Dr. Felix Warneken
Assistant Professor
Harvard University
Department of Psychology
33 Kirkland St.
Cambridge, MA, 02138
email: [email protected]
website: software.rc.fas.harvard.edu/lds/research/warneken/warneken
Academic positions
2009 - present
Assistant Professor
Department of Psychology, Harvard University
2007 - 2009
Postdoctoral Researcher
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
2006
Novartis Foundation Fellow
Harvard University
2003 - 2007
PhD Student
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
Education
2007
PhD (Dr. rer. nat.), Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary
Anthropology and University of Leipzig
2003
Diplompsychologe (= Master’s degree in psychology)
Freie Universität Berlin
Awards & Stipends
2011
SRCD Early Career Travel Award
2009
Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation Award, Society for Research
in Child Development
2008
Post Doc Award, International Society on Infant Studies
2007
SRCD Student Travel Award
2006
Student Bursary, British Psychological Society
2006
Novartis Foundation Fellowship
1999 - 2000
Graduate Exchange Student Fellowship, Vanderbilt University
Research Grants
2008 – 2012
European Commission Project Grant (218505) Cooperative Human
Robot Interaction Systems. €3,650,000. PI: Chris Melhuish
Subproject Cooperative coordination. €428,000. Co-PI with Michael
Tomasello.
2010 – 2012
Science of Generosity Initiative, University of Notre Dame & John
Templeton Foundation. The Development of Prosocial Behavior.
$150,000. Principal Investigator.
2011
Mind/Brain/Behavior Interfaculty Initiative Faculty Award An
integrated developmental and evolutionary approach to human
cooperation. $14,000. Co-PI with Martin Nowak.
Teaching Grants
2011
Mind/Brain/Behavior Interfaculty Initiative Faculty Award Evodevo of human behavior seminar series. $4,000. Co-PI with Martin
Nowak & Richard Wrangham.
2011 - 2012 Research Workshop Grants Program, Harvard Graduate School of
Arts and Sciences. Developmental Studies Research Seminar. $3000.
Co-sponsored with Jesse Snedeker, Susan Carey, Elizabeth Spelke.
Publications
* signifies student author
2006
Warneken, F. & Tomasello, M. (2006). Altruistic helping in human infants and
young chimpanzees. Science, 311, 1301-1303.
Warneken, F., Chen, F., & Tomasello, M. (2006). Cooperative activities in young
children and chimpanzees. Child Development , 77 (3), 640 – 663.
2007
*Liebal, K. Colombi, C., Rogers, S., Warneken, F., & Tomasello, M. (2007).
Cooperative activities in children with autism. Journal of Autism and
Developmental Disorders, 38, 224 – 238.
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Rakoczy, H., Warneken, F., & Tomasello, M. (2007). “This way!”, “No! That
way!” – 3-year-olds know that two people can have mutually
incompatible desires. Cognitive Development, 22 (1), 47 - 68.
Warneken, F., Hare, B., Melis, A.P., Hanus, D., & Tomasello, M. (2007).
Spontaneous altruism by chimpanzees and young children. PLoS Biology,
5 (7), 1414 – 1420.
(Selected as Top 100 Science Stories of 2007 by Discover Magazine)
Warneken, F. & Tomasello, M. (2007). Helping and cooperation at 14 months of
age. Infancy, 11(3), 271–294.
2008
Behne, T. Carpenter, M., Gräfenhain, M., Liebal, K., Liszkowski, U., Moll, H.,
Rakoczy, H., Tomasello, M., Warneken, F., Wyman, E. (2008). Cultural
learning and cultural creation. In: Müller, U. Carpendale, J. Budwig, N.,
Sokol, B. (eds.) Social Life and Social Knowledge: Toward a Process Account of
Development. 65 – 101.
Rakoczy, H., Warneken, F., & Tomasello, M. (2008). The sources of normativity:
Young children’s awareness of the normative structure of games.
Developmental Psychology. 44 (3), 875 – 881.
Tomasello, M. & Warneken, F. (2008). Share and share alike. Nature, 454, News &
Views, 1057 - 1058.
Warneken, F. & Tomasello, M. (2008). Extrinsic rewards undermine altruistic
tendencies in 20-month-olds. Developmental Psychology, 44(6), 1785 - 1788.
Warneken, F. (2008) Perspectives on de Waal’s Primates and Philosophers: How
Morality Evolved (book review). Current Anthropology, 49(4), 702 – 703.
2009
Colombi, C., Liebal, K., Tomasello, M., Warneken, F., Rogers, S.J. (2009).
Examining Correlates of Cooperation in Autism: Imitation, Joint
Attention, and Understanding Intentions. Autism, 13 (2), 143 – 164.
Rakoczy, H., Warneken, F., & Tomasello, M. (2009). Young children's selective
learning of rule games from reliable and unreliable models. Cognitive
Development, 24, 61 - 69.
Rakoczy, H., *Brosche, N., Warneken, F., & Tomasello, M. (2009). "Young
children's understanding of the context-relativity of normative rules in
conventional games". British Journal of Developmental Psychology. 27, 445–
456.
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Warneken, F. & Tomasello, M. (2009a). Cognition for culture. In: Robbins, P. &
Aydede, M., (eds.) Cambridge Handbook of Situated Cognition. Cambridge
University Press, 467 – 479.
Warneken, F. & Tomasello, M. (2009b). Varieties of altruism in children and
chimpanzees. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 13 (9) , 397 – 482.
Warneken, F. & Tomasello, M. (2009c). The roots of human altruism. British
Journal of Psychology. Target article with commentaries, 100, 445-471.
Warneken, F. (2009). Digging deeper: A response to commentaries on ‘The roots
of human altruism’. British Journal of Psychology, 100, 487-490.
2010
Greenberg, J., *Hamann, K., Warneken, F., & Tomasello, M. (2010). Chimpanzee
helping in collaborative and non-collaborative contexts. Animal Behaviour,
80, 873-880.
Lallee, S., Yoshida, E., Mallet A., Nori, F., Natale, L., Metta, G., Warneken, F.,
Dominey, P.F. (2010). Human-Robot Cooperation Based on Interaction
Learning. In: Sigaud, O. and Peters, J. (eds.) From Motor Learning to
Interaction Learning in Robots. Springer.
Melis, A.P., Warneken, F., Jensen, K., Schneider, A.C., Call, J., & Tomasello
(2010). Chimpanzees help conspecifics obtain food and non-food items.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
Melis, A.P., Warneken, F., Hare, B. (2010). Collaboration and helping in
chimpanzees. To appear in: Lonsdorf, E.V., Ross, S.R. and Matsuzawa, T.
(eds.) The Mind of the Chimpanzee: Ecological and Experimental Perspectives.
University of Chicago Press.
Rakoczy, H., *Hamann, K., Warneken, F., & Tomasello, M. (2010). Bigger knows
better - young children selectively learn rule games from adults rather
than from peers. British Journal of Developmental Psychology.
Ros Espinoza, R., Sisbot, E. A., Alami, R. , *Steinwender, J. , *Hamann, K. and
Warneken, F. (2010) "Solving ambiguities with perspective taking" In:
Proceedings of the International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2010.
Ros Espinoza, R., Lemaignan, S., Sisbot E. A., Alami, R., *Steinwender, J.,
*Hamann, K, and Warneken, F. (2010). "Which one? Grounding the
Referent Based on Efficient Human-Robot Interaction. Proceedings of the
19th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive
Communication.
(IEEE Ro-Man Best paper award)
Warneken, F. (2010). Prosoziales Verhalten bei Kindern unter 3 Jahren. In:
Kinder unter 3 - Neues aus der Forschung? Praxisrelevante Forschungsergebnisse für die Frühpädagogik. Edited by H. R. Leu & A. v. Behr, Ernst
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Reinhardt Verlag, Munich.
2011
Callaghan, T., Moll, H., Rakoczy, H., Warneken, F., Liszkowski, U. Behne, T. &
Tomasello, M. (2011). Early social cognition in three cultural contexts.
Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development.
Dominey, P. F. & Warneken, F. (2009). The basis of shared intentions in human
and robot cognition. New Ideas in Psychology, 29, 260-274.
*Hamann, K., Warneken, F., Greenberg, J. A., & Tomasello, M. (2011).
Collaboration encourages equality in children, but not chimpanzees.
Nature. 476, 328-331.
Warneken, F., *Lohse, K., Melis, A.P., & Tomasello, M. (2011). Young children
share the spoils after collaboration. Psychological Science, 22, 267-73.
Warneken, F. (2011) Children’s helping hands. In M. Brockman (Ed.). Future
Science - 19 Essays from the Cutting Edge. Knopf Doubleday Publishing
Group.
2012
Warneken, F., Gräfenhain, M., & Tomasello, M. (2012). Collaborative partner or
social tool? New evidence for young children’s understanding of shared
intentions in collaborative activities. Developmental Science, 15 (1), 54-61.
Warneken, F. , and Melis, A.P. (2012). The Ontogeny and Phylogeny of
Cooperation. In J. Vonk and T. K. Shackelford (Eds.), The Oxford
Handbook of Comparative Evolutionary Psychology. New York: Oxford
University Press.
Vaish, A., & Warneken, F. (2012). Social-cognitive contributors to young
children’s empathic and prosocial behavior. In J. Decety (Ed.) Empathy:
From Bench to Bedside. Cambridge: MIT Press.
In Press
Warneken, F., and Tomasello, M. (in Press). Parental presence and
encouragement do not influence helping in young children. Infancy.
Warneken, F. (in press). Human altruistic behaviors from a developmental and
comparative perspective. To appear in: B. Calcott, R. Joyce, & K. Sterelny
(eds.) Signaling, Commitment, and Emotion. MIT Press.
Warneken, F. (in press). The origins of human cooperation from a developmental
and comparative perspective. To appear in: The Evolution of Mind, Brain,
and Culture. Edited by G. Hatfield. Penn Museum Press.
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Invited Talks
2005
Freie Universität Berlin, Developmental Psychology Colloquium, Berlin, Germany.
2006
Harvard University, Social Cognitive Development Group, Cambridge, MA.
Harvard Graduate School of Education, Mind, Brain, and Behavior Seminar Series,
Cambridge, MA.
Universität Zürich, Institute for Empirical Research in Economics Colloquium, Zürich,
Switzerland.
2007
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique & Université René Descartes,
Workshop on Cognitive Systems Research and Robotics, Paris, France.
University of Pennsylvania, Museum of Archeology and Anthropology,
Workshop on Evolution of Mind, Brain, and Culture, Philadelphia, PA.
Jacobs Universität, Autism Conference, Bremen, Germany. Keynote address.
Université Lumière, European Network "euCognition", Lyon, France
2008
University of Chicago, Department of Psychology, Chicago, IL.
Duke University, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Durham, NC.
Harvard University, Department of Psychology, Cambridge, MA.
UC Berkeley, Department of Psychology, Berkeley, CA.
Deutsches Jugendinstitut (German Youth Institute), Munich, Germany.
Niedersächsisches Kultusministerium (Ministry for Culture & Education, Lower
Saxony), presentations in Hannover & Oldenburg, Germany.
International Symposium on Paediatric Surgical Research, Leipzig, Germany.
Keynote address.
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Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique & Université Pierre et Marie Curie,
Laboratory for Ecology and Evolution, Paris, France.
Institut Jean-Nicod, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France.
Yale University, Primate Social Cognition Workshop, New Haven, CT.
Universität Ulm, Department of Philosophy, Ulm, Germany.
2009
Stanford University, Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education
Inaugural Conference, Palo Alto, CA.
Duke University, Department of Evolutionary Anthropology, Durham, NC.
Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
Yale University, Departments of Psychology and Philosophy, New Haven, CT.
Boston University, Department of Psychology, Boston, MA.
Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour, Joint Action Workshop,
Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Laboratories of Cognitive Neuroscience, Children’s Hospital Boston, Boston,
MA.
Arizona State University, Human Uniqueness Workshop, Tempe, AZ.
2010
Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge,
MA.
International Conference on Development and Learning, Ann Arbor, MI. Keynote
address
Boston University, Dialogues in Biological Anthropology, Boston, MA.
Brandeis University, Department of Psychology, Waltham, MA.
Universität Zürich, Department of Psychology, Zürich, Switzerland.
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Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA.
2011
Yale University, Department of Psychology, New Haven, CT.
SRCD Biennial Preconference on Peer Relationships, Montreal, Canada. Keynote
address
Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.
Boston College, Department of Psychology, Boston, MA.
Cognitive Development Preconference on Social Cognition, Philadelphia, PA.
Institut Jean-Nicod, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France.
Conference Presentations
Warneken, F. (2002). Peerinteraktion und kognitive Entwicklung. Tagung der
Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), Berlin. Paper.
Warneken, F. (2003). Peer interaction and cognitive development. Biennial
Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD), Tampa.
Poster.
Warneken, F. (2003). Entwicklungsfördernde Merkmale der Interaktion von
Freunden. Tagung der Fachgruppe Entwicklungspsychologie der
Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs Developmental Section),
Mainz. Paper.
Warneken, F. & Tomasello (2004). Cooperative problem-solving and play during
the second year. International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS),
Chicago. Poster.
Warneken, F. & Tomasello (2004). Die Entwicklung des kooperativen Handelns
im zweiten Lebensjahr. DGPs, Göttingen. Poster.
Warneken, F. & Tomasello (2005). Young children and chimpanzees help others
achieve their goals. SRCD, Atlanta. Posters.
Warneken, F., Chen, F., Liebal, K., & Tomasello, M. (2005). Cooperative activities
in toddlers, children with autism, and chimpanzees. SRCD, Atlanta.
Posters
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Rakoczy, H., Warneken, F., & Tomasello, M. (2005). Three-year-olds understand
that different people can have mutually incompatible desires.
SRCD,
Atlanta. Poster.
Warneken, F. & Tomasello, M. (2005). The emergence of cooperation and
altruism: A comparison between young children and chimpanzees.
Annual Jean Piaget Society Meeting, Vancouver. Paper.
Warneken, F. & Tomasello, M. (2005). Social cognition in cooperative activities: A
comparison between human children and chimpanzees. European
Conference on Developmental Psychology, Tenerife. Paper.
Warneken, F. & Tomasello, M. (2005). Instrumentelles Helfen von 18-monatigen
Kindern und Schimpansen. DGPs, Bochum. Paper.
Rakoczy, H., Warneken, F. & Tomasello, M. (2005). Die kognitiven
Voraussetzungen für Kooperation in konfliktreichen Situationen. DGPs,
Bochum. Paper.
Warneken, F. & Tomasello, M. (2005). Kooperative Tätigkeiten bei Kleinkindern
und Schimpansen. DGPs, Bochum. Paper.
Warneken, F. & Tomasello, M. (2006). Helping and Cooperation at 14 Months of
Age. ICIS, Kyoto. Poster.
Warneken, F., Hare, B., Melis, A.P., & Tomasello, M. (2006). Is helping free of
charge? Testing the helpfulness of human children and chimpanzees.
ICIS, Kyoto. Paper.
Rakoczy, H., Warneken, F., & Tomasello, M. (2006). The sources of normativity
in ontogeny – children’s spontaneous protest against violations of game
rules. ICIS, Kyoto. Poster.
Liebal, K., Colombi, C., Rogers, S., Warneken, F., & Tomasello, M. (2006).
Cooperative Activities in Children with Autism. ICIS, Kyoto. Poster.
Warneken, F., Hare, B., Melis, A., Hanus, D., Tomasello, M. (2006) Is helping free
of charge? Testing the helpfulness of children and chimpanzees. British
Psychological Society Developmental Section, London. Paper.
Warneken, F. & Tomasello, M. (2007). Effects of material and social rewards on
infant helping. SRCD, Boston, MA. Poster.
Warneken, F., Hare, B., Melis, A.P., Hanus, D., Tomasello, M. (2007).
Chimpanzees altruisticially help conspecifics in a novel situation. SRCD,
Boston. Poster.
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Rakoczy, H., Warneken, F., Tomasello, M. (2007). ‘No, that’s not how it’s done!’
– Young children’s understanding of the normativity in names. SRCD,
Boston. Paper.
Haimerl, F., Zemke, F., Warneken, F., Gomez, J.C., Call, J., Tomasello, M. (2007).
Is there informative pointing in apes? SRCD, Boston. Poster.
Warneken, F. & Tomasello, M. (2007). Joint Cooperative Activities in Human
Children and Chimpanzees - Coordinating Behaviors and Intentions. Joint
Action Meeting, Rutgers University, Newark. Poster.
Warneken, F. & Tomasello, M. (2007). The origins of human altruism –
integrating developmental and comparative perspectives. Jean Piaget
Society Meeting, Amsterdam. Paper.
Rakoczy, H., Warneken, F. Tomasello, M. (2008). Young children’s selective
learning of conventional rule-governed activities. ICIS, Vancouver. Paper.
Warneken, F. Tomasello, M. (2008). The role of rewards and parental control on
helping in young children. ICIS, Vancouver. Poster.
Vaish, A., Warneken, F., Tomasello, M., Carpenter, M. (2008). Social-cognitive
contributors to prosocial behavior. ICIS, Vancouver. Paper.
Warneken, F., Tomasello, M., (2008). The roots of human altruism. ICIS,
Vancouver. Paper.
Gräfenhain, M., Warneken, F., Tomasello, M. (2008). Unwilling or unable play
partner: 2-year-olds’ understanding of their partner’s reason to interrupt a
social game. ICIS, Vancouver. Poster.
Warneken, F., Tomasello, M. (2008). Roots of human altruism in chimpanzees.
International Primatological Society, Edinburgh, UK. Paper.
Warneken, F., Tomasello, M. (2008). Altruistic Helping from a Developmental
and Comparative Perspective. International Symposium: Foundations of
Human Social Behavior, Universität Zürich. Poster.
Warneken, F., Gräfenhain, M., Hamann, K., Tomasello, M. (2009). Collaboration
in young children and chimpanzees – coordinating behaviors and sharing
intentions. SRCD, Denver. Paper.
Warneken, F., Tomasello, M. (2009). Reciprocal helping and sharing in young
children. SRCD, Denver. Poster.
Warneken, F., Lohse, K., Melis, A.P., Tomasello, M. (2009). Is food special?
Young children share food more equally than material rewards. SRCD,
Denver. Poster.
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Fletcher, G., Warneken, F., Tomasello, M. (2009). When two heads are better than
one: Cooperative problem-solving in chimpanzees. SRCD, Denver. Poster.
Hamann, K., Warneken, F., Tomasello, M. (2009). Peers’ mutual support when
pursuing shared goals. SRCD, Denver. Poster.
Rakoczy, H., Wyman, E., Warneken, F., Tomasello, M. (2009). Young children’s
flexible understanding of conventional normativity. SRCD, Denver. Paper.
Steinwender, J., Warneken, F., Tomasello, M. (2009). Collaborative problem
solving and spontaneous role reversal in 2- and 3-year-old peers. SRCD,
Denver. Poster
Warneken, F. (2009) Collaboration in young children: Coordinating behaviors
and sharing intentions. 9th International Conference on Humanoid Robots,
Paris. Paper.
Warneken, F. (2009). Varieties of Altruism: Helping and Sharing in Children and
Chimpanzees. ICIS, Baltimore. Paper.
Warneken, F., Gräfenhain, M., Tomasello, M. (2010). Collaborative Partner or
Social Tool? New Evidence for Young Children's Understanding of Shared
Intentions. ICIS, Baltimore. Paper.
Hamann, K., Steinwender, J., Warneken, F., Tomasello, M. (2010). Children's
Development of Understanding and Pursuing Joint Goals. ICIS, Baltimore.
Paper.
Fletcher, G., Warneken, F., Tomasello, M. (2010). It Takes Two: Cooperative
Problem-Solving in Chimpanzees and 3- and 5-yr old Children. ICIS,
Baltimore. Poster.
Hamann, K., Warneken, F., Tomasello, M. (2010). Young Peers Share to Fulfill a
Joint Goal. ICIS, Baltimore. Poster.
Steinwender, J., Warneken, F., Tomasello, M. (2010). The Development of
Individual and Collaborative Problem-Solving Skills in Young Children.
ICIS, Baltimore. Poster.
Warneken, F. (2011). On the Origins of Prosociality: Helping and Sharing in
Children and Chimpanzees. SRCD, Montreal, Canada. Paper.
Warneken, F. (2011). New Insights on Collaboration in Young Children and
Chimpanzees: Coordinating Actions and Representing Joint Intentions.
SRCD, Montreal, Canada. Paper.
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Warneken, F., Tomasello, M. (2011). Big Mother is Watching You: Parental
Presence and Encouragement Do Not Influence Helping in Young
Children. SRCD, Montreal, Canada. Paper.
Blake, P.R., Warneken, F., Rand, D.G. (2011). Parental Models Influence
Children's Donations in a Dictator Game. SRCD, Montreal, Canada. Paper.
Hamann, K., Greenberg, J., Warneken, F., Tomasello, M. (2011). Collaboration
Elicits Sharing in Children, but Not Chimpanzees. SRCD, Montreal,
Canada. Poster.
Steinwender, J., Warneken, F., Tomasello, M. (2011). Solving Novel Problems
Alone or With a Peer - Individual and Collaborative Coordination in
Young Children. SRCD, Montreal, Canada. Poster.
Ad Hoc Reviewer
Animal Cognition
Behavioural Processes
Biology and Philosophy
Child Development
Clinical Medicine: Psychiatry
Cognition
Cognitive Development
Cognitive Science
Developmental Psychology
Developmental Review
Developmental Science
European Journal of Developmental Psychology
European Journal of Social Psychology
Evolution and Human Behavior
Human Nature
Human Development
Infancy
International Journal of Behavioral Development
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
Journal of Theoretical Biology
Nature
PLOS One
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Psychological Bulletin
Psychological Science
Social Development
Swiss Journal of Psychology
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The Review of Psychology and Philosophy
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
Grant Reviewing
National Science Foundation
National Geographic Society
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research
Madsen Fund New Zealand
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada
Teaching
Universität Leipzig (2004 – 2008)
Lecture Course: Introduction to Developmental Psychology I & II
Seminar: Empirical Methods in Developmental Psychology I & II
Seminar: Observational Methods
Humboldt Universität Berlin, Institute for European Ethnology (2008)
Seminar: Cooperation – an interdisciplinary concept in evolutionary biology,
psychology, economics and cultural studies
Harvard University (since 2009)
Research Seminar in Social Cognitive Development (UG & G)
Methods in Behavioral Research (UG)
Social Cognition from a Developmental and Evolutionary Perspective (G)
Supervision
Postdoctoral fellows
Craig Smith (2010 - )
Peter Blake (2010 - )
Co-supervision of PhD Students at Harvard
Katherine Hobbs (Psychology; 2011 - )
Katherine McAuliffe (Human Evolutionary Biology; 2011 - )
Current PhD Students at the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology
Grace Fletcher (2008 - )
Katharina Hamann (2008 - )
Jasmin Steinwender (2008 - )
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Honor thesis student at Harvard
Emily Orlins (2010 - 2011) Hoopes Prize & Gordon W. Allport Prize
Previous Masters Students at the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology
Nina Brosche (Cognitive science)
Denis Engemann (Psychology)
Marlen Kaufmann (Sociology)
Katharina Hamann (Psychology)
Kristin Liebal (Psychology)
Karoline Lohse (Anthropology)
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