I argue that the evolution of our life history, with its distinctively long, protected human
childhood, allows an early period of broad hypothesis search and exploration, before the …

Large language models (LLMs) show intriguing emergent behaviors, yet they receive
around four or five orders of magnitude more language data than human children. What …

Winner of the William James Book Award Winner of the Eleanor Maccoby Book Award “A
landmark in our understanding of human development.”—Paul Harris, author of Trusting …

“This is an important book and likely the most thoughtful of the year in the social sciences...
Highly recommended, it is likely to prove one of the most thought-provoking books of the …

In this article, we integrate two constructionist approaches—the theory of constructed
emotion and rational constructivism—to introduce several novel hypotheses for …

The processes underwriting the acquisition of culture remain unclear. How are shared
habits, norms, and expectations learned and maintained with precision and reliability across …

" Our thoughts are meaningful. We think about things in the outside world; how can that be
so? This is one of the deepest questions in contemporary philosophy. Ever since …

The original" Seven Motifs" set forth a roadmap of essential methods for the field of scientific
computing, where a motif is an algorithmic method that captures a pattern of computation …

Much discussion about large language models and language-and-vision models has
focused on whether these models are intelligent agents. We present an alternative …

Social learning is often portrayed as a passive process of copying and trusting others. This
view, however, does not fully capture what makes human social learning so powerful: social …