Dr. Povinelli's Publications
Penn, D. C. and D. J. Povinelli (in press). On Becoming Approximately Rational: The Relational Reinterpretation Hypothesis. Rational Animals, Irrational Humans. S. Watanabe, A. P. Blaisdell and L. Huber. Tokyo, Keio University Press.
Subiaul, F., Rutherford, M.D., Lopez-Duran, S. & Povinelli, D. J. (in review). Do children with autism have an explanatory drive? Autism.
Vonk, J., Reaux, J.E., Castille, C.M. & Povinelli, D.J. (in press). Preliminary investigations of cognitive plasticity: social and physical causality in home-reared chimpanzees. Invited article for special issue of Social Neuroscience.
Penn, D.C., Holyoak, K.J., & Povinelli, D.J. (in press). The relational reinterpretation hypothesis: explaining the discontinuity between human and nonhuman minds. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. [target article]
Vonk, J, Brosnan, S.F, Silk, J.B., Henrich, J. Shapiro, S., Richardson, A., Lambeth, S.P., & Povinelli, D.J. (in press). Chimpanzees do not take advantage of very low cost opportunities to deliver food to unrelated group members. Animal Behaviour.
Moore, C. & Povinelli, D.J. (2007). Differences in how 12- and 24-month-olds interpret the gaze of adults. Infancy, 11, 215-231.
Moore, C., Mealiea, J., Garon, N., & Povinelli, D. J. (2007). The development of Body Self-Awareness. Infancy, 11, 157-174.
Penn, D.C. & Povinelli, D.J. (2007). On the lack of evidence that chimpanzees possess anything remotely resembling a ‘theory of mind.’ Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, B, 362, 731-744.
Subiaul, F., Okamoto-Barth, S., Barth, J., & Povinelli, D.J. (2007). Human cognitive specializations. In Todd M. Preuss & Jon H. Kaas (Eds.) Evolution of Nervous Systems: Volume V, The Evolution of Primate Nervous Systems. Pp. 509-528. Elsevier: New York.
Penn, D. & Povinelli, D.J. (2007). Causal cognition in human and nonhuman animals: A comparative, critical review. Annual Review of Psychology, 58, 97-118.
Silk, J., Brosnan, S.F., Vonk, J., Henrich, J., Povinelli, D.J., Shapiro, S., Richardson, A, Lambeth, S.P., & Mascaro, J. (2006). Animal Behaviour: Chimpanzee choice and prosociality (reply). Nature, 440, E6.
Povinelli, D.J. & Vonk, J. (2006). We don’t need a microscope to explore the chimpanzee’s mind. In S. Hurley (Ed.), Rational Animals. pp. 385-412. Oxford: Oxford University Press [Reprinted].
Vonk, J. & Povinelli, D.J. (2006). Similarity and difference in the conceptual systems of primates: The Unobservability hypothesis. In E. Wasserman and T. Zentall (Eds.) Comparative Cognition: Experimental Explorations of Animal Intelligence. pp. 363-387. Oxford University Press.
LeBlanc, C. & Povinelli, D. (2005). National Chimpanzee Observatory DVD. DesignVision. Lafayette, Louisiana.
Silk, J.B., Brosnan, S.F., Vonk, J., Henrich, J., Povinelli, D.J., Richardson, A.F., Lambeth, S.P., Mascaro, J., Schapiro, S.J. (2005). Chimpanzees are indifferent to the welfare of other group members. Nature 435: 1357-1359.
Povinelli, D.J., & Barth, J. (2005) Reinterpreting behavior: A human specialization? Commentary on Tomasello et al. Understanding and sharing intentions. The origins of cultural cognition. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 28, 712-713.
Povinelli, D.J. & Prince, C.G. (2005). Parental-offspring conflict and the development of social understanding. In P. Carruthers (Ed.) Innateness and the Structure of the Mind. pp. 239-253. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Barth, J., Reaux, J. E., & Povinelli, D. J. (2005). Chimpanzees’ (Pan troglodytes) use of gaze cues in object-choice tasks: Different methods yield different results. Animal Cognition, 8, 84–92.
Barth, J., Povinelli, D.J., & Cant, J.G.H. (2004). Bodily origins of SELF. In (D. Beike, J. Lampinen, & D. Behrend, Eds.) pp. 3-43, Self and memory, New York: Psychology Press.
Povinelli, D.J. (2004). Behind the ape’s appearance: Escaping anthropomorhism in the study of other minds. Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , Winter, 29-41 [invited article].
Povinelli, D.J. & Vonk, J. (2004). We don’t need a microscope to explore the chimpanzee’s mind. Mind and Language, 19, 1-28.
Bering, J.M. & Povinelli, D.J. (2003). Comparing cognitive development. In D. Maestripieri, Ed. pp. 205-233. Primate psychology: Bridging the gap between the mind and behavior of human and nonhuman primates. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Povinelli, D.J., Theall, L.A., Reaux, J.E., & Dunphy-Lelii, S. (2003). Chimpanzees spontaneously modify the direction of their gestural signals to match the attentional orientation of others. Animal Behaviour, 65, 71-79.
Povinelli, D.J. & Vonk, J. (2003). Chimpanzee minds: Suspiciously human? Trends in Cognitive Science, 7, 157-160.
Povinelli, D.J., Bering, J., & Giambrone (2003).Chimpanzee ‘pointing’: Another error of the argument by analogy? In S. Kita (Ed.), pp. 35-68, Pointing: Where language culture and cognition meet. Lawrence Erlbaum.
Karin-D’Arcy, R. & Povinelli, D.J. (2002). Do chimpanzees know what each other see? A closer look. International Journal of Comparative Psychology, 15, 21-54.
Giambrone, S. & Povinelli, D.J. (2002). Consciousness. In Encyclopedia of Evolution (M. Pagel, Ed.), pp. 192-196. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
de Veer, M. W., Gallup, G.G., Jr., Theall, L.A., van den Bos, R., & Povinelli, D.J. (2002). A longitudinal study of mirror self-recognition in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Neuropsychologia [Invited article for special issue on self and social cognition].
Povinelli, D.J. & Bering, J.M. (2002). The mentality of apes revisited. Current Directions in Psychological Science, 11, 115-119.
Povinelli, D.J., Dunphy-Lelii, S, Reaux, J.E., & Mazza, M.P. (2002). Psychological diversity in chimpanzees and humans: New longitudinal assessments of chimpanzees’ understanding of attention. Brain, Behavior, and Evolution, 59, 33-53. [Invited article for special symposium issue]
Povinelli, D.J. & Povinelli, T.J. (2001). Review of The chimpanzees of the Taï forest: Behavioral Ecology and Evolution, by C. Boesch & H. Boesch-Achermann, Ethology, 107, 463-464.
Povinelli, D.J. & Giambrone, S. (2001). Reasoning about beliefs: A human specialization? Child Development, 72, 691-695.
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.), Intentions and Intentionality: Foundations of Social Cognition. 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.
Povinelli, D.J. & Giambrone, S. (1999). Inferring other minds: Failure of the argument by analogy. Philosophical Topics, 27, 167-201.
Povinelli, D.J., Landry, A.M., Theall, L.A., Clark, B.R., & Castille, C.M. (1999). Development of young children's understanding that the recent past is causally bound to the present. Developmental Psychology, 35, 1426-1439.
Theall, L.A., & Povinelli, D.J. (1999). Do chimpanzees tailor their attention-getting behaviors to fit the attentional states of others? Animal Cognition, 2, 207-214.
Povinelli, D.J., Bierschwale, D.T., & Cech, C.G. (1999). Comprehension of seeing as a referential act in young children, but not juvenile chimpanzees. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 17, 37-60.
Reaux, J.E., Theall, L.A., & Povinelli, D.J. (1999). A longitudinal investigation of chimpanzees' understanding of visual perception. Child Development, 70, 275-290.
Sterling, E.J. & Povinelli, D.J. (1999). Tool use, aye-ayes, and sensorimotor intelligence. Folia primatologica, 70, 8-16.
Povinelli, D.J. (1999). Social understanding in chimpanzees: New Evidence from a longitudinal approach. In P. Zelazo, J. Astington, & D. Olson (Eds.), Developing theories of
intention: Social understanding and self-control, pp. 195-225. Hillsdale, N.J.: Erlbaum.
Povinelli, D.J. (Winter, 1998). Can animals empathize? Scientific American Presents: Exploring Intelligence, 9(4): 67, 72-75.
Povinelli, D.J., Povinelli, T.J., & Giambrone, S. (1998). Review of Reaching into thought: The minds of the great apes, Ed. by A.E. Russon, K.A. Bard, & S.T. Parker. Trends in Cognitive Science, 2(4), 158-159.
Povinelli, D.J., Perilloux, H.K., Reaux, J.E., & Bierschwale, D.T. (1998). Young and juvenile chimpanzees' (Pan troglodytes) reactions to intentional versus accidental and inadvertent actions. Behavioral Processes, 42, 205-218.
Povinelli, D.J. & Simon, B.B. (1998). Young children's reactions to briefly versus extremely
delayed images of the self: Emergence of the autobiographical stance. Developmental
Psychology, 43, 188-194.
Povinelli, D.J. & Prince, C.G. (1998). When self met other. In M. Ferrari & R.J. Sternberg
(Eds.), Self-awareness: Its nature and development, pp. 37-107. New York: Guilford.
Povinelli, D.J., Reaux, J.E., Bierschwale, D.T., Allain, A.D., & Simon, B.B. (1997). Exploitation of pointing as a referential gesture in young children, but not adolescent chimpanzees. Cognitive Development, 12, 423-461.
Povinelli, D.J. & Eddy, T.J. (1997). Specificity of gaze-following in young chimpanzees. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 15, 213-222.
Povinelli, D.J., Gallup, G.G., Jr., Eddy, T.J., Bierschwale, D.T., Engstrom, M.C., Perilloux, H.K., & Toxopeus, I.B. (1997). Chimpanzees recognize themselves in mirrors. Animal Behaviour, 53, 1083-1088.
Povinelli, D.J. & Eddy, T.J. (1996). Factors influencing young chimpanzees' (Pan troglodytes) recognition of attention. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 110, 336-345.
Povinelli, D.J. & Povinelli, T.J. (1996). Review of The thinking ape: Evolutionary origins of intelligence, by Richard Byrne. International Journal of Primatology, 17, in press.
Eddy, T.J., Gallup, G.G., Jr. & Povinelli, D.J. (1996). Age differences in the ability of chimpanzees to distinguish mirror-images of self from video-images of others. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 110, 38-44.
Povinelli, D.J. & Povinelli, T.J. (1996). Review of Mindblindness. An essay on autismand theory of mind, by Simon Baron-Cohen. Trends in Neuroscience, 19, 299-300.
Povinelli, D.J. (1996). Panmorphism. In R.W. Mitchell, N.S. Thompson, & H.L. Miles (Eds.), Anthropomorphism, anecdotes and animals, pp. 92-103. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press
Povinelli, D.J. & Eddy, T.J. (1996). Chimpanzees: Joint visual attention. Psychological Science, 7, 129-135.
Povinelli, D.J., Landau, K.R., & Perilloux, H.K. (1996). Self-recognition in young children using delayed versus live feedback: Evidence of a developmental asynchrony. Child Development, 67, 1540-1554.
Povinelli, D.J., Zebouni, M.C., & Prince, C.G. (1996). Ontogeny, evolution and folk psychology. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 19, 137-138.
Povinelli, D.J. (1996). Chimpanzee theory of mind? The long road to strong inference. In P. Carruthers & P. Smith (Eds). Theories of theories of mind, pp. 293-329. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Povinelli, D.J. (1996). Growing up ape. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development (Vol. 61, No. 2, Serial No. 247), pp. 174-189.
Gallup, G.G., Jr., Povinelli, D.J., Suarez, S.D., Anderson, J.R., Lethmate, J., & Menzel, E.W. (1995). Further reflections on self-recognition in primates. Animal Behaviour, 50, 1525-1532.
Povinelli, D.J., & Cant, J.G.H. (1995). Arboreal clambering and the evolution of self-
conception. Quarterly Review of Biology, 70, 393-421.
Povinelli, D.J. (1995). The unduplicated self. In P. Rochat (Ed.), The self in early infancy, pp. 161-192. Amsterdam: North-Holland-Elsevier.
Povinelli, D.J. & Preuss, T.M. (1995). Theory of mind: Evolutionary history of a cognitive specialization. Trends in Neuroscience, 18, 418-424.
Povinelli, D.J. (1995). Chimpanzees, children, and the mind of the eyes. Psychological Science Agenda, 8(6), 9-11.
Povinelli, D.J. (1995). Review of Hominid culture in primate perspective (Edited by D. Quiatt & J. Itani). American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 322-325
Povinelli, D.J. & Povinelli, T.J. (1995). Review of What is intelligence? (Edited by Jean Kahlfa). Animal Behaviour, 50, 567-568.
Povinelli, D.J. (1994). What chimpanzees (might) know about the mind. In (Goodall, J.,
deWaal, F.B.M., & Wrangham, R., Eds.), pp. 285-300. Chimpanzee Cultures, Harvard
University Press, Cambridge.
Povinelli, D.J. & Eddy, T.J. (1994). The eyes as a window: What young chimpanzees see on the other side. Current Psychology of Cognition, 13, 695-705.
Povinelli, D.J. (1994). Comparative studies of mental state attribution: a reply to Heyes. Animal Behaviour, 48, 239-241.
Povinelli, D.J. (1994). A theory of mind is in the head, not the heart. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 17, 573-574.
Povinelli, D.J. & Davis, D.R. (1994). Differences between chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and
humans (Homo sapiens) in the resting state of the index finger: Implications for pointing.
Journal of Comparative Psychology, 108, 134-139.
Povinelli, D.J. (1994). How to create self-recognizing gorillas (but don't try it on macaques).
In (S. Parker, R. Mitchell & M. Boccia, Eds.), Self-awareness in animals and humans, pp.
291-294. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
Povinelli, D.J., Rulf, A.B., & Bierschwale, D. (1994). Absence of knowledge attribution and self-recognition in young chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 108, 74-80.
Povinelli, D.J. (1993). Reconstructing the evolution of mind. American Psychologist, 48, 493-509.
Povinelli, D.J. & Godfrey, L.R. (1993). The chimpanzee's mind: How noble in reason? How absent of ethics? In (M. Nitecki & D. Nitecki, Eds.), pp. 277-324. Evolutionary Ethics. Albany, SUNY Press.
Povinelli, D.J., Rulf, A.R., Landau, K. & Bierschwale, D.T. (1993). Self-recognition in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): Distribution, ontogeny, and patterns of emergence. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 107, 347-372.
Eddy, T.J., Gallup, G.G., Jr., & Povinelli, D.J. (1993). Attribution of cognitive states to animals: Anthropomorphism in comparative perspective. Journal of Social Issues, 49, 87-101.
Gallup, G.G., Jr. & Povinelli, D.J. (1993). Mirror, mirror, on the wall, which is the most heuristic theory of them all? A response to Mitchell. New Ideas in Psychology, 11, 327-335.
Hess, J., Novak, M.A., & Povinelli, D.J. (1993). "Natural pointing" in a rhesus monkey, but
no evidence of empathy. Animal Behaviour, 46, 1023-1025.
Povinelli, D.J. & deBlois, S. (1992). On (not) attributing mental states to monkeys: First,
know thyself. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 15, 164-166.
Povinelli, D.J. & deBlois, S. (1992). Young children's (Homo sapiens) understanding of knowledge formation in themselves and others. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 106, 228-238.
Povinelli, D.J., Parks, K.A., Novak, M.A. (1992). Role reversal by rhesus monkeys, but no
evidence of empathy. Animal Behaviour, 44, 269-281.
Povinelli, D.J., Nelson, K.E. & Boysen, S.T. (1992). Comprehension of role reversal by chimpanzees: Evidence of empathy? Animal Behaviour, 43, 633-640.
Povinelli, D.J., Parks, K.A. & Novak, M.A. (1991). Do rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta)
attribute knowledge and ignorance to others? Journal of Comparative Psychology, 105, 318-
325.
Povinelli, D.J., Nelson, K.E. & Boysen, S.T. (1990). Inferences about guessing and knowing
by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Journal of Comparative Psychology, 104, 203-210.
Povinelli, D.J. (1989). Failure to find self-recognition in Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) in contrast to their use of mirrors cues to discover hidden food. Journal of Comparative Psychology, 102, 122-131.
Povinelli, D.J. (1988). Intention and attribution in primates: A new quest for mind. Yale Graduate Journal of Anthropology, 1, 37-48.
Povinelli, D.J. (1987). Monkeys, apes, mirrors and minds: The evolution of self-awareness in primates. Human Evolution, 2, 493-509.
Petto, A.J. & Povinelli, D.J. (1985). Some preliminary observations of vervets (Cercopithecus
aethiops) from the Greatheeds pond area on St. Kitts, W.I. Canadian Review of Physical
Anthropology, 5, 77-81.
