General Psychology
2011 Wiley Prize in Psychology
American developmental psychologist, Professor Dr Michael Tomasello, was named as the 2011 recipient of the prestigious Wiley Prize in Psychology by the British Academy in partnership with Wiley-Blackwell.
The £5,000 prize for ‘lifetime achievement by an outstanding international scholar’ is in recognition of Tomasello’s work identifying the unique cognitive and cultural processes that distinguish humans from their nearest primate relatives, the great apes. Professor Tomasello also works on child language and is a strong critic of generative grammar theory, expounded by British Academy Fellow, Noam Chomsky, subscribing instead to the cognitive linguistics school of linguistic theory.
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| Twelve-month-olds’ comprehension and production of pointing | Three-year-old children intervene in third-party moral transgressions | Young children understand multiple pretend identities in their object play |
| Young children's understanding of the context-relativity of normative rules in conventional games | Bigger knows better: Young children selectively learn rule games from adults rather than from peers British Journal of Developmental Psychology Volume 28, Issue 4, Date: November 2010 Hannes. Rakoczy, Katharina. Hamann, Felix. Warneken, Michael. Tomasello | The roots of human altruism British Journal of Psychology Volume 100, Issue 3, Date: August 2009 Felix Warneken, Michael Tomasello |
| Rational Tool Use and Tool Choice in Human Infants and Great Apes Child Development Volume 79, Issue 3, Date: May/June 2008 David Buttelmann, Malinda Carpenter, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello | How Toddlers and Preschoolers Learn to Uniquely Identify Referents for Others: A Training Study Child Development Volume 78, Issue 6, Date: November/December 2007 Danielle Matthews, Elena Lieven, Michael Tomasello | A New Look at Infant Pointing |
| Different social motives in the gestural communication of chimpanzees and human children | Pointing out new news, old news, and absent referents at 12 months of age Developmental Science Volume 10, Issue 2, Date: March 2007 Ulf Liszkowski, Malinda Carpenter, Michael Tomasello | Understanding of speaker certainty and false-belief reasoning: a comparison of Japanese and German preschoolers |
| Shared intentionality Developmental Science Volume 10, Issue 1, Date: January 2007 Michael Tomasello, Malinda Carpenter | Enculturated chimpanzees imitate rationally Developmental Science Volume 10, Issue 4, Date: July 2007 David Buttelmann, Malinda Carpenter, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello | Fourteen-month-olds know what others experience only in joint engagement |
| Do great apes use emotional expressions to infer desires? | Young German children's early syntactic competence: a preferential looking study | A competitive nonverbal false belief task for children and apes |
| Young children follow pointing over words in interpreting acts of reference | Young children attribute normativity to novel actions without pedagogy or normative language | Infants use shared experience to interpret pointing gestures Developmental Science Volume 12, Issue 2, Date: March 2009 Kristin Liebal, Tanya Behne, Malinda Carpenter, Michael Tomasello |
| Domestic dogs comprehend human communication with iconic signs | 36-month-olds conceal visual and auditory information from others Developmental Science Volume 13, Issue 3, Date: May 2010 Alicia P. Melis, Josep Call, Michael Tomasello | Simple Mechanisms Can Explain Social Learning in Domestic Dogs (Canis familiaris) Ethology Volume 117, Issue 8, Date: August 2011 Dorit Mersmann, Michael Tomasello, Josep Call, Juliane Kaminski, Michael Taborsky |
| Helping and Cooperation at 14 Months of Age Felix Warneken, Michael Tomasello Infancy Volume 11, Issue 3, Date: May 2007 Felix Warneken, Michael Tomasello | Infants’ Use of Shared Experience in Declarative Pointing | Fourteen-Month-Olds Know What “We” Have Shared in a Special Way |
| Social Engagement Leads 2-Year-Olds to Overestimate Others’ Knowledge | Flexibility in the Semantics and Syntax of Children's Early Verb Use Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development Volume 74, Issue 2, Date: August 2009 Michael Tomasello, Silke Brandt | |
BOOKS
| Language Development The Essential Readings Edited by Michael Tomasello and Elizabeth Bates | The Emergence of Social Cognition in Three Young Chimpanzees Michael Tomasello, Malinda Carpenter, and R. Peter Hobson |
The Academy’s Wiley Prize in Psychology, worth £5,000, was created in 2009 as an annual award to recognize outstanding contributions in a field of psychology.
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