Other Folks' Theories of Mind and Behavior

Our everyday, basic understanding of people's mental states and behaviors has recently been a lively topic of debate in the social sciences This article addresses whether some aspects of our European-American theory of mind are universal, by examining ethnographic and experimental reports of cultural variation Implications of that variation for nativist theories of development are discussed and research strategies to augment our understanding are proposed.

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