Introducing Evolutionary Psychology by Dylan Evans

Introducing Evolutionary Psychology by Dylan Evans

Author:Dylan Evans
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
ISBN: 9781848319776
Publisher: Icon Books


why is she looking at me like that? has she guessed …?

Folk Psycology

In other words, folk psychology is not just a cultural invention. It is an innate part of the human mind. Adults do not teach children to understand human behaviour in terms of beliefs and desires. Rather, children instinctively develop the ability to do this, because they are genetically programmed to do so.

i can already read other people’s minds!

The Theory of Mind module develops during the first years of life, and is usually complete by the age of four-and-a-half. At that age, children can pass “false-belief tests”.



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