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"Frequent frames" in German child-directed speech: a limited cue to grammatical categories

scientific article published in August 2011

"I know you don't know I know…" children use second-order false-belief reasoning for peer coordination

scientific article

'Unwilling' versus 'unable': chimpanzees' understanding of human intentional action

scientific article published in September 2004

12- and 18-Month-Olds Point to Provide Information for Others

article by Ulf Liszkowski et al published April 2006 in Journal of Cognition and Development

12- and 18-month-old infants follow gaze to spaces behind barriers

scientific article published in February 2004

18-month-olds comprehend indirect communicative acts

scientific article published on 8 December 2014

3- and 5-year-old children's adherence to explicit and implicit joint commitments

scientific article published on 25 October 2018

3-year-old children make relevance inferences in indirect verbal communication

scientific article

36-month-olds conceal visual and auditory information from others

scientific article published in May 2010

A comparison of temperament in nonhuman apes and human infants

scientific article published on 29 August 2011

A competitive nonverbal false belief task for children and apes

scientific article published in July 2009

A construction based analysis of child directed speech

article

A dense corpus study of past tense and plural overregularization in English

scientific article published on 01 December 2004

A natural history of human thinking

book published in 2018

A new false belief test for 36-month-olds

article by Malinda Carpenter et al published September 2002 in British Journal of Developmental Psychology

A new look at infant pointing

scientific article published in May 2007

A szándékok megértése, közös szándékok

A tale of two theories: response to Fisher

scientific article published on March 2002

A test of the submentalizing hypothesis: Apes' performance in a false belief task inanimate control

scientific article published on 5 July 2017

Adult instruction limits children's flexibility in moral decision making

scientific article published on 22 July 2019

All great ape species (Gorilla gorilla, Pan paniscus, Pan troglodytes, Pongo abelii) and two-and-a-half-year-old children (Homo sapiens) discriminate appearance from reality

scientific article

All great ape species follow gaze to distant locations and around barriers

scientific article published in May 2005

Allocation of resources to collaborators and free-riders in 3-year-olds

scientific article

An experimental study of nettle feeding in captive gorillas

scientific article published in June 2008

Apes' and children's understanding of cooperative and competitive motives in a communicative situation

scientific article published in September 2006

Apes' use of iconic cues in the object-choice task

scientific article published on 5 January 2006

Are apes inequity averse? New data on the token-exchange paradigm

scientific article

Are apes really inequity averse?

scientific article

Assessing the validity of ape-human comparisons: a reply to Boesch (2007).

scientific article published in November 2008

Behavior. Like infant, like dog

scientific article

Behavioral cues that great apes use to forage for hidden food

scientific article published on 30 May 2007

Being mimicked increases prosocial behavior in 18-month-old infants

scientific article published on 14 March 2013

Bigger knows better: Young children selectively learn rule games from adults rather than from peers

scientific article published on November 1, 2010

Body orientation and face orientation: two factors controlling apes' behavior from humans

scientific article published in October 2004

Bonobos, Pan paniscus, chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes, and marmosets, Callithrix jacchus, prefer to feed alone

scientific article published in January 2013

Can chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) discriminate appearance from reality?

scientific article published on 24 July 2009

Can domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) use referential emotional expressions to locate hidden food?

scientific article published on 9 September 2012

Can we dissociate contingency learning from social learning in word acquisition by 24-month-olds?

scientific article

Children aged 2 ; 1 use transitive syntax to make a semantic-role interpretation in a pointing task

scientific article published on April 2011

Children conform to the behavior of peers; other great apes stick with what they know

scientific article

Children coordinate in a recurrent social dilemma by taking turns and along dominance asymmetries

scientific article published on 7 November 2016

Children engage in competitive altruism.

scientific article

Children use rules to coordinate in a social dilemma

scientific article published on 20 December 2018

Children use salience to solve coordination problems

scientific article

Children's Intrinsic Motivation to Provide Help Themselves After Accidentally Harming Others

scientific article

Children's Selective Trust in Promises

scientific article published on 29 June 2018

Children's Sense of Fairness as Equal Respect

scientific article published on 02 April 2019

Children's ability to answer different types of questions

scientific article published on 22 March 2012

Children's developing commitments to joint goals

scientific article published on 16 December 2011

Children's developing metaethical judgments

scientific article published on 17 August 2017

Children's level of word knowledge predicts their exclusion of familiar objects as referents of novel words

scientific article published on 11 August 2015

Children's meta-talk in their collaborative decision making with peers

scientific article published in November 2017

Children's norm enforcement in their interactions with peers

scientific article published on 18 October 2013

Children's reasoning with peers and parents about moral dilemmas

scientific article published on 12 September 2019

Children's reasoning with peers in cooperative and competitive contexts

scientific article published on 21 September 2017

Children's respect for ownership across diverse societies

scientific article published on 05 August 2019

Children's understanding of first- and third-person perspectives in complement clauses and false-belief tasks

scientific article published on 8 April 2016

Children, but not chimpanzees, prefer to collaborate

scientific article published on 13 October 2011

Children, but not great apes, respect ownership

scientific article published on 31 May 2019

Children, chimpanzees, and bonobos adjust the visibility of their actions for cooperators and competitors

scientific article published on 17 August 2017

Chimpanzee helping in collaborative and noncollaborative contexts

Chimpanzee responders still behave like rational maximizers

scientific article published on 5 April 2013

Chimpanzees ( Pan troglodytes) coordinate by communicating in a collaborative problem-solving task

scientific article published on 01 April 2019

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) conceal visual and auditory information from others

scientific article

Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) instrumentally help but do not communicate in a mutualistic cooperative task

scientific article published in August 2014

Chimpanzees and children avoid mutual defection in a social dilemma

Chimpanzees are rational maximizers in an ultimatum game

scientific article

Chimpanzees are vengeful but not spiteful

scholarly article

Chimpanzees coordinate in a negotiation game

Chimpanzees coordinate in a snowdrift game

Chimpanzees deceive a human competitor by hiding

scientific article published on 17 January 2006

Chimpanzees do not take into account what others can hear in a competitive situation

scientific article published on 09 June 2007

Chimpanzees help conspecifics obtain food and non-food items

scientific article published on October 27, 2010

Chimpanzees help others with what they want; children help them with what they need

scientific article published on 11 November 2019

Chimpanzees know that others make inferences

scientific article

Chimpanzees know what others know, but not what they believe

scientific article published on 11 October 2008

Chimpanzees monopolize and children take turns in a limited resource problem

Chimpanzees predict that a competitor's preference will match their own.

scientific article

Chimpanzees really know what others can see in a competitive situation

scientific article

Chimpanzees recruit the best collaborators

scientific article published in March 2006

Chimpanzees return favors at a personal cost

scientific article published on 19 June 2017

Chimpanzees strategically manipulate what others can see.

scientific article

Chimpanzees trust conspecifics to engage in low-cost reciprocity

scientific article published in February 2015

Chimpanzees understand psychological states – the question is which ones and to what extent

scientific article published on April 1, 2003

Chimpanzees use observed temporal directionality to learn novel causal relations

scientific article published on 23 September 2019

Chimpanzees versus humans: it's not that simple

scientific article published in June 2003

Chimpanzees' (Pan troglodytes) internal arousal remains elevated if they cannot themselves help a conspecific

scientific article published on 14 December 2020

Chimpanzees' (Pan troglodytes) strategic helping in a collaborative task

scientific article

Chimpanzees' understanding of social leverage

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Chimpanzees, Pan troglodytes, recognize successful actions, but fail to imitate them

Chimpanzees, bonobos and children successfully coordinate in conflict situations.

scientific article published in June 2017

Collaboration encourages equal sharing in children but not in chimpanzees

scientific article published on 20 July 2011

Collaboration in young children

scientific article published in January 2012

Collaborative partner or social tool? New evidence for young children's understanding of joint intentions in collaborative activities

scientific article published on 2 November 2011

Common knowledge that help is needed increases helping behavior in children

scientific article published on 28 September 2020

Communication about absent entities in great apes and human infants

scientific article published on 27 August 2015

Communication of Food Location Between Human and Dog (Canis Familiaris)

article by Brian Hare et al published 1998 in Interaction Studies

Communicative eye contact signals a commitment to cooperate for young children

scientific article published on 28 June 2018

Comparing different accounts of inversion errors in children's non-subject wh-questions: 'What experimental data can tell us?'.

scientific article

Comprehension of iconic gestures by chimpanzees and human children

scientific article published on 5 October 2015

Concern for Group Reputation Increases Prosociality in Young Children

scientific article published in November 2017

Conforming to coordinate: children use majority information for peer coordination

scientific article published on 12 December 2014

Conformity to Peer Pressure in Preschool Children

scientific article (publication date: 24 October 2011)

Cooperation and human cognition: the Vygotskian intelligence hypothesis

scientific article published on April 2007

Cooperative activities in young children and chimpanzees

scientific article published in May 2006

Coordination strategies of chimpanzees and human children in a Stag Hunt game

scientific article (publication date: 7 December 2014)

Copying results and copying actions in the process of social learning: chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and human children (Homo sapiens).

scientific article published on 15 October 2004

Correction: Does Sympathy Motivate Prosocial Behaviour in Great Apes?

scientific article published on 29 January 2014

Could we please lose the mapping metaphor, please?

scientific article published on 01 December 2001

Cultural Learning Redux

scientific article published on May 2016

Cultural learning

Development of word order in German complement-clause constructions: Effects of input frequencies, lexical items, and discourse function

scientific article published in 2010

Differences in the Ability of Apes and Children to Instruct Others Using Gestures

Differences in the cognitive skills of bonobos and chimpanzees

scientific article

Differences in the early cognitive development of children and great apes

scientific article published on 14 June 2013

Differences in the nonverbal requests of great apes and human infants.

scientific article published on 31 July 2013

Different social motives in the gestural communication of chimpanzees and human children

scientific article published in January 2011

Differing views: Can chimpanzees do Level 2 perspective-taking?

scientific article published on 6 February 2016

Direct and indirect reputation formation in nonhuman great apes (Pan paniscus, Pan troglodytes, Gorilla gorilla, Pongo pygmaeus) and human children (Homo sapiens).

scientific article published on 2 July 2012

Do 7-year-old children understand social leverage?

scientific article published on 06 August 2020

Do capuchin monkeys, Cebus apella, know what conspecifics do and do not see?

Do chimpanzees know what conspecifics know?

scientific article

Do dogs distinguish rational from irrational acts?

Do domestic dogs interpret pointing as a command?

scientific article published on 9 November 2012

Do domestic dogs learn words based on humans' referential behaviour?

scientific article

Do great apes use emotional expressions to infer desires?

scientific article

Does sympathy motivate prosocial behaviour in great apes?

scientific article (publication date: 2014)

Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind? 30 years later

scientific article published on May 2008

Dogs (Canis familiaris) evaluate humans on the basis of direct experiences only

scientific article

Dogs (Canis familiaris), but not chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), understand imperative pointing

scientific article published in 2012

Dogs steal in the dark

scientific article published on 20 November 2012

Dogs, Canis familiaris, communicate with humans to request but not to inform

article published in 2011

Domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) are sensitive to the attentional state of humans

scientific article published in September 2003

Domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) coordinate their actions in a problem-solving task

scientific article published on 23 October 2012

Domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) use a physical marker to locate hidden food

scientific article published on 16 November 2005

Domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) use human and conspecific social cues to locate hidden food.

scholarly article from 'Journal of Comparative Psychology' published in 1999

Domestic dogs and puppies can use human voice direction referentially.

scientific article published on 7 May 2014

Domestic dogs are sensitive to a human's perspective

Domestic dogs comprehend human communication with iconic signs.

scientific article published in November 2009

Domestic dogs conceal auditory but not visual information from others

scientific article published on 3 November 2012

Domestic dogs use contextual information and tone of voice when following a human pointing gesture

scientific article

Domestic goats, Capra hircus, follow gaze direction and use social cues in an object choice task

article published in 2005

Done wrong or said wrong? Young children understand the normative directions of fit of different speech acts

Dueling Dualists

Early social cognition in three cultural contexts

scientific article published in August 2011

Early syntactic creativity: a usage-based approach.

scientific article published in May 2003

Eighteen-Month-Old Infants Correct Non-Conforming Actions by Others

scientific article published on 03 April 2019

Eighteen-month-old infants show false belief understanding in an active helping paradigm

scientific article published on 13 June 2009

Eighteen-month-olds understand false beliefs in an unexpected-contents task

scientific article published on 19 November 2013

Enculturated chimpanzees imitate rationally

scientific article published in July 2007

Engineering cooperation in chimpanzees: tolerance constraints on cooperation

Error patterns in young German children's wh-questions

scientific article

Evidence for emulation in chimpanzees in social settings using the floating peanut task

scientific article

Examining correlates of cooperation in autism: Imitation, joint attention, and understanding intentions

scientific article published in March 2009

Exemplar-learning and schematization in a usage-based account of syntactic acquisition

scientific article (publication date: 2006)

Extrinsic Rewards Diminish Costly Sharing in 3-Year-Olds

scientific article published on 16 April 2016

Extrinsic rewards undermine altruistic tendencies in 20-month-olds

scientific article published in November 2008

Fair Is Not Fair Everywhere

scientific article published on 26 June 2015

Familiar verbs are not always easier than novel verbs: how German pre-school children comprehend active and passive sentences

scientific article published on 29 July 2013

First steps toward a usage-based theory of language acquisition

article by Michael Tomasello published 16 January 2001 in Cognitive Linguistics

Five-year olds, but not chimpanzees, attempt to manage their reputations

scientific article

Five-year-olds understand fair as equal in a mini-ultimatum game

scientific article

Flexibility in the semantics and syntax of children's early verb use.

scientific article published on January 2009

Focusing and shifting attention in human children (Homo sapiens) and chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes).

scientific article published on 6 July 2015

Fourteen- through 18-month-old infants differentially imitate intentional and accidental actions

scholarly article from 'Infant Behavior and Development' published in 1998

Fourteen-Month-Olds Know What “We” Have Shared in a Special Way

article by Henrike Moll et al published 1 January 2008 in Infancy

Fourteen-month-olds know what others experience only in joint engagement

scientific article published in November 2007

French children's use and correction of weird word orders: A constructivist account

article

From imitation to implementation: How two- and three-year-old children learn to enforce social norms

scientific article published on 22 September 2016

Generalize or personalize--do dogs transfer an acquired rule to novel situations and persons?

scientific article

German Children's Use of Word Order and Case Marking to Interpret Simple and Complex Sentences: Testing Differences Between Constructions and Lexical Items

scientific article

German children's comprehension of word order and case marking in causative sentences

scientific article

German children's productivity with simple transitive and complement-clause constructions: Testing the effects of frequency and variability

scientific article published in January 2011

German children's productivity with tense morphology: the Perfekt (present perfect).

scientific article published on August 2002

Gestural communication in subadult bonobos (Pan paniscus): repertoire and use.

scientific article published in January 2005

Gestural communication in young gorillas (Gorilla gorilla): gestural repertoire, learning, and use.

scientific article published in July 2003

Giving Is Nicer than Taking: Preschoolers Reciprocate Based on the Social Intentions of the Distributor

scientific article published on 25 January 2016

Great apes anticipate that other individuals will act according to false beliefs

scientific article

Great apes are sensitive to prior reliability of an informant in a gaze following task

scientific article published on 22 November 2017

Great apes distinguish true from false beliefs in an interactive helping task

scientific article

Great apes infer others' goals based on context

scientific article published on 30 June 2012

Great apes' understanding of other individuals' line of sight

scientific article published in May 2007

Helping and Cooperation at 14 Months of Age

scientific article published on 01 May 2007

Helping and cooperation in children with autism

scientific article published on 11 August 2007

How 14- and 18-month-olds know what others have experienced

scientific article

How 18- and 24-month-old peers divide resources among themselves

scientific article published on 14 August 2015

How Children Constrain Their Argument Structure Constructions

scholarly article in Language, vol. 75 no. 4, December 1999

How children come to understand false beliefs: A shared intentionality account

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

How chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) share the spoils with collaborators and bystanders

scientific article published on 23 September 2019

How chimpanzees cooperate: If dominance is artificially constrained

scientific article published on 19 October 2016

How chimpanzees solve collective action problems.

scientific article published on 17 October 2012

How dogs know when communication is intended for them

scientific article published on 24 November 2011

How selective are 3-year-olds in imitating novel linguistic material?

scientific article

How to Compare Across Species

scientific article published on 4 November 2016

How toddlers and preschoolers learn to uniquely identify referents for others: a training study

scientific article

How two word-trained dogs integrate pointing and naming

scientific article

Human behaviour: Share and share alike.

scientific article published in August 2008

Human children, but not great apes, become socially closer by sharing an experience in common ground

scientific article published on 18 July 2020

Human-like social skills in dogs?

scientific article

Humans have evolved specialized skills of social cognition: the cultural intelligence hypothesis

scientific article

In Search of the Uniquely Human

Infant cognition

scientific article published on October 26, 2010

Infants Determine Others' Focus of Attention by Pragmatics and Exclusion

Infants communicate in order to be understood

scientific article

Infants use shared experience to interpret pointing gestures

scientific article

Infants' visual and auditory communication when a partner is or is not visually attending

scientific article published on 3 December 2007

Infants’ Use of Shared Experience in Declarative Pointing

scientific article published on 28 January 2010

Introduction to special issue: 'Life history and learning: how childhood, caregiving and old age shape cognition and culture in humans and other animals'

scientific article published on 01 June 2020

Jerome Seymour Bruner [1915-2016].

scientific article

Joint Attention and Early Language

Joint Attention and Imitative Learning in Children, Chimpanzees, and Enculturated Chimpanzees

scholarly article from 'Social Development' published in 1995

Joint drumming: social context facilitates synchronization in preschool children.

scientific article

Language in a New Key.

scientific article published in October 2016

Late Emergence of the First Possession Heuristic: Evidence From a Small-Scale Culture

scientific article published in April 2015

Learning Novel Skills From Iconic Gestures: A Developmental and Evolutionary Perspective

scientific article published on 26 May 2020

Learning to produce passive utterances through discourse

article published in 1998

Learning words in nonostensive contexts.

scientific article (publication date: 1994)

Level 1 perspective-taking at 24 months of age

Limitations to the cultural ratchet effect in young children

scientific article published on 14 June 2014

Majority-biased transmission in chimpanzees and human children, but not orangutans

scientific article published on 12 April 2012

Making inferences about the location of hidden food: social dog, causal ape.

scientific article

Meritocratic sharing is based on collaboration in 3-year-olds

scientific article published on 20 May 2013

Methodological challenges in the study of primate cognition

scientific article published in December 2011

Modeling children's early grammatical knowledge

scientific article

Modeling social norms increasingly influences costly sharing in middle childhood

scientific article published on 20 March 2018

Natural reference: A phylo- and ontogenetic perspective on the comprehension of iconic gestures and vocalizations

scientific article published on 18 October 2018

No third-party punishment in chimpanzees

scientific article

Non-egalitarian allocations among preschool peers in a face-to-face bargaining task

scientific article

Not waving but speaking

scientific article published in Nature

Novel paradigms to measure variability of behavior in early childhood: posture, gaze, and pupil dilation

scientific article

Object relatives made easy: A cross-linguistic comparison of the constraints influencing young children's processing of relative clauses

scientific article published in September 2007

On tools and toys: how children learn to act on and pretend with 'virgin objects'.

scientific article published in January 2005

One for You, One for Me: Humans' Unique Turn-Taking Skills

scientific article published on 25 May 2016

One-year-old infants follow others' voice direction

scientific article

One-year-olds comprehend the communicative intentions behind gestures in a hiding game

scientific article published in November 2005

One-year-olds’ understanding of nonverbal gestures directed to a third person

Origins of human cooperation and morality

scientific article published on 12 July 2012

Origins of the human pointing gesture: a training study

scientific article

Pointing out new news, old news, and absent referents at 12 months of age.

scientific article published in March 2007

Prelinguistic infants, but not chimpanzees, communicate about absent entities.

scientific article published in May 2009

Preschoolers affect others' reputations through prosocial gossip

scientific article published on 29 April 2016

Preschoolers are sensitive to free riding in a public goods game

scientific article

Preschoolers consider (absent) others when choosing a distribution procedure

scientific article published on 29 August 2019

Preschoolers refer to direct and indirect evidence in their collaborative reasoning

scientific article published on 31 January 2020

Preschoolers understand the normativity of cooperatively structured competition

scientific article published on 23 November 2015

Preschoolers use common ground in their justificatory reasoning with peers

scientific article published on 21 December 2015

Preschoolers value those who sanction non-cooperators

scientific article

Preschoolers' understanding of the role of communication and cooperation in establishing property rights

scientific article published on 15 December 2014

Primate Cognition

book published in 1997

Primate cognition

scientific article

Procedural justice in children: Preschoolers accept unequal resource distributions if the procedure provides equal opportunities

scientific article published on 6 August 2015

Production and Comprehension of Gestures between Orang-Utans (Pongo pygmaeus) in a Referential Communication Game

scientific article published on 19 June 2015

Productivity of Noun Slots in Verb Frames

scientific article published on 21 January 2015

Pronoun co-referencing errors: Challenges for generativist and usage-based accounts

Push or Pull: Imitation vs. Emulation in Great Apes and Human Children

Rapid learning of an abstract language-specific category: Polish children's acquisition of the instrumental construction.

scientific article published in August 2008

Ratcheting up the ratchet: on the evolution of cumulative culture

scientific article

Rational Imitation in 12-Month-Old Infants Christiane Schwier, Catharine van Maanen, Malinda Carpenter

article by Michael Tomasello published 1 November 2006 in Infancy

Rational tool use and tool choice in human infants and great apes

scientific article

Reference and attitude in infant pointing

scientific article

Reliance on head versus eyes in the gaze following of great apes and human infants: the cooperative eye hypothesis.

scientific article published on 20 October 2006

Respect Defended

scientific article published on 05 July 2019

Restorative Justice in Children

scientific article published on 18 June 2015

Role Reversal Imitation and Language in Typically Developing Infants and Children With Autism

scholarly article by Malinda Carpenter et al published 1 November 2005 in Infancy

Sampling children's spontaneous speech: how much is enough?

scientific article published on February 2004

Semantics of the transitive construction: prototype effects and developmental comparisons

scientific article published on 16 May 2012

Shared intentionality.

scientific article published in January 2007

Side matters: potential mechanisms underlying dogs' performance in a social eavesdropping paradigm

Simple Mechanisms Can Explain Social Learning in Domestic Dogs (Canis familiaris)

Social Engagement Leads 2-Year-Olds to Overestimate Others’ Knowledge

scientific article published on 01 May 2011

Social communication in siamangs (Symphalangus syndactylus): use of gestures and facial expressions

scientific article published on 4 December 2003

Social disappointment explains chimpanzees' behaviour in the inequity aversion task.

scientific article

Society need not be selfish

journal article; published in Nature on 2009-09-02

Spontaneous altruism by chimpanzees and young children

scientific article (publication date: July 2007)

Studying extant species to model our past.

scientific article

Submentalizing Cannot Explain Belief-Based Action Anticipation in Apes

scientific article published on 17 July 2017

Sympathy through affective perspective taking and its relation to prosocial behavior in toddlers

scientific article

Syntax or semantics? Response to Lidz et al.

scientific article published on September 2004

Taking Turns or Not? Children's Approach to Limited Resource Problems in Three Different Cultures

scientific article published on May 2016

Taking versus confronting visual perspectives in preschool children

scientific article published on 21 May 2012

Teaching versus enforcing game rules in preschoolers' peer interactions

scientific article published on 31 March 2015

Testing the abstractness of children's linguistic representations: lexical and structural priming of syntactic constructions in young children

scientific article published on November 2003

The Early Emergence of Guilt-Motivated Prosocial Behavior

scientific article

The Early Ontogeny of Reason Giving

scientific article published in 2020

The Human Adaptation for Culture

article

The Moral Psychology of Obligation

scientific article published on 28 May 2019

The Role of Discourse Novelty in Early Word Learning

scientific article (publication date: April 1996)

The Role of Ontogeny in the Evolution of Human Cooperation

scientific article published on 18 May 2017

The acquisition of German relative clauses: a case study.

scientific article published in May 2008

The adaptive origins of uniquely human sociality

scientific article published on 01 June 2020

The communicative contexts of grammatical aspect use in English

scientific article published on 29 May 2013

The development of intention-based sociomoral judgment and distribution behavior from a third-party stance

scientific article published on 16 November 2017

The development of the ability to recognize the meaning of iconic signs

scientific article published on 7 September 2007

The discourse bases of relativization: An investigation of young German and English-speaking children's comprehension of relative clauses

scientific article published in January 2009

The domestication hypothesis for dogs' skills with human communication: a response to Udell et al. (2008) and Wynne et al. (2008)

article by Brian Hare et al published February 2010 in Animal Behaviour

The domestication of social cognition in dogs

scientific article

The early ontogeny of human–dog communication

article by Julia Riedel et al published March 2008 in Animal Behaviour

The effects of being watched on resource acquisition in chimpanzees and human children

scientific article published on 8 September 2015

The effects of collaboration and minimal-group membership on children's prosocial behavior, liking, affiliation, and trust

scientific article published on 22 June 2015

The emergence of contingent reciprocity in young children

scientific article published on 3 August 2013

The emergence of social cognition in three young chimpanzees

scientific article

The fulfillment of others' needs elevates children's body posture

scientific article

The goal of ape pointing.

scientific article published on 25 April 2018

The goggles experiment: can chimpanzees use self-experience to infer what a competitor can see?

The impact of choice on young children's prosocial motivation

scientific article published on 13 February 2017

The influence of intention and outcome on young children's reciprocal sharing

scientific article published on 16 July 2019

The learning and use of gestural signals by young chimpanzees: A trans-generational study

The many faces of obligation

scientific article published on 30 April 2020

The ontogenetic ritualization of bonobo gestures

scientific article published on 31 January 2013

The ontogeny of cultural learning

scientific article published on 25 September 2015

The psychological mechanisms underlying reciprocal prosociality in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

scientific article published on 29 August 2019

The reasons young children give to peers when explaining their judgments of moral and conventional rules

scientific article published on 23 October 2017

The relation between young children's physiological arousal and their motivation to help others

scientific article published on 10 October 2017

The role of frequency in the acquisition of English word order

article published in 2005

The role of humans in the cognitive development of apes revisited

scientific article published in October 2004

The role of language in the development of false belief understanding: a training study

scientific article published in July 2003

The role of past interactions in great apes' communication about absent entities

scientific article published on 3 October 2016

The role of perceptual availability and discourse context in young children's question answering

scientific article published on November 26, 2010

The role of the input in the acquisition of third person singular verbs in English.

scientific article published in August 2003

The roots of human altruism

scientific article published on 05 December 2008

The social-cognitive basis of infants’ reference to absent entities

scientific article published on 06 April 2018

The sources of normativity: young children's awareness of the normative structure of games

scientific article

The specificity of reciprocity: Young children reciprocate more generously to those who intentionally benefit them

scientific article published on 8 December 2017

The structure of individual differences in the cognitive abilities of children and chimpanzees

scientific article published on 18 December 2009

The ultra-social animal

scientific article

Theft in an ultimatum game: chimpanzees and bonobos are insensitive to unfairness

scientific article

Things Are What They Do: Katherine Nelson's Functional Approach to Language and Cognition

scientific article published in February 2002

Thirty years of great ape gestures

scientific article published on 21 February 2018

Three- and 5-year-old children's understanding of how to dissolve a joint commitment

scientific article published on 15 April 2019

Three-Year-Olds' Reactions to a Partner's Failure to Perform Her Role in a Joint Commitment

scientific article published on 15 May 2017

Three-year-old children intervene in third-party moral transgressions

scientific article published in March 2011

Three-year-olds hide their communicative intentions in appropriate contexts

scientific article published on 11 March 2013

Three-year-olds understand appearance and reality--just not about the same object at the same time

scientific article published on 31 October 2011

Three-year-olds' understanding of the consequences of joint commitments

scientific article

Toddlers Help a Peer

scientific article

Toddlers' intrinsic motivation to return help to their benefactor

scientific article published on 17 August 2019

Training 2;6-year-olds to produce the transitive construction: the role of frequency, semantic similarity and shared syntactic distribution

scientific article published on February 2004

Twelve- and 18-month-olds copy actions in terms of goals

scientific article published in January 2005

Twelve-month-olds communicate helpfully and appropriately for knowledgeable and ignorant partners

scientific article published on 21 August 2008

Twelve-month-olds point to share attention and interest

scientific article published in June 2004

Twelve-month-olds' comprehension and production of pointing

scientific article published on 4 July 2011

Two Key Steps in the Evolution of Human Cooperation

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