Johannes Rakoczy

Professor for Developmental Psychology

• since 2009 Professor for Developmental Psychology, University of Göttingen

• 2006-09 Researcher in the Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

• 2004-06 Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, University of Leipzig

• 2004 Postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Developmental and Comparative Psychology, Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology

• 2004 Ph.D., Department of Psychology, University of Leipzig

• 2000-03 Doctoral student at the Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Junior Research Group for Cultural Ontogeny

• 2000 Diploma in Psychology, University of Trier

• 1994-2000 Study of Psychology and Philosophy at the Universities of Erlangen, Manchester and Trier

Major Research Interests:

Johannes Rakoczy

• Children’s understanding of normativity
  

• Theory of mind development and its relation to language and executive function
  

• Development of pretend play
  

• Non-linguistic cognition in infants and apes

Address:

Department of Develompental Psychology
University of Goettingen
Waldweg 26
37073 Göttingen
phone: +49-0551 39 9235
fax: +49-551-39 9322
e-mail:

Further Information:
Developmental Psychology

Selected Recent Publications:

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

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 27: 385-404

Wyman E, Rakoczy H, Tomasello M (2009). Normativity and context in young children's pretend play. Cognitive Development 24(2): 146-155

Abraham A, Werning M, Rakoczy H, von Cramon DY, Schubotz R (2008). The neural underpinnings of higher-order intentionality: Decomposing the theory-of-mind network. Consciousness and Cognition 17: 438-450