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Origins of the Social Mind

Evolutionary and Developmental Views

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Editors:
  1. Shoji Itakura

    1. Department of Psychology Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

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  2. Kazuo Fujita

    1. Department of Psychology Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VIII
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  2. Phylogeny of Social Cognition

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Social Intelligence in Capuchin Monkeys (Cebus apella)

      • Kazuo Fujita, Hika Kuroshima, Yuko Hattori, Makoto Takahashi
      Pages 3-20

    3. Communication Between Mother and Infant Chimpanzees and Its Role in the Evolution of Social Intelligence

      • Satoshi Hirata
      Pages 21-38

    4. Primates’ Use of Others’ Gaze

      • James R. Anderson, Sarah-Jane Vick
      Pages 39-64

    5. How to Build a Scrub-Jay that Reads Minds

      • Nathan J. Emery, Nicola S. Clayton
      Pages 65-97

    6. Cooperation in Keas: Social and Cognitive Factors

      • Ludwig Huber, Gyula K. Gajdon, Ira Federspiel, Dagmar Werdenich
      Pages 99-119

  3. Ontogeny of Social Cognition

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
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    2. Differences Between Acting as if One Is Experiencing Pain and Acting as if One Is Pretending to Have Pain Among Actors at Three Expertise Levels

      • Hanae Ando, Masuo Koyasu
      Pages 123-140

    3. Homo Negotiatus: Ontogeny of the Unique Ways Humans Own, Share and Reciprocate

      • Philippe Rochat, Cláudia Passos Ferreira
      Pages 141-156

    4. Little Liars: Origins of Verbal Deception in Children

      • Victoria Talwar, Kang Lee
      Pages 157-178

    5. Discovering Mind: Development of Mentalizing in Human Children

      • Shoji Itakura, Mako Okanda, Yusuke Moriguchi
      Pages 179-198

    6. Emergence of the Social Mind: Two Perspectives

      • Shoji Itakura
      Pages 199-206

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 207-211
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About this book

During the ? rst few years of life, children acquire knowledge about the relati- ships between their own mental states, their actions, and the social world. This information is then used to understand themselves and others. Humans are born into families, where they are raised and learn to cooperate, compete, and c- municate. We are social creatures, and over the course of development, we learn about people, relationships, social systems, and others’ minds. In addition, not only do we live socially, we think socially as well. However, human adults are not the only creatures to live and think socially. In recent years, sophisticated expe- ments have provided new information about social cognition in human infants and nonhuman animals. In this book, we focus on the developmental and evolutionary origins of the social mind, bringing together the currently segregated views on social cognition in the two ? elds. Ever since the term “theory of mind” was coined by D. Premack nearly 30 years ago, the concept has been the main topic of social cognition research both in developmental psychology and in primatology. However, few attempts have been made to integrate these two research domains. Just recently, researchers from the two areas collaborated to publish a book on this topic, but the volume was little more than a collection of independent papers. This book overcomes that limitation by presenting new data and their implications from both developmental and evolutionary points of view.

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"Origins of the Social Mind is a collection of papers that unites the latest empirical findings and conceptual insights from cognitive development, and primate and avian cognition, written by some of the leading researchers in the respective fields. … The chapters are organized into two parts. … Overall, Shoji Itakura and Kazuo Fujita edited a valuable, interesting book. Its comprehensiveness and the novelty of the research ensure its appeal to anyone with a vested interest in the question of how the social mind develops." (Henrike Moll, Primates, Vol. 50, 2009)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Psychology Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

    Shoji Itakura, Kazuo Fujita

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Origins of the Social Mind

  • Book Subtitle: Evolutionary and Developmental Views

  • Editors: Shoji Itakura, Kazuo Fujita

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-75179-3

  • Publisher: Springer Tokyo

  • eBook Packages: Behavioral Science, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Tokyo 2008

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-4-431-75178-6Published: 01 September 2008

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-4-431-99835-8Published: 21 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-4-431-75179-3Published: 11 February 2009

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 211

  • Number of Illustrations: 47 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Cognitive Psychology, Psychology, general, Behavioral Sciences, Biomedicine general

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