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Michael Tomasello

Born

in Bartow, Florida, The United States

January 18, 1950

Website

http://email.eva.mpg.de/~tomas/

Genre

Psychology, Linguistics

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Michael Tomasello is an American developmental and comparative psychologist. He is a co-director of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany.

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Average rating: 4.04 · 1,575 ratings · 175 reviews · 42 distinct works • Similar authors

	Why We Cooperate (Boston Review Books) by Michael Tomasello, Carol S. Dweck (Contributor), Joan Silk (Contributor) 3.84 avg rating — 322 ratings — published 2009 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Origins of Human Communication 4.14 avg rating — 297 ratings — published 1999 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny 4.08 avg rating — 266 ratings — published 2018 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Natural History of Human Morality 4.16 avg rating — 203 ratings — published 2016 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Natural History of Human Thinking 3.98 avg rating — 202 ratings — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Constructing a Language: A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition 4.25 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2003 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Evolution of Agency: Behavioral Organization from Lizards to Humans 3.93 avg rating — 60 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Primate Cognition by Michael Tomasello, Josep Call 4.23 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1997 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New Psychology of Language 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2002 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New Psychology of Language: Cognitive and Functional Approaches to Language Structure, Volume I 4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 1998 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Altruism is not an improbable achievement against the individualizing forces of natural selection; rather, it is an integral part of the social lives of all beings that live with others interdependently—up to a (mathematical) point. Everyone helps and gets helped, up to a point, because everyone is important to someone in some way, up to a point.”
― Michael Tomasello, A Natural History of Human Morality

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“Thinking would seem to be a completely solitary activity. And so it is for the other animal species. But for humans, thinking is like a jazz musician improvising a novel riff in the privacy of his own room. It is a solitary activity all right, but on an instrument made by others for that general purpose, after years of playing with and learning from other practitioners, in a musical genre with a rich history of legendary riffs, for an imagined audience of jazz aficionados. Human thinking is individual improvisation enmeshed in a sociocultural matrix.”
― Michael Tomasello, A Natural History of Human Thinking

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“Modern humans' group.minded interdependence thus served to spread human sympathy and helping to all in the group, best characterized as a sense of loyalty to the group. As a consequence, there emerged in modern humans a distinctive in-group/out-group psychology.”
― Michael Tomasello, A Natural History of Human Morality

tags: bias, coalitinary, cohesion, crime, evolutionary-psychology, in-group, institutions, morality, organization, out-group

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