Publications

Publications

In prep.	Wyman, E., & Tomasello, M. (in prep).  Cooperation norms in children and chimpanzees.
	Duguid, S., Wyman, E., Shirmer, A., & Tomasello, M. (in prep). Coordination between peers in a young children’s ‘Stag Hunt’ game.
	Moore, R., Wyman, E., & Tomasello, M. (in prep).  Conventionalization in young children’s gestural communication.
	Gruneisen, S., Wyman, E., & Tomasello, M. (in prep). Mind reading in young children’s coordination.
Submitted	Gruneisen, S., Wyman, E., & Tomasello, M. (submitted). Children use salience to solve tacit coordination problems.
Accepted	Wyman, E.  From children’s pretense to adult institutions: The role of social consensus.  In Lewis, J., Knight, C., Dor, D., (Eds). The Evolutionary Origins of Language.  Oxford: OUP
2012	Wyman, E., Rakoczy, H., and Tomasello, M. (2012). Non-verbal communication enables coordination with others in a children’s ‘Stag Hunt’ game. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, i, 1-14.
	Tomasello, M., Melis, A., Tennie, C., Wyman, E., Herrmann, E. (2012). Two key steps in the evolution of cooperation: The interdependence hypothesis.  Current Anthropology, 53(6): 673-692
	Wyman, E., Tennie, C., Melis, A., Tomasello, M. Reply to comments.  (2012). Two key steps in the evolution of cooperation: The interdependence hypothesis. Current Anthropology, 53(6): 689-692.
2011	Wyman, E., and Rakoczy, H. (2011).  Social conventions, institutions and human uniqueness: Lessons from children and chimpanzees.  In Welsch, W., Singer, W, & Wunder, A. (eds) Interdisciplinary Anthropology.  Springer.
	Bullinger, A., Wyman, E., Melis, A., & Tomasello, M. (2011). Coordination of chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in a ‘Stag Hunt’ game.  International Journal of Primatology, 32(6), 1296-1310.
2009	Wyman, E., Rakoczy, H., & Tomasello, M. (2009). Young children understand multiple pretend identities in their object play.  British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 27(2), 385-404.
	Wyman, E., Rakoczy, H., & Tomasello, M. (2009). Normativity and context in young children’s pretend play.  Cognitive development, 24(2), 146-155.
	Wyman, E., (2009). Young children’s understanding of and engagement in social conventions.  Dissertation thesis.  Department of Psychology, University of Manchester.
2008	Behne, T., Carpenter, M., Gräfenhein, M., Liebal, K., Liszkowski, U., Moll, H., Rakoczy, H., Tomasello, M., Warneken, F., & Wyman, E. (2008). Cultural learning and creation. In U. Müller, J. Carpendale, N. Budwig, & B. Sokol (eds.), Social Life and Social Knowledge: Toward a Process Account of Development (pp. 65-101). Jean Piaget Symposium Series. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
2007	Wyman, E. & Tomasello, M. (2007). The ontogenetic origins of cooperation. In Dunbar, R. & Barrett, L. (eds) The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Psychology. New York: Oxford University Press.

 

Invited Talks

2011	‘Conventional rules, institutional facts and children’s pretend play’ Social Origins of Language Workshop, University College London, England.
	‘Social pragmatics in young children’s word learning’ Social Origins of Language Workshop, University College London, England.
2009	Joint attention enables coordination in children Philosophy department, Bentley University, Boston, US
2007	‘Status functions and normativity in young children’s pretend play’ Philosophy department, University of Leipzig, Germany
2006	'Pretence and the development of institutional understanding in children' Psychology department, University of Durham, England
2003	'How are theory of mind and the prefrontal cortex related in human evolution?' Radical Anthropology Group, London

 

Conference Work

2009	Wyman, E., Rakoczy, H., & Tomasello, M. (2009). Joint attention enables coordination in a young children's Stag Hunt game. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, USA.
2008	Wyman, E., Rakoczy, H., & Tomasello, M.  (2008). Young children understand normativity and context in pretence. Poster presented at the Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Vancouver, Canada.
2007	Wyman, E., Rakoczy, H., & Tomasello, M. (2007). Young children understand multiple pretend object identities in their pretence. Poster presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, USA.
	Wyman, E., Rakoczy, H., & Tomasello, M. (2007). Normativity in young children’s pretence.  Poster presented at the ‘Joint Action’ Workshop, Rutgers University, New Jersey, US.
2006	Wyman, E., Rakoczy, H., & Tomasello, M. (2006). Three-year olds understand that an object can have different statuses in different contexts. Poster presented at the Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Kyoto, Japan.
	Wyman, E., Rakoczy, H., & Tomasello, M. (2006). Young children understand status functions in pretence.  Poster presented at the Annual Conference of the European Society for Philosophy and Psychology, Belfast, Ireland.