Primate Cognition: Volume 1: Social Cognition

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Josep Call (Professor in Evolutionary Origins of Mind, Professor in Evolutionary Origins of Mind, University of St Andrews) Michael Tomasello (James Bonk Distinguished Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience, James Bonk Distinguished Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience, Duke University)

Primate Cognition

Volume 1: Social Cognition

Josep Call (Professor in Evolutionary Origins of Mind, Professor in Evolutionary Origins of Mind, University of St Andrews), Michael Tomasello (James Bonk Distinguished Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience, James Bonk Distinguished Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience, Duke University)

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Oxford University Press
25 October 2024

Cognitivism, cognitive theory; Social, group or collective psychology; Animal behaviour; Primates

First published in 1997, Primate Cognition was a groundbreaking and highly successful book that set the agenda for a new field of study. Borrowing theoretical constructs and paradigms from human cognitive science and developmental psychology, the book reviewed all of the empirical research existing at that time concerning both physical cognition (space and objects, tools and causality, features and categories, and quantities) as well as social cognition (social knowledge and interaction, social strategies and communication, social learning and culture, and theory of mind). Since that time research on primate cognition has burgeoned, and this all-new second edition mainly focuses on research conducted after 1997. It is divided into two volumes, the current volume on Primate Social Cognition and a forthcoming volume on Primate Physical Cognition. Existing areas of research are updated with the latest findings, and there are several areas of research that for all practical purposes did not exist at the time of the first edition, for example, on prosocial behavior, behavior in social dilemmas, and metacognition. There is also a chapter on theories of primate social cognition and an account of how the human primate fits into the overall evolutionary picture. This second edition of Primate Cognition provides an up-to-date survey of the field.

By: Josep Call (Professor in Evolutionary Origins of Mind Professor in Evolutionary Origins of Mind University of St Andrews), Michael Tomasello (James Bonk Distinguished Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience, James Bonk Distinguished Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience, Duke University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 245mm, Width: 170mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 760g
ISBN: 9780198910626
ISBN 10: 0198910622
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 25 October 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1: General Introduction 2: Competition and Cooperation 3: Social Strategies and Communication 4: Social Learning and Culture 5: Theory of Mind and Metacognition 6: The Evolution of Primate Social Cognition 7: The Human Primate

Josep Call is a comparative psychologist specializing in primate cognition, Wardlaw Professor in the Evolutionary Origins of Mind at the University of St Andrews and Director of the Budongo (Chimpanzee) Research Unit (Edinburgh Zoo). Prior to his current post he was a lecturer (School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool) and a senior scientist (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology). Josep obtained a BA (Psychology, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona) and a Master and PhD (Psychology, Emory University). He has been elected fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Cognitive Science Society, the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the British Academy. Michael Tomasello is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University, and emeritus director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany. His research interests focus on processes of cooperation, communication, and cultural learning in human children and great apes.

Reviews for Primate Cognition: Volume 1: Social Cognition

Review from previous edition ""Fin de siécle primatology is an exuberant, contentious, and ambitious discipline. . . . Those who took classes in primatology as few as 5 to 10 years ago would not recognize many of the current issues, a short list of examples being sexual selection, phylogenetic weighting in comparative analyses, gut-brain tradeoffs in the evolution of energy and tissue allocation, and reciprocity and retribution. Primate Cognition is a superb example of this new, reinvigorated primatology. . . . Tomasello and Call accomplish a meticulous merging of primate behavior, recent insights from cognitive and developmental psychology on the multidimensionality of cognitive abilities, and a good understanding of primate evolution to critically analyze what is and is not yet known about cognition in nonhuman primates."" * American Journal of Human Biology * ""[The authors] divide the volume into fourteen chapters organized into three parts: Knowledge of the Physical World, Knowledge of the Social World, and A Theory of Primate Cognition, which summarizes their conclusions and briefly reviews human cognitive development. The book includes an introduction to the Order Primates (as well as an appendix on their taxonomy) and a brief history of studies of primate cognition."" * Quarterly Review of Biology * ""This book is a careful and critical review of the existing literature on the cognitive capacities of primates and other mammals and, at the same time, is a launching platform for a very important theory on what is unique for primates with respect to other mammals and what is unique for human beings with respect to nonhuman primates. . . . What makes this book appealing to any kind of reader and extremely useful as an educational tool is the way in which the material is organized, critically described, and summarized in useful tables and summaries. . . . In addition, the book has 50 pages of references, an authors' index, a species index, and a subject index, as well as a multitude of figures and photographs . . . I strongly recommend this marvellous book to ethologists, animal psychologists, developmental psychologists, cognitive scientists, and anyone just interested in primates."" * The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology *