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Spanish psychologist and primatologist

Call talking at a scientific conference in 2013

**Josep Call** is a Spanish [comparative psychologist](/source/Comparative_psychology) specializing in [primate cognition](/source/Primate_cognition).

## Early life and education

Call was born in [Catalonia](/source/Catalonia), [Spain](/source/Spain) and received a BA (1990) from the [Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona](/source/Universitat_Autonoma_de_Barcelona) (Spain), and a [master's degree](/source/Master's_degree) (1995) and [PhD](/source/PhD) (1997) from [Emory University](/source/Emory_University) (United States), under the supervision of Prof. [Michael Tomasello](/source/Michael_Tomasello).

## Academic career

From 1997 to 1999 he was a lecturer at the School of Biological Sciences at the [University of Liverpool](/source/University_of_Liverpool) (UK). Then in 1999 he moved to the [Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology](/source/Max_Planck_Institute_for_Evolutionary_Anthropology) in [Leipzig](/source/Leipzig), [Germany](/source/Germany) where he is currently a senior scientist, co-founder and co-director of the [Wolfgang Köhler](/source/Wolfgang_K%C3%B6hler) Primate Research Centre. Call also holds the post of Professor in Evolutionary Origins of Mind at the [University of St Andrews](/source/University_of_St_Andrews), where his focus is on technical and social-problem solving in animals. His work places special emphasis on the great apes or [primatology](/source/Primatology).[1]

### Research

Among other topics, Call has worked to identify the unique cognitive and cultural processes that distinguish humans from their nearest [primate](/source/Primate) relatives, the [great apes](/source/Great_apes). He has published two books and nearly two hundred research articles and book chapters on the cognition and behavior of apes and other animals. He is currently the editor of the *[Journal of Comparative Psychology](/source/Journal_of_Comparative_Psychology)* and a member of the editorial board of several other academic journals.

## Honours

In 2013 Call was elected a Fellow of the [American Psychological Association](/source/American_Psychological_Association),[2] and in March 2016 was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the [Royal Society of Edinburgh](/source/Royal_Society_of_Edinburgh)[3] In July 2019, he was elected a [Fellow of the British Academy](/source/Fellow_of_the_British_Academy) (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences.[4]

## Selected works

- Tomasello, M. & Call, J. (1997). *Primate cognition*. New York: [Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press).

- Tomasello, M., Carpenter, M., Call, J., Behne, T. & Moll, H. (2005). Understanding and sharing intentions: The origins of cultural cognition. [Behavioral and Brain Sciences](/source/Behavioral_and_Brain_Sciences), 28, 1-17.

- Nicholas J. Mulcahy; Josep Call (May 2006). "Apes Save Tools for Future Use". *Science*. **312** (5776): 1038–1040. [Bibcode](/source/Bibcode_(identifier)):[2006Sci...312.1038M](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006Sci...312.1038M). [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1126/science.1125456](https://doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.1125456). [PMID](/source/PMID_(identifier)) [16709782](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16709782). [S2CID](/source/S2CID_(identifier)) [8468216](https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:8468216).

- Call, J. & Tomasello, M. (2007). *The gestural communication of apes and monkeys*. Manhaw NJ: LEA.

- Jensen, K., Call, J. & Tomasello, M. (2007). Chimpanzees are rational maximizers in an ultimatum game. [Science](/source/Science_(magazine)), 318, 107–109.

- Call, J. & Tomasello, M. (2008). Does the chimpanzee have a theory of mind? 30 years later. [Trends in Cognitive Sciences](/source/Trends_in_Cognitive_Sciences), 12, 187–192.

- Cornelia Schrauf; Josep Call; Koki Fuwa; Satoshi Hirata (Jul 2012). ["Do Chimpanzees Use Weight to Select Hammer Tools?"](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3399814). *PLOS ONE*. **7** (7) e41044. [Bibcode](/source/Bibcode_(identifier)):[2012PLoSO...741044S](https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2012PLoSO...741044S). [doi](/source/Doi_(identifier)):[10.1371/journal.pone.0041044](https://doi.org/10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0041044). [PMC](/source/PMC_(identifier)) [3399814](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3399814). [PMID](/source/PMID_(identifier)) [22815905](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22815905).

- Call, J. (2017), "Bonobos, chimpanzees and tools: Integrating species-specific physiological biases and socio-ecology," in Hare, Brian & Yamamoto, Shinya (eds.), *Bonobos: Unique in Mind, Brain, and Behavior*, Oxford UP.

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Josep Call - University of St Andrews"](https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/josep-call(e16c323e-1faa-4dc8-8b9c-f6e9432766a2).html). *Risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk*. Retrieved 27 November 2017.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Josep Call - Activities and awards - University of St Andrews"](https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/josep-call(e16c323e-1faa-4dc8-8b9c-f6e9432766a2)/activities.html). *Risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk*. Retrieved 27 November 2017.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Fellows - The Royal Society of Edinburgh"](https://web.archive.org/web/20161008113046/https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/1200_2016ElectedFellows.html). *Royalsoced.org.uk*. Archived from [the original](https://www.royalsoced.org.uk/1200_2016ElectedFellows.html) on 8 October 2016. Retrieved 27 November 2017.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["New Fellows 2019"](https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/sites/default/files/New%20Fellows%202019_1.pdf) (PDF). *The British Academy*. Retrieved 27 July 2019.

## External links

- [Official homepage of Dr. Josep Call](https://web.archive.org/web/20100618141317/http://www.eva.mpg.de/psycho/staff/call/index.htm)

- [Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology](http://www.eva.mpg.de)

- [Homepage of the Wolfgang Koehler Primate Research Centre](http://wkprc.eva.mpg.de) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20100618122525/http://wkprc.eva.mpg.de/) 2010-06-18 at the [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine)

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