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Four-year-old humans are different: Why?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2010

Katherine Nelson
Affiliation:
Developmental Psychology, City University Graduate School and University Center, New York, NY 10036. kan@cunyvms1.gc.cuny

Abstract

The intentionality schema is an abstraction that relates phylogenetic and ontogenetic sequences of social understanding, but it also obscures the differences between humans and other primates. In particular, it ignores human social developmental and communicative history and the important roles that language plays in human understanding of others' intentional states.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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