Psychology
Dr Juliane Kaminski
Lecturer
Psychology
Department of Psychology,
University of Portsmouth,
King Henry Building,
King Henry Ist Street,
Portsmouth.
PO1 2DY
Profile
Background
I am a Lecturer in the psychology Department of the University of Portsmouth. Before that I was the group leader of the research group “Evolutionary Roots of Human Social Interaction” at the Max Planck Institute for evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig/ Germany where I also completed my PhD in 2005 (with Michael Tomasello & Josep Call). I was also a Junior Research Fellow at Churchill College and a member of the Experimental Psychology lab of Cambridge University.
Teaching responsibilities
I teach on the undergraduate degree programmes for BSc Psychology and BSc Forensic Psychology. I teach Quantitative & Qualitative Data Analysis for Psychologists as well as Evolutionary Psychology and Communication. I supervise several PhD students as well as undergraduate projects on Comparative Social Cognition as well as Cooperation and Communication.
Research Interests
My main research interest is the evolution of human sociality with a particular focus on social cognition. Here I am especially interested in the individual’s understanding of others’ perception, knowledge, intentions, desires and beliefs. I am also interested in questions concerning cooperation and communication among individuals. In my research I follow a comparative approach, that is, I select meaningful groups for comparisons. One comparison is that of humans with their closest living relatives, the great apes. Another comparison is that of humans with one of their closest living domesticated species, the domestic dog.
Current research projects
- Do humans from different cultures interpret others’ knowledge, desires & beliefs similarly? With Daniel Haun (MPI EVAN) and Katja Liebal (Free University of Berlin)
- Do chimpanzees and infants understand Level 2 perspective taking? With Y. Rekers & M. Tomasello (MPI EVAN)
- Do chimpanzees build reputation about others? With A. Melis (Warwick University) & M. Tomasello (MPI EVAN)
- Do dogs cooperate? With M. Nitzschner (MPI EVAN), A. Melis & M. Tomasello
- Do dogs use non-directional signals (engaging facial expressions) to determine communicative intent?
- The evolution of Facial Movements in domestic dogs (with B. Waller)
Recent Publications
More recent publications
Presentations and Talks
Invited Talks
Presentations
Do dogs get the point?
University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews (UK)
September 2011, Kaminski
Do dogs get the point?
Protolang 2, Torun (Poland)
July 2010, Kaminski
Like infant, like dog?
2nd Canine Science Forum, Vienna (Austria)
October 2009, Kaminski
Dogs’ adaptation to the human environment
MPI Social Anthropology, Halle (Germany)
September 2009, Kaminski
Dogs as a model for the evolution of human communication?
Wellcome Trust, Cambridge (UK)
October 2008, Kaminski
The evolution of social cognition
University of Birmingham (UK)
September 2008, Kaminski
Theory of Mind in non-human species?
University of Nottingham (UK)
July 2008, Kaminski
Reading signals or intentions? Dogs understanding of human communication
University of Canberra (Australia)
April 2008, Kaminski
Uniquely human? The evolution of social cognition
University of Oxford (UK)
March 2008, Kaminski
Dogs’ understanding of human forms of communication
Birkbeck College, London (UK)
February 2008 Kaminski
What do animals understand about others?
University of Manchester (UK)
February 2008 Kaminski
Dogs’ understanding of human forms of communication
Neurobiology of “Umwelt” How living beings perceive the world, Fondation Ipsen, Paris (France)
October 2007 Kaminski
Chimpanzees know what other know but not what they believe
ABC workshop, Leipzig (Germany)
October 2007 Kaminski
Dog cognition
Jenaer Wolfstage, Jena (Germany)
March 2007 Kaminski
Theory of mind related skills in chimpanzees: Knowing what others have seen
Workshop: “ToM: module or emergent property?” Wageningen (Netherlands)
October 2006 Kaminski
Comparative social cognition
ESF Exploratory Workshop, Budapest (Hungary)
June 2006 Kaminski
Do chimpanzees know what others know?
IPS Pre-Congress workshop on “Chimpanzee social intelligence”,
Ngamba Island (Uganda)
February 2006 Kaminski
Causal ape --- social dog: the influence of domestication on cognition
University of Portsmouth (UK)
December 2005 Kaminski
Social cognition in dogs and apes: a comparative approach
Universität Freiburg (Germany)
October 2005 Kaminski
Comparative social cognition
The 3rd International workshop for young psychologists on evolution and development of cognition, Kyoto (Japan)
May 2005 Kaminski
Social cognition in apes & dogs
Symposium on Genetics and Physiology of Animal Behaviour, Uppsala (Sweden)
February 2002 Kaminski, Bräuer, Call and Tomasello
Do animals know what others can and cannot see?
2nd International Symposium on Comparative Cognitive Science/ Social transmission of knowledge. Primate Research Institute, Kyoto University (Japan)
The early Ontogeny of dog-human communication
31st International Ethological Conference, Rennes (France)
August 2008 Kaminski, Call & Tomasello
Chimpanzees know what others know but not what they believe
22nd IPS Congress, Edinburgh (Scotland)
March 2008 Kaminski, Schulz, Call & Tomasello
The evolutionary roots of gaze following
XVIth Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Vancouver (Canada)
September 2007 Kaminski, Call & Tomasello
Chimpanzees know what others know but not what they believe
2nd Congress of the European Federation for Primatology, Prague (Czech Republic)
March 2007 Kaminski, Call & Tomasello (Poster)
Chimpanzees know what others have seen
The mind of the chimpanzee, Chicago (USA)
June 2006 Kaminski, Call & Tomasello
Chimpanzees know what others know
21st IPS Congress, Entebbe (Uganda)
August 2005 Kaminski, Call & Fischer
Label learning in a domestic dog: Evidence for fast mapping
29th International Ethological Conference Budapest (Hungary)
August 2005 Kaminski, Bräuer, Call & Tomasello
Visual perspective taking in dogs
29th International Ethological Conference, Budapest (Hungary)
August 2004 Kaminski, Call & Tomasello
Apes know when they are being watched
20th IPS Congress, Torino, (Italy)
March 2004 Kaminski, Bräuer, Riedel, Call & Tomasello
A comparison of the use of causal and communicative cues in an object choice task between dogs (Canis familiaris), chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) and Bonobos (Pan paniscus)
11th Annual meeting of the Comparative Cognition society in Melbourne (USA) October 2003 Kaminski, Call & Tomasello
Apes know when they are being watched
National Conference of the Gesellschaft fuer Primatologie in Leipzig
November 2002 Kaminski, Riedel, Call & Tomasello
Studies on cognition with apes, goats and dogs
Department of Ethology Eötvös Loránd
Budapest University, Budapest (Hungary)
Goats follow the gaze of their conspecifics
27th International Ethological Conference Tuebingen (Germany)