Cognitive foundations of learning from testimony

PL Harris, MA Koenig, KH Corriveau… - Annual Review of …, 2018‏ - annualreviews.org
Humans acquire much of their knowledge from the testimony of other people. An
understanding of the way that information can be conveyed via gesture and vocalization is …

The naïve utility calculus: Computational principles underlying commonsense psychology

J Jara-Ettinger, H Gweon, LE Schulz… - Trends in cognitive …, 2016‏ - cell.com
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 …

[كتاب][B] A natural history of human thinking

M Tomasello - 2014‏ - books.google.com
Tool-making or culture, language or religious belief: ever since Darwin, thinkers have
struggled to identify what fundamentally differentiates human beings from other animals …

The ultra‐social animal

M Tomasello - European journal of social psychology, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
In evolutionary perspective, what is most remarkable about human sociality is its many and
diverse forms of cooperation. Here, I provide an overview of some recent research, mostly …

Transactive goal dynamics.

GM Fitzsimons, EJ Finkel, MR Vandellen - Psychological review, 2015‏ - psycnet.apa.org
Transactive goal dynamics (TGD) theory conceptualizes 2 or more interdependent people
as 1 single self-regulating system. Six tenets describe the nature of goal interdependence …

Interpersonal synchrony increases prosocial behavior in infants

LK Cirelli, KM Einarson, LJ Trainor - Developmental science, 2014‏ - Wiley Online Library
Adults who move together to a shared musical beat synchronously as opposed to
asynchronously are subsequently more likely to display prosocial behaviors toward each …

[كتاب][B] Speaking our minds: Why human communication is different, and how language evolved to make it special

T Scott-Phillips - 2014‏ - books.google.com
Language is an essential part of what makes us human. Where did it come from? How did it
develop into the complex system we know today? And what can an evolutionary perspective …

Origins of human cooperation and morality

M Tomasello, A Vaish - Annual review of psychology, 2013‏ - annualreviews.org
From an evolutionary perspective, morality is a form of cooperation. Cooperation requires
individuals either to suppress their own self-interest or to equate it with that of others. We …

The role of metacognition in human social interactions

CD Frith - … Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological …, 2012‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Metacognition concerns the processes by which we monitor and control our own cognitive
processes. It can also be applied to others, in which case it is known as mentalizing. Both …

Psychological research on joint action: theory and data

G Knoblich, S Butterfill, N Sebanz - Psychology of learning and motivation, 2011‏ - Elsevier
When two or more people coordinate their actions in space and time to produce a joint
outcome, they perform a joint action. The perceptual, cognitive, and motor processes that …