Theory of mind in the Pacific : reasoning across cultures / edited by Jürg Wassmann, Birgit Träuble, Joachim Funke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wassmann, Jürg.

Träuble, Birgit.

Funke, Joachim.

Series:

Heidelberg studies in Pacific anthropology ; v. 1.

Heidelberg studies in Pacific anthropology ; volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy of mind--Pacific Area--Cross-cultural studies.

Philosophy of mind.

Cognition--Social aspects--Pacific Area--Cross-cultural studies.

Cognition.

Reasoning (Psychology)--Pacific Area--Cross-cultural studies.

Reasoning (Psychology).

Ethnopsychology--Pacific Area--Cross-cultural studies.

Ethnopsychology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 p.)

Place of Publication:

Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, [2013]

Summary:

Hauptbeschreibung The ascription of desires or beliefs to other people is a milestone of human sociality. It allows us to understand, explain, and predict human behaviour. During the last years, research on children''s knowledge about the mental world, better known as theory of mind research, has become a central topic in developmental psychology and the role of cultural impact is subject of various theoretical yet hitherto few empirical accounts. This book is the result of intensive collaboration between anthropologists and psychologists in the field of cross-cultural research on social cogni

Contents:

Contents; List of Maps, Figures, Illustrations and Tables; Maps; Prologue; Map Prologue 1: Pacific Islands; GUSTAV JAHODA - Foreword: How We Got to Where We Are; 1 Human Social Cognition - The Theory of Mind Research; 2 Theory of Mind in Tonga: The Onset of Representational Change and False Belief Understanding in Tongan Children; Map 2.1: The Islands of Tonga; Illustrations; Illustration 2.1: Children of a Wesleyan kindergarten in Nuku'alofa; Illustration 2.2: Experimental material used in the change of location task

Illustration 2.3: Children during the warm-up period preceding the experimentsFigures; Figure 2.1: Performance on the false belief question of the three- to four- and the five- to six-year-old participants; Figure 2.2: Performance on the representational change question of the three- to four- and the five- to six-year-old participants; Figure 2.3: Performance on the false belief question I of the three- to four- and five- to six-year-old participants; 3 False Belief Understanding in Samoa: Evidence for Continuous Development and Cross-Cultural Variability; Map 3.1: The Samoan Islands; Tables

Table 3.1: Number of children tested per class/school and villageIllustration 3.1: False belief task in village 1 Primary School; Illustration 3.2: Test-setting with camera in village 2 Primary School; Figure 3.1: Performance on false belief task for children aged three to eight and eight to fourteen by percentage; Figure 3.2: Percentage of children by age who passed the false belief task; Table 3.2: Number of children by age who failed and succeeded; Table 3.3: Number of correct and wrong replies in the study by Callaghan et al. (2005) in Samoa

4 Psychology Meets Cultural Anthropology: Interdisciplinary Research with Children in MicronesiaMap 4.1: The Micronesia Islands; Illustration 4.1: Fais Island; Illustration 4.2: One of the Fais chiefs thatching the roof and doing women's work; Illustration 4.3: Children participating in a funeral ceremony; Illustration 4.4: Man on Fais carving a canoe, observed by his three- and five-year-old children ; Illustration 4.5: Three-year-old research participant, father (middle) and research assistant on Fais Island; Illustration 4.6: Participants (three and five years old) on Yap Island

Figure 4.1: Material used on Yap IslandFigure 4.2: Material used on Fais Island; 5 Of Biscuits, Soap and Stones. Representational Change and False Belief Understanding among Yupno Children in Papua New Guinea; Map 5.1: The Finisterre Range and the Yupno region; Illustration 5.1: Upper Gua village; Illustration 5.2: Inside a traditional house; Illustration 5.3: Bainang surrounded by her children; Illustration 5.4: After the testing session: Wilma, the field assistant, with children holding soap, ""bebi kat"" and biscuits

Figure 5.1. Schematic experimental setup during the location change task

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783825373801

3825373800

OCLC:

858762375