Description
A range of empirical and theoretical perspectives on the relationship between biology and social cognition from infancy through childhood.
Recent research on the developmental origins of the social mind supports the view that social cognition is present early in infancy and childhood in surprisingly sophisticated forms. Developmental psychologists have found ingenious ways to test the social abilities of infants and young children, and neuroscientists have begun to study the neurobiological mechanisms that implement and guide early social cognition. Their work suggests that, far from being unfinished adults, babies are exquisitely designed by evolution to capture relevant social information, learn, and explore their social environments. This volume offers a range of empirical and theoretical perspectives on the relationship between biology and social cognition from infancy through childhood.
Table of Contents
I Early Social Perception and Cognition
1 Development of Voice Perception in the Human Brain
2 Building a Face-Space for Social Cognition
3 Principles and Concepts in Early Moral Cognition
4 Early Social Cognition: Exploring the Role of the Medial Prefrontal Cortex
5 Foundations of Imitation
6 The Development of the Social Brain within a Family Context
II Language and Theory of Mind
7 Infants' Early Competence for Language and Symbols
8 Developing a Theory of Mind: Are Infants Sensitive to How Other People Represent the World?
9 How Do Young Children Become Moral Agents? A Developmental Perspective
10 Understanding Others' Minds and Morals: Progress and Innovation of Infant Electrophysiology
11 Cognitive and Neural Correlates of Children's Spontaneous Verbal Deception
III Prosocial Behavior
12 Multiple Mechanisms of Prosocial Development
13 Selective Prosocial Behavior in Early Childhood
14 What Do We (Not) Know about the Genetics of Empathy?
15 The Development of Children's Sharing Behavior: Recipients' and Givers' Characteristics
IV Social Categorization
16 The Role of Essentialism in Children's Social Judgments
17 Are Humans Born to Hate? Three Myths and Three Developmental Lessons about the Origins of Social Categorization and Intergroup Bias
V Atypical Social Cognition
18 Toward a Translational Developmental Social Cognitive Neuroscience of Autism
19 Developmental Origins of Psychopathy
20 Morals, Money, and Risk Taking from Childhood to Adulthood: The Neurodevelopmental Framework of Fuzzy Trace Theory
