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The Wiley - Blackwell Handbook 01 Inlant Development

Humans are inherently social. We live in complex societies, navigate intricate social interactions, and rapidly learn from those around us. We have a special adaptation that supports this-the ability to learn from observing others. Instead of having to rely on trial and error learning (which can be dangerous) or on independent invention (which can be slow), we profit from others' examples, incl...

The Wiley Blackwell Handbook of Judgment and Decision Making

ed from actual and possible preferences. Welfare interests consist in just that set of generalized resources that will be necessary for people to have before pursuing any of the more particular preferences that they might happen to have. Health, money, shelter, sustenance, and such like are all demonstrably welfare interests of this sort, useful resources whatever people’s particular projects a...

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Descartes, in the Meditations (1641), notes that "there are only two ways of proving the existence of God, one by means of his effects, and the other by means of his nature or essence.” (AT VII, 120). The latter, a priori path, represented paradigmatically by the Ontological Argument of Saint Anselm (and its offspring, including Descartes’s own version), has perennial appeal to a certain sort o...

In press, Wiley-‐Blackwell International Encyclopedia of Anthropology Intergroup Cognition

Intergroup cognition has been among the central topics of social psychology since its inception, and research has recently surged in allied fields such as developmental and cognitive psychology. Cognitive anthropology has also offered unique contributions, especially by drawing attention to commonalities as well as differences across cultural settings. This review places the study of intergroup...