How we learn to read other peoples emotions, beliefs, and expectations. Nice bright clean crisp copy of HB 1st in bright jacket. 6-1/2 x 9-1/2, 272 pp, index, bibliography, black endpapers. Fine unmarked, in Fine unclipped jacket. Hardcover in navy/blue boards, in color illus jacket.

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Mindreading: an investigation into how we learn to love and lie

Verlag

Doubleday, New York

Erscheinungsjahr

1997

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN-10

038548402X

ISBN-13

9780385484022

Einband

Hardcover

Auflage

1st edition, 1st printing.

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A fascinating, popular account of the nascent field of psychology devoted to the "Theory of Mind" shows how humans' awareness of the inner worlds of others enables them to form mature relationships with them as well as to deceive them.

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what you're thinking," we say, but how do we know what others are thinking or feeling? Because evolution has granted us what has come to be known as "Theory of Mind," the ability not only to be self-aware but aware of others' consciousness. Theory of Mind develops slowly-and in some cases, such as autism, develops little or not at all. Theory of Mind allows us to interact socially, to care about others, to manage our behavior in groups, to fall in love, and--less admirably--it allows us to lie.

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You are less likely to detect lies told to you by your longterm partner than by a new acquaintance.Female babies react more strongly and more often to another baby's cries than male babies. In other words, female children are more predisposed to become personally distressed by emotion in others and to cry in sympathy.In general, the female brain is superior to the male brain when

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