Curriculum vitae

Josep Call, PhD Current Senior Scientist, director Wolfgang Köhler Primate Research Center position: Institution: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology Deutscher Platz 6 D-04103 Leipzig Germany +49 (0341) 3550 418 (institute) phone: +49 (0341) 3550 614 (zoo) +49 (0341) 3550 444 (institute) fax: +49 (0341) 3550 640 (zoo) e-mail: [email protected] 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.