What is he best known for?
The fields of study he is best known for:
- Social psychology
- Linguistics
- Cognition
Michael Tomasello mainly focuses on Developmental psychology, Social psychology, Social cognition, Cognitive psychology and Social relation.
His study in Developmental psychology is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Cognitive development and Comprehension.
His Social psychology research includes themes of Social learning and Cooperative behavior.
Michael Tomasello has researched Social cognition in several fields, including Perception, Social perception, Communication, Theory of mind and Gesture.
His work deals with themes such as Language acquisition and Cognition, which intersect with Cognitive psychology.
His research in Cognition intersects with topics in Cognitive science and Cultural learning.
His most cited work include:
- The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition (3619 citations)
- Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition (2773 citations)
- Constructing a Language: A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition (2535 citations)
What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?
His main research concerns Social psychology, Developmental psychology, Linguistics, Cognitive psychology and Social cognition.
His Social psychology research includes themes of Action, Context and Normative.
His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Social relation, Object and Cognitive development.
Language acquisition, Verb, Grammar, Noun and Language development are among the areas of Linguistics where the researcher is concentrating his efforts.
His Cognitive psychology study also includes fields such as
- Cognition, which have a strong connection to Cognitive science,
- Gesture and related Comprehension.
Michael Tomasello studied Social cognition and Communication that intersect with Gaze.
He most often published in these fields:
- Social psychology (34.53%)
- Developmental psychology (25.59%)
- Linguistics (20.78%)
What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2016-2021)?
- Social psychology (34.53%)
- Developmental psychology (25.59%)
- Prosocial behavior (7.60%)
In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:
Social psychology, Developmental psychology, Prosocial behavior, Cognitive psychology and Normative are his primary areas of study.
In his work, Argument is strongly intertwined with Context, which is a subfield of Social psychology.
In his research, Troglodytes is intimately related to PsycINFO, which falls under the overarching field of Developmental psychology.
His Prosocial behavior research integrates issues from Helping behavior, Elevation, Intrinsic motivation and Internet privacy.
The various areas that he examines in his Cognitive psychology study include Shared cognition, Joint attention, Social cognition and Action.
In his research on the topic of Social cognition, Mentalization is strongly related with Theory of mind.
Between 2016 and 2021, his most popular works were:
- The gestural communication of apes and monkeys (206 citations)
- Becoming Human: A Theory of Ontogeny (103 citations)
- Cultural learning and learning culture. (76 citations)
In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:
- Social psychology
- Linguistics
- Cognition
His primary areas of study are Social psychology, Prosocial behavior, Developmental psychology, Interpersonal relationship and Cognitive psychology.
His Social psychology research incorporates elements of Context, Subject and Normative.
His work carried out in the field of Developmental psychology brings together such families of science as Control, Group decision-making and Social animal.
Michael Tomasello interconnects Perspective-taking, Theory of mind, Social cognition and Tracking in the investigation of issues within Cognitive psychology.
He combines subjects such as Sociality, Epistemology, Collective intentionality, Evolutionary psychology and Sociocultural evolution with his study of Social cognition.
His Joint attention research incorporates themes from Linguistic communication and Cognition.
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