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Reading minds : how childhood teaches us to understand people / Henry M. Wellman with Karen Lind.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wellman, Henry M., author.
- Lind, Karen, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social interaction.
- Social skills.
- Social interaction in children.
- Social skills in children.
- Philosophy of mind.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (200 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- The need to understand human social life is basic to our human nature and fuels a life-long quest that we begin in early childhood. Key to this quest is trying to fathom our inner mental states-our hopes, plans, wants, thoughts, and emotions. Scientists deem this developing a 'theory of mind.' In 'Reading Minds', Henry Wellman tells the story of our journey into that understanding.
- Contents:
- Reading minds 101
- Mind reading, gossip, and liars
- Friends, secrets, and lies
- Imagination and reality
- Rutting the theory in theory of mind
- Block by block
- The baby boom: where reading minds begin
- Superpowers, god, omniscience, and afterlife
- Possible worlds, possible minds
- Chimps, dogs, and us: the evolution of reading minds
- The social brain
- Hi, Robert
- Theory of mind at work
- Stories, theories, minds.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2020.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 9, 2021).
- ISBN:
- 0-19-009000-6
- 0-19-087868-1
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