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Daniel Povinelli
Director, Cognitive Evolution Center
SLEMCO/BORSF Professorship in Science
Ph.D., Yale University, 1991
Dissertation: "Social Cognition in Monkeys and Apes" |
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| Ten (out of 70) Recent Books, Monographs, and Journal Articles |
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Povinelli, D.J. (2000). Folk physics for apes: The chimpanzee's theory of how the world works. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Povinelli, D.J. & Eddy, T.J. (1996). What young chimpanzees know about seeing. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development (Vol. 61, No. 2, Serial No. 247).
Povinelli, D.J. & Bering, J.M. (in press). The mentality of apes revisited. Current Directions in Psychological Science.
Bering, J.M. & Povinelli, D.J. (in press). Comparing cognitive development: From bridging gaps to accepting diversity. In (D. Maestripieri, Ed.) Primate psychology: Bridging the gap between the mind and behavior of human and nonhuman primates. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Povinelli, D.J., Theall, L.A., Reaux, J.E., & Dunphy-Lelii, S. (in press). Chimpanzees spontaneously modify the direction of their gestural signals to match the attentional orientation of others. Animal Behaviour.
Povinelli, D.J., Dunphy-Lelii, S, Reaux, J.E., & Mazza, M.P. (in press). Psychological diversity in chimpanzees and humans: New longitudinal assessments of chimpanzees’ understanding of attention. Brain, Behavior, and Evolution. [Invited article for special symposium issue]
Povinelli, D.J., Bering, J., & Giambrone (in press).Chimpanzee ‘pointing’: Another error of the argument by analogy? In S. Kita (Ed.), Pointing: Where language culture and cognition meet. Lawrence Erlbaum.
Povinelli, D.J. & Dunphy-Lelii, S. (2001). Do chimpanzees seek explanations? Preliminary comparative investigations. Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology, 55:2,93-101. [Invited article for special issue on cognitive neuroscience]
Povinelli, D.J. (2001). On the possibilities of detecting intentions prior to understanding them. In B. Malle, D. Baldwin, & L. Moses (eds.), Intentionality: A Key to Human Understanding. Pp. 225-248. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Povinelli, D.J. (2001). The Self: Elevated in consciousness and extended in time. In C. Moore & K. Lemmon (Eds.), The self in time: Developmental perspectives. Pp. 73-94.Cambridge University Press.
Povinelli, D.J. (2001). The minds of humans and apes are different outcomes of an evolutionary experiment. In S. Fitzpatrick & J. Bruer (Eds.), Carving our Destiny: Scientific Research Faces a new millennium. Pp. 1-40. National Academy of Sciences and John Henry Press. [Commemorative Essays of the James S. McDonnell Centennial Fellows]
Povinelli, D.J., Bering, J., & Giambrone, S. (2000). Toward a science of other minds: Escaping the argument by analogy. Cognitive Science, 24,509-541.
Povinelli, D.J. & O'Neill, D.K. (2000). Do chimpanzees use their gestures to instruct each other? In S. Baron-Cohen, H. Tager-Flusberg, and D.J. Cohen (Eds.). Understanding other minds: Perspectives from autism - 2nd Edition. Pp. 459-487. Oxford: Oxford University Press. |
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| Selected Grant Awards |
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1999-2006:
James S. McDonnell Foundation, Centennial Fellowship in Human Cognition ($1,000,000)
1998: National Science Foundation, PI, Conference Grant: "Human cognitive specializations: Developmental and comparative perspectives" ($10,475)
1996: National Science Foundation, PI, Research Experience for Undergraduates ($4,000)
1994-2000: National Science Foundation, PI, Young Investigator Award ($62,500 per year; total award = $312,500)
1994-1999: USL Foundation, Matching funds for NSF Young Investigator Award ($187,500)
1989-1991: National Science Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant ($10,000) |
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| Fellowships and Awards |
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1999: Fellow Appointment, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California
1999: James S. McDonnell Centennial Fellow (1999-2006)
1998: Louisiana Board of Regents Endowed Professorship in Science
1997: Conference on Southern Graduate Schools, "1997 Achievement Award for New Scholars"
1994: National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award (1994-1999)
1994: American Psychological Association (APA) Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology
1991: John F. Enders Fellowship, Yale University
1987: National Science Foundation 3-year Predoctoral Fellowship
1986: M.J. Stephenson Graduate Fellowship of Alpha Lambda Delta Honor Society
1986: Quint Prize in Honors for Writing, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
1986: Summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa: University of Massachusetts at Amherst
1985: Top Speaker, National Debate Tournament |
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