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Title Making minds : the shaping of human minds through social context / edited by Petra Hauf, Friedrich Försterling.

Publication Info. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2007.

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 275 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Benjamins current topics ; v. 4
Benjamins current topics ; v. 4.
Note "Previously published in Interaction studies (6:1 and 6:3, 2005)."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Cover -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- Of minds and mirrors -- How minds and selves are made -- Dynamics of social coordination -- Construing and constructing others -- The self and identity negotiation -- Social reality makes the social mind -- How to do things with logical expressions -- Attributions and peer harassment -- The shaping of individuals8217; mental structures and dispositions by others -- Ostracism -- Self processes in interdependent relationships -- Constructing perspectives in the social making of minds -- The shaping of animals8217; minds -- Chimpanzees are sensitive to some of the psychological states of others -- The understanding of own and others8217; actions during infancy -- Experiencing contingency and agency -- The social construction of the cultural mind -- File Change Semantics for Preschoolers -- The series Benjamins Current Topics.
Summary Social stimuli are important proximate determinants of human thought, action, and behaviour. But does the social environment also have deeper, profounder, and possibly more distal impact on more lasting psychological structures and forms, generalizing across time and domains, such as traits, self-consciousness, abilities, and talents? This volume takes an interdisciplinary approach to the question of if, how, and how far the mind is socially fabricated: Philosophical contributions address conceptual tools for analyses of how person perceivers shape the psychological structures of the person pe.
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Subject Social interaction -- Congresses.
Social interaction.
Social psychology -- Congresses.
Social psychology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books -- Conference proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Hauf, Petra.
Försterling, Friedrich.
Other Form: Print version: Making minds. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2007 (DLC) 2007060744
ISBN 9789027292742 (electronic book)
9027292744 (electronic book)
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9781282154865
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