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Archive for intentionality

Reflections on the Evolution and Deep History of “Mentalization”

Evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar has just released a new book entitled Thinking Big: How the Evolution of Social Life Shaped the Human Mind. Dunbar wrote his book along with two archaeology colleagues, Clive Gamble and John Gowlett. For simplicity, at times, I’ll refer to Thinking Big as Dunbar’s book. In the rest of this post […]

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New Study: Young Children Surprisingly Perceptive – Yahoo! News

New Study: Young Children Surprisingly Perceptive – Yahoo! News. I commented on this article over at YahooNews. Here’s what I had to say: This is not groundbreaking research. Piaget essentially looked at how kids interact with inanimate objects. His work is what it is, and needed to be done to take us to the next […]

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