Empathy accounts for the naturally occurring subjective experience of similarity between the
feelings expressed by self and others without loosing sight of whose feelings belong to …

Mental imagery is an experience like perception in the absence of a percept. It is a
ubiquitous feature of human cognition, yet it has been relatively neglected in the etiology …

A scientist integrates evolutionary biology, genetics, psychology, economics, and more to
explore the development and workings of human societies.“There is no good reason why …

Tool-making or culture, language or religious belief: ever since Darwin, thinkers have
struggled to identify what fundamentally differentiates human beings from other animals …

Cumulative technological culture (CTC) refers to the increase in the efficiency and
complexity of tools and techniques in human populations over generations. A fascinating …

This book focuses on the crucial importance of developmental work to psychotherapy and
psychopathology. It offers an account of psychotherapy to integrate scientific knowledge of …

Bridging the gap between evolutionary theory and cultural psychology, Michael Tomasello
argues that the roots of the human capacity for symbol-based culture are based in a cluster …

This target article presents a theory of human cultural learning. Cultural learning is identified
with those instances of social learning in which intersubjectivity or perspective-taking plays a …

People are minded creatures; we have thoughts, feelings and emotions. More intriguingly,
we grasp our own mental states, and conduct the business of ascribing them to ourselves …

The mentalizing (theory of mind) system of the brain is probably in operation from ca. 18
months of age, allowing implicit attribution of intentions and other mental states. Between the …