Empathy accounts for the naturally occurring subjective experience of similarity between the
feelings expressed by self and others without loosing sight of whose feelings belong to …

This article contains the argument that the human ability to travel mentally in time constitutes
a discontinuity between ourselves and other animals. Mental time travel comprises the …

A scientist integrates evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and more to
explore the development and workings of human societies.“There is no good reason why …

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

Cumulative technological culture (CTC) refers to the increase in the efficiency and
complexity of tools and techniques in human populations over generations. A fascinating …

Brian Boyd explains why we tell stories and how our minds are shaped to understand them.
After considering art as adaptation, Boyd examines Homer's Odyssey and Dr. Seuss's …

Bridging the gap between evolutionary theory and cultural psychology, Michael Tomasello
argues that the roots of the human capacity for symbol-based culture are based in a cluster …

This book focuses on the crucial importance of developmental work to psychotherapy and
psychopathology. It offers an account of psychotherapy to integrate scientific knowledge of …

This target article presents a theory of human cultural learning. Cultural learning is identified
with those instances of social learning in which intersubjectivity or perspective-taking plays a …

How people assign mental states to others and how they represent or conceptualize such
states in the first place are topics of interest to philosophy of mind, developmental …