Standout Papers

Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cultural... 1994 2026 2004 2015 2.5k
  1. Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition (2005)
    Michael Tomasello, Malinda Carpenter et al. Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  2. The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition (2000)
    Michael Tomasello Harvard University Press eBooks
  3. Variability in Early Communicative Development (1994)
    Larry Fenson, Philip S. Dale et al. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development
  4. Social Cognition, Joint Attention, and Communicative Competence from 9 to 15 Months of Age (1998)
    Malinda Carpenter, Michael Tomasello et al. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development
  5. Origins of Human Communication (2008)
    Michael Tomasello The MIT Press eBooks
  6. Cultural learning (1993)
    Michael Tomasello, Ann Cale Kruger et al. Behavioral and Brain Sciences
  7. Joint Attention and Early Language (1986)
    Michael Tomasello, M. Jeffrey Farrar Child Development
  8. Joint Attention and Early Language (1986)
    Michael Tomasello, M. Jeffrey Farrar Child Development
  9. Altruistic Helping in Human Infants and Young Chimpanzees (2006)
    Felix Warneken, Michael Tomasello Science
  10. Humans Have Evolved Specialized Skills of Social Cognition: The Cultural Intelligence Hypothesis (2007)
    Esther Herrmann, Josep Call et al. Science
  11. A Natural History of Human Thinking (2014)
    Michael Tomasello Harvard University Press eBooks
  12. The Domestication of Social Cognition in Dogs (2002)
    Brian Hare, Michelle Brown et al. Science
  13. Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind? 30 years later (2008)
    Josep Call, Michael Tomasello Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  14. Joint attention as social cognition. (1995)
    Michael Tomasello Medical Entomology and Zoology
  15. Ratcheting up the ratchet: on the evolution of cumulative culture (2009)
    Claudio Tennie, Josep Call et al. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  16. Human-like social skills in dogs? (2005)
    Brian Hare, Michael Tomasello Trends in Cognitive Sciences
  17. A New Look at Infant Pointing (2007)
    Michael Tomasello, Malinda Carpenter et al. Child Development
  18. Do chimpanzees know what conspecifics know? (2001)
    Brian Hare, Josep Call et al. Animal Behaviour
  19. Do young children have adult syntactic competence? (2000)
    Michael Tomasello Cognition
  20. Chimpanzees know what conspecifics do and do not see (2000)
    Josep Call, Bryan Agnetta et al. Animal Behaviour
  21. Why We Cooperate (2009)
    Michael Tomasello The MIT Press eBooks
  22. Joint music making promotes prosocial behavior in 4-year-old children☆☆☆ (2010)
    Sebastian Kirschner, Michael Tomasello Evolution and Human Behavior
  23. Shared intentionality (2006)
    Michael Tomasello, Malinda Carpenter Developmental Science
  24. Primate Cognition (2010)
    Amanda M. Seed, Michael Tomasello Topics in Cognitive Science
  25. Fourteen- through 18-month-old infants differentially imitate intentional and accidental actions (1998)
    Malinda Carpenter, Nameera Akhtar et al. Infant Behavior and Development
  26. Two Key Steps in the Evolution of Human Cooperation (2012)
    Michael Tomasello, Alicia P. Melis et al. Current Anthropology
  27. Origins of Human Cooperation and Morality (2012)
    Michael Tomasello, Amrisha Vaish Annual Review of Psychology
  28. A Natural History of Human Morality (2016)
    Michael Tomasello Harvard University Press eBooks
  29. Great apes anticipate that other individuals will act according to false beliefs (2016)
    Christopher Krupenye, Fumihiro Kano et al. Science
  30. Becoming Human (2019)
    Michael Tomasello Harvard University Press eBooks
  31. Becoming Human : A Theory of Ontogeny (2019)
    Michael Tomasello MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society)
  32. How children come to understand false beliefs: A shared intentionality account (2018)
    Michael Tomasello Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Author Peers

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Michael Tomasello 41168 28126 18663 721 68.6k
Simon Baron‐Cohen 22256 15925 68682 692 95.9k
Andrew N. Meltzoff 14494 10661 12918 265 29.1k
Chris Frith 13858 26089 85592 715 121.3k
Marc H. Bornstein 9827 11675 9117 581 43.9k
Josep Call 12157 15042 6546 413 24.8k
Uta Frith 18446 9003 29966 211 41.4k
Jerome S. Bruner 13368 5905 4266 201 41.2k
Alan Baddeley 19833 5682 34996 366 56.8k
Robert J. Sternberg 11941 12357 6085 811 44.5k
Henry M. Wellman 15452 7306 6795 204 21.0k

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