Origins of the social mind : evolutionary and developmental views / S. Itakura, K. Fujita (eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fujita, Kazuo, 1953-

Itakura, Shōji, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognition in animals.

Cognition in children.

Cognition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Edition:

1st ed. 2008.

Place of Publication:

Tokyo ; New York : Springer, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

During the first few years of life, children acquire knowledge about the relationships between their own mental states, their actions, and the social world. This information is then used to understand themselves and others. Humans are born into families, where they are raised and learn to cooperate, compete, and communicate. We are social creatures, and over the course of development, we learn about people, relationships, social systems, and others’ minds. In addition, not only do we live socially, we think socially as well. However, human adults are not the only creatures to live and think socially. In recent years, sophisticated experiments have provided new information about social cognition in human infants and nonhuman animals. In this book, we focus on the developmental and evolutionary origins of the social mind, bringing together the currently segregated views on social cognition in the two fields. Ever since the term “theory of mind” was coined by D. Premack nearly 30 years ago, the concept has been the main topic of social cognition research both in developmental psychology and in primatology. However, few attempts have been made to integrate these two research domains. Just recently, researchers from the two areas collaborated to publish a book on this topic, but the volume was little more than a collection of independent papers. This book overcomes that limitation by presenting new data and their implications from both developmental and evolutionary points of view.

Contents:

Phylogeny of Social Cognition

Social Intelligence in Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus apella)

Communication Between Mother and Infant Chimpanzees and Its Role in the Evolution of Social Intelligence

Primates’ Use of Others’ Gaze

How to Build a Scrub-Jay that Reads Minds

Cooperation in Keas: Social and Cognitive Factors

Ontogeny of Social Cognition

Differences Between Acting as if One Is Experiencing Pain and Acting as if One Is Pretending to Have Pain Among Actors at Three Expertise Levels

Homo Negotiatus: Ontogeny of the Unique Ways Humans Own, Share and Reciprocate

Little Liars: Origins of Verbal Deception in Children

Discovering Mind: Development of Mentalizing in Human Children

Emergence of the Social Mind: Two Perspectives.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-00519-7

9786612005190

4-431-75179-3

OCLC:

828800597