Great Apes and Human Development: A Personal History
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2018-01-01
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© 2018 The Society for Research in Child Development, Inc. In this article, I recount my history of research with great apes. From the beginning, the idea was to compare apes to human children, with an eye to discovering facts relevant to describing and explaining processes of human development. The research went through three more or less distinct stages, focusing on communication and social learning, social cognition and theory of mind, and cooperation and shared intentionality. I conclude by identifying problems and prospects for comparative research in developmental psychology.
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Tomasello, M (2018). Great Apes and Human Development: A Personal History. Child Development Perspectives. 10.1111/cdep.12281 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/16094.
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Michael Tomasello
Major research interests in processes of social cognition, social learning, cooperation, and communication from developmental, comparative, and cultural perspectives. Current theoretical focus on processes of shared intentionality. Empirical research mainly with human children from 1 to 4 years of age and great apes.
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