Michael Tomasello
Michael Tomasello | |
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| Born | January 18, 1950 Bartow, Florida, USA |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Duke University University of Georgia |
| Thesis | A conceptual analysis of early lexical development (1980) |
| Doctoral advisor | Ernst von Glasersfeld |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Emory University Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Duke University |
Michael Tomasello (born January 18, 1950) is an American developmental and comparative psychologist, as well as a linguist. He is professor of psychology at Duke University.
Earning many prizes and awards from the end of the 1990s onward, he is considered one of today's most authoritative developmental and comparative psychologists. KNAW identified him as "one of the few scientists worldwide who is acknowledged as an expert in multiple disciplines". According to the APA, Tomasello's "pioneering research on the origins of social cognition has led to revolutionary insights in both developmental psychology and primate cognition."