Publications & Presentations

Publications

Warneken, W., Lohse, K., Melis, A.P., & Tomasello, M. (in press). Young children share the spoils after collaboration.  Psychological Science

Warneken, F. & Melis, A. P.  (in press) “The Phylogeny and Ontogeny of Cooperation” to be published in: The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Evolutionary Psychology, edited by Vonk, J. and Shackelford, T.

Melis, A.P., Warneken, F., Jensen, K., Schneider, A., Call, J. & Tomasello, M. (2010) Chimpanzees help conspecifics to obtain food and non-food items. Proceedings of the Royal Society B.

Melis, A.P.  & Seemann, D. (2010) How is human cooperation different? Published in: Cooperation and deception: From evolution to mechanisms. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 365, 2663-2674.

Melis, A.P., Warneken, F. & Hare, B. (2010). Collaboration and helping in chimpanzees. Published in: The Mind of the Chimpanzee: Ecological and Experimental Perspectives. University of Chicago Press.

Melis, A.P., Call, J., & Tomasello, M. (2010). 36-month olds conceal visual and auditory information from others. Developmental Science.

Melis, A.P., Hare, B., & Tomasello (2009). Chimpanzees coordinate in a negotiation game. Evolution and Human Behavior, 30: 381-392.

Melis, A.P., Hare, B., & Tomasello, M. (2008). Do chimpanzees reciprocate received favors? Animal Behaviour, 76: 951-962.

Warneken, F., Hare, B., Melis, A. P., Hanus, D. & Tomasello, M. (2007). Spontaneous altruism by chimpanzees and young children. PLoS Biology, 5: 1414-1420.

Hare, B., Melis, A. P., Woods, V., Hastings, S. & Wrangham, R. (2007). Tolerance allows bonobos to outperform chimpanzees on a cooperative task. Current Biology, 17: 619-623.

Melis, A. P., Hare, B. & Tomasello, M. (2006). Chimpanzees recruit the best collaborators. Science, 311: 1297-1300.

Melis, A. P., Hare, B. & Tomasello, M. (2006). Engineering cooperation in chimpanzees: tolerance constraints on cooperation. Animal Behaviour, 72: 275-286.

Melis, A. P., Call, J. & Tomasello, M. (2006). Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) conceal visual and auditory information from others. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 120:154–162.

Herrmann, E., Melis, A. P., & Tomasello, M. (2006). Apes’ use of iconic cues in the object-choice task. Animal Cognition, 9: 118-130.

 

Presentations

Precongress symposium at the 12th World Congress of the World Association for Infant Mental Health, Leipzig, Germany, 2010 (invited speaker)

International Primatological Society, Kyoto, Japan, 2010 (speaker)

Publikumseffekte in Geistes und Naturwissenschaften’ Workshop, Bielefeld, Germany, 2009 (invited speaker)

Cooperation in Corvids and Primates’ Workshop, Strasbourg, France, 2009 (invited speaker)

Annual meeting of the Scottish Research Primate Group, UK, 2009 (invited speaker)

Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, USA, 2009 (poster)

International Primatological Society, Edinburgh, UK, 2008 (speaker)

Summer School: “Minds & Societies” of the Cognitive Science Institute, Montreal, Canada, 2008 (poster)

Conference for Comparative Psychology, Madrid, Spain, 2007 (invited symposium)

Reciprocity and Altruism Workshop, Bern, Switzerland, 2007 (invited speaker)

Apes Economics Workshop, Leipzig, Germany, 2007 (invited speaker)

20 years of Research at Kibale Forest Workshop, Kibale, Uganda, 2007 (invited speaker)

Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, USA, 2007 (poster)

Cooperation pre-conference workshop at the International Primatological Society, Ngamba Island, Uganda, 2006 (invited speaker)

International Primatological Society, Entebbe, Uganda, 2006 (speaker)

Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, USA 2005 (poster)

Colloquium at the “The Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, Atlanta, USA, 2005 (invited speaker)

International Primatological Society, Torino, Italy, 2004 (poster)