Folk psychologies across cultures /
Without taking a single psychology course, ordinary people learn to understand, predict, and explain one another's actions, thoughts, and motivations. Many cognitive scientists and philosophers claim that our everyday or folk understanding of mental states constitutes a theory of mind.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Thousand Oaks, Calif. ; London :
SAGE,
2001.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Without taking a single psychology course, ordinary people learn to understand, predict, and explain one another's actions, thoughts, and motivations. Many cognitive scientists and philosophers claim that our everyday or folk understanding of mental states constitutes a theory of mind. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 335 pages) |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781452233901 (ebook) : |