H Rakoczy, MFH Schmidt - Child Development Perspectives, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Recent research has produced new insights into the early development of social cognition and social learning. Even very young children learn and understand social activities as …
Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters …
What is phenomenology? This chapter addresses this question by reviewing some classic definitions and then by looking briefly at the historical development of phenomenology …
The Shape of Thought: How Mental Adaptations Evolve presents a road map for an evolutionary psychology of the twenty-first century. It brings together theory from biology and …
Human social life depends heavily on social norms that prescribe and proscribe specific actions. Typically, young children learn social norms from adult instruction. In the work …
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 …
Social norms are communally agreed upon, morally significant behavioral standards that are, at least in part, responsible for uniquely human forms of cooperation and social …
CH Legare - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
The complexity and variability of human culture is unmatched by any other species. Humans live in culturally constructed niches filled with artifacts, skills, beliefs, and practices that have …
Two studies test the hypothesis that imitative fidelity is influenced by cues to interpret behavior as instrumental versus conventional. Study 1 (N= 57, 4–5-yr-olds) manipulated non …