Bibliograph

Navigating the social world, what infants, children, and other species can teach us, edited by Mahzarin R. Banaji, Susan A. Gelman

Type

Label

Navigating the social world, what infants, children, and other species can teach us, edited by Mahzarin R. Banaji, Susan A. Gelman

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Navigating the social world

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

813220915

Responsibility statement

edited by Mahzarin R. Banaji, Susan A. Gelman

Series statement

Oxford series in social cognition and social neuroscience

Sub title

what infants, children, and other species can teach us

Summary

"Navigating the social world requires sophisticated cognitive machinery that, although present quite early in crude forms, undergoes significant change across the lifespan. This book will be the first to report on evidence that has accumulated on an unprecedented scale, showing us what capacities for social cognition are present at birth and early in life, and how these capacities develop through learning in the first years of life. The volume will highlight what is known about the discoveries themselves but also what these discoveries imply about the nature of early social cognition and the methods that have allowed these discoveries <U+0127> what is known concerning the phylogeny and ontogeny of social cognition. To capture the full depth and breadth of the exciting work that is blossoming on this topic in a manner that is accessible and engaging, the editors invited 70 leading researchers to develop a short report of their work that would be written for a broad audience. The purpose of this format was for each piece to focus on a single core message: are babies aware of what is right and wrong, why do children have the same implicit intergroup preferences that adults do, what does language do to the building of category knowledge, and so on. The unique format and accessible writing style will be appealing to graduate students and researchers in cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, and social psychology"--provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Section I. Framing the issues. -- Section II. Mentalizing. -- Section III. Imitation, modeling, and learning from and about others. -- Section IV. Trust and skepticism. -- Section V. Us and them. -- Section VI. Good and evil

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