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Hannes Rakoczy

Published articles and book chapters:

  • In press

    • Rakoczy, H. (in press). Do infants have a theory of mind? British Journal of Developmental Psychology. [pdf]

    • Rakoczy, H. (in press). Pretense, discourse and theory of mind. In T. Matsui (Ed.), Pragmatics and Theory of Mind. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

    • Rakoczy, H., & Haun, D. (in press). Vor- und nichtsprachliche Kognition: Ontogenese und Evolution. In W. Schneider & U. Lindenberger (Eds.), Entwicklungspsychologie Weinheim: Beltz. [to appear 2012]

    • Rakoczy, H., Harder-Kasten, A., & Sturm, L. (in press). The decline of theory of mind in old age is (partly) mediated by developmental changes in domain-general abilities. British Journal of Psychology. [pdf]

    • Rossano, F., Rakoczy, H., & Tomasello, M. (in press). Young children’s understanding of violations of property rights. Cognition. [pdf]

 

  • 2011

    • Callaghan, T. C., Moll, H., Rakoczy, H., Warneken, F., Liszkowski, U., Behne, T., et al. (2011). Early social cognition in three cultural contexts. Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development, 76(2), vii-125. [pdf]

    • Mendes, N., Rakoczy, H., & Call, J. (2011). Primates do not
      spontaneously use shape properties for object individuation: A
      competence or a performance problem? Animal Cognition, 14, 407-414. [pdf]

    • Schmidt, M., Rakoczy, H., & Tomasello, M. (2011). Young children attribute normativity to novel actions without pedagogy or normative language. Developmental Science, 14(3), 530-539.[pdf]

    • Wyman, E., & Rakoczy, H. (2011). Social conventions, institutions and human uniqueness: lessons from children and chimpanzees. In W. Welsch, W. Singer & A. Wunder (Eds.), Interdisciplinary Anthropology: Continuing Evolution of Man (pp. 131-156). New York: Springer. [pdf]

 

  • 2010

    • Abraham, A., Rakoczy, H., Werning, M., von Cramon, D. Y., & Schubotz, R. (2010). Fitting mind to world and vice versa: Functional dissociations between belief and desire mental state processing. Social Neuroscience, 5(1), 1-18. [pdf]

    • Rakoczy, H. (2010). From thought to language to thought: Towards a dialectical picture of the development of thinking and speaking. Grazer Philosophische Studien, 81, 79-105. [pdf]

    • Rakoczy, H. (2010). Executive function and the development of belief-desire psychology. Developmental Science, 13(4), 648-661 [pdf]

    • Rakoczy, H., Hamann, K., Warneken, F., & Tomasello, M. (2010). Bigger knows better – young children selectively learn rule games from adults rather than from peers. British Journal of Developmental Psychology(28), 785-798. [pdf]

     

  • 2009

    • Matsui, T., Rakoczy, H., Miura, Y., & Tomasello, M. (2009). Understanding of speaker certainty and false-belief reasoning: A comparison of Japanese and German preschoolers. Developmental Science, 12(4), 602-613. [pdf]

    • Rakoczy, H., & Tomasello, M. (2009). Done wrong or said wrong? Young children understand the normative directions of fit of different speech acts. Cognition, 13(2), 205-212. [pdf]

    • Rakoczy, H. (2009), Kinds of selves: A comparative view on the development of intentionality and self-consciousness. In W. Mack & G. Reuter (Eds.), Social roots of self-consciousness: psychological and philosophical contributions. Berlin: Akademie Verlag. [pdf]

    • Rakoczy, H. (2009), Review of Margolis & Laurence (Eds.) (2007) "Creations of the Mind: Theories of Artifacts and their Representations". Philosophical Psychology. [pdf]

    • Rakoczy, H. (2009). Die wollen doch nur spielen. So-tun-als-ob als Wiege von Darstellung und Perspektivität? In J. Klein (Ed.), per.SPICE! Wirklichkeit und Relativität des Ästhetischen (pp. 74-87). Berlin: Verlag Theater der Zeit. [pdf]

    • Rakoczy, H., Warneken, F., & Tomasello, M. (2009). Young children’s selective learning of rule games from reliable and unreliable models. Cognitive Development, 24, 61-69. [pdf]

    • Rakoczy, H., Brosche, N., Warneken, F., & Tomasello, M. (2009). Young children’s understanding of the context relativity of normative rules in conventional games. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 27, 445–456.

    • Wyman, E., Rakoczy, H., & Tomasello, M (2009). Young children understand multiple pretend identities in their object play. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2, 385–404.

    • Wyman, E., Rakoczy, H., & Tomasello, M. (2009). Normativity and context in young children’s pretend play. Cognitive Development, 24/(2), 146-155
      [pdf]

     

  • 2008

    • Abraham, A., Werning, M., Rakoczy, H., von Cramon, D. Y., & Schubotz, R. (2008). The neural underpinnings of higher-order intentionality: Decomposing the theory-of-mind network. Consciousness and Cognition, 17, 438–450. [pdf]

    • Behne, T., Carpenter, M., Gräfenhain, M., Liebal, K., Liszkowski, U., Moll, H., et al. (2008). Cultural learning and creation. In U. Müller, J. Carpendale, N. Budwig & B. Sokol (Eds.), Social Life and Social Knowledge: Toward a Process Account of Development. (pp. 65-102). New York: Lawrence Erlbaum.

    • Mendes, N., Rakoczy, H., & Call, J. (2008). Ape metaphysics: Object individuation without language. Cognition, 106(2), 730-749. [pdf]

    • Rakoczy, H. (2008). Pretence as individual and collective intentionality. Mind and Language, 23(5), 499-517. [pdf]


    • Rakoczy, H. (2008). Du, Ich, Wir: Zur Entwicklung sozialer Kognition bei Mensch und Tier. In R. Schubotz (Ed.), Other minds (pp. 93-109). Paderborn: Mentis.

    • Rakoczy, H. (2008). Taking fiction seriously: Young children understand the normative structure of joint pretend games. Developmental Psychology, 44(4), 1195-1201. [pdf]

    • Rakoczy, H. (2008). Collective intentionality and uniquely human cognition. In E. Neumann-Held & L. Röska-Hardy (Eds.), Learning from animals? Examining the nature of human uniqueness (pp. 105-121). London: Psychology Press. [pdf]

    • Rakoczy, H., & Tomasello, M. (2008). Kollektive Intentionalität und kulturelles Lernen. Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie, 56(3), 401-410. [pdf]

    • Rakoczy, H., Warneken, F., & Tomasello, M. (2008). The sources of normativity: Young children’s awareness of the normative structure of games. Developmental Psychology, 44(3), 875-881. [pdf]

     

  • 2007

    • Rakoczy, H., & Tomasello, M. (2007). The ontogeny of social ontology: Steps to shared intentionality and status functions. In S. L. Tsohatzidis (Ed.), Intentional Acts and Institutional Facts: Essays on John Searle's Social Ontology (pp. 113-137). Berlin: Springer Verlag. [pdf]

    • Rakoczy, H. (2007). Play, games,and the development of collective intentionality. In C. Kalish & M. Sabbagh (Eds.), Conventionality in cognitive development: How children acquire representations in language, thought and action. New Directions in Child and Adolescent Development. No. 115 (pp. 53-67). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. [pdf]

    • Rakoczy, H. (2007). Social cognition and social practice. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 25, 33-38.

    • Rakoczy, H., Warneken, F., & Tomasello, M. (2007). "This way!" "No! That way!"---3-year olds know that two people can have mutually incompatible desires. Cognitive Development, 22, 47-68. [pdf]

     

  • 2006

    • Rakoczy, H. (2006). Pretend play and the development of collective intentionality. Cognitive Systems Research, 7, 113-127. [pdf]

    • Rakoczy, H., & Tomasello, M. (2006). Two-year-olds’ grasp the intentional structure of pretense acts. Developmental Science, 9(6), 558-565. [pdf]

    • Rakoczy, H., Tomasello, M., & Striano, T. (2006). The role of experience and discourse in children's developing understanding of pretend play actions. British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 24(2), 305-335.

     

  • 2003 - 2005

    • Rakoczy, H., Tomasello, M., & Striano, T. (2005). How children turn objects into symbols: A cultural learning account. In L. Namy (Ed.), Symbol use and symbol representation (pp. 67-97). New York: Erlbaum. [pdf]

    • Rakoczy, H., Tomasello, M., & Striano, T. (2005). On tools and toys: How children learn to act on and pretend with 'virigin' objects. Developmental Science, 8(1), 57-73. [pdf]

    • Rakoczy, H., Tomasello, M., & Striano, T. (2004). Young children know that trying is not pretending - a test of the "behaving-as-if" construal of children's early concept of "pretense". Developmental Psychology, 40(3), 388–399. [pdf]

    • Chen, X., Striano, T., & Rakoczy, H. (2004). Auditory oral-matching in newborns. Developmental Science, 7(1), 42-47. [pdf]

    • Tomasello, M., & Rakoczy, H. (2003). What makes human cognition unique? From individual to shared to collective intentionality. Mind and Language, 18(2), 121-147. [pdf]

     

  • Submitted and other papers

    • Esken, F., & Rakoczy, H. (in preparation). Metakognition und Mindreading. In A. Stephan & S. Walter (Eds.), Handbuch Kognitionswissenschaft. Sttugart/Weimar: Metzler.

    • Schmidt, M., Rakoczy, H., & Tomasello, M. (submitted). Young children are moral universalists but conventional parochialists.

    • Wyman, E., Rakoczy, H., & Tomasello, M. (submitted). Joint attention enables children's coordination with others in a 'stag hunt' game.

    • Rakoczy, H. (2004). The development of performing and understanding pretend play: A cultural learning perspective. Doctoral thesis. Department of Psychology, University of Leipzig. [pdf]