Folk Psychological Narratives
Subtitle: The Sociocultural Basis of Understanding Reasons (Bradford Books)
Publisher: The MIT Press; MIT Press
Published: January 31, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780262083676
Subjects: Cognition & cognitive psychology; Social, group or collective psychology; Psychology; Cognitive Psychology; Psychology & Psychiatry / Cognitive Psychology; General; Attribution (Social psychology); Cognition; Cognition in children
Description: An argument that challenges the dominant "theory theory" and simulation theory approaches to folk psychology by claiming that our everyday understanding of intentional actions done for reasons is acquired by exposure to and engaging in specific kinds of narratives. --From publisher's description.