Making minds : the shaping of human minds through social context / edited by Petra Hauf, Friedrich Forsterling.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hauf, Petra.

Försterling, Friedrich.

Series:

Benjamins current topics ; v. 4.

Benjamins current topics ; v. 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social interaction--Congresses.

Social interaction.

Social psychology--Congresses.

Social psychology.

Physical Description:

ix, 275 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

We develop a new theory of the cognitive changes around 4 years of age by trying to explain why understanding of false belief and of alternative naming emerge at this age (Doherty & Perner, 1998). We make use of the notion of discourse referents (DR: Karttunen, 1976) as it is used in File Change Semantics (Heim, 2002), one of the early forms of the more widely known Discourse Representation Theory (Kamp & Reyle, 1993). The assumed cognitive change exists in how children can link DRs in their mind to external referents. The younger children check whether the conditions for a DR match the conditions of an external entity (an implicit/procedural understanding of reference). The older children, in addition, have an explicit understanding of reference in virtue of making explicit identity assertions. This involves the metarepresentational ability of representing that different DRs represent the same external referent, which - we argue - is required for alternative naming and for the false belief task.

Contents:

Making Minds

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Foreword

Of minds and mirrors

How minds and selves are made

Dynamics of social coordination

Construing and constructing others

The self and identity negotiation

Social reality makes the social mind

How to do things with logical expressions

Attributions and peer harassment

The shaping of individuals' mental structures and dispositions by others

Ostracism

Self processes in interdependent relationships

Constructing perspectives in the social making of minds

The shaping of animals' minds

Chimpanzees are sensitive to some of the psychological states of others

The understanding of own and others' actions during infancy

Experiencing contingency and agency

The social construction of the cultural mind

File Change Semantics for Preschoolers

The series Benjamins Current Topics.

Notes:

"Previously published in Interaction studies (6:1 and 6:3, 2005)."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612154867

9781282154865

1282154869

9789027292742

9027292744

OCLC:

320323011