What do infants know? What do they feel, and how do they come to understand what's happening around them? How do they begin to construe others as persons with feelings and intentions? These questions inspire this remarkable new look at the infant's world. The short answer? Infants are much more sophisticated perceivers, feelers, and thinkers of their world than we may think.
In this lively book, Philippe Rochat makes a case for an ecological approach to human development. Looking at the ecological niche infants occupy, he describes how infants develop capabilities and conceptual...
What do infants know? What do they feel, and how do they come to understand what's happening around them? How do they begin to construe others as p...
Much stimulating research has emerged in relaton to children's theories of mind, construed as the understanding of others' intentions, beliefs and desires. Within this context, there is a renewed interest in the developmental origins of social cognition. This book is an expression of this interest, assembling conceptualizations and research on the precursors of joint engagement, language and explicit theories of mind. The focus is on what announces such remarkable development.
Much stimulating research has emerged in relaton to children's theories of mind, construed as the understanding of others' intentions, beliefs and des...
Why are we so prone to guilt and embarrassment? Why do we care so much about how others see us, about our reputation? What are the origins of such afflictions? Philippe Rochat argues that it is because we are members of a species that evolved the unique propensity to reflect upon themselves as an object of thoughts; an object of thoughts that is potentially evaluated by others. But, the argument goes, this propensity comes from a basic fear: the fear of rejection, of being socially "banned" and ostracized. Others in Mind is about self-consciousness, how it originates and how it shapes our...
Why are we so prone to guilt and embarrassment? Why do we care so much about how others see us, about our reputation? What are the origins of such aff...
