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Other minds : how humans bridge the divide between self and others /

Contributor(s): Malle, Bertram F | Hodges, Sara D.
Publisher: New York : Guilford Press, 2005Description: xiii,354 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 1593851871 (hardcover); 9781593851873:.Subject(s): Perception | Social perception | Other minds (Theory of knowledge)DDC classification: 121.2
Contents:
Pt. I. Questions about the phenomenon. Executive functioning and children's theories of mind / Louis J. Moses. Three puzzles of mindreading / Bertram F. Malle. A "constituent" approach to the study of perspective taking: What are its fundamental elements? / Mark H Davis. Starting without theory: confronting the paradox of conceptual development / Daniel D. Hutto -- pt. II. Reading behavior, reading minds. Is there a 'social brain'? lessons from eye-gaze following, joint attention, and autism / Diego Fernandez-Duque, Jodie A. Baird. Visual cues as evidence of others' minds in collaborative physical tasks / Susan R. Fussell, Robert E. Kraut, Darren Gergle, Leslie D. Setlock. Attributing motives to other people / Glenn D. Reeder, David Trafimow. Explanatory coherence and goal-based knowledge structures in making dispositional inferences / Stephen J. Read, Lynn C. Miller -- pt. III. Reading one's own mind, reading other minds. Perspective taking as the royal avenue to empathy / Jean Decety. Everyday solutions to the problem of other minds: which tools are used when? / Daniel R. Ames. Mental simulation: royal road to other minds? / Josef Perner, Anton Kühberger. Why self-ascriptions are difficult and develop late / Radu Bogdan -- pt. IV. Language and other minds. Language as the route into other minds / Janet Wilde Astington, Eva Filippova. Representation of the interlocutor's mind during conversation / Marjorie Barker, T. Givón. Conceptual alignment in conversation / Michael F. Schober. On the Inherent ambiguity of traits and other mental concepts / James S. Uleman -- pt. V. Limits of mindreading. Mindreading in an exotic case: the normal adult human / Dale J. Barr, Boaz Keysar. Empathy gaps in affective perspective taking / Leaf Van Boven, George Loewenstein. Is how much you understand me in your head or mine? / Sara D. Hodges. Empathic accuracy and inaccuracy in close relationships / William Ickes, Jeffry A. Simpson, Minda Oriña. Theory of mind in schizophrenia / Robyn Langdon.
Summary: 'Other Minds' explores the cognitive processes that underlie mindreading in the normal social environment. How do we know what other people are thinking & what emotions they are feeling? And what happens if we lose the facility to read the minds of the people around us?
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 340-342) and index.

Pt. I. Questions about the phenomenon. Executive functioning and children's theories of mind / Louis J. Moses. Three puzzles of mindreading / Bertram F. Malle. A "constituent" approach to the study of perspective taking: What are its fundamental elements? / Mark H Davis. Starting without theory: confronting the paradox of conceptual development / Daniel D. Hutto -- pt. II. Reading behavior, reading minds. Is there a 'social brain'? lessons from eye-gaze following, joint attention, and autism / Diego Fernandez-Duque, Jodie A. Baird. Visual cues as evidence of others' minds in collaborative physical tasks / Susan R. Fussell, Robert E. Kraut, Darren Gergle, Leslie D. Setlock. Attributing motives to other people / Glenn D. Reeder, David Trafimow. Explanatory coherence and goal-based knowledge structures in making dispositional inferences / Stephen J. Read, Lynn C. Miller -- pt. III. Reading one's own mind, reading other minds. Perspective taking as the royal avenue to empathy / Jean Decety. Everyday solutions to the problem of other minds: which tools are used when? / Daniel R. Ames. Mental simulation: royal road to other minds? / Josef Perner, Anton Kühberger. Why self-ascriptions are difficult and develop late / Radu Bogdan -- pt. IV. Language and other minds. Language as the route into other minds / Janet Wilde Astington, Eva Filippova. Representation of the interlocutor's mind during conversation / Marjorie Barker, T. Givón. Conceptual alignment in conversation / Michael F. Schober. On the Inherent ambiguity of traits and other mental concepts / James S. Uleman -- pt. V. Limits of mindreading. Mindreading in an exotic case: the normal adult human / Dale J. Barr, Boaz Keysar. Empathy gaps in affective perspective taking / Leaf Van Boven, George Loewenstein. Is how much you understand me in your head or mine? / Sara D. Hodges. Empathic accuracy and inaccuracy in close relationships / William Ickes, Jeffry A. Simpson, Minda Oriña. Theory of mind in schizophrenia / Robyn Langdon.

'Other Minds' explores the cognitive processes that underlie mindreading in the normal social environment. How do we know what other people are thinking & what emotions they are feeling? And what happens if we lose the facility to read the minds of the people around us?

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