.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2009). Society need not be selfish. Nature.DOI
Brian A. Hare, Alexandra G. Rosati, Juliane Kaminski, Juliane Bräuer, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (2009). The domestication hypothesis for dogs' skills with human communication: a response to Udell et al. (2008) and Wynne et al. (2008). Animal Behaviour.DOI
Michael Tomasello, Silke Brandt (2009). FLEXIBILITY IN THE SEMANTICS AND SYNTAX OF CHILDREN’S EARLY VERB USE. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development.DOI
Letitia Naigles, Erika Hoff, Donna Vear, Michael Tomasello, Silke Brandt, Sandra R. Waxman, Jane B. Childers (2009). II. PRESENTING THE DIARY METHOD. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development.DOI
Letitia Naigles, Erika Hoff, Donna Vear, Michael Tomasello, Silke Brandt, Sandra R. Waxman, Jane B. Childers (2009). III. A GENERAL DESCRIPTION OF EARLY VERB GROWTH AND USE. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development.DOI
Letitia Naigles, Erika Hoff, Donna Vear, Michael Tomasello, Silke Brandt, Sandra R. Waxman, Jane B. Childers (2009). I. INTRODUCTION. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development.DOI
Letitia Naigles, Erika Hoff, Donna Vear, Michael Tomasello, Silke Brandt, Sandra R. Waxman, Jane B. Childers (2009). VII. GENERAL DISCUSSION. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development.DOI
Letitia Naigles, Erika Hoff, Donna Vear, Michael Tomasello, Silke Brandt, Sandra R. Waxman, Jane B. Childers (2009). VI. DIFFERENCES IN EARLY VERB GROWTH AND USE AS A FUNCTION OF DEVELOPMENTAL PERIOD, CHILD, AND VERB. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development.DOI
Letitia Naigles, Erika Hoff, Donna Vear, Michael Tomasello, Silke Brandt, Sandra R. Waxman, Jane B. Childers (2009). IV. PRAGMATIC AND SEMANTIC FLEXIBILITY IN EARLY VERB USE. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development.DOI
Letitia Naigles, Erika Hoff, Donna Vear, Michael Tomasello, Silke Brandt, Sandra R. Waxman, Jane B. Childers (2009). V. PRODUCTIVITY AND GRAMMATICAL FLEXIBILITY IN EARLY VERB USE. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development.DOI
Minna Kirjavainen, Anna Theakston, Elena Lieven, Michael Tomasello (2009). `I want hold Postman Pat': An investigation into the acquisition of infinitival marker `to'. First Language.DOI
Costanza Colombi, Kristin Liebal, Michael Tomasello, Gregory S. Young, Felix Warneken, Sally J. Rogers (2009). Examining correlates of cooperation in autism. Autism.DOI
Paul Ibbotson, Michael Tomasello (2009). Prototype constructions in early language acquisition. Language and Cognition.DOI
Yvonne Lambach, Esther Herrmann, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (2009). Physical and social cognition in domestic dogs: A comparative study. Journal of Veterinary Behavior.DOI
Emily Wyman, Hannes Rakoczy, Michael Tomasello (2009). Normativity and context in young children's pretend play. Cognitive Development.DOI
Amrisha Vaish, Malinda Carpenter, Michael Tomasello (2009). Sympathy through affective perspective taking and its relation to prosocial behavior in toddlers. Developmental Psychology.DOI
Elena Lieven, Dorothé Salomo, Michael Tomasello (2009). Two-year-old children's production of multiword utterances: A usage-based analysis. Cognitive Linguistics.DOI
Maria Gräfenhain, Tanya Behne, Malinda Carpenter, Michael Tomasello (2009). Young children’s understanding of joint commitments. Developmental Psychology.DOI
Juliane Kaminski, Michael Tomasello, Josep Call, Juliane Bräuer (2009). Domestic dogs are sensitive to a human's perspective. Behaviour.DOI
Angel Chan, Elena Lieven, Michael Tomasello (2009). Children's understanding of the agent-patient relations in the transitive construction: Cross-linguistic comparisons between Cantonese, German, and English. Cognitive Linguistics.DOI
Esther Herrmann, Brian A. Hare, Julia Cissewski, Michael Tomasello (2009). The origin of human temperament: Differences in the response to novelty among great apes and human children. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society).
Ulf Liszkowski, Malinda Carpenter, Michael Tomasello (2008). Twelve-month-olds communicate helpfully and appropriately for knowledgeable and ignorant partners. Cognition, Vol. 1080, No. 3.DOI
Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (2008). [Review] Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind? 30 years later. Trends In Cognitive Sciences, Vol. 12, No. 5.DOI
Juliane Bräuer, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (2008). Are apes inequity averse? New data on the token‐exchange paradigm. American Journal of Primatology.DOI
Kristin Liebal, Michael Tomasello (2008). Infants appreciate the social intention behind a pointing gesture: Commentary on “Children's understanding of communicative intentions in the middle of the second year of life” by T. Aureli, P. Perucchini and M. Genco. Cognitive Development.DOI
Hannes Rakoczy, Felix Warneken, Michael Tomasello (2008). Young children's selective learning of rule games from reliable and unreliable models. Cognitive Development.DOI
Michael Tomasello, Felix Warneken (2008). Share and share alike. Nature.DOI
Emily Wyman, Hannes Rakoczy, Michael Tomasello (2008). Young children understand multiple pretend identities in their object play. British Journal of Developmental Psychology.DOI
Alicia P. Melis, Brian A. Hare, Michael Tomasello (2008). Do chimpanzees reciprocate received favours? Animal Behaviour.DOI
Hannes Rakoczy, Felix Warneken, Michael Tomasello (2008). The sources of normativity: Young children's awareness of the normative structure of games. Developmental Psychology.DOI
Claudio Tennie, Daniela Hedwig, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (2008). An experimental study of nettle feeding in captive gorillas. American Journal of Primatology.DOI
Michael Tomasello, Josep Call (2008). Assessing the validity of ape-human comparisons: A reply to Boesch (2007). Journal of comparative psychology.DOI
Hannes Rakoczy, Michael Tomasello (2008). Kollektive Intentionalität und kulturelle Entwicklung. Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2008). How Are Humans Unique? Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics.
Juliane Kaminski, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (2008). Chimpanzees know what others have seen but not what others believe. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics.
Juliane Bräuer, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (2008). Inequity Aversion in Great Apes? Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics.
Danielle Matthews, Elena Lieven, Michael Tomasello (2007). How toddlers and preschoolers learn to uniquely identify referents for others: A training study. Child Development, Vol. 780, No. 6.DOI
Sanae Okamoto-Barth, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (2007). Great apes' understanding of other individuals' line of sight. Psychological Science, Vol. 180, No. 50.DOI
Evan Kidd, Silke Brandt, Elena Lieven, Michael Tomasello (2007). Object relatives made easy: A cross-linguistic comparison of the constraints influencing young children's processing of relative clauses. Language and Cognitive Processes.DOI
Keith Jensen, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (2007). Chimpanzees are vengeful but not spiteful. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2007). Cooperation and Communication in the 2nd Year of Life. Child Development Perspectives.DOI
Juliane Bräuer, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (2007). Chimpanzees do not take into account what others can hear in a competitive situation. Animal Cognition.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2007). Acquiring Linguistic Constructions.DOI
Juliane Bräuer, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (2007). Chimpanzees really know what others can see in a competitive situation. Animal Cognition.DOI
Michael Tomasello, Malinda Carpenter, Josp Call, Tanya Behne, Henrike Moll (2007). A szándékok megértése, közös szándékok. Magyar Pszichológiai Szemle.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2007). If They're So Good at Grammar, Then Why Don't They Talk? Hints From Apes' and Humans' Use of Gestures. Language Learning and Development.DOI
Henrike Moll, Michael Tomasello (2007). Cooperation and human cognition: the Vygotskian intelligence hypothesis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences.DOI
Henrike Moll, Michael Tomasello (2007). How 14- and 18-month-olds know what others have experienced. Developmental Psychology.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2007). For Human Eyes Only. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics.
Michael Tomasello, Josep Call (2007). Wissen Schimpansen, was andere sehen – oder nur wohin sie schauen? Max Planck Digital Library.
Juliane Braeuer, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (2006). Are apes really inequity averse? Proceedings Of The Royal Society B-Biological Sciences, Vol. 273, No. 16050.DOI
Ulf Liszkowski, Malinda Carpenter, Tricia Striano, Michael Tomasello (2006). 12-and 18-month-olds point to provide information for others. Journal Of Cognition And Development, Vol. 70, No. 2.DOI
Hannes Rakoczy, Felix Warneken, Michael Tomasello (2006). “This way!”, “No! That way!”—3-year olds know that two people can have mutually incompatible desires. Cognitive Development.DOI
Hannes Rakoczy, Michael Tomasello, Tricia Striano (2006). The role of experience and discourse in children's developing understanding of pretend play actions. British Journal of Developmental Psychology.DOI
Katja Liebal, Simone Pika, Michael Tomasello (2006). Gestural communication of orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus). Gesture.DOI
Alicia P. Melis, Brian A. Hare, Michael Tomasello (2006). Chimpanzees Recruit the Best Collaborators. Science.DOI
Evan Kidd, Elena Lieven, Michael Tomasello (2006). Examining the role of lexical frequency in the acquisition and processing of sentential complements. Cognitive Development.DOI
Esther Herrmann, Alicia P. Melis, Michael Tomasello (2006). Apes' use of iconic cues in the object-choice task. Animal Cognition.DOI
Juliane Bräuer, Juliane Kaminski, Julia Riedel, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (2006). Making inferences about the location of hidden food: Social dog, causal ape. Journal of comparative psychology.DOI
Kirsten Abbot‐Smith, Michael Tomasello (2006). Exemplar-learning and schematization in a usage-based account of syntactic acquisition. The Linguistic Review.DOI
Alicia P. Melis, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (2006). Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) conceal visual and auditory information from others. Journal of comparative psychology.DOI
Juliane Kaminski, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (2006). Goats' behaviour in a competitive food paradigm: Evidence for perspective taking? Behaviour.DOI
Franklin Chang, Elena Lieven, Michael Tomasello (2006). Using Child Utterances to Evaluate Syntax Acquisition Algorithms. eScholarship (California Digital Library).
Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (2006). Apes: Gesture Communication. Elsevier eBooks.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2006). Social-Cognitive Basis of Language Development. Elsevier eBooks.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2006). Conventions are shared (commentary on Milikan, Language: A biological model). Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics.
Ceri Savage, Elena Lieven, Anna Theakston, Michael Tomasello (2005). Structural Priming as Implicit Learning in Language Acquisition: The Persistence of Lexical and Structural Priming in 4-Year-Olds. Language Learning and Development.DOI
Michael Tomasello, Malinda Carpenter, Josep Call, Tanya Behne, Henrike Moll (2005). In Search of the Uniquely Human. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.DOI
Angelika Wittek, Michael Tomasello (2005). Young children's sensitivity to listener knowledge and perceptual context in choosing referring expressions. Applied Psycholinguistics.DOI
Brian A. Hare, Michael Tomasello (2005). The emotional reactivity hypothesis and cognitive evolution. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.DOI
Holger Diessel, Michael Tomasello (2005). Particle placement in early child language: A multifactorial analysis. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2005). Beyond formalities: The case of language acquisition. The Linguistic Review.DOI
Angelika Wittek, Michael Tomasello (2005). German-speaking children’s productivity with syntactic constructions and case morphology: Local cues act locally. First Language.DOI
Tanya Behne, Malinda Carpenter, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (2005). Unwilling Versus Unable: Infants' Understanding of Intentional Action. Developmental Psychology.DOI
Juliane Bräuer, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (2005). All Great Ape Species Follow Gaze to Distant Locations and Around Barriers. Journal of comparative psychology.DOI
Simone Pika, Katja Liebal, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (2005). Gestural communication of apes. Gesture.DOI
Holger Diessel, Michael Tomasello (2005). A new look at the acquisition of relative clauses. Language.DOI
Malinda Carpenter, Michael Tomasello, Tricia Striano (2005). Role Reversal Imitation and Language in Typically Developing Infants and Children With Autism. Infancy.DOI
Tanya Behne, Malinda Carpenter, Michael Tomasello (2005). One‐year‐olds comprehend the communicative intentions behind gestures in a hiding game. Developmental Science.DOI
Ben Ambridge, Anna Theakston, Elena Lieven, Michael Tomasello (2005). The distributed learning effect for children's acquisition of an abstract syntactic construction. Cognitive Development.DOI
Michael Tomasello, Malinda Carpenter, Josep Call, Tanya Behne, Henrike Moll (2005). Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.DOI
Hannes Rakoczy, Michael Tomasello, Tricia Striano (2004). On tools and toys: how children learn to act on and pretend with ‘virgin objects’. Developmental Science.DOI
Juliane Kaminski, Julia Riedel, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (2004). Domestic goats, Capra hircus, follow gaze direction and use social cues in an object choice task. Animal Behaviour.DOI
Katja Liebal, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (2004). Use of gesture sequences in chimpanzees. American Journal of Primatology.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2004). What kind of evidence could refute the UG hypothesis? Studies in Language.DOI
Katja Liebal, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello, Simone Pika (2004). To move or not to move. Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems.DOI
Michael Tomasello, Josep Call (2004). The role of humans in the cognitive development of apes revisited. Animal Cognition.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2004). Human language and our reptilian brain: The subcortical bases of speech, syntax, and thought. By Philip Lieberman. (Perspectives in cognitive neuroscience.) Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. Pp. 240. ISBN 067400793X. $19.95. Language.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2004). Syntax or semantics? Response to Lidz et al. Cognition.DOI
Henrike Moll, Michael Tomasello (2004). 12‐ and 18‐month‐old infants follow gaze to spaces behind barriers. Developmental Science.DOI
Kirsten Abbot‐Smith, Elena Lieven, Michael Tomasello (2004). Training 2;6‐year‐olds to produce the transitive construction: the role of frequency, semantic similarity and shared syntactic distribution. Developmental Science.DOI
Hannes Rakoczy, Michael Tomasello, Tricia Striano (2004). Young Children Know That Trying Is Not Pretending: A Test of the "Behaving-As-If" Construal of Children's Early Concept of Pretense. Developmental Psychology.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2004). Zwei Hypothesen zur Primatenkognition. Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie.DOI
Daniel Hanus, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (2003). Quantity-based judgments by orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus), gorillas (Gorilla gorilla) and bonobos (Pan paniscus). MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society).
Anna Theakston, Elena Lieven, Michael Tomasello (2003). The Role of the Input in the Acquisition of Third Person Singular Verbs in English. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research.DOI
Heidemarie Lohmann, Michael Tomasello (2003). The Role of Language in the Development of False Belief Understanding: A Training Study. Child Development.DOI
Simone Pika, Katja Liebal, Michael Tomasello (2003). Gestural communication in young gorillas ( Gorilla gorilla ): Gestural repertoire, learning, and use. American Journal of Primatology.DOI
Michael Tomasello, Josep Call, Brian A. Hare (2003). Chimpanzees versus humans: it's not that simple. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.DOI
Michael Tomasello, Nameera Akhtar (2003). What paradox? A response to Naigles (2002). Cognition.DOI
Michael Tomasello, Josep Call, Brian A. Hare (2003). Chimpanzees understand psychological states – the question is which ones and to what extent. Trends in Cognitive Sciences.DOI
Jane B. Childers, Michael Tomasello (2003). Children extend both words and non‐verbal actions to novel exemplars. Developmental Science.DOI
Josep Call, Juliane Bräuer, Juliane Kaminski, Michael Tomasello (2003). Domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) are sensitive to the attentional state of humans. Journal of comparative psychology.DOI
Heidemarie Lohmann, Michael Tomasello (2003). Language and Social Understanding: Commentary on Nelson et al. Human Development.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2002). Things Are What They Do: Katherine Nelson's Functional Approach to Language and Cognition. Journal Of Cognition And Development, Vol. 30, No. 1.DOI
Brian A. Hare, Michelle L. Brown, Christina Williamson, Michael Tomasello (2002). The Domestication of Social Cognition in Dogs. Science.DOI
Malinda Carpenter, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (2002). A new false belief test for 36‐month‐olds. British Journal of Developmental Psychology.DOI
Malinda Carpenter, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (2002). Understanding “Prior Intentions” Enables Two–Year–Olds to Imitatively Learn a Complex Task. Child Development.DOI
Angelika Wittek, Michael Tomasello (2002). German children's productivity with tense morphology: the Perfekt (present perfect). Journal of Child Language.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2002). Not waving but speaking. Nature.DOI
Michael Tomasello, Kirsten Abbot‐Smith (2002). A tale of two theories: response to Fisher. Cognition.DOI
Jane B. Childers, Michael Tomasello (2002). Two-year-olds learn novel nouns, verbs, and conventional actions from massed or distributed exposures. Developmental Psychology.DOI
Simone Pika, Michael Tomasello (2002). Gestural communication in gorillas (Gorilla g. gorilla) and bonobos (Pan paniscus) in captivity: A comparison. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics.
Michael Tomasello (2001). Could we please lose the mapping metaphor, please? Behavioral and Brain Sciences.DOI
Tricia Striano, Michael Tomasello, Philippe Rochat (2001). Social and object support for early symbolic play. Developmental Science.DOI
Aimee L. Campbell, Michael Tomasello (2001). The acquisition of English dative constructions. Applied Psycholinguistics.DOI
Kirsten Abbot‐Smith, Elena Lieven, Michael Tomasello (2001). What preschool children do and do not do with ungrammatical word orders. Cognitive Development.DOI
Simone Pika, Michael Tomasello (2001). ‘Separating the wheat from the chaff’: A novel food processing technique in captive gorillas (Gorilla g. gorilla). Primates.DOI
Holger Diessel, Michael Tomasello (2001). The acquisition of finite complement clauses in English: A corpus-based analysis. Cognitive Linguistics.DOI
Jane B. Childers, Michael Tomasello (2001). The role of pronouns in young children's acquisition of the English transitive construction. Developmental Psychology.DOI
Tricia Striano, Michael Tomasello (2001). Infant Development: Physical and Social Cognition. Elsevier eBooks.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2001). Human Cognition, Evolution of. Elsevier eBooks.DOI
Bryan Agnetta, Brian A. Hare, Michael Tomasello (2000). Cues to food location that domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) of different ages do and do not use. Animal Cognition.DOI
Aimee L. Campbell, Patricia J. Brooks, Michael Tomasello (2000). Factors Affecting Young Children's Use of Pronouns as Referring Expressions. Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2000). Primate Cognition: Introduction to the Issue. Cognitive Science.DOI
Josep Call, Bryan Agnetta, Michael Tomasello (2000). Cues that chimpanzees do and do not use to find hidden objects. Animal Cognition.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2000). Do young children have adult syntactic competence? Cognition.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2000). First steps in a usage based theory of language acquisition. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics.
Shoji Itakura, Bryan Agnetta, Brian Hare, Michael Tomasello (1999). Chimpanzee use of human and conspecific social cues to locate hidden food. Developmental Science, Vol. 20, No. 40.DOI
Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (1999). A Nonverbal False Belief Task: The Performance of Children and Great Apes. Child Development.DOI
Michael Tomasello, Brian A. Hare, Bryan Agnetta (1999). Chimpanzees follow gaze direction geometrically. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics.
Heike Behrens, Michael Tomasello (1999). And what about the Chinese? BBS-Commentary on Harald Clahsen "Lexical Entries and Rules of Language". Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics.
Patricia J. Brooks, Michael Tomasello (1999). Young children learn to produce passives with nonce verbs. Developmental Psychology.DOI
Christophe Boesch, Michael Tomasello (1998). Chimpanzee and Human Cultures. Current Anthropology.DOI
Michael Tomasello (1998). Emulation learning and cultural learning. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.DOI
KELLY DODSON, Michael Tomasello (1998). Acquiring the transitive construction in English: the role of animacy and pronouns. Journal of Child Language.DOI
Jennifer Ashley, Michael Tomasello (1998). Cooperative Problem‐Solving and Teaching in Preschoolers. Social Development.DOI
Michael Tomasello (1998). The Return of Constructions. Journal of Child Language.DOI
Michael Tomasello, Patricia J. Brooks, Elissa Stern (1998). Learning to produce passive utterances through discourse. First Language.DOI
Michael Tomasello (1998). Response to commentators. Journal of Child Language.DOI
Michael Tomasello, Josep Call, Brian A. Hare (1998). Five primate species follow the visual gaze of conspecifics. Animal Behaviour.DOI
Elisabetta M. Visalberghi, Michael Tomasello (1998). Primate causal understanding in the physical and psychological domains. Behavioural Processes.DOI
Malinda Carpenter, Katherine Nagell, Michael Tomasello, George E. Butterworth, Chris L. Moore (1998). Social Cognition, Joint Attention, and Communicative Competence from 9 to 15 Months of Age. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development.DOI
Malinda Carpenter, Nameera Akhtar, Michael Tomasello (1998). Fourteen- through 18-month-old infants differentially imitate intentional and accidental actions. Infant Behavior and Development.DOI
Michael Tomasello, Patricia J. Brooks (1998). Young children's earliest transitive and intransitive constructions. Cognitive Linguistics.DOI
Josep Call, Brian A. Hare, Michael Tomasello (1998). Chimpanzee gaze following in an object-choice task. Animal Cognition.DOI
Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (1998). Distinguishing intentional from accidental actions in orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus), chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and human children (Homo sapiens). Journal of comparative psychology.DOI
Michael Tomasello. Die kulturelle Entwicklung des menschlichen Denkens.
Schaefer, M., Daniel B. M. Haun, Michael Tomasello. The effects of interdependence and work effort on children's generosity towards co-working. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society).
Robert Hepach, Amrisha Vaish, Tobias Großmann, Michael Tomasello. Young children’s intrinsic prosocial motivation is linked to others’ needs. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society).
Book Chapters
Henrike Moll, Michael Tomasello (2026). Social cognition in the second year of life. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society).
Michael Tomasello (2023). Having Intentions, Understanding Intentions, and Understanding Communicative Intentions. Psychology Press eBooks.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2020). Why Don't Apes Point? Routledge eBooks.DOI
Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (2020). The Gestural Repertoire of Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Psychology Press eBooks.DOI
Michael Tomasello, Josep Call (2020). Ape Gestures and the Origins of Language. Psychology Press eBooks.DOI
Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (2020). Comparing the Gestures of Apes and Monkeys. Psychology Press eBooks.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2020). Kooperation und Kommunikation im zweiten Lebensjahr. Verlag Barbara Budrich eBooks.DOI
Jan M. Engelmann, Michael Tomasello (2017). The Middle Step: Joint Intentionality as a Human-Unique Form of Second-Personal Engagement. Routledge eBooks.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2017). What did we learn from the ape language studies?DOI
Jan Engelmann, Michael Tomasello (2017). Prosociality and Morality in Children and Chimpanzees. Routledge eBooks.DOI
Bahar Köymen, Michael Tomasello (2016). Çocuklar sosyal normları nasıl algılar? Research Explorer (The University of Manchester).
Amrisha Vaish, Michael Tomasello (2015). The Early Ontogeny of Human Cooperation and Morality. Routledge eBooks.DOI
Irina Spiegel, Michael Tomasello (2015). Evolutionäre Anthropologie: Kooperation im Wir-Modus. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society).
David A. Schroeder, William G. Graziano, Felix Warneken, Michael Tomasello (2014). The Developmental and Evolutionary Origins of Human Helping and Sharing. Oxford University Press eBooks.DOI
Anna Theakston, Robert W. Maslen, Elena Lieven, Michael Tomasello (2013). The acquisition of the active transitive construction in English: A detailed case study. De Gruyter eBooks.DOI
Michael Tomasello, Henrike Moll (2013). Why Don’t Apes Understand False Beliefs? Oxford University Press eBooks.DOI
Emily Wyman, Michael Tomasello (2012). The ontogenetic origins of human cooperation. Oxford University Press eBooks.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2012). The usage-based theory of language acquisition. Cambridge University Press eBooks.DOI
Esther Herrmann, Michael Tomasello (2012). Human cultural cognition. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society).
Paul Ibbotson, Michael Tomasello (2012). Analogical Mapping in Construction Learning. Open Research Online - ORO (The Open University).
Michael Tomasello (2010). Human Culture in Evolutionary Perspective. Oxford University Press eBooks.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2009). Primate communication. Handbook of pragmatics highlights.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2009). THE QUESTION OF CHIMPANZEE CULTURE, PLUS POSTSCRIPT (CHIMPANZEE CULTURE, 2009). Harvard University Press eBooks.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2008). Was ist der Mensch(enaffe)? De Gruyter eBooks.DOI
Jane B. Childers, Michael Tomasello (2006). Are Nouns Easier to Learn Than Verbs? Three Experimental Studies.DOI
Michael Tomasello, Josep Call (2006). Do chimpanzees know what others see—or only what they are looking at? Oxford University Press eBooks.DOI
Heidemarie Lohmann, Michael Tomasello, Sonja Meyer (2005). Linguistic Communication and Social Understanding. Oxford University Press eBooks.DOI
Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (2005). What Chimpanzees Know about Seeing, Revisited: An Explanation of the Third Kind. Oxford University Press eBooks.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2005). Uniquely Human Cognition Is a Product of Human Culture. The MIT Press eBooks.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2003). On the Different Origins of Symbols and Grammar. Oxford University Press eBooks.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2003). The Key Is Social Cognition. The MIT Press eBooks.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2002). 12. The emergence of grammar in early child language. Typological studies in language.DOI
Michael Tomasello, Klaus Zuberbühler (2002). Primate Vocal and Gestural Communication. The MIT Press eBooks.DOI
Felix Warneken, Michael Tomasello (2001). Cognition for Culture. Cambridge University Press eBooks.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2001). Bruner on Language Acquisition. SAGE Publications Ltd eBooks.DOI
Nameera Akhtar, Michael Tomasello (2000). The Social Nature of Words and Word Learning. Oxford University Press eBooks.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2000). Two Hypotheses About Primate Cognition. The MIT Press eBooks.DOI
Michael Tomasello, Nameera Akhtar (2000). Five questions for any theory of word learning. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society).
Michael Tomasello (1999). The Cultural Ecology of Young Children’s Interactions With Objects and Artifacts. Psychology Press eBooks.DOI
Nameera Akhtar, Michael Tomasello (1999). Intersubjectivity in early language learning and use. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society).
Brooks, P., Michael Tomasello (1999). Learning the English passive construction. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society).
Michael Tomasello (1998). SOCIAL COGNITION AND THE EVOLUTION OF CULTURE. Psychology Press eBooks.DOI
Michael Tomasello (1998). One child’s early talk about possession. Typological studies in language.DOI
Dare A. Baldwin, Michael Tomasello (1998). Word Learning: A Window on Early Pragmatic Understanding. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society).
Patricia J. Brooks, Michael Tomasello (1998). How children avoid overgeneralization errors when acquiring transitive and intransitive verbs. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society).
Books
Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (2020). The Gestural Communication of Apes and Monkeys. Psychology Press eBooks.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2014). A Natural History of Human Thinking. Harvard University Press eBooks.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2014). Eine Naturgeschichte des menschlichen Denkens.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2010). Cognitive Linguistics and First Language Acquisition. Oxford University Press eBooks.DOI
Michael Tomasello (2009). Why we cooperate : based on the 2008 Tanner lectures on human values at Stanford University. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics.
Michael Tomasello (2009). Postscript: chimpanzee culture. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics.
Elena Lieven, Michael Tomasello (2008). Children's first language acquisition from a usage-based perspective. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics.
Tanya Behne, Malinda Carpenter, Maria Gräfenhain, Kristin Liebal, Ulf Liszkowski, Henrike Moll, Hannes Rakoczy, Michael Tomasello, Felix Warneken, Emily Wyman (2008). Cultural learning and cultural creation. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics.
Michael Tomasello, Josep Call (2007). Introduction: Intention Communication in Nonhuman Primates. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics.
Brian A. Hare, Michael Tomasello (2006). Behavioral genetics of dog cognition : human-like social skills in dogs are heritable and derived. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics.
Michael Tomasello, Dan I. Slobin (2005). Beyond nature-nurture: Essays in honor of Elizabeth Bates. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics.
Hannes Rakoczy, Michael Tomasello, Tricia Striano, L. Namy (2005). How Children Turn Objects into Symbols : A Cultural Learning Account. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics.
Josep Call, Michael Tomasello (2005). Reasoning and thinking in nonhuman primates. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics.
Michael Tomasello, Elizabeth A. Bates (2001). Language development : the essential readings. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics.
Michael Tomasello, Bates, E. (2001). Essential Readings in Language Development. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics.
Michael Tomasello, Eric Bates (2001). Introduction to the volume. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics.
Michael Tomasello (2000). The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition. Harvard University Press eBooks.DOI
Malinda Carpenter, Michael Tomasello (2000). Joint attention, cultural learning, and language acquisition: Implications for autism. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics.
Michael Tomasello, Michael Tomasello (1998). Introduction: The cognitive-functional perspective on language structure. Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics.