Michael Tomasello offers the most detailed account to date of the evolution of human moral
psychology. Based on experimental data comparing great apes and human children, he …

All human societies are permeated by collectively shared entities that govern daily social
interactions and promote coordination and cooperation: norms. While the study of norm …

Involving speakers in research on their linguistic practices has been at the core of
sociolinguistics since the inception of the field. In contrast to social sciences, however …

Tool-making or culture, language or religious belief: ever since Darwin, thinkers have
struggled to identify what fundamentally differentiates human beings from other animals …

Modern theories of the evolution of human cooperation focus mainly on altruism. In contrast,
we propose that humans' species-unique forms of cooperation—as well as their species …

There are few more important philosophers at work today than John Searle, a creative and
contentious thinker who has shaped the way we think about mind and language. Now he …

In two studies, the authors investigated 2-and 3-year-old children's awareness of the
normative structure of conventional games. In the target conditions, an experimenter showed …

Edited by a diverse group of expert collaborators, the Handbook of the Cultural Foundations
of Learning is a landmark volume that brings together cutting-edge research examining …

Social norms have played a key role in the evolution of human cooperation, serving to
stabilize prosocial and egalitarian behavior despite the self-serving motives of individuals …

Children's lives are governed by social norms. Since Piaget, however, it has been assumed
that they understand very little about how norms work. Recent studies in which children …