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

Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Physical Description: 1 online resource
Additional Creators: Banaji, Mahzarin R. and Gelman, Susan A.

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Oxford series in social cognition and social neuroscience

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Section I Framing the Issues -- 1.1.Social-Cognitive Development: A Renaissance / Carol S. Dweck -- 1.2.The Paradox of the Emerging Social Brain / Mark H. Johnson -- 1.3.Core Social Cognition / Amy E. Skerry -- 1.4.Core Cognition of Relational Models / Susan Carey -- 1.5.Infant Cartographers: Mapping the Social Terrain / Karen Wynn -- 1.6.The Evolution of Concepts About Agents / Dorothy L. Cheney -- 1.7.The Evolution of Human Sociocognitive Development / Brian Hare -- 1.8.Teleological Understanding of Actions / Gyorgy Gergely -- 1.9.How Universals and Individual Differences Can Inform Each Other: The Case of Social Expectations in Infancy / Kristen A. Dunfield -- 1.10.The Contribution of Temperament to the Study of Social Cognition: Learning Whether the Glass Is Half Empty or Half Full / Sarah M. Helfinstein -- 1.11.Emotion and Learning: New Approaches to the Old Nature-Nurture Debate / Seth D. Pollak -- 1.12.Early Childhood Is where Many Adult Automatic Processes Are Born / John A. Bargh -- 1.13.Social Evaluation / Gail D. Heyman -- Section II Mentalizing -- 2.1.Universal Social Cognition: Childhood Theory of Mind / Henry M. Wellman -- 2.2.Infant Foundations of Intentional Understanding / Amanda Woodward -- 2.3.Why Don't Apes Understand False Beliefs? / Henrike Moll -- 2.4.False-Belief Understanding and Why it Matters: The Social-Acting Hypothesis / Daniel Y.-J. Yang -- 2.5.Language and Reasoning About Beliefs / Jill De Villiers -- 2.6.The Myth of Mentalizing and the Primacy of Folk Sociology / Lawrence A. Hirschfeld -- 2.7.The New Puzzle of Theory of Mind Development / Rebecca Saxe -- 2.8.How Real Is the Imaginary? The Capacity for High-Risk Children to Gain Comfort From Imaginary Relationships / Naomi R. Aguiar -- 2.9.Social Engagement Does Not Lead to Social Cognition: Evidence From Williams Syndrome / Daniela Plesa Skwerer -- Section III Imitation, Modeling, and Learning From and About Others -- 3.1.Natural Pedagogy / Gergely Csibra -- 3.2.A Comparison of Neonatal Imitation Abilities in Human and Macaque Infants / Stephen J. Suomi -- 3.3.Origins of Social Cognition: Bidirectional Self-Other Mapping and the "Like-Me" Hypothesis / Andrew N. Meltzoff -- 3.4.Overimitation and the Development of Causal Understanding / Frank C. Keil -- 3.5.Social Cognition: Making Us Smart, or Sometimes Making Us Dumb? Overimitation, Conformity, Nonconformity, and the Transmission of Culture in Ape and Child / Andrew Whiten -- 3.6.Early Social Deprivation and the Neurobiology of Interpreting Facial Expressions / Nim Tottenham -- 3.7.The Emergence of Perceptual Preferences for Social Signals of Emotion / Charles A. Nelson -- 3.8.Some Thoughts on the Development and Neural Bases of Face Processing / Charles A. Nelson -- 3.9.Redescribing Action / Dare Baldwin -- 3.10.Preschoolers Are Selective Word Learners / Annette M. E. Henderson -- 3.11.Culture-Gene Coevolutionary Theory and Children's Selective Social Learning / Joseph Henrich -- 3.12.How Causal Learning Helps Us to Understand Other People, and How Other People Help Us to Learn About Causes: Probabilistic Models and the Development of Social Cognition / Daphna Buchsbaum -- 3.13.How Children Learn From and About People: The Fundamental Link Between Social Cognition and Statistical Evidence / Tamar Kushnir -- 3.14.Children Learn From and About Variability Between People / Kimberly E. Vanderbilt -- Section IV Trust and Skepticism -- 4.1.The Gaze of Others / Philippe Rochat -- 4.2.Empathy Deficits in Autism and Psychopaths: Mirror Opposites? / Simon Baron-Cohen -- 4.3.Status Seeking: The Importance of Roles in Early Social Cognition / Charles W. Kalish -- 4.4.Reputation Is Everything / Kristina R. Olson -- 4.5.Understanding Expertise: The Contribution of Social and Nonsocial Cognitive Processes to Social Judgments / Judith H. Danovitch -- 4.6.Respectful Deference: Conformity Revisited / Kathleen H. Corriveau -- 4.7.Children's Understanding of Unreliability: Evidence for a Negativity Bias / Sabine Doebel -- 4.8.Biased to Believe / Vikram K. Jaswal -- 4.9.Food as a Unique Domain in Social Cognition / Julie Lumeng -- Section V Us and Them -- 5.1.What Is Group Psychology? Adaptations for Mapping Shared Intentional Stances / David Pietraszewski -- 5.2.The Conceptual Structure of Social Categories: The Social Allegiance Hypothesis / Marjorie Rhodes -- 5.3.Essentialism: The Development of a Simple, But Potentially Dangerous, Idea / Gil Diesendruck -- 5.4.Generic Statements, Causal Attributions, and Children's Naive Theories / Andrei Cimpian -- 5.5.From Categories to Exemplars (and Back Again) / Juliane Degner -- 5.6.Bridging the Gap Between Preference and Evaluation During the First Few Years of Life / Andrew Scott Baron -- 5.7.On the Developmental Origins of Differential Responding to Social Category Information / James W. Tanaka -- 5.8.Building a Better Bridge / Sandra Waxman -- 5.9.Is Gender Special? / Kristin Shutts -- 5.10.Does Your Infant Say the Words "Girl" and "Boy"? How Gender Labels Matter in Early Gender Development / Carol Lynn Martin -- 5.11.Bringing the Cognitive and the Social Together: How Gender Detectives and Gender Enforcers Shape Children's Gender Development / Laura D. Hanish -- 5.12.The Development of Language as a Social Category / Katherine D. Kinzler -- 5.13.The Study of Lay Theories: A Piece of the Puzzle for Understanding Prejudice / Dina M. Karafantis -- 5.14.Social Acumen: Its Role in Constructing Group Identity and Attitudes / Drew Nesdale -- 5.15.Understanding and Reducing Social Stereotyping and Prejudice Among Children / Rebecca S. Bigler -- 5.16.What Are They Thinking? The Mystery of Young Children's Thoughts on Race / Frances E. Aboud -- 5.17.How Do Children Learn to Actively Control Their Explicit Prejudice? / Adam Rutland -- Section VI Good and Evil -- 6.1.What Primates Can Tell Us About The Surprising Nature of Human Choice / Louisa C. Egan Brad -- 6.2.Horrible Children: The Limits of Natural Morality / Paul Bloom -- 6.3.Young Children's Moral and Social-Conventional Understanding / Judith G. Smetana -- 6.4.The Origin of Children's Appreciation of Ownership Rights / Ori Friedman -- 6.5.Becoming a Moral Relativist: Children's Moral Conceptions of Honesty and Dishonesty in Different Sociocultural Contexts / Angela Evans -- 6.6.The Origins of the Prosocial Ape: Insights From Comparative Studies of Social Preferences / Joan B. Silk -- 6.7.Cooperation, Behavioral Diversity, and Inequity Responses / Lydia M. Hopper -- 6.8.Morality, Intentionality, and Exclusion: How Children Navigate the Social World / Melanie Killen -- 6.9.Converging Developments in Prosocial Behavior and Self-Other Understanding in the Second Year of Life: The Second Social-Cognitive Revolution / Margarita Svetlova -- 6.10.Disposition Attribution in Infancy: The Foundations of Understanding Helping and Hindering Interactions / Valerie Kuhlmeier -- 6.11.What Do Children and Chimpanzees Reveal About Human Altruism? / Felix Warneken.

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 reports 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.

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ISBN

9780199332779 (ebook)

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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