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The cultural origins of human cognition
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ISBN: 0674000706 0674005821 9780674000704 9780674005822 Year: 1999 Publisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press,

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This work aims to build a bridge between evolutionary theory and cultural psychology. The author presents systematic research on the cognitive capacities of both nonhuman primates and human children. This book identifies what the differences are, and suggests where they might have come from. This work builds a bridge between evolutionary theory and cultural psychology. The author is one of very few people to have done systematic research on the cognitive capacities of both nonhuman primates and human children. This work identifies what the differences are, and suggests where they might have come from. Tomasello argues that the roots of the human capacity for symbol-based culture, and the kind of psychological development that takes p[lace within it, are based in a cluster of unique human cognitive capacities that emerge early in human ontogeny. These include capacities fort sharing attention with other persons, for understanding that others have intentions of their own; and for imitating, not just what someone else does, but what someone else has intended to do. In this discussions of language, symbolic representation, and cognitive-development, the author describes with authority and ingenuity the "ratchet effect" of the capacities working over evolutionary and historical time to create the kind of cultural artifacts and settings within which each new generation of children develops. He also proposes a novel hypothesis, based on process of social cognition and cultural evolution, about what makes the cognitive representations of humans different from those of other primates.


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Psychologie de la religion : de la théorie au laboratoire
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ISBN: 9782807300156 2807300154 Year: 2015 Volume: *110 *101 Publisher: Louvain-La-Neuve (Belgique) : De Boeck supérieur,

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Une synthèse des études menées dans le domaine de la psychologie de la religion : mécanismes, différences de croyance, facteurs culturels, conséquences, etc.

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