Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind? 30 years later.

By J. Call, Michael Tomasello. 2008

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Social Psychology

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Machine Theory of Mind (2018, methodology): “Fourth, a Theory of Mind is important for social beings as it informs our social decision-making.”
Human Culture in Evolutionary Perspective (2010, result): “…has demonstrated that great apes understand something of the goals and perceptions of others and how these work together in individual intentional action — in ways very similar to young human children (see Call & Tomasello, 2008 , for a review; see Povinelli & Vonk, 2006 , for a different view).”
Macrostructure, microstructure, and mental state terms in the narratives of English–Hebrew bilingual preschool children with and without specific language impairment (2015, background): “They allow inferences to be made about what other people believe to be the case in a given situation, which in turn allows one to predict what they will do (Baron-Cohen, Leslie, & Frith, 1985; Premack & Woodruff, 1978).”
The Direct-Perception Model of Empathy: a Critique (2011, background): “As I shall argue momentarily, however, it is not entirely clear that the direct-perception model can meet the challenge of offering an account 3 Cf. Gallagher (2001, 2004, 2008a, b).”
Perceptual content and the content of mental imagery (2015, background): “There is an important debate about whether chimpanzees are capable of this (see, e.g. Call and Tomasello 2008; Tomasello et al. 2003; Penn and Povinelli 2007), but even if they do, primatologists agree that not even monkeys have this ability, let alone pigeons (see Cheeny and Seyfarth 1990 for a…”
Psychology, Meaning Making, and the Study of Worldviews: Beyond Religion and Non-Religion (2018, background): “For instance, humans are unique in our ability to represent the false beliefs of others (Call & Tomasello, 2008).”
The Neural Bases for Empathy (2011, background): “Indeed, emotional contagion has been reported in rodents (Langford and others 2006), whereas only the closest living relatives of humans, the chimpanzees, possess rudimentary traits of cognitive aspects of empathy such as theory of mind (Call and Tomasello 2008).”
The Parent's Capacity to Treat the Child as a Psychological Agent: Constructs, Measures and Implications for Developmental Psychopathology (2008, background): “The concept of theory of mind was coined by the primatologists Premack & Woodruff (1978), and has since been adapted to developmental psychology to refer to the capacity to interpret the behavior of others within a mentalistic framework.”
How joint is the joint attention of apes and human infants (2013, background): “Chimpanzees and Other Apes Chimpanzees follow others’ gaze, and can do so in quite sophisticated ways (see Call & Santos, 2012; Call & Tomasello, 2008 for reviews).”
Early Adolescents’ Participation in Bullying: Is ToM Involved? (2010, background): “More specifically, they suggested that ringleader bullies might have good theory of mind (ToM) skills, namely, abilities to attribute mental states to self and to others to explain and predict behavior (Premack & Woodruff, 1978).”
Chimpanzees coordinate in a negotiation game (2009, background): “Because we know that chimpanzees can read the intentions of others in their actions (see Call & Tomasello, 2008, for a review), it seems safe to assume that while the two chimpanzees were sitting in front of their different trays they understood that the other individual wanted to pull in the…”
The Structure of Individual Differences in the Cognitive Abilities of Children and Chimpanzees (2010, background): “For dealing with their complex social worlds, chimpanzees have many social-cognitive skills of their own (Call & Tomasello, 2008)—skills that are especially apparent during competition for food and other valued resources (Hare, 2007).”
Primate Cognition (2010, background): “Some ape species also recognize that continuous quantities are conserved across transformations of container shape (e.g., Beran, 2008; Suda & Call, 2005).”
The gap is social: Human shared intentionality and culture (2010, background): “In such linguistic discourse, including such things as misunderstandings and requests for clarification, children experience regularly that what another person thinks is often different from what they think, and the understanding of false beliefs – which, in almost everyone’s account, is fundamental”