Perspective taking in children's narratives about jealousy

Embodied Perspective Taking in Learning About Complex Systems

What Robots Could Teach Us about Perspective-Taking

A distinctly social ability that underlies shared meaning, empathy, and cooperation is taking the perspective of another person during conversation. Research on communication has explored the manner in which human speakers account for their listeners' perspectives and adjust their communications in their attempts to be understood (e. listeners' group memberships and likely areas of expertise as...

6 What Robots Could Teach Us About Perspective Taking

A distinctly social ability that underlies shared meaning, empathy, and cooperation is taking the perspective of another person during conversation. Research on communication has explored the manner in which human speakers account for their listeners’ perspectives and adjust their communications in their attempts to be understood (e.g., Clark & Wilkes-Gibbs, 1986; Fussell & Krauss, 1992; Krauss...

Morbid jealousy from an evolutionary psychological perspective

Individuals diagnosed with morbid jealousy have hypersensitive jealousy mechanisms that cause them to have irrational thoughts about their partner's fidelity and to exhibit extreme behaviors. Using a newly constructed database of 398 cases of morbid jealousy reported in the literature from 1940 to 2002, we tested four evolutionarily informed hypotheses about normally functioning jealousy mechan...

Putting Perspective Taking in Perspective 1 Putting Perspective Taking in Perspective

We present a new framework for the discussion of perspective taking, particularly with reference to the processing of literary narrative. In this framework, adopting a perspective entails matching evaluations with those of the narrative character. This approach predicts that perspectives should be piecemeal rather than holistic, dynamic rather than consistent, effortful rather than automatic, a...