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Curriculum vitae

Josep Call, PhD

Current position:

Senior Scientist, Director Wolfgang Köhler Primate Research Center

Institution:

Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Deutscher Platz 6 D-04103 Leipzig Germany
phone:	+49 (0341) 3550 418 (institute) +49 (0341) 3550 614 (zoo)
fax:	+49 (0341) 3550 444 (institute) +49 (0341) 3550 640 (zoo)
e-mail:	call@eva.mpg.de

Degrees:

B.A. (Psychology) (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain,1990)
M.A. (Psychology) (Emory University, Atlanta, USA, 1995)
Ph.D. (Psychology) (Emory University, Atlanta, USA, 1997)


Posts
2006-	Director, Wolfgang Köhler Primate Research Center, Leipzig, Germany
2005-2006	Fellow at the Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung. Universität Bielefeld, Germany
2004-	Senior Scientist (W2), Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
1999-2006:	Co-director Wolfgang Köhler Primate Research Center, Leipzig, Germany
1999-2004:	Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany
1997-1999:	Lecturer, School of Biological Sciences, University of Liverpool, UK
1990-1991:	Assistant professor, Psychology Dept., Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain.
1987-1990:	Research fellow, Laboratori de Psicologia Matemàtica, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain.

Awards

1984	CIRIT Award to encourage youngsters scientific spirit. CIRIT, Generalitat de Catalunya, Spain.
1991	La Caixa Scholarship. Fundació "La Caixa", Spain.
1996	American Psychological Association Dissertation Research Award, USA.
2011	Sheth Distinguished International Alumni Award, Emory University, USA.

Editorial boards

Journal of Comparative Psychology (Associate Editor: 2006-2010; Editor: 2011- ), Interaction Studies (2003- ), Animal Cognition (2007- ), Biology Letters (2008- ), Frontiers in Comparative Psychology (2010- ), Primates (2012- ).

Membership in scientific societies

American Psychological Association, Asociacion Primatologica Española

Selected publications

Amici, F., Aureli, F. & Call, J. (2008). Fission-fusion dynamics, behavioral flexibility and inhibitory control in primates. Current Biology, 18, 1415-1419.

Call, J. (2001). Chimpanzee social cognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 5, 369-405.

Call, J. & Carpenter, M. (2009). Monkeys like mimics. Science, 325, 824-825.

Call, J. & Tennie, C. (2009). Animal culture: Chimpanzee table manners? Current Biology, 19, R981-R983.

Call, J. & Tomasello, M. (2008). Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind? 30 years later. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 12, 187-192.

Hanus, D. & Call, J. (2008). Chimpanzees infer the location of a reward based on the effect of its weight. Current Biology, 18, R370-372.

Haun, D. & Call, J. (2008). Imitation recognition in great apes. Current Biology, 18, 288-290.

Haun, D.B.M.. Call, J., Janzen, G, & Levinson, S.C. (2006). Evolutionary psychology of spatial representations in the Hominidae. Current Biology, 16, 1736-1740.

Haun, D.B.M.. Rapold, C.J., Call, J., Janzen, G, & Levinson, S.C. (2006). Cognitive cladistics and cultural override in human spatial cognition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 103, 17568-17573.

Herrmann, E., Call, J., Hare, B., Hernandez-Lloreda, M.V. & Tomasello, M. (2007). Humans have evolved specialized skills of social cognition: The cultural intelligence hypothesis. Science, 317, 1360-1366.

Jensen, K., Call, J. & Tomasello, M. (2007). Chimpanzees are rational maximizers in an ultimatum game. Science, 318, 107-109.

Jensen, K., Call, J. & Tomasello, M. (2007). Chimpanzees are vengeful but not spiteful. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 104, 13046-13050.

Kaminski, J., Call, J. & Fischer, M. (2004). Word learning in a domestic dog: Evidence for “fast mapping”. Science, 304, 1682-1683.

Mulcahy, N.J. & Call, J. (2006). Apes save tools for future use. Science, 312, 1038-1040.

Schmelz, M., Call, J. & Tomasello, M. (2011). Chimpanzees know that others make inferences. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 108, 3077-3079.

Tomasello, M. & Call, J. (2011). Methodological challenges in the study of primate cognition, Science, 334, 1227-1228.

Tomasello, M., Call, J. & Hare, B. (2003). Chimpanzees understand psychological states – the question is which ones and to what extent. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 153-156.

Tomasello, M., Carpenter, M., Call, J., Behne, T. & Moll, H. (2005). Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28, 1-17.

My personal favorites

Call, J. & Tomasello, M. (1994) Production and comprehension of referential pointing by orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 108, 307-317.

Call, J. & Carpenter, M. (2001). Do chimpanzees and children know what they have seen? Animal Cognition, 4, 207-220.

Hare, B., Call, J., & Tomasello, M., (2001). Do chimpanzees know what conspecifics know and do not know? Animal Behaviour, 61, 139-151.

Call, J. (2004). Inferences about the location of food in the great apes (Pan paniscus, Pan troglodytes, Gorilla gorilla, Pongo pygmaeus). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 118, 232-241.

Mulcahy, N.J. & Call, J. (2006). Apes save tools for future use. Science, 312, 1038-1040.

Jensen, K., Call, J. & Tomasello, M. (2007). Chimpanzees are vengeful but not spiteful. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 104, 13046-13050.

Mendes, N., Hanus, D. & Call, J. (2007) Raising the level: Orangutans use water as a tool. Biology Letters, 3, 453-455.

Krachun, C., Call, J. & Tomasello, M. (2009). Can chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) discriminate appearance from reality? Cognition, 112, 435-450.

Call, J. (2010). Do apes know that they can be wrong? Animal Cognition, 13, 689-700.

Martin Ordas, G. & Call, J. (2011). Memory processing in great apes: the effect of time and sleep. Biology Letters, 7, 829-832. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.0437

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