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The Working Mind

The Working Mind

The Working Mind

Meaning and Mental Attention in Human Development

by Juan Pascual-Leone and Janice M. Johnson

ISBN: 9780262045551

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: April 13, 2021

A general organismic-causal theory that explicates working memory and executive function developmentally, clarifying the nature of human intelligence.
The Social Brain

The Social Brain

The Social Brain

A Developmental Perspective

Edited by Jean Decety

ISBN: 9780262044141

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 18, 2020

A range of empirical and theoretical perspectives on the relationship between biology and social cognition from infancy through childhood.
Blueprint

Blueprint, with a new afterword

Blueprint

How DNA Makes Us Who We Are

by Robert Plomin

ISBN: 9780262537988

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: July 2, 2019

A top behavioral geneticist makes the case that DNA inherited from our parents at the moment of conception can predict our psychological strengths and weaknesses.
Do Apes Read Minds?

Do Apes Read Minds?

Do Apes Read Minds?

Toward a New Folk Psychology

by Kristin Andrews

ISBN: 9780262017558

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: July 20, 2012

An argument that as folk psychologists humans (and perhaps other animals) don't so much read minds as see one another as persons with traits, emotions, and social relations.
Causing Human Actions

Causing Human Actions

Causing Human Actions

New Perspectives on the Causal Theory of Action

Edited by Jesús H. Aguilar and Andrei A. Buckareff

ISBN: 9780262514767

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 20, 2010

Leading figures working in the philosophy of action debate foundational issues relating to the causal theory of action.
Why We Cooperate

Why We Cooperate

Why We Cooperate

by Michael Tomasello

With Stanford University

ISBN: 9780262013598

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: August 28, 2009

Understanding cooperation as a distinctly human combination of innate and learned behavior.
Touch

Touch

Touch

by Tiffany Field

ISBN: 9780262561563

Publisher: The MIT Press

Pub Date: February 28, 2003

An essay on the importance of touch to children's growth and development and to the physical and mental well-being of people of all ages.
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