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Daniel J. Povinelli is affiliated with the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in the United States. The scientist's research primarily spans the field of Psychology, with a particular focus on Social Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Philosophy, and General Health Professions.

Their scholarly work addresses multiple topics including Cultural Differences and Values, Child and Animal Learning Development, Neuroendocrine Regulation and Behavior, Primate Behavior and Ecology, Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, Memory and Neural Mechanisms, and Behavioral and Psychological Studies.

Recent publications authored by Daniel J. Povinelli include:

  • Can Comparative Psychology Crack its Toughest Nut? (2020) published in Animal Behavior and Cognition
  • More Rope Tricks Reveal Why More Task Variants Will Never Lead to Strong Inferences About Higher-Order Causal Reasoning in Chimpanzees (2020) published in Animal Behavior and Cognition

Other notable papers in related studies published contemporaneously in the same venue include "Deconstructing the Raven's Theory of Mind: An Analysis of Bugnyar et al. (2016)" by Shannon L. Kuznar, and "Seeing through <seeing through>: An Analysis of Kano et al. (2019)" by Ty Henley. Additionally, work such as "Still no solution to non-verbal measures of analogical reasoning: Reply to Walker and Gopnik (2017)" appeared in Cognition.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Daniel J. Povinelli include Shannon L. Kuznar, Gabrielle C. Glorioso, Ty Henley, Kit Barker, and Mateja Pavlic.

Publication venues where this scientist has contributed multiple works comprise Animal Behavior and Cognition and Cognition.

Best Publications

  • Darwin's mistake: Explaining the discontinuity between human and nonhuman minds

    Derek C. Penn;Keith J. Holyoak;Daniel J. Povinelli

  • What Young Chimpanzees Know about Seeing

    Daniel J. Povinelli;Timothy J. Eddy

  • Chimpanzee minds: suspiciously human?

    Daniel J. Povinelli;Jennifer Vonk

  • Chimpanzees are indifferent to the welfare of unrelated group members

    Joan B. Silk;Sarah F. Brosnan;Sarah F. Brosnan;Jennifer Vonk;Joseph Henrich

  • On the lack of evidence that non-human animals possess anything remotely resembling a 'theory of mind'

    Derek C. Penn;Daniel J. Povinelli

  • Inferences About Guessing and Knowing by Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

    Daniel J. Povinelli;Kurt E. Nelson;Sarah T. Boysen

  • Causal Cognition in Human and Nonhuman Animals: A Comparative, Critical Review

    Derek C. Penn;Daniel J. Povinelli

  • We don't need a microscope to explore the chimpanzee's mind

    Daniel J. Povinelli;Jennifer Vonk

  • Self-recognition in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): distribution, ontogeny, and patterns of emergence

    Daniel J. Povinelli;Alyssa B. Rulf;Keli R. Landau;Donna T. Bierschwale

  • Chimpanzees: Joint Visual Attention

    Daniel J. Povinelli;Timothy J. Eddy

  • Theory of mind: evolutionary history of a cognitive specialization

    Daniel J. Povinelli;Todd M. Preuss

  • Toward a science of other minds: escaping the argument by analogy

    Daniel J. Povinelli;Jesse M. Bering;Steve Giambrone

  • Comprehension of role reversal in chimpanzees: Evidence of empathy?

    Daniel J. Povinelli;Daniel J. Povinelli;Kurt E. Nelson;Kurt E. Nelson;Sarah T. Boysen;Sarah T. Boysen

  • Reconstructing the evolution of mind.

    Daniel J. Povinelli

  • Attribution of Cognitive States to Animals: Anthropomorphism in Comparative Perspective

    Timothy J. Eddy;Gordon G. Gallup;Daniel J. Povinelli

  • Self-recognition in young children using delayed versus live feedback: evidence of a developmental asynchrony.

    Daniel J. Povinelli;Keli R. Landau;Helen K. Perilloux

  • Young children's (Homo sapiens) understanding of knowledge formation in themselves and others.

    Daniel J. Povinelli;Sandra DeBlois

  • Folk physics for apes

    Daniel J. Povinelli

  • Chimpanzees do not take advantage of very low cost opportunities to deliver food to unrelated group members.

    Jennifer Vonk;Jennifer Vonk;Sarah F. Brosnan;Joan B. Silk;Joseph Henrich;Joseph Henrich

  • Arboreal clambering and the evolution of self-conception.

    Daniel J. Povinelli;John G. H. Cant

  • Mindblindness. An Essay on Autism and Theory of Mind

    Daniel J. Povinelli;Theodore J. Povinelli

Frequent Co-Authors

Gordon G. Gallup
Gordon G. Gallup University at Albany, State University of New York
Keith J. Holyoak
Keith J. Holyoak University of California, Los Angeles
Chris Moore
Chris Moore Dalhousie University
Sarah F. Brosnan
Sarah F. Brosnan Georgia State University
John N. Constantino
John N. Constantino Washington University in St. Louis
Sarah T. Boysen
Sarah T. Boysen The Ohio State University
Steven J. Schapiro
Steven J. Schapiro The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
James R. Anderson
James R. Anderson Kyoto University
Shaun Gallagher
Shaun Gallagher University of Memphis
Stephen R. Ross
Stephen R. Ross Lincoln Park Zoo

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