While a major aim of cognitive science is to understand human cognition, our conclusions
are based on unrepresentative samples of the world's population. A new wave of cross …

Humans have the capacity to share others' emotions, be they positive or negative. Elicited by
the observed or imagined emotion of another person, an observer develops a similar …

Research on the capacity to understand others' minds has tended to focus on
representations of beliefs, which are widely taken to be among the most central and basic …

In this review, we call for a cross-cultural examination of mentalizing. To this end, we first
outline theoretical directions for understanding mentalizing in the context of the universalism …

Cognitive gadgets are distinctively human cognitive mechanisms–such as imitation, mind
reading, and language–that have been shaped by cultural rather than genetic evolution …

As a discipline, developmental psychology has a long history of relying on animal models
and data collected among distinct cultural groups to enrich and inform theories of the ways …

We examine children, childhood, and development from an evolutionary perspective. We
begin by reviewing major assumptions of evolutionary–developmental psychology …

A widely accepted view in the cultural evolutionary literature is that culture forms a dynamic
system of elements (or 'traits') linked together by a variety of relationships. Despite this, large …

The human ability to make inferences about the minds of conspecifics is remarkable. The
majority of work in this area focuses on mental state representation ('theory of mind'), but has …

Children's theory of mind (ToM) unfolds reliably through a sequence of conceptual
milestones including, but not limited to, false belief. Sequences vary with culture, one …