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Recent Empirical Papers
Kanngeisser, P., Schaefer, M., Herrmann, E., Zeidler, H., Haun, D., & Tomasello, M. (2022). Children across societies enforce conventional norms but in culturally variable ways. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.2112521118. [pdf]
O’Madagain, C., Schmidt, M., Call, J., Helming, K., Shupe, E., & Tomasello, M. (2022). Great apes and human children rationally monitor their decisions – but differently. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 289: 20212686. [pdf]
Hepach, R., Engelmann, J., Herrmann, E. & Tomasello, M. (2023). Evidence for a developmental shift in the motivation underlying helping in early childhood, Developmental Science, 26, 13253. [pdf]
Schäfer, M., Haun, D. B., & Tomasello, M. (2023). Children’s consideration of collaboration and merit when making sharing decisions in private. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 228, 105609. [pdf]
Benozio, A., House, B., & Tomasello, M. (2023). Apes reciprocate food both positively and negatively. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 37132236. [pdf]
Wolf, W., Thielhelm, J., & Tomasello, M. (2023). Five-year-old children show cooperative preferences for faces with white sclera. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 225, 105532. [pdf]
Helming, K., O’Madagain, C. & Tomasello, M. (2024). Three- and five-year-old children know their current belief might be false. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 246, 106001. [pdf]
Winter, P., & Tomasello, M. (2024). From what I want to do to what we decided to do: 5-year-olds, but not 3-year-olds, honor their agreements with peers. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 239, 105764. [pdf]
Köymen,B., & Tomasello, M. (2026). Three-year-old children understand the false beliefs of their partner in collaborative decision making. Child Development. [pdf]
