Michael Tomasello
Impact in
- Developmental and Educational Psychology top 0.01%
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Language Development and Disorders
- Reading and Literacy Development
- Developmental Biology top 0.01%
Papers in
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- Child and Animal Learning Development 480
- Language Development and Disorders 160
- Reading and Literacy Development 87
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- Primate Behavior and Ecology 203
- Co-authors
- Josep Call (141 shared papers)Malinda Carpenter (76 shared papers)Brian Hare (36 shared papers)Felix Warneken (32 shared papers)Henrike Moll (24 shared papers)Elena Lieven (66 shared papers)M. Jeffrey Farrar (6 shared papers)Tanya Behne (17 shared papers)
- Journals
- Journal of Experimental Child Psychology (44 papers)Developmental Psychology (44 papers)Child Development (43 papers)Developmental Science (41 papers)Cognitive Development (32 papers)
- Partner nations
- GermanyUnited StatesUnited Kingdom
In The Last Decade
Michael Tomasello
816 papers receiving 81.7k citations
Michael Tomasello's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 193
- Developmental and Educational Psychology 50.9k
- Developmental Biology 5.2k
- Social Psychology 36.4k
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 16.5k
- Cognitive Neuroscience 22.8k
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Co-authors
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All Works
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| # | Work | ||
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| 1 | Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition Hit paper breakdown → | 2005 | 3283 |
| 2 | The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition Hit paper breakdown → | 2000 | 2976 |
| 3 | Variability in Early Communicative Development Hit paper breakdown → | 1994 | 2259 |
| 4 | Social Cognition, Joint Attention, and Communicative Competence from 9 to 15 Months of Age Hit paper breakdown → | 1998 | 1999 |
| 5 | Origins of Human Communication Hit paper breakdown → | 2008 | 1838 |
| 6 | Cultural learning Hit paper breakdown → | 1993 | 1311 |
| 7 | Joint Attention and Early Language Hit paper breakdown → | 1986 | 1111 |
| 8 | Altruistic Helping in Human Infants and Young Chimpanzees Hit paper breakdown → | 2006 | 1080 |
| 9 | Humans Have Evolved Specialized Skills of Social Cognition: The Cultural Intelligence Hypothesis Hit paper breakdown → | 2007 | 1040 |
| 10 | Joint Attention and Early Language Hit paper breakdown → | 1986 | 1040 |
| 11 | Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind? 30 years later Hit paper breakdown → | 2008 | 1004 |
| 12 | A Natural History of Human Thinking Hit paper breakdown → | 2014 | 991 |
| 13 | Primate cognition Hit paper breakdown → | 1997 | 989 |
| 14 | Ratcheting up the ratchet: on the evolution of cumulative culture Hit paper breakdown → | 2009 | 790 |
| 15 | Joint attention as social cognition. Hit paper breakdown → | 1995 | 789 |
| 16 | The Domestication of Social Cognition in Dogs Hit paper breakdown → | 2002 | 787 |
| 17 | Do chimpanzees know what conspecifics know? Hit paper breakdown → | 2001 | 745 |
| 18 | Why We Cooperate Hit paper breakdown → | 2009 | 738 |
| 19 | Chimpanzees know what conspecifics do and do not see Hit paper breakdown → | 2000 | 718 |
| 20 | Do young children have adult syntactic competence? Hit paper breakdown → | 2000 | 709 |
About Michael Tomasello
Michael Tomasello is a scholar working on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Language and Linguistics and Sociology and Political Science, having authored 837 papers that have together received 91.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Child and Animal Learning Development (480 papers), Primate Behavior and Ecology (203 papers), Language Development and Disorders (160 papers), Reading and Literacy Development (87 papers), Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (81 papers), Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (81 papers), Human-Animal Interaction Studies (69 papers) and Language and cultural evolution (61 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Developmental and Educational Psychology (50.9k citations), Developmental Biology (5.2k citations), Social Psychology (36.4k citations), Experimental and Cognitive Psychology (16.5k citations) and Cognitive Neuroscience (22.8k citations). Michael Tomasello has collaborated with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Josep Call, Malinda Carpenter, Brian Hare, Felix Warneken, Henrike Moll, Elena Lieven, M. Jeffrey Farrar, Tanya Behne, Ann Cale Kruger and Hannes Rakoczy. Their work appears in journals such as Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Child Development, Developmental Science and Cognitive Development.
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