A hallmark of human social life is its variability across cultures and history. One constant, however, is the importance of group membership in reasoning about the behavior of others. The acquisition of group-based reasoning has typically been viewed as a problem in social learning, in which the same cognitive processes are used that support reasoning across any number of domains regardless of content. Here I argue that emphasis on domain-general learning and cultural variability obscures the crucial role that domain-specific processes play in securing and sustaining human social life and its cultural variability. The hypothesis is explored by reviewing evidence in favor of an evolved modular competence for folksociology that governs the de...
PhD thesisThis project examined the evolution of human cognitive and behavioural traits that vary a...
Some types of cultural content flow between cultures, while others do not. Here I provide an answer ...
Collection AAR "Séminaires"Besides language, another domain of human activity where there is wide va...
A hallmark of human social life is its variability across cultures and history. One constant, howeve...
The very existence and the diversity of human cultures are made possible by human species-specific c...
It is widely believed that what distinguishes the social cognition of humans from that of other anim...
Toward a semiotic and phenomenological anthropology. The speaking subject between social cognition a...
Human behavior and thought often exhibit a familiar pattern of within group similarity and between g...
URL des Documents de travail : https://centredeconomiesorbonne.univ-paris1.fr/documents-de-travail-d...
Humans have developed specific abilities to interact efficiently with their conspecifics (social cog...
Biological and Cultural Bases of Human Inference addresses the interface between social science and ...
Most work in the cognitive sciences focuses on the manner in which an individual device-- be it a mi...
This article focuses on the complex activity of reasoning, when people - as the ethnomethodologists ...
Background: Advanced cognitive abilities are widely thought to underpin cultural traditions and cum...
There is something unique about human culture. Its complex technologies, customs, institutions, sym...
PhD thesisThis project examined the evolution of human cognitive and behavioural traits that vary a...
Some types of cultural content flow between cultures, while others do not. Here I provide an answer ...
Collection AAR "Séminaires"Besides language, another domain of human activity where there is wide va...
A hallmark of human social life is its variability across cultures and history. One constant, howeve...
The very existence and the diversity of human cultures are made possible by human species-specific c...
It is widely believed that what distinguishes the social cognition of humans from that of other anim...
Toward a semiotic and phenomenological anthropology. The speaking subject between social cognition a...
Human behavior and thought often exhibit a familiar pattern of within group similarity and between g...
URL des Documents de travail : https://centredeconomiesorbonne.univ-paris1.fr/documents-de-travail-d...
Humans have developed specific abilities to interact efficiently with their conspecifics (social cog...
Biological and Cultural Bases of Human Inference addresses the interface between social science and ...
Most work in the cognitive sciences focuses on the manner in which an individual device-- be it a mi...
This article focuses on the complex activity of reasoning, when people - as the ethnomethodologists ...
Background: Advanced cognitive abilities are widely thought to underpin cultural traditions and cum...
There is something unique about human culture. Its complex technologies, customs, institutions, sym...
PhD thesisThis project examined the evolution of human cognitive and behavioural traits that vary a...
Some types of cultural content flow between cultures, while others do not. Here I provide an answer ...
Collection AAR "Séminaires"Besides language, another domain of human activity where there is wide va...