Dr. David Buttelmann
Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig GERMANY
PHONE: +49 (341) 3550 - 443
FAX: +49 (341) 3550 - 444
E-MAIL: buttelmann (at) eva.mpg.de
Research interests:
- Comparative hominid cognition
- Social-Cognitive prerequisites for participation in shared activities
- Understanding of others’ goal-directed and intentional actions
- Other mental state attribution (desires and beliefs)
- Infants and young children, great apes, and dogs
Ongoing projects:
- Factors that influence imitation in preverbal infants (in cooperation with Norbert Zmyj and Moritz Daum, MPI CBS, Leipzig, Germany)
- Theory of Mind in infants (with Malinda Carpenter and Michael Tomasello, MPI EVAN, Leipzig, Germany)
- Reliability understanding in preverbal infants and its phylogenetic roots (with Susan Birch, UBC, Vancouver, CA, & Malinda Carpenter and Michael Tomasello, MPI EVAN, Leipzig, Germany)
- Understanding different components in intentional action in non-human primates (with Malinda Carpenter, Josep Call, and Michael Tomasello, MPI EVAN, Leipzig, Germany)
