Navigating the Social World

What Infants, Children, and Other Species Can Teach Us

Edited by Mahzarin R. Banaji and Susan A. Gelman

Social Cognition and Social Neuroscience

70 leading researchers report on their work to cover the full depth and breadth of studies in social cognition
All chapters are written for a broad audience while remaining thoroughly supported in current scholarship
Each piece focuses on a core message or question concerning social development

Navigating the Social World

What Infants, Children, and Other Species Can Teach Us

Edited by Mahzarin R. Banaji and Susan A. Gelman

Social Cognition and Social Neuroscience

Description

Navigating the social world requires sophisticated cognitive machinery that, although present quite early in crude forms, undergoes significant change across the lifespan. This book will be the first to report on evidence that has accumulated on an unprecedented scale, showing us what capacities for social cognition are present at birth and early in life, and how these capacities develop through learning in the first years of life. The volume will highlight what is known about the discoveries themselves but also what these discoveries imply about the nature of early social cognition and the methods that have allowed these discoveries -- what is known concerning the phylogeny and ontogeny of social cognition. To capture the full depth and breadth of the exciting work that is blossoming on this topic in a manner that is accessible and engaging, the editors invited 70 leading researchers to develop a short report of their work that would be written for a broad audience. The purpose of this format was for each piece to focus on a single core message: are babies aware of what is right and wrong, why do children have the same implicit intergroup preferences that adults do, what does language do to the building of category knowledge, and so on. The unique format and accessible writing style will be appealing to graduate students and researchers in cognitive psychology, developmental psychology, and social psychology.

Navigating the Social World

What Infants, Children, and Other Species Can Teach Us

Edited by Mahzarin R. Banaji and Susan A. Gelman

Social Cognition and Social Neuroscience

Banaji & Gelman 0.1 INTRO
Markman 0.2 INTRO
Dweck (INTRO) 1.01 Framing the issues
Johnson (Mark) 1.02 Framing the issues
Spelke, Bernier & Skerry 1.03 Framing the issues
Thomsen & Carey 1.04 Framing the issues
Wynn 1.05 Framing the issues
Seyfarth & Cheney 1.06 Framing the issues
Wobber & Hare 1.07 Framing the issues
Csibra & Gergely 1.08 Framing the issues
Johnson, Dweck & Dunfield 1.09 Framing the issues
Fox & Helfinstein 1.1 Framing the issues
Pollak 1.11 Framing the issues
Bargh 1.12 Framing the issues
Heyman 1.13 Framing the issues
Wellman 2.01 Mentalizing
Woodward 2.02 Mentalizing
Tomasello & Moll 2.03 Mentalizing
Baillargeon, He, Setoh, Scott, Sloane & Yang 2.04 Mentalizing
de Villiers 2.05 Mentalizing
Hirschfeld 2.06 Mentalizing
Saxe 2.07 Mentalizing
Taylor & Aguiar 2.08 Mentalizing
Tager-Flusberg & Skwerer 2.09 Mentalizing
Gergely & Csibra 3.01 Learning from and about others
Paukner, Ferrari & Suomi 3.02 Learning from and about others
Meltzoff 3.03 Learning from and about others
Lyons & Keil 3.04 Learning from and about others
Whiten 3.05 Learning from and about others
Tottenham 3.06 Learning from and about others
Leppanan & Nelson 3.07 Learning from and about others
Nelson 3.08 Learning from and about others
Baldwin 3.09 Learning from and about others
Sabbagh & Henderson 3.1 Learning from and about others
Chudek, Brosseau-Liard, Birch & Henrich 3.11 Learning from and about others
Gopnik, Seiver & Buchsbaum 3.12 Learning from and about others
Kushnir 3.13 Learning from and about others
Liu & Vanderbilt 3.14 Learning from and about others
Rochat 4.01 Trust and skepticism
Baron-Cohen 4.02 Trust and skepticism
Kalish 4.03 Trust and skepticism
Shaw, Li & Olson 4.04 Trust and skepticism
Danovitch 4.05 Trust and skepticism
Harris & Corriveau 4.06 Trust and skepticism
Koenig & Doebel 4.07 Trust and skepticism
Jaswal 4.08 Trust and skepticism
Lumeng 4.09 Trust and skepticism
Pietraszewski 5.01 Us and Them
Rhodes 5.02 Us and Them
Diesendruck 5.03 Us and Them
Cimpian 5.04 Us and Them
Dunham & Degner 5.05 Us and Them
Baron 5.06 Us and Them
Quinn, Anzures, Lee, Pascalis, Slater & Tanaka 5.07 Us and Them
Waxman 5.08 Us and Them
Shutts 5.09 Us and Them
Zosuls, Ruble, Tamis-LeMonda & Martin 5.1 Us and Them
Miller, Martin, Fabes & Hanish. 5.11 Us and Them
Kinzler 5.12 Us and Them
Levy, Ramirez, Rosenthal & Karafantis 5.13 Us and Them
Nesdale 5.14 Us and Them
Bigler 5.15 Us and Them
Aboud 5.16 Us and Them
Rutland 5.17 Us and Them
Santos & Egan Brad 6.01 Good and Evil
Bloom 6.02 Good and Evil
Smetana 6.03 Good and Evil
Neary & Friedman 6.04 Good and Evil
Lee & Evans 6.05 Good and Evil
Silk 6.06 Good and Evil
Brosnan & Hopper 6.07 Good and Evil
Mulvey, Hitti & Killen 6.08 Good and Evil
Brownell, Nichols & Svetlova 6.09 Good and Evil
Kuhlmeier 6.1 Good and Evil
Warneken 6.11 Good and Evil

Navigating the Social World

What Infants, Children, and Other Species Can Teach Us

Edited by Mahzarin R. Banaji and Susan A. Gelman

Social Cognition and Social Neuroscience

Author Information

MAHZARIN R. BANAJI is Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. Banaji studies the social beliefs and preferences of adults and children with a focus on implicit or automatic cognition. She taught at Yale University for 15 years, receiving the Lex Hixon Prize for Teaching Excellence and served as the first Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. At present, Banaji also serves as Cowan Chair in Human Social Dynamics at the Santa Fe Institute. Banaji is the recipient of a J. S. Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Diener Award for Outstanding Contributions to Social Psychology. She was elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Society of Experimental Psychologists, the American Academy for Arts and Science and Herbert Simon Fellow of the Association for Social and Political Psychology. Her work has been recognized with a Presidential Citation from the American Psychological Association and she served as President of the Association for Psychological Science. Banaji has published over 180 scholarly papers and most recently a book (with Anthony Greenwald), Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People.

SUSAN A. GELMAN teaches at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she is the Heinz Werner Collegiate Professor of Psychology. Gelman's research focuses on concept and language development in young children. She is the author of over 200 scholarly publications, including The Essential Child (Oxford University Press, 2003), which received the Cognitive Development Society Book Award and the Eleanor Maccoby Book Prize from the American Psychological Association. Gelman is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Association for Psychological Science, the American Psychological Association (Division 7), and the Cognitive Science Society. She has received numerous awards, including a J. S. Guggenheim Fellowship, a James McKeen Cattell Fund sabbatical fellowship, the American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology in the Developmental Area, and the Developmental Psychology Mentor Award of Division 7, American Psychological Association. Gelman was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2012.

Contributors:

Banaji & Gelman
Markman
Dweck
Johnson (Mark)
Spelke, Bernier & Skerry
Thomsen & Carey
Wynn
Seyfarth & Cheney
Wobber & Hare
Csibra & Gergely
Johnson, Dweck & Dunfield
Fox & Helfinstein
Pollak
Bargh
Heyman
Wellman
Woodward
Tomasello & Moll
Baillargeon, He, Setoh, Scott, Sloane & Yang
de Villiers
Hirschfeld
Saxe
Taylor & Aguiar
Tager-Flusberg & Skwerer
Gergely & Csibra
Paukner, Ferrari & Suomi
Meltzoff
Lyons & Keil
Whiten
Tottenham
Leppanan & Nelson
Nelson
Baldwin
Sabbagh & Henderson
Chudek, Brosseau-Liard, Birch & Henrich
Gopnik, Seiver & Buchsbaum
Kushnir
Liu & Vanderbilt
Rochat
Baron-Cohen
Kalish
Shaw, Li & Olson
Danovitch
Harris & Corriveau
Koenig & Doebel
Jaswal
Lumeng
Pietraszewski
Rhodes
Diesendruck
Cimpian
Dunham & Degner
Baron
Quinn, Anzures, Lee, Pascalis, Slater & Tanaka
Waxman
Shutts
Zosuls, Ruble, Tamis-LeMonda & Martin
Miller, Martin, Fabes & Hanish.
Kinzler
Levy, Ramirez, Rosenthal & Karafantis
Nesdale
Bigler
Aboud
Rutland
Santos & Egan Brad
Bloom
Smetana
Neary & Friedman
Lee & Evans
Silk
Brosnan & Hopper
Mulvey, Hitti & Killen
Brownell, Nichols & Svetlova
Kuhlmeier
Warneken

Navigating the Social World

What Infants, Children, and Other Species Can Teach Us

Edited by Mahzarin R. Banaji and Susan A. Gelman

Social Cognition and Social Neuroscience

Reviews and Awards

"From good and evil to trust, imitation, and theory of mind, an amazing collection of up-to-the-minute snapshots by an all-star cast." Gary Marcus, Professor of Psychology, New York University, author of The Birth of the Mind, Kluge, and Guitar Zero

"Together at last-the cognitive and the social! In this remarkable volume, Banaji and Gelman present 70 short, lucid essays from psychology's leading thinkers. Together the chapters, rich with everyday examples and clear explanations, light up how the social world shapes children's minds and how these minds shape their worlds. All the most challenging issues are examined here-how children understand themselves and others, trust and skepticism, good and evil, us and them. This paradigm-shifting book is a must-have resource for parents, teachers, and all students of child behavior." Hazel Rose Markus, Davis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University