In the social sciences and in everyday speech we often talk about groups as if they behaved
in the same way as individuals, thinking and acting as a singular being. We say for example …

Used to train generations of social scientists, this thoroughly updated classic text covers the
latest research techniques and designs. Applauded for its comprehensive coverage, the …

Many of the most important properties of human groups–including properties that may give
one group an evolutionary advantage over another–are properly defined only at the level of …

We live in an age of scientific collaboration, popular uprisings, failing political parties, and
increasing corporate power. Many of these kinds of collective action derive from the …

After an introductory section, this article will focus on four questions: How should the Kyoto
School be defined? What is meant by its central philosophical concept of “absolute …

In this article, I outline various ways in which artifacts are interwoven with autobiographical
memory systems and conceptualize what this implies for the self. I first sketch the narrative …

In everyday life remembering occurs within social contexts, and theories from a number of
disciplines predict cognitive and social benefits of shared remembering. Recent debates …

The goal of this paper is to develop a systematic taxonomy of cognitive artifacts, ie, human-
made, physical objects that functionally contribute to performing a cognitive task. First, I …

Cognitive neuroscience seeks to discover the biological foundations of the human mind.
One goal is to explain how mental operations are generated by the information processing …

The complementary properties and functions of cognitive artifacts and other external
resources are integrated into the human cognitive system to varying degrees. The goal of …