Faculty

Education

• B.A. Psychology, Sorbonne (Université René Descartes, Paris V), France, 1999
• M.A. Psychology, Philipps University Marburg, Germany, 2001
• Ph.D. Psychology, University of Leipzig, Germany, 2006




Postdoctoral Training

• Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (with Dr. Michael Tomasello), Leipzig, Germany, 2006-2007   



Academic Appointment, Affiliation, and Employment History




PostDoctoral Appointments

• Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Comparative and Developmental Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA, with Dr. Michael Tomasello), Leipzig, Germany, 2006-2007   



Other Employment

• Research Scientist, Department of Comparative and Developmental Psychology, MPI-EVA, Leipzig, Germany, 2009-2011  
• Research Scientist, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences (with Dr. Andrew N. Meltzoff), University of Washington, Seattle, USA, 2007-2009  



Description of Research

Summary Statement of Research Interests

Henrike Moll studies the development of social cognition in infancy and young childhood. The major focus of her work concerns the ability to engage in joint attention and the question how children come to learn about the fact that objects can be seen or construed from different perspectives. Her main thesis is that an awareness of perspectives is grounded in joint attention. She studies the early ontogeny of children’s perspective-taking in various domains, including perceptual (visual, auditory, etc.) and conceptual perspectives. Her work touches on issues in philosophy of mind, comparative psychology and anthropological questions such as cognitive differences between humans and other primate species.

Research Specialties

Theory of mind, perspective-taking, social cognition, social-cognitive development



Publications




Book Chapter

• Moll, H., Tomasello, M. (2012). Social cognition in the second year of life. Handbook of Theory of Mind Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.
• Moll, H. (2012). Ontogenetic precursors of assertion and denial. Essays in honor of Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer pp. In press. Boston, MA: DeGruyter.
• Moll, H. (2012). Von der Teilnahme an gemeinsamer Aufmerksamkeit zum Begriff von Perspektiven: Stufen einer Entwicklung. Wittgenstein: Philosophie und Wissenschaft pp. 251-267. Hamburg: Meiner.
• Moll, H., Meltzoff, A. N. (2011). Joint attention as the fundamental basis of perspectives. Joint attention: New developments in psychology... pp. 393-413. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
• Moll, H., Meltzoff, A. N. (2011). Perspective-taking and its foundation in joint attention. Perception, Causation, and Objectivity pp. 286-304. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Moll, H. (2011). Über die Entwicklung eines Verstehens von Wahrnehmung und Perspektivität. Zeigen: Grunddimensionen einer Tätigkeit pp. 230-246. Weilerswist: Velbrück.
• Tomasello, M., Moll, H. (2010). The gap is social: Human shared intentionality and culture. Mind the gap: Tracing the origins of human univers pp. 331-349. Berlin: Springer.
• Behne, T., Carpenter, M., Gräfenhein, M., Liebal, K., Liszkowski, U., Moll, H., Rakoczy, H., Tomasello, M., Warneken, F., Wyman, E. (2008). Cultural learning and creation. 65-101 Mahwah, NJ: Jean Piaget Symposium Series, Erlbaum.
• Moll, H. (2007). Person und Perspektivität: Kooperation und soziale Kognition beim Menschen. Leipziger Schriften zur Philosophie. Personalität pp. 37-56. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag.



Book Review

• Moll, H. (2009). Origins of the social mind: Evolutionary and developmental views. pp. 371-373.



Journal Article

• Moll, H., Meltzoff, A. N., Merzsch, K., Tomasello, M. (2012). Taking versus confronting visual perspectives in preschool children. Developmental Psychology. pp. Advance Online Publication. doi: 10.1037/a0028633.
• Moll, H., Carpenter, M., Tomasello, M. (2012). Two- and three-year-olds know what others have and have not heard. Journal of Cognition and Development. pp. In Press.
• Moll, H. (2012). Human-specific forms of cognition prior to judgments. Grazer Philosophische Studien. pp. In press.
• Callaghan, T., Moll, H., Rakozcy, 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. Vol. 76 (2), pp. 1-142.
• Moll, H., Carpenter, M., Tomasello, M. (2011). Social engagement leads 2-year-olds to overestimate others’ knowledge. Infancy. Vol. 16 (3), pp. 248-265.
• Moll, H., Meltzoff, A. N. (2011). How does it look? Level 2 perspective-taking at 36 months. Child Development. Vol. 82 (2), pp. 661-673.
• Tomasello, M., Moll, H. (2011). Replik auf die Kommentare. Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie. Vol. 59 (1), pp. 164-169.
• Moll, H., Tomasello, M. (2011). Three-year-olds understand appearance and reality—just not about the same object at the same time Developmental Psychology. Developmental Psychology. pp. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1037/a0025915.
• Grosse, G., Moll, H., Tomasello, M. (2010). Infants appreciate the cooperative logic of requests. Journal of Pragmatics. Vol. 42, pp. 3377-3383.
• Moll, H., Tomasello, M. (2010). Infant cognition. Current Biology. Vol. 20 (20), pp. R872-R875.
• Moll, H., Richter, N. (2008). Fourteen-month-olds know what ‘we’ have shared in a special way. Infancy. Vol. 13 (1), pp. 90-101.
• Moll, H., Tomasello, M. (2007). How 14- and 18-month-olds know what others have experienced. Developmental Psychology. Vol. 43 (2), pp. 309-317.
• Moll, H., Tomasello, M. (2007). Cooperation and human cognition: The Vygotskian intelligence hypothesis. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Vol. 362 (1480), pp. 639-648.
• Moll, H., Carpenter, M., Tomasello, M. (2007). Fourteen-month-old infants know what others experience only in joint engagement with them. Developmental Science. Vol. 10 (6), pp. 826-835.
• Moll, H., Koring, C., Carpenter, M., Tomasello, M. (2006). Infants determine others’ focus of attention by pragmatics and exclusion. Journal of Cognition and Development. Vol. 7 (3), pp. 411-430.
• Moll, H., Tomasello, M. (2006). Level 1 perspective-taking at 24 months of age. British Journal of Developmental Psychology. Vol. 24, pp. 603-613.
• Tomasello, M., Carpenter, M., Call, J., Behne, T., Moll, H. (2005). Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. Vol. 28, pp. 675-735.
• Moll, H., Tomasello, M. (2004). Twelve- and 18-month-old infants follow gaze to spaces behind barriers. Developmental Science. Vol. 7 (1), pp. F1-F9.




Honors and Awards

• Recipient of National or International Prize in Discipline, Young Mind and Brain Prize 2011, Fall 2011   
• Election as Faculty Member of Berlin School of Mind and Brain by international advisory board (Uta Frith, Ray Dolan, David Poeppel, and Patricia Churchland, 2010-2011   
• Young Academy Membership, Spring 2011   



Service to the Profession




Professional Memberships

• Young Academy Membership, 2011  



Other Service to the Profession

• Young Mind and Brain Prize, 2011  



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