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Dr Denis Tatone

 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6694-2656

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    I am broadly interested in how minds make societies. Specifically, I study how humans represent the social world in terms of its constituent interactions, relations, and groups. In my work, I use behavioural and EEG methods to explore how infants, children, and adults spontaneously use these concepts to build coherent representations of social networks. In the past, I examined how preverbal infants reason about third-party interactions based on resource transfer, dominance, and helping, and what kinds of relational inferences they draw from their occurrence. My work draws heavily on insights from comparative and evolutionary psychology, cognitive linguistics, and anthropology, and thrives on a large collaboration network. 

    Professional Experience 

    • Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Plymouth (UK), 2024-present
    • Postdoctoral Fellow, Central European University (Austria), 2021-2023
    • Postdoctoral Fellow, Central European University (Hungary), 2018-2020

    Education

    • PhD in Cognitive Science, Central European University (Hungary), 2017
    • PhD in Social Neuroscience, University of Bologna (Italy), interrupted 
    • MA in History and Philosophy of Science, University of Bologna (Italy), 2011
    • BA in Philosophy, University of Chieti-Pescara (Italy), 2009 

    Completed PhD supervision

    • Dr Laura Schlingloff-Nemecz, now postdoc at TUM (Germany)

    Teaching interests

    • Social cognition and behaviour
    • Cognitive development 
    • Comparative and evolutionary psychology 
    • Social ontology 
    • Research methods in developmental science

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    Research Interests

    • Cognitive Development
    • Social Cognition
    • Naive Sociology
    • Action Understanding
    • Moral Cognition

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    • Infants' Social Evaluation of Helpers and Hinderers: A Large-Scale, Multi-Lab, Coordinated Replication Study

      Lucca, K., Yuen, F., Wang, Y., Alessandroni, N., Allison, O., Alvarez, M., Axelsson, E. L., Baumer, J., Baumgartner, H. A., Bertels, J., Bhavsar, M., Byers-Heinlein, K., Capelier-Mourguy, A., Chijiiwa, H., Chin, C.S.-S., Christner, N., Cirelli, L. K., Corbit, J., Daum, M. M. & Doan, T. & 74 others, Dresel, M., Exner, A., Fei, W., Forbes, S. H., Franchin, L., Frank, M. C., Geraci, A., Giraud, M., Gornik, M. E., Wiesmann, C. G., Grossmann, T., Hadley, I. M., Havron, N., Henderson, A. M. E., Matzner, E. H., Immel, B. A., Jankiewicz, G., Jędryczka, W., Kanakogi, Y., Kominsky, J. F., Lew-Williams, C., Liberman, Z., Liu, L., Liu, Y., Loeffler, M. T., Martin, A., Mayor, J., Meng, X., Misiak, M., Moreau, D., Nencheva, M. L., Oña, L. S., Otálora, Y., Paulus, M., Pepe, B., Pickron, C. B., Powell, L. J., Proft, M., Quinn, A. A., Rakoczy, H., Reschke, P. J., Roth-Hanania, R., Rothmaler, K., Schlegelmilch, K., Schlingloff-Nemecz, L., Schmuckler, M. A., Schuwerk, T., Seehagen, S., Şen, H. H., Shainy, M. R., Silvestri, V., Soderstrom, M., Sommerville, J., Song, H.-J., Sorokowski, P., Stutz, S. E., Su, Y., Taborda-Osorio, H., Tan, A. W. M., Tatone, D., Taylor-Partridge, T., Tsang, C. K. A., Urbanek, A., Uzefovsky, F., Visser, I., Wertz, A. E., Williams, M., Wolsey, K., Wong, T.T.-Y., Woodward, A. M., Wu, Y., Zeng, Z., Zimmer, L. & Hamlin, J. K., Jan 2025, In: Developmental Science. 28, 1, e13581.

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    • Young Children's Understanding of Helping as Increasing Another Agent's Utility

      Schlingloff-Nemecz, L., Pomiechowska, B., Tatone, D., Revencu, B., Mészégető, D. & Csibra, G., 23 Jan 2025, In: Open Mind. 9, p. 169-188 20 p.

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    • Early Threads of Connection. Probing Infants' Understanding of Caregiving Relationships

      Steele, C., Richardson, M., Tatone, D. & Thomas, A., 3 Jun 2024, Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society. Vol. 46.

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    • Infants expect an agent to choose a goal that can be reached at a lower cost

      Schingloff-Nemecz, L., Tatone, D., Pomiechowska, B. & Csibra, G., 3 Jun 2024, Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Society. Vol. 46.

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    • Questioning the nature and origins of the "social agent" concept

      Tatone, D. & Pomiechowska, B., 27 Jun 2024, In: Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 47, p. e142

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