Why We Cooperate
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- Paperback
232 pages
- Release Date
23 June 2026
Summary
Understanding cooperation as a distinctly human combination of innate and learned behavior.
Drop something in front of a two-year-old, and she’s likely to pick it up for you. This is not a learned behavior, psychologist Michael Tomasello argues. Through observations of young children in experiments he himself has designed, Tomasello shows that children are naturally-and uniquely-cooperative. Put through similar experiments, for example, apes demonstrate the ability to work together an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262053945 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262053942 |
| Author: | Michael Tomasello, Carol Dweck |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 232 |
| Release Date: | 23 June 2026 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 178mm x 114mm |
| Series: | Boston Review Books |
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Critics Review
The work of Tomasello and his colleagues provides the best and most exciting point of entry into a literature that will certainly shape philosophical debates for the years to come.
—Cambridge University Press— … the fascinating approach to the question of what makes us human renders this a singularly worthwhile read.
—Publishers Weekly—
About The Author
Michael Tomasello
Michael Tomasello
Michael Tomasello is Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University and Emeritus Director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig.
His recent books include:
- Becoming Human
- The Evolution of Agency
- Agency and Cognitive Development
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