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Professor Dr
Michael Tomasello
| Year of election: | 2001 |
| Section: | Psychology and Cognitive Sciences |
| City: | Durham, NC |
| Country: | USA |
Research
PhD in Psychology in 1980 from University of Georgia (USA); taught at Emory University and worked at Yerkes Primate Center (USA) from 1980 to 1998; since 1998, Co-Director, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany.
Research interests focus on processes of social cognition, social learning, and communication/language in human children and great apes.