NSF Young Investigator

9458111 Povinelli该奖项根据国家科学基金会的青年研究人员奖计划向Daniel Povinelli博士提供支持。该计划的目标是表彰杰出的科学和工程领域的年轻教师，通过为研究和教育活动提供灵活的支持来促进最近获得博士学位的人的学术生涯，并促进学术界、产业界和支持研究和教育的机构之间的联系和合作。波维内利博士已经在体质人类学领域做出了重大的研究贡献，他有潜力成为学术研究和教育领域的领导者。这一奖项将使研究人员能够在他现有的自我意识研究的基础上，开展一系列关于黑猩猩和幼儿对自身和他人的代理、意图、知识和信念的理解的研究。这项研究有望在限制我们对黑猩猩复杂社会行为的心理解释方面取得相当大的进展。此外，它还可以确定人类和黑猩猩认知发展中与精神状态归因相关的重叠程度。这将使进化生物学家能够更精确地重建类人猿的原始认知特征，并确定人类认知的更多派生特征。

9458111 Povinelli This award provides support to Dr. Daniel Povinelli under the National Science Foundation's Young Investigator Awards program. The objective of this program is to recognize outstanding young faculty in science and engineering, to enhance the academic career of recent PhD recipients by providing flexible support for research and educational activities, and to foster contact and cooperation between academia, industry, and institutions that support research and education. Dr. Povinelli has already made significant research contributions to the field of physical anthropology, and he has the potential to become a leader in academic research and education. This award will allow the investigator to build on his existing research on self-awareness and to undertake series of studies of chimpanzees and young children's understanding of agency, intention, and knowledge and belief, in both themselves and others. The research holds promise of making considerable progress toward constraining our interpretations of the psychology underpinning complex social behavior in chimpanzees. Furthermore, it will allow a determination of the extent of overlap in human and chimpanzee cognitive development related to mental state attribution. This will allow evolutionary biologists to produce more precise reconstructions of the primitive cognitive features of the great ape-human clade, as well as a determination of the more derived features of human cognition.