Michael Tomasello versus Alexei Leontiev
A Dialogue in Time
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12944348 |
|---|---|
| Authors | E Y Fedorovich (0000-0002-6596-1262, The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, corresponding author), E Sokolova (0000-0003-2239-0858, Lomonosov Moscow State University) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 41-51 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural-Historical Psychology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1816-5435 • E-ISSN: 2224-8935 |
| Publisher | Moscow State University of Psychology and Education (PUBLISHER • RU) |
| DOI | 10.17759/chp.2018140105 |
| OpenAlex | W2801204408 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 31 |
The article provides an overview and critical analysis — from the point of view of activity theory of A.N. Leontiev’s scientific school and, more broadly, from the standpoint of cultural and activity psychology — of the latest comparative psychological studies of "joint activity" mechanisms in humans and in apes performed by Michael Tomasello and his colleagues and co-authors. These studies have convincingly proven the fundamental differences between cooperation in animals and collaboration in humans, which confirms many provisions of the psychological activity theory developed in the 1930s. Yet, the comparative analysis of the researches by Tomasello’s group and Leontiev’s scientific school provided in the article reveals that in spite of the seemingly similar results obtained in these studies, their interpretation varies considerably. Unlike M. Tomasello, A.N. Leontiev and his disciples (D.B. Elkonin, A.V. Zaporozhets and others) always claimed that "predisposition" of individuals towards collaboration emerged as a result of their labor activity which required coordinating various actions of individual participants who therefore fulfilled rather social than biological purposes
Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Comparative psychology · Developmental psychology · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Action Observation and Synchronization · Child and Animal Learning Development · Cultural Differences and Values · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
Cooperative Activities in Young Children and Chimpanzees
Cooperation and human cognition
Shared intentionality
And 18-Month-Olds Point to Provide Information for Others
Understanding and sharing intentions
Why We Cooperate
On the Problem of “Culture” in Animals
Coordination of Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) in a Stag Hunt Game
Two Key Steps in the Evolution of Human Cooperation
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |