Includes bibliographical references (pages 340-342) and index.
pt. I. Questions about the phenomenon. Executive functioning and children's theories of mind / Louis J. Moses. Three puzzles of mindreading / Bertram F. Malle. A "constituent" approach to the study of perspective taking: What are its fundamental elements? / Mark H Davis. Starting without theory: confronting the paradox of conceptual development / Daniel D. Hutto -- pt. II. Reading behavior, reading minds. Is there a 'social brain'? lessons from eye-gaze following, joint attention, and autism / Diego Fernandez-Duque, Jodie A. Baird. Visual cues as evidence of others' minds in collaborative physical tasks / Susan R. Fussell, Robert E. Kraut, Darren Gergle, Leslie D. Setlock. Attributing motives to other people / Glenn D. Reeder, David Trafimow. Explanatory coherence and goal-based knowledge structures in making dispositional inferences / Stephen J. Read, Lynn C. Miller -- pt. III. Reading one's own mind, reading other minds. Perspective taking as the royal avenue to empathy / Jean Decety. Everyday solutions to the problem of other minds: which tools are used when? / Daniel R. Ames. Mental simulation: royal road to other minds? / Josef Perner, Anton Kühberger. Why self-ascriptions are difficult and develop late / Radu Bogdan -- pt. IV. Language and other minds. Language as the route into other minds / Janet Wilde Astington, Eva Filippova. Representation of the interlocutor's mind during conversation / Marjorie Barker, T. Givón. Conceptual alignment in conversation / Michael F. Schober. On the Inherent ambiguity of traits and other mental concepts / James S. Uleman -- pt. V. Limits of mindreading. Mindreading in an exotic case: the normal adult human / Dale J. Barr, Boaz Keysar. Empathy gaps in affective perspective taking / Leaf Van Boven, George Loewenstein. Is how much you understand me in your head or mine? / Sara D. Hodges. Empathic accuracy and inaccuracy in close relationships / William Ickes, Jeffry A. Simpson, Minda Oriña. Theory of mind in schizophrenia / Robyn Langdon.
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"One of the great challenges of social-cognitive science is to determine how we understand, or "read," the minds of others - that is, infer complex mental states such as beliefs, desires, intentions, and emotions. This volume brings together leading scholars from psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, and philosophy to examine this essential topic through an integrative lens. The book explains basic concepts while presenting cutting-edge theories and findings that are changing the landscape of the field."--Jacket.