josep call  
 
Curriculum vitae
Publications
 
 

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

  
2004- Senior Scientist (W2), Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 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, Dept. of Psychology, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain.

1987-1990:

Research assistant, Dept. of Psychology, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain.

 
 

 

Editorial boards

Journal of Comparative Psychology (Associate editor), International Journal of Comparative Psychology, Interaction Studies, Animal Cognition,Biology Letters

 

Professional affiliations

American Psychological Association, Animal Behavior Society, Asociacion Primatologica Española.

 

Selected publications

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

Call, J. & Tomasello, M. (2007). The gestural communication of apes and monkeys. New York: LEA.

Fischer, J., Kaminski, J. & Call, J. (2004). A pluralistic account of word learning. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 8, 481.

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 USA, 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.

Tomasello, M. & Call, J. (1997). Primate cognition. New York: Oxford University Press.

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., Call, J. & Hare, B. (2003). Chimpanzees versus humans: it’s not that simple. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 7, 239-240.

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.

 

 

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Updated November, 2007