Michael Tomasello is a James F. Bonk Distinguished Chair Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University and a distinguished chair professor at SKKU. His major research interests include processes of social cognition, social learning, cooperation, and communication from developmental, comparative, and cultural perspectives. He focuses on processes of shared intentionality, empirical research mainly with human children from 1 to 4 years of age and great apes. His recent books include Origins of Human Communication, Why We Cooperate, A Natural History of Human Thinking, and A Natural History of Human Morality. For his career achievements, Tomasello has received numerous honors, including the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Heineken Prize for Cognitive Science, the British Academy’s Wiley Prize in Psychology, and the American Psychological Association's Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award. Tomasello is the emeritus director at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology as well as Honorary Professor Leipzig University since 1999.