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  • The Evolution of Agency

    Behavioral Organization from Lizards to Humans

    by Michael Tomasello ...
    A NEW APPROACH TO EVOLUTIONARY PSYCHOLOGY: A leading developmental psychologist proposes an evolutionary pathway to understanding human psychological agency.Nature cannot build organisms biologically prepared for every contingency they might possibly encounter. Instead, Nature builds some organisms to function as feedback control systems that pursue goals, make informed behavioral decisions about ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Becoming Human

    A Theory of Ontogeny

    by Michael Tomasello ...
    Winner of the William James Book AwardWinner of the Eleanor Maccoby Book Award“A landmark in our understanding of human development.”—Paul Harris, author of Trusting What You’re Told“Magisterial…Makes an impressive argument that most distinctly human traits are established early in childhood and that the general chronology in which these traits appear can…be identified.”—Wall Street Journal</st... ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Why We Cooperate

    by Michael Tomasello, Carol Dweck, Joan Silk, Brian Skyrms, Elizabeth S. Spelke ...
    Series series Boston Review Books
    Through experiments with kids and chimpanzees, this cutting-edge theory in developmental psychology reveals how cooperation is a distinctly human combination of innate and learned behavior.“[A] fascinating approach to the question of what makes us human.” —Publishers WeeklyDrop something in front of a 2-year-old, and she’s likely to pick it up for you. This is not a learned behavior, psychologist ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • A Natural History of Human Thinking

    by Michael Tomasello ...
    A Wall Street Journal Favorite Read of the YearA Guardian Top Science Book of the YearTool-making or culture, language or religious belief: ever since Darwin, thinkers have struggled to identify what fundamentally differentiates human beings from other animals. In this much-anticipated book, Michael Tomasello weaves his twenty years of comparative studies of humans and great apes into a compelling ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

  • A Natural History of Human Morality

    by Michael Tomasello ...
    Winner of the Eleanor Maccoby Book Award in Developmental Psychology, American Psychological AssociationWinner of a PROSE Award, Association of American PublishersShortlist, Cognitive Development Society Book AwardA Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the YearA Natural History of Human Morality offers the most detailed account to date of the evolution of human moral psychology. Based on extensive ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

  • The Organization of Human Experience

    An Evolutionary Analysis

    by Michael Tomasello ...
    How an evolutionary psychology of agency explains dimensions of human behavior and experience overlooked by the computational model of mind.Modern cognitive science is dominated by a mind-as-computer model that pays scant attention to the evolutionary history via which human psychological processes came into existence. It thus struggles to explain why human psychology and experience are the way ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition

    by Michael Tomasello ...
    Ambitious and elegant, this book builds a bridge between evolutionary theory and cultural psychology. Michael Tomasello is one of the very few people to have done systematic research on the cognitive capacities of both nonhuman primates and human children. The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition identifies what the differences are, and suggests where they might have come from.Tomasello argues that ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Primate Cognition

    Volume 1: Social Cognition

    by Josep Call, Michael Tomasello ...
    First published in 1997, Primate Cognition was a groundbreaking and highly successful book that set the agenda for a new field of study. Borrowing theoretical constructs and paradigms from human cognitive science and developmental psychology, the book reviewed all of the empirical research existing at that time concerning both physical cognition (space and objects, tools and causality, features ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Agency and Cognitive Development

    by Michael Tomasello ...
    Series series Oxford Series in Cognitive Development
    Children of different ages live in different worlds. This is partly due to learning: as children learn more and more about the world they experience it in different ways. But learning cannot be the whole story or else children could learn anything at any age - which they cannot. In a startlingly original proposal, Michael Tomasello argues that children of different ages live and learn in different ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Primate Cognition

    by Michael Tomasello, Josep Call ...
    Soon after Charles Darwin formulated his theory of evolution, primate cognition became a major area of research. In this book, Michael Tomasello and Josep Call assess the current state of our knowledge about the cognitive skills of non-human primates. They integrate empirical findings on the topic from the beginning of the century to the present, placing this research in theoretical perspective. ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Origins of Human Communication

    by Michael Tomasello ...
    Series series Jean Nicod Lectures
    A leading expert on evolution and communication presents an empirically based theory of the evolutionary origins of human communication that challenges the dominant Chomskian view.Human communication is grounded in fundamentally cooperative, even shared, intentions. In this original and provocative account of the evolutionary origins of human communication, Michael Tomasello connects the ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Constructing a Language

    A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition

    by Michael Tomasello ...
    In this groundbreaking book, Michael Tomasello presents a comprehensive usage-based theory of language acquisition. Drawing together a vast body of empirical research in cognitive science, linguistics, and developmental psychology, Tomasello demonstrates that we don’t need a self-contained “language instinct” to explain how children learn language. Their linguistic ability is interwoven with other ... Read more

    $31.09 USD