Michael Tomasello

Michael Tomasello
Developmental and comparative psychologist, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

Prof. Michael Tomasello is a developmental and comparative psychologist. He is a co-director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and is professor in the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University. In his developmental research he has focused on how human children become cooperating members of cultural groups, focusing on uniquely human skills and motivations for shared intentionality: joint attention, collaboration, prosocial motives, and social norms. In 2011, Michael Tomasello was awarded the Klaus J. Jacobs Research Prize for his exceptional work.


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