Classrooms full of pupils can be very overwhelming, both for teachers and students, as well
as for their joint interactions. It is thus crucial that both can distil the relevant information in …

Gaze is an important component of social interaction. The function, evolution and
neurobiology of gaze processing are therefore of interest to a number of researchers. This …

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 …

In this groundbreaking book, Michael Tomasello presents a comprehensive usage-based
theory of language acquisition. Drawing together a vast body of empirical research in …

At around 1 year of age, human infants display a number of new behaviors that seem to
indicate a newly emerging understanding of other persons as intentional beings whose …

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 …

How do children learn that the word" dog" refers not to all four-legged animals, and not just
to Ralph, but to all members of a particular species? How do they learn the meanings of …

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a severe personality dysfunction thought to affect
some 2% of the population. This title presents a psychoanalytically oriented treatment for …

Soon after Charles Darwin formulated his theory of evolution, primate cognition became a
major area of research. In this book, Michael Tomasello and Josep Call assess the current …

Research with young children has shown that, like adults, they focus selectively on the
aspects of an actor's behavior that are relevant to his or her underlying intentions. The …