Why do people come to reject climate science or the safety and efficacy of vaccines, in
defiance of the scientific consensus? A popular view explains bad beliefs like these as …

Abstract Theory of mind is the human conceptual capacity to understand other people as
agents who have subjective mental states such as beliefs, desires, and intentions. It is the …

Winner of the William James Book Award “Magisterial... Makes an impressive argument that
most distinctly human traits are established early in childhood and that the general …

Present day neuroscience places the brain at the centre of study. But what if researchers
viewed the brain not as the foundation of life, rather as a mediating organ? Ecology of the …

Reason, we are told, is what makes us human, the source of our knowledge and wisdom. If
reason is so useful, why didn't it also evolve in other animals? If reason is that reliable, why …

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

Cognitive Development and Cognitive Neuroscience: The Learning Brain is a thoroughly
revised edition of the bestselling Cognitive Development. The new edition of this full-colour …

We propose that human social cognition is structured around a basic understanding of
ourselves and others as intuitive utility maximizers: from a young age, humans implicitly …

Necessary Conditions of Learning presents a research approach (phenomenography) and a
theory (the variation theory of learning) introduced and developed by Ference Marton and …

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 …