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        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

        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

        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?

        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

        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

        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

        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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