How Infants Know Minds

by Vasudevi Reddy

Book Overview

Most psychologists claim that we begin to develop a "theory of mind"--some basic ideas about other people's minds--at age two or three, by inference, deduction, and logical reasoning.

But does this mean that small babies are unaware of minds? That they see other people simply as another (rather dynamic and noisy) kind of object? This is a common view in developmental psychology. Yet, as this book explains, there is compelling evidence that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674046072
• ISBN13: 9780674046078
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"